Meet The Staff
We are extremely fortunate to have a remarkable team of teachers and support staff in the Prep School: they are enthusiastic, dedicated and loyal, always putting the children first in all they do, constantly demanding and inspiring the very best standards of their pupils and sharing a common desire to instil the Columban ethos by example and love.
Our staff team feels like a family and this might be because so many of us are extremely long-serving, representing many combined years of service on the staff of St Columba’s.
I don’t really know who my favourite teacher is. Most of them are good fun. They get strict if I don’t try hard but they always take time to explain what I have to do to improve.
This is a very happy ship, enjoying good leadership, strong parental support and great enthusiasm and approval from the pupils.
Prep Leadership Team
Mr R McCann
Head of Prep
Mr K Boland
Deputy Head of Prep
Miss C Maton
Deputy Head (Academic, Stretch & Challenge and SENDCo
Teaching Staff
Mr B Bailey
Head of Music
Mrs C Batten
Lower Prep Lead
Liturgy Co-Ordinator
Mr N Batten
Head of Prep Rugby
PHSE Subject Leader
Mrs S Burgon
ADT Subject Leader
Mrs A Elliott
Science Subject Leader
Mrs E Freedman
Form Tutor Prep 1
Mrs A Jeffery
RE Subject Leader
Mrs H Keating
Form Teacher Reception
Mrs P Knox
Lower Prep Music Teacher
Miss K Leahy
KS2 Lead Teacher
Miss C Maton
Deputy Head of Prep & SENDCo
Mrs G Lewis
Mathematics Subject Leader
Mr T Malhotra
Form Teacher Prep 5D
Mrs N White
English Subject Leader
Mrs L McLeod
Form Teacher Prep 4D
Mrs G Muncer
EYFS Lead
Mr J Noone BA
MFL Subject Leader
Mrs M Papesh
Form Teacher Prep 1, RE Teacher Prep 4 & 6
Mrs C Hele BEd
Prep 4 Form Teacher
Mrs D Sumpter
Form Teacher Prep 4D
Mr M Turpin
Head of PE and Games
Activities Subject Leader
Mr P Warnes
Wellbeing Lead
Mr N Morrison BSc
Computing Subject Leader
Mrs H Lorman
Form Tutor Prep 2
Prep Support Staff
Mrs A Alexander-Fishwick
Counsellor
Prep Librarian & Upper Prep TA
Mrs P Baldwin
Teaching Assistant
After School Club Supervisor
Mrs P Allen
Teaching Assistant
Early Morning Care Supervisor
Mrs S Edun
Teaching Assistant
Miss L Cancelliere
Prep School Secretary
Mrs A Cancelliere-Nash
ADT Technician
Mrs V Holland
Teaching Assistant
Mrs L Lavin
Assistant SENDCo
Mrs M Masters
Teaching Assistant
Mrs E McConachie
PA to Head of Prep
Mrs L Noone
Teaching Assistant
After School Club Assistant
Mrs S Jones Biggar
ADT Technician
Mrs H Stott
Teacher of PE & Teaching Assistant
Mrs M Turner
ADT Technician
Mrs C Dobbyn
Science Technician
Br L Beaunoyer
Teaching Assistant and Archivist
Mr J Lemmon
Music Assistant
Mrs N Murru
Teaching Assistant
