Senior Leadership Team (ID 1012)

• Sara Fletcher
  Principal
  Sara Fletcher

• Kieran Hawketts
  Vice Principal - Achievement & Safeguarding (Inc Attendance)
  Kieran Hawketts

  Kieran joined South Wigston High School from Babington Academy, also a part of Learning without Limits Academy Trust. Kieran has a breadth of experience within pastoral middle and senior leadership, with a proven track record of improving attendance and behaviour for learning. Kieran also brings valuable experience leading vocational education and developing a broad and engaging extra-curricular offer at Babington Academy. Kieran maintains strong links with colleagues at Babington Academy, and SWHS benefits from this highly collaborative partnership.

• Amanda Doherty
  Vice Principal - Curriculum, Teaching & Standards
  Amanda Doherty

  Amanda is a highly experienced senior leader with a proven track record as an academic and pastoral leader. She has significant experience of bringing about improvement in schools in challenging circumstances. In addition to her expertise as a pastoral and curriculum leader, Amanda is passionate about the performing arts, and as a member of the Disney Theatrical Advisory board, she has strong links in the industry. Amanda's broad experience and extensive links in education and beyond mean that she is ideally placed to help SWHS develop an inspiring curriculum for our pupils.

• Ashley Ellerby
  Vice Principal - Culture & Climate
  Ashley Ellerby

  With over 21 years as an educator, Ashley has more than 10 years' experience as a senior leader, mostly in schools in challenging circumstances. He has worked for several large and small trusts across the country implementing bespoke attendance and behaviour policies and training staff to consistently apply them. He has helped schools improve their attendance from well below, to well above the national average and was most recently a senior member of a leadership team which took a school from Special Measures to Good within an 18-month period.

Senior Leadership Team _ 2 (ID 1470)

• Matt Chamberlain
  Assistant Principal - Relationships & Community Engagement
  Matt Chamberlain

  Matthew has over 20 years experience in education, including 13 years as a subject leader achieving progress scores in the top 5% when compared nationally. For the past two years, Matthew worked across nine schools within a Trust to develop the curriculum, quality assure all aspects of department life and design and implement plans to improve teaching and learning. With an established track record of developing highly effective subject leaders, Matthew supports our subject leaders and helps to develop an inspiring curriculum.

• Chloe Sanders
  Assistant Principal - Personal development & Wellbeing
  Chloe Sanders

  Chloe has 17 years experiences as a leader in education, with a focus on driving progress for disadvantaged groups of pupils. Chloe provides training for schools and trusts across the country. She has presented at ResearchEd, National Headteacher conferences and has worked with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). Chloe is a coach on the Exemplary Leadership Programme and as Director of the Teacher Training Hub, has coached and supported leaders to drive rapid change in hundreds of schools across the country.