SALVETE

This year we welcomed the following new teaching staff:

GORDON BATES

Geography

Mr Bates studied at the universities of Lancaster and Cambridge and joins St Peter’s from Felsted School to teach Geography. He’s looking forward to moving to York and his golden retriever likes the idea of long walks by the river. As an outdoors man he’s ready to get fully involved helping with the Duke of Edinburgh Award and rugby.

Mr Linfield joined the PE department in a temporary capacity to replace Mike Johnson, following his own retirement from Bradford Grammar after 28 years. Mr Linfield taught curriculum PE and was very active running sports teams within the school. He ran the 3rd XV rugby team, U15 hockey team and looked after some of the senior tennis teams. Mr Linfield brought his sense of humour to the department and was well respected by the pupils. A keen golfer and tennis player Mr Linfield was a real asset to the sports department. Dr Boddy is a hugely experienced Head of Chemistry who the school is delighted to welcome from GSAL to lead our Chemistry department. She studied at Durham before a PhD at the University of Leeds and has also taught at Queen Margaret’s and Manchester Grammar. Dr Boddy enjoys walking in the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales and is looking forward to joining the Duke of Edinburgh Award team.

Mrs Stevens is our new Head of Learning Support and has great experience. She has taught in a variety of schools in York and has previously worked abroad with Service Children’s Education in Germany. Mrs Stevens is a graduate of the Open University and a qualified Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator, who has two grown up sons and lives in Bishopthorpe with her husband. She is excited about working at St Peter’s and keen to ensure that pupils receive the support they need and are entitled to.

RUTH BODDY

Head of Chemistry

CHARLIE LINFIELD

PE

JACKIE STEPHENS

Head of Learning Support

ADAM TAYLOR

Maths

BEVERLEY VEASEY

Drama

Mr Taylor joins our Maths team from Queen Margaret’s, where he was Head of Department for 13 years. Previously he taught in Essex, Dorset and Shropshire.

He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, and although this was a very long time ago, he finds it still accords him a veneer of academic respectability.

His main passion is travelling, with just one continent left unvisited. His other interests include badminton, reading, history, cinema, video gaming and cycling. In his youth