Staff | Rushey Green Primary School

Meet our staff

Senior Leadership Team
Headteacher	Lisa Williams
Deputy Headteacher	Nerissa Fisher
Assistant Headteacher/KS1	Maria Pavlou
Assistant Headteacher/KS2	Loxane Wallace
School Business Manager	Marina Kilcoyne

Inclusion Team
SENDCO	Annisha Thomas
Pastoral Manager/DSL	Victoria Clarke
Learning Mentor	Miss Lena

Nursery Teacher	Dionne Phillips
Nursery Nurse	Charlotte Huxley
Nursery Nurse	Katie Broomfield
Reception teacher (Somalia)	Jules Davis
Reception teacher (Ghana)	Irene Monterdez
Reception teacher (Nigeria)	Lily Bearfoot
Year 1 teacher (Poland)	Abigail McKenzie
Year 1 teacher (Jamaica)	Anneli Walters
Year 1 teacher (Turkey)	Eleanor Jeffery
Year 2 teacher (China)	Balquees Akhtar
Year 2 teacher (Greece)	Pamela Williams
Year 2 teacher (England)	Maria Pavlou
Year 3 teacher (Brazil)	Jack Warner
Year 3 teacher (Australia)	Nadia Zorut
Year 3 teacher (Mexico)	Mary West
Year 4 teacher (India)	Claudine Campbell
Year 4 teacher (Pakistan)	Eucratia Thomas
Year 4 & 5 teacher (BEAM)	Loxane Wallace
Year 5 teacher (Cuba) Year 5 teacher (Canada)	Alice Blackshaw Antonia Sullivan
Year 4 & 5 teacher (BEAM)	Alexa Jones
Year 6 teacher (USA)	Neha Kapoor
Year 6 teacher (Spain)	Nkechi Nwanokwai (MATL) Cameron Vergie
Year 6 teacher (BEAM)	Caron Williams
MFL Teacher	Marta Artacho
Music Teacher	Jerome Silsby

Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Aysegul Barber
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Rifat Mehmood
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Julie Couchman
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Sandra Amory
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Paris Skinner-Reynolds
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Buckiesha Johnson
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Annastassia Gordan
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Jacquline Fennell
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Stephanie Stockwell
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant	Merita Kurtaj
Teaching and Learning Support Assistant Angela Rodriguez
SEN Teaching Assistants Lydia Asraf
SEN Teaching Assistant	Althea Robinson
SEN Teaching Assistant	Lynnette Simpson
SEN Teaching Assistant Diane Smikle

SEN Teaching Assistant/MMS	Jaydah Henriques
SEN Teaching Assistant/MMS	Christalla Gavrielides
SEN Teaching Assistant/MMS	Julian Macho
SEN Teaching Assistant/MMS	Monique Braham

Admin Team
Office Manager	Ama Singh
Admin Officer	Havva Evren
Admin Officer	Camile Johnson
ICT Technician	Addis Douglas
Support Staff

Midday Assistants
MMS	Colleen Nicely
MMS	Clare Allen
MMS	Jennifer Drummond
MMS	Jade Purton
MMS	Cynthia Orija
MMS	Naide Boyd
MMS	Rosaline Fofornah
MMS	Narges Yazdani
MMS MMS	Susan Kang Maxcine Brown
Premises Team
Premises Manager	Trevor Gibbs
Premises Assistant	Mark Fletcher
Cleaner	Guido Guallichico
Cleaner	Rosaline Fofornah
Catering Team
Head Chef	Luke Kemsley
Sous Chef	Liam Hughes
Kitchen Assistant	Teresa Tarallo
Kitchen Assistant	Stacy Ann White
Kitchen Assistant/Cleaner	Lavern Campbell
Kitchen Assistant/Cleaner	Marcia Hussey

Governors

The Governing Body

School governors have a responsibility for supporting their schools, while also holding them to account. At Rushey Green, Governors are actively involved in all aspects of school life and contribute time and energy to ensure the school continually improves. Governors share the school’s aims and values, and are keen to enhance the environment, provide the right resources and to see that every child receives the best possible education.

The purpose of the Governing Body is to help the school to provide the best possible education for its pupils. They work closely with the Headteacher and the Senior Leadership Team to set the school’s strategic aims and policies and actively work to monitor, support and improve the quality of teaching and learning for all pupils. The role of the Governing Body is one of strategic oversight; governors are not involved in the day-to-day running of the school. That is the responsibility of the Headteacher.

Our Governors represent our wider school community: elected parent and staff governors, one Local Authority nominee and co-opted members from the wider community. They have a mix of skills, experiences and backgrounds to help provide the best possible support to the School.

