Alyson Greenstone Pell - Management Accountant

To follow.

Andy Burton - Director of Education

Andy has worked in education for over 30 years, starting as a teacher of Economics and Business Studies in a high performing Northampton school, and subsequently held several senior leadership positions across both stand alone and multi-academy trusts. Most notably, Andy's first headship was to take on a DfE 'stuck school' in an area of high deprivation, leading it to become Ofsted 'Good' for the first time in its history. Additionally, Andy has been an Executive Headteacher in Northants and Peterborough, the Headteacher of a very large high performing secondary school in Milton Keynes, and an Education Director in 2 MATs leading on curriculum development, financial efficiency and sixth form development. Andy brings his experience to TLT leading on pupil behaviour and performance evaluation systems.

Angie Lee - School Improvement Director (Primary Specialist)

Angie joined Tove Learning Trust in September 2025 as a Primary Specialist Practitioner although has worked at one of the primary schools within the Trust for over 10 years. Previously, Angie has worked in a variety of schools with a multitude of experience from Reception to Y6: this has included a wide range of roles and responsibilities including: curriculum lead, teaching and learning lead, English lead, Early Years Lead and senior leadership.

Angie is an experienced practitioner, who passionately believes that each and every educator has a shared responsibility to enable all pupils to reach their true potential through quality-first teaching and learning, which is based on strong curriculum design tailored to the needs of the school’s context and individual vision. She is an advocate of research-based, evidence-informed approaches and is committed to supporting schools across the Trust to achieve outstanding outcomes.

Cecile Harris - Administrator

Cecile joined TLT in September 2026 as an administrator within the Central Team. She brings extensive experience in administration, event management and communications, including 10 years with Amazon in Luxembourg, alongside several years of running her own businesses. She enjoys working in a varied role, supporting colleagues across the Trust and helping to keep things running smoothly.

Claire Thompson - SWAN Training School Manager

Claire joined the SWAN Training School in 2018 and has worked in Education since 2014. Her background is in project management, specifically IT projects.

As Operations Manager for SWAN Training School and Grand Union Training Partnership, Claire oversees the day-to-day running of operations and leads on planning and delivering training for school-based staff in response to emerging needs. With expertise in project management and a strong track record in strategic planning, Claire is committed to ensuring high-quality professional development. Passionate about collaboration, Claire values working closely with schools and colleagues to achieve meaningful results.

Camillia Salter - HR Strategy Manager

Camillia has worked in the education sector for 23 years, having spent the last 9 years at a successful multi academy trust in the midlands where she was Head of HR. Prior to this she was in the private sector. Camillia also works as a HR consultant within the education sector.

She has extensive experience across all areas of HR at both a strategic and operational level.

As HR Strategy Manager Camillia's role is to create the people plan working across the organisation to support the trust in achieving its strategy through its people and to support the Executive Team and Board of Trustees as a single employer for a fast growing Multi Academy Trust.

Darren Gelder - Executive Headteacher

Darren entered the teaching profession over 27 years ago following a successful career in the RAF as an engineer, where he was recognised and decorated for his services. Darren started as a Business and Economics teacher in one of the first academies in the country based in Lincoln. He also took on the role as an Advanced Skills Teacher supporting other schools. He then joined senior leadership taking the reins at a failing school in Lincolnshire, swiftly bringing about change and improvements. This led to a secondment for 2 years with the Local Authority to lead on school improvement across the county.

Darren returned to full time leadership taking on a number of failing schools as Headteacher, all of which showed recognised improvement with two moving from ‘Inadequate’ to ‘Good’ Ofsted ratings. Darren joined Grace Academy Solihull in 2014, taking the academy from ‘Inadequate’ to a sustained ‘Good’ Ofsted grading. Darren is involved with a number of wider education organisations and bodies advising on education policy in the Solihull Borough, DfE and the NAHT. Darren places the student at the centre of everything he and his teams do. Darren supports a number of schools across the Trust with a focus on mainstream and alternative provision. Most recently working with an academy in Northampton taking it from inadequate to Ofsted‘Good’ in all areas.

David Robinson - School Improvement Director (SEND & Inclusion)

David joined Tove Learning Trust in September 2022 as a School Improvement Director for SEND and Inclusion. David has worked with children with special educational needs and disabilities in education since leaving university and was the Head of Inclusion at a large secondary comprehensive school in Northamptonshire.

