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  • Our average class size is 14 from September 2025, maximum class size 18

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

Miss C Maton
Deputy Head and SENDCo

Mr K Boland
Deputy Head of Prep

Teaching Staff

Mrs Baker
Head of Music

Mrs C Batten
Lower Prep Lead

Mr N Batten
New Student Transition Coordinator

Mrs S Burgon
ADT Subject Leader

Mrs E Freedman
Form Tutor

Mrs A Jeffery
RE Subject Leader,
Prep 5 Form Tutor

Mrs H Keating
Prep Prayer & Liturgy Lead,
Liturgy Co-Ordinator
Reception

Miss K Leahy
KS2 Lead Teacher

Mrs G Plunkett
Head of Careers and Higher Education

Mrs G Lewis
Mathematics Subject Leader

Mr T Malhotra
Form Tutor
Social Studies Lead

Mrs H Stott 
Teacher of PE & Teaching Assistant

Mrs N White
English Subject Leader, Form Tutor

Mrs L McLeod
World Cultures Teacher

Mrs G Muncer
Form Tutor

Mrs M Papesh
Head of Science in Prep, Form Tutor

Mr M Turpin
Upper Prep Lead

Miss L Walsh
EYFS Lead

Mr P Warnes
Wellbeing Lead

Mr N Morrison BSc
Computing Subject Leader

Mrs H Lorman
Form Tutor

Miss C Crowther
Form Tutor

Miss L Cockerell
Form Tutor

Prep Support Staff

Mrs A Alexander-Fishwick
Counsellor

Mrs A Mustafa

Prep Librarian & Upper Prep TA

Mrs P Baldwin
Teaching Assistant
After School Club Supervisor

Miss A Watts
Reception Teaching Assistant
Breakfast Club 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
Prep School Admissions, Learning Support 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 C Dobbyn
Science Technician

Br L Beaunoyer
Prep Teaching Assistant

Mrs Amelia Lancaster
Prep Support Staff

Mr J Lemmon
Music Assistant

Mrs N Murru
Teaching Assistant

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Prep Subjects

  • Computer Science
  • Design Technology
  • Drama
  • English
  • Future Prep
  • Latin & Classics
  • Library
  • Mathematics
  • Modern Foreign Languages
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  • Physical Education
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St Columba’s College,
Registered Address:
8-10 King Harry Lane,
St Albans,
Hertfordshire,
AL3 4AW

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Tel: 01727 855185

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