The full Governing Body meets formally twice a term. Sub-committees also meet once or twice a term to focus on particular areas in more detail. The two main sub-committees are: Resources, Pay, Learning and Achievement, and Behaviour and Inclusion. Other committees, panels and project teams meet when needed. It's also important for Governors to see the school in action, and they make regular visits to classrooms, to speak with teachers and to join in school events and celebrations. Governors take very seriously the role they play and the contribution they can make. Governors are expected to sign up to a code of practice agreeing to act with honesty and integrity, to keep up to date with training and to respect confidentiality at all times.

You can contact the Governors by emailing admin@rusheygreen.lewisham.sch.uk

Responsibilities

A Governing Body’s responsibilities cover three key areas:

1.To provide a strategic view

focus on the future.
set appropriate objectives.
develop a strategic framework and policies to achieve these objectives.

2.To be a ‘critical friend’

offer support and constructive advice.
be a sounding board for ideas.
ask challenging questions when necessary.

3.To ensure accountability of the school.

ensuring that the school delivers good quality education.
monitoring the school’s overall performance.
ensuring the school complies with its statutory and legal responsibilities.

GOVERNING BODY MEMBERSHIP

Membership – New Instrument 10 July 2019 (Co-opted 8, Parents x 4, LA x 1, Staff x 1, Head x1) Total 15	Initial	Designation	End of Term
Lisa Williams	LW	Headteacher	Ex-officio
Daisy Hooper	DH	Co - Chair of Governors Parent Governor	11.11.2024
Rachel Hope	RH	Co - Chair of Governors Co-opted Governor	28.11.2025
Arlanda Pali	AP	Parent Governor	02.10.2026
Neha Kapoor	NK	Staff Governor	02.10.2026
Lilian Brooks (Vice Chair)	LB	Co-opted Governor	10.11.2024
Christine Kiwanuka	CK	Co-opted Governor	02.10.2024
Edison Huynh	EH	Co-opted Governor	27.09.2024
Charles Pickstone	CP	Co-opted Governor	14.03 2023
Brenda Montague	BM	Co-opted Governor	14.03.2023
Nadia Glasspool	NG	Co-opted Governor	06.10.2023
Oliver Payne	OP	Co-opted Governor	19.10.2026
Nariell Morrison	NM	LA Governor	28.11.2025

Ms. Daisy Hooper (Co. Chair)

Ms. Rachel Hope (Co. Chair)

As a proud Lewisham resident, I joined Rushey Green's governing body to support my local community and this school. I am a senior civil servant and spent nearly four years at the Department for Education before being seconded to the NHS vaccinations team. I joined Rushey Green's governing body in 2021 and am passionate about helping children to catch-up following the pandemic and ensuring all children can fulfil their potential. Alongside being the co-chair of the governing body, I sit on the Learning & Achievement Committee and I am the link governor for communications and technology. I always value feedback from parents so please feel free to get in touch with me.

Ms. Lilian Brooks (Vice Chair)

I have been a parent governor for almost 4 years. It is a role I wanted to take on and find out more about how my sons school functioned, and to be a proactive parent voice working alongside the teaching team for the benefit of the school community. It has been a role that I have valued as it has enabled me to be an effective parent representative, but also empathetic to the challenges faced by schools. Over the past four years I’ve seen many positive changes but as a critical friend I have been able to challenge the areas that need improvement. In the past year I have taken on the role as Vice Chair and the Link Governor for Safeguarding, working closely with the senior Leadership team. I am a mother of two wonderful children and a full time carer to my eldest child, but enjoy using my professional skills and commitment to the local community in my role as Governor.

Ms. Nadia Glasspool

I joined the governing body in 2019. I sit on the Learning & Achievement Committee and am the pupil premium link governor. As a co-opted governor, I don’t have work or family links to the school but have lived in the borough for the past 10 years and was looking for a way to use my professional skills to serve the local community. Away from Rushey Green, I’m a lawyer at the Bank of England, the UK’s central bank. Before that, I worked at a City law firm after graduating from Oxford University. I enjoy reading, yoga, painting and running.

Canon. Charles Pickstone

I joined the governing body of Rushey Green after a spell as a governor at the then Northbrook (now Trinity) in Lee. As the school’s nearest neighbour, I’ve always been pleased to represent the views of the local community, and where appropriate, as a priest well rooted in the area (I am Vicar of St Laurence Church, next door) to build up links between the school and local faith groups. I currently chair the Learning and Achievement Committee, which I much enjoy as it gives me and the other committee members a chance to develop a real knowledge of the life of the school through learning walks and talking to teachers.

Mr Edison Huynh

I joined the governing body in 2020 and sit on the Learning & Achievement Committee. As I co-opted governor, I wanted to contribute to the community that I grew up in and have lived in Lewisham for most of my life. I currently work in education research after teaching in Downham as a science teacher. I have done classroom-based research in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and China and hope to bring diverse perspectives and transferable lessons to serve the community of Rushey Green. I enjoy racquet sports, learning languages, gaming, travel, and 20^th century history.