Staff
At Harris Primary Academy Philip Lane, our staff team includes teachers, teaching assistants and learning mentors as well as our premises team and administrators.
All of our staff are primary specialists and we work together to promote the core values of the Academy and make sure that our children are safe and happy.
The Head of Academy is Ms Lois Longstaff. The Chair of Governors is Mrs Laura Berman. You can get in touch with them using the contact details on this website.
| Assistant Director | Marie Corbett |
| Head of Academy | Simone Durrant (maternity leave) Lois Longstaff (Acting Head of Academy) |
| Vice Principal | Tom Avery |
| Assistant Principal | Patricia Horsnell |
| Federation Curriculum Lead | Sam French Reenee Bhowmick (Maths) |
| Year 6 - Horowitz | Class teacher: Joe Woodward Teaching Assistants: Karolina Kierzek |
| Year 6 – Shakespeare | Class teacher - Lavinia Sandu, Zari Lewis (SD) Teaching Assistant: Ellie Maguire |
| Year 5- Morpurgo | Class teacher: Emma Gould Teaching Assistant: Nesrin Dede |
| Year 5- Bloom | Class teacher: Jon Kernkraut Teaching Assistant: Nesrin Dede |
| Year 4- Lewis | Class teacher: Saskia Hodges Emma Bellerby (maternity) Teaching Assistant: Ulcan Verdu |
| Year 4- Dahl | Class teacher: Lucy Bacon Teaching Assistant: Eleni Alexandrou |
| Year 3- Rosen | Class teacher: Alecia Mitchell Teaching Assistant: Christine Gregory |
| Year 3- Zephaniah | Class teacher: Ilham Taali Teaching Assistant: Andreia Mendez |
| Year 2- Brown | Class teacher: Annabel Childs, Adam Higgins (SD) Teaching Assistant: Jess Hartley |
| Year 2- Donaldson | Class teacher: Harriet McConnell Teaching Assistants: Anna Athanasi, Elif Celik |
| Year 1- Ahlberg | Class teacher: Ellie Palmer Teaching Assistant: Bibi Edoo |
| Year 1-Murphy | Class teacher: Tugba Gunaydin Teaching Assistant: Chloe Avery |
| Reception- Waddell | Class teacher: Monika Bondara Teaching Assistant: Sam Robinson |
| Reception- Cooke | Class teacher: Laura Novelli Teaching Assistants: Tania Cottacoopen, Fatma Shukri |
| Nursery- Carle | Class teacher: Rita Choudhury Teaching Assistants: Suzan Halabi, Ceyda Sahin, Reema Ahmed |
| EYFS | Laura Novelli (Assitant Principal) Laura Bairstow (HF) |
| Physical Education | Lloyd Williams |
| Art, Design, Technology | Teacher: Hayley Tarr |
| Music | Lizzie Hastings |
| Science | Annabel Childs |
| Steel Pans | Dan Sadler |
| Inclusion Team | SENCO - Patricia Horsnell Adriana Verrecchia (HF)
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| Administration Team | Office Manager/Finance Officer - Eva Sekerova (maternity leave) Office Manager - Monica Meszaros Finance Administrator - Umayer Ahmed Welfare Officer - Barbora Bundova Caretaker - Rob Willis Assistant caretaker - Louis Willis |
