Operational Team


Saffron Teaching School Hub's operational team is:

  • Doug Brechin: Director
  • Kerrie McGivern: Deputy Director, NPQ & ITT Lead
  • Paula Downes: Appropriate Body & Early Career Programme Lead
  • Katie Naylor: Appropriate Body Lead
  • Erica Carver: NPQ Administrator
  • Martin Green: Early Career Programme Admin Lead
  • Pauline Haslam: Lead Administrator
  • Kerry Walpole: Appropriate Body Administrator

We also have three Local Leads who support our work:

  • Sarah Finn: Local Lead for Epping Forest and Harlow
  • Tracy Goodway: Local Lead for Chelmsford; EEF and Disadvantaged Strategy and Early Years Lead
  • Deborah Bailey: Local Lead for Braintree

Contact us

For Appropriate Body queries (including ECT registrations), contact:

Kerry Walpole

Paula Downes

kerrywalpole@saffron.academy

pauladownes@saffron.academy

01799 513030 ext. 1267

01799 513030 ext 1248

For Early Career Programme queries, contact:

Martin Green

Paula Downes

martingreen@saffron.academy

pauladownes@saffron.academy

Contact by email

01799 513030 ext 1248

For NPQ queries, contact:

Erica Carver ecarver@saffron.academy 01799 513030 ext. 1265

For Initial Teacher Training queries, contact:

Saffron TSH saffrontsh@saffron.academy Contact by email

For general enquiries, contact:

Pauline Haslam saffrontsh@saffron.academy 01799 513030 ext. 1266

To contact our Director/Deputy Director:

Saffron TSH saffrontsh@saffron.academy Contact by email