David is passionate about improving the quality of inclusive education and believes strongly in the importance of outstanding teaching in meeting the needs of children with special educational needs and disabilities. David works across all of the Trust schools, supporting SENCos and teachers to improve outcomes for children with SEND, he does this by providing advice and guidance, along with CPD and the sharing of best practice to enable everyone to take ownership of the SEND agenda.

Des Harrison - IT and Communications Strategy Lead

Des joined Tove Learning Trust as IT and Communications Strategy Lead in September 2024. With over 25 years of experience in education IT, Des has held various roles, including technical, managerial, and sales positions, and has developed and implemented digital strategies for multiple academy trusts.

As IT and Communications Strategy Lead, Des is committed to aligning technology with educational needs across the Trust, driving efficiency, and enhancing the learning environment. He is focused on leveraging innovative technologies to improve outcomes for students and teachers, ensuring a robust and effective IT service that supports all schools within the Trust.

Donna MacManus - Apprenticeship Manager

Donna joined Tove Learning Trust in February 2018 as the Apprenticeship Manager with 20 years experience of working in the Apprenticeship industry. This included working in National Training Providers and large global employers. 

Donna manages the Apprenticeship Levy sourcing and supporting new and existing staff with their training.  She liaises with school training leads and School Business Managers to support staff with CPD needs where an appropriate apprenticeship can fill the gaps. From Level 2 to L7 masters Degree. She procures the provider who offers a suitable delivery method for the apprentice and their role. 

Donna brings a vast amount of knowledge of funding and eligibility for Apprenticeships ensuring the levy is utilised to its fullest potential.

Eloise Dumont - Marketing Executive

Eloise joined Tove Learning Trust as a Marketing Executive in April 2021. She has over 20 years industry experience in Marketing and Graphic Design working in agencies and in-house studios. Eloise has a wide range of experience working on projects from brand design through to marketing campaigns.

Eloise supports the TLT leadership team in developing and executing a marketing plan across the trust. She is responsible for improving the TLT brand and ensuring consistency of communication across trust schools. She works closely with headteachers and individual school leadership teams to understand the unique challenges and opportunities in each school and develop marketing strategies and activities to address these challenges. 

Emma McVey - Management Accountant

Emma joined Tove Learning Trust in January 2023 as the Management Accountant.  Emma has over 14 years experience in finance within the education sector, as a Management Accountant for a large multi academy trust, a Finance Manager in a Secondary School and a Finance Administrator in an Infant School. Previous to this Emma worked in Finance in the Building & Engineering, and Milling Industries.

Emma is currently studying to become a full member of CIMA with only 1 exam left to pass.

Emma's role is to support the school finance teams with month end procedures and support the trust with consolidations and monthly reporting to trustees. Emma also supports the principal accountant with the year end audit preparation and annual statutory accounts.

Greg Godwin - Pupil Premium Strategy Lead

Greg became the Pupil Premium Strategy Lead in 2025, following nearly two decades of leading the successful development of a large secondary school in the West Midlands. Alongside driving transformational change for children in one of the most deprived areas of the country, he has also contributed to the rapid improvement of several other schools—both within the Midlands and across the Tove Learning Trust.

Greg is deeply passionate about the role schools play in improving life chances for children. He firmly believes that high-quality teaching, underpinned by evidence-based strategies, can effectively break down the barriers faced by pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. Through his work across the Tove Learning Trust, Greg is committed to ensuring that every child, regardless of background or starting point, has the opportunity to achieve exceptional outcomes.

Helen Mosely - SWAN Training School Alliance Administrator

To follow.

James Rawbone - School Improvement Director (Humanities)

James joined the Tove Learning Trust in April 2023 as school improvement director for Humanities. James has built up experience and expertise through a range of roles within schools since qualifying as a History teacher over 20 years ago. After working as Head of Faculty and then over a decade in Senior Leadership, most recently James has been the CPD lead for a local Training School Alliance.

James has a wide understanding of the latest developments within education and experience of facilitating both the ECF and NPQ framework provide a good grounding in the most recent thinking with regards to teaching and leadership. Humanities is a diverse and exciting area of the school curriculum and James provides support and challenge for schools within the trust to ensure that a best practice approach is the aim for all. Working across the trust allows James to facilitate close collaboration between schools and through a range of approaches such as lesson observations and curriculum reviews, examples of success can be shared widely. James works closely with school leaders within the Humanities subjects to ensure that students across the trust are accessing the highest quality learning opportunities within this aspect of the curriculum.

Jamie Nairn - Director of Education Primary (Northants)

Jamie has been a primary teacher and leader since the mid 90's. He began teaching in a very large four form entry, inner city primary school in Hull, before moving to a small rural school with only 90 children split across three classes. He has held a number of different roles from Leading Literacy Teacher, SENCo etc before becoming a headteacher in 2007.During his time as a headteacher, he has led three schools very successfully, moving one out of Ofsted category of Special Measures in only 9 months, before it gained a ‘Good’ grading 18 months later.  Jamie believes in distributed leadership and autonomy for staff to be the best they can be. He is committed to every child succeeding and ensures that all pupils (including disadvantaged and those with SEND) achieve the very best outcomes, as well as having a memorable primary education.

Jane Kots - HR & Payroll Administrator

Jayne Webster - School Improvement Director (Maths)

Jayne joined Tove Learning Trust in September 2025 as School Improvement Director for Mathematics. Previously, Jayne has worked in senior and middle leadership for over two decades in Milton Keynes and West Midlands. Jayne has depth of experience in providing bespoke professional development and raising standards and attainment in curriculum and mathematics outcomes.

Jayne is passionate about her subject, and has worked with the NCETM for over ten years on research and evidenced-based approaches to curriculum design, lesson design and pedagogy, including working as a Teaching for Mastery specialist for 10 years. In April 2025, Jayne was awarded a Let Teachers Shine Grant to develop her digital platform, Dynamic Representations. The platform features interactive digital versions of familiar classroom tools – such as Dienes blocks and algebra tiles, to help students visualise and understand maths concepts and show the deep connections between number and algebra.

Jayne is dedicated to improving the quality of Mathematics education for all learners and believes that working collaboratively within schools and across the Trust we can create inspiring educational experiences that lead to the best possible outcomes for all students.

Jim Parker - Deputy CEO

Jim has worked in education for over 30 years and has worked in a number of schools within Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire.  He has been a headteacher for 15 years and over the last three years has been Executive Principal of two large secondary schools in Milton Keynes that are part of the Tove Learning Trust. 

With responsibility for Trust development in Milton Keynes, Jim's role is to support schools who may wish to work with Tove Learning Trust in the future and to grow effective networks that ensure our students are provided with inspiring educational experiences that lead to outstanding outcomes.

Jo Hockton - Data Strategy Manager

Jo became Data Strategy Manager for Tove Learning Trust in January 2019, having successfully managed data, exams and attendance for Sponne School for 9 nine years. She has worked within secondary education for 15 years, and has extensive experience in the use of data and systems to improve outcomes. Prior to this, Jo worked in purchasing and project management.

As the Data Strategy Manager, Jo drives improvement through systems and training, sharing good and best practice, securing accountability and embedding policy changes. She is passionate about improving outcomes for all students, using data and systems effectively and efficiently to achieve this.

Kathryn Smith - Lead Governance Professional

Kathryn joined Tove Learning Trust in December 2025 as Lead Governance Professional having previously worked in a similar role for a medium-sized MAT for the last 10 years. In addition to clerking, she has extensive experience of providing advice and guidance on statutory requirements relating to governance, policy development, complaints and exclusions.

In this role, Kathryn will be working to support the work of the local governance volunteers and the Board of Trustees to ensure that there is an appropriate level of challenge and support towards achieving the strategic aims of the schools and the Trust.

Kate Hughes - Marketing Assistant

Kate joined Tove Learning Trust as a Marketing Assistant in April 2021. She holds a degree in Media and Communications, specialising in communication techniques and social media analysis. Kate's prior experience includes managing social media accounts within the private sector.

At Tove Learning Trust, Kate is responsible for crafting engaging social media content, scheduling posts, analysing engagement data and enhancing the overall social media presence of both the trust and its schools. She also collaborates on the marketing strategies and branding across the trust.

Katie Fell - Executive Assistant

To follow.

Karen King - Estates and Assets Coordinator

Karen has worked in education for over 10 years gaining extensive experience across a range of settings and roles. During this time, she has been part of an 8-school multi-academy trust.

In this role, Karen's main responsibilities include ensuring compliance across the schools, a focus on health and safety requirements and being actively involved in a range of projects.

Lindsay Harris - Business Support Manager

Lindsay joined TOVE Learning Trust as Business Support Manager in January 2024 to provide additional support in the Central Team. Lindsay’s role is to support new schools joining the Trust, support the implementation of new systems and further develop TOVE Trading Limited.

Lindsay’s career in education spans over 25 years, having started as an Administrator in a Secondary Special School, moving onto the Business Manager role of various educational settings from a large Junior school, large Primary School, Executive Business Manager of two small village Primaries and Head of Facilities for an 8 school Multi Academy Trust.

Lindsay has extensive experience of HR, Finance, Payroll, Facilities and school administration, both at Local Authority and Academy level, understands the pressures of the role of Business Manager and is keen to support the development of systems that will steam line the processes for all schools within the Trust.

Lindsay Oake - Principal Accountant

Lindsay joined Tove Learning Trust in May 2017 as the principal accountant for the trust. Lindsay qualified as a certified accountant in 2003 and had previously worked in accountancy practice for over 20 years, specialising in audit and year end accounts for a wide range of companies.

Since joining Lindsay has seen the trust grow from just two secondary schools to where it is now. Lindsay’s role within the trust is to work with all the schools’ finance teams in getting technically accurate and meaningful finance information for the Trustees. Lindsay also leads on the year end audit preparation and has responsibility for statutory external financial reporting.

Lindsay Prentice - Data Associate

To follow.

Louise Harries - Trust SENCO

Louise joined Tove Learning Trust in September 2025 as Trust SENCO. Previously, Louise has held various middle and senior leadership positions, and was most recently the Assistant Head for Inclusion and SENCO at a Tove Trust school. Within this role, she supported an Alternative Provision in Northamptonshire and set up a SEN Unit in a mainstream school.

Louise strongly advocates for inclusivity in all school settings. From inclusive classroom practice to effective whole school systems, Louise is committed to supporting SENCOs to ensure that children with SEND make personal and academic progress, while being included in the wider curriculum and opportunities schools have to offer.

Matthew Shaw - Head of IT

Matthew became Head of IT for Tove Learning Trust in September 2021, prior to this he was IT Services Manager at Rushden Academy. He has over 17 years’ experience managing and developing IT in education. Prior to this, Matthew worked in building control and automation developing systems for smart buildings.

As the Head of IT, Matthew works with the school IT teams, heads and school business managers to ensure best practice is shared across all sites. Matthew is driven by the desire to see schools build a safe and secure learning environment with a focus on enriching students’ lives through the use of technology.

May Packer - Senior Payroll Officer

May has worked within HR and Payroll for the past 30 years, having spent the last 9 years within the regulated finance and motor industry. May has extensive experience of HR and Payroll gained at a range of companies such as Amazon, Santander, Grant Thornton. As such, May has extensive experience across all areas of HR and Payroll both operationally and strategically.

As Senior Payroll Specialist, May's role is to ensure accuracy and integrity for the Payroll by supporting staff on site. A key part of this is to develop processes and share knowledge and experience to develop confidence and broaden the skills within the individual schools.

Natasher Bryan - Executive Headteacher

Natasha is a very experienced senior leader at Tove Learning Trust, where she is currently an Executive Principal overseeing three secondary schools across four school sites. Natasha recognises that community and family are the heart of schools and her focus and passion centres around school culture; driving relationships between parents, children and their local communities. In her tenure as Headteacher, Natasha secured funding from business partners of over half a million pounds, which funded student enrichment opportunities and enabled significant development for her school. Her track record of driving up real outcomes and attainment for young people speaks for itself as she continually seeks to impact young people and their future success.

Pip Greenwood - Data Associate

To follow.

Richard Cahill - School Improvement Lead

Richard joined Tove Learning Trust in September 2020 as school improvement lead. Richard has worked in secondary schools since 1994, leading teaching and learning in a senior position since 2001. Richard has supported many primary and secondary schools to develop their teaching and learning. He has worked across a variety of schools across the country and across the OFSTED range. Most recently, he undertook two headships of secondary schools in Leicestershire.

As School Improvement Lead, Richard is passionate about improving the practice of all teachers in the trust by creating connections within and across all schools. His firm belief is that by enabling teachers to engage in professional dialogues with each other, and by sharing evidence based, best and next practice all will achieve a consistently high standard within the classroom which in turn will lead to improved outcomes for all learners.

Sam Payne - School Improvement Director (Primary Specialist)

Sam joined Tove Learning Trust in September 2025 as a Primary Specialist Practitioner. He has over a decade of teaching experience across both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 and is currently the Key Stage 2 Lead at a school within the Trust.

Sam is passionate about primary education and committed to fostering a love of learning that children can carry confidently into secondary school and beyond. His particular area of interest is primary mathematics, and part of his current teaching role involves leading mathematics provision within a Tove Trust school. In his role as a Primary Specialist Practitioner, Sam is dedicated to supporting teachers in delivering an inclusive and engaging primary education that inspires best practice and drives excellent outcomes for all learners.

Samantha Austin - School Improvement Director - Teaching & Learning (West Mids)

Sam joined Tove Learning Trust in September 2022 as school improvement director for teaching and learning. Sam trained as an English teacher in 2013 working across a variety of schools in the West Midlands in a variety of roles, the most recent being a trust lead practitioner.

As school improvement director for teaching and learning, Sam works closely with the three Grace Academy schools focussing on each schools’ priorities and needs; this can include supporting trainees, early career teachers and heads of departments with all aspects of teaching and learning from curriculum development to behaviour management. Sam delivers CPD based on emerging priorities, lesson visits with detailed feedback as well as supporting quality assurance cycles and assessment. She strongly believes that all change should be rooted in evidence-based research and is committed to positively impacting the lives of our community of learners through the development and improvement of teaching and learning. 

Sean Durran - School Improvment Director (Science)

Sean joined Tove Learning Trust in January 2024 as school improvement director for Science.  He is also a specialist leader of education.  Sean was previously a director of Science for a trust of schools in the East Midlands with responsibility for raising standards & improving outcomes.  Sean works with a range of leaders across the trust to share evidence-based best practice, support effective implementation of the curriculum and empower people to lead effectively in their own departments.    

Sean is passionate about improving the quality of Science education and believes strongly in creating opportunities for developing and sharing of best practice.  Through achieving consistently high standards within the classroom, we create inspiring educational experiences that lead to the best possible outcomes for students.

Sharon Pinson - Business Solutions Analyst

Sharon joined Tove Learning Trust in June 2022 as Business Support Manager. Prior to that she worked for over 20 years as a School Business Manager in Northamptonshire schools, so brings a significant amount of experience to the role.

Sharon works closely with the business administration teams across the trust and is keen to support the development of collaborative working practices between the schools. Her role has a particular focus on procurement, contract management and systems implementation. She is keen to ensure that all schools within the trust, whether they have been on board from inception or have recently joined, benefit from an extensive support network.

Sophie Attwood - Data Associate

To follow.

Sophie King - School Improvment Director (English)

Sophie joined Tove Learning Trust in January 2024 as School Improvement Director for English. Previously, Sophie has worked in senior and middle leadership for over a decade in Northamptonshire and Coventry. With oversight for English and literacy, Sophie has depth of experience in raising standards and attainment in curriculum and reading outcomes.

Sophie is passionate about her subject, and employs an evidenced-based approach to curriculum design, text choice and improving standards in literacy. Sophie places high value in the explicit teaching of grammatical constructs, and looks to the powerful knowledge at KS2 (and KS1) to underpin teaching and learning at KS3 and beyond. She believes there is no one-size fits all approach to teaching and learning best practice, and looks to the nuances of each school and cohort when implementing change and raising standards. Sophie wants our students to become word-rich, enthusiastic and purposeful English experts, to enhance their futures as articulate, confident and successful adults.

Sue Wagstaff - Chief Finance Officer

Sue has been a school business management professional for over 30 years, starting her career at Roade School in 1993. For over 20 years Sue has been School Business Manager (SBM) and support staff governor at Sponne School. Sue became CFO for Tove Learning Trust at its inception in November 2016 and was instrumental in the set up and development of the trust. She has extensive experience in financial management, human resources and estates management and regularly joins trust and sector wide business and CFO networks.

As CFO, Sue provides guidance on financial strategy and risk management to the Board of Trustees and schools across the MAT, and leads on the due diligence process when on boarding new schools into the trust. Sue is committed to supporting schools joining the trust to retain a high degree of autonomy but ensuring this is supported by the right balance of accountability, internal scrutiny and assurance required by Trustees, the ESFA and DfE.

Susan Bowles - Management Accountant

To follow.

Vicki Elliment - Finance Officer

Vicki joined the central finance team having previously worked as Finance Manager at CE Academy and Finance Administrator for Tove Trading. She has experience across accounts payable and receivable, reconciliations, reporting, audit preparation and payroll support, alongside developing financial processes within new and evolving organisations.

Vicki supports the Trust's financial operations and is committed to delivering accurate, efficient and compliant financial management across the organisation. Alongside her role, she continues her professional development through her AAT studies as part of an Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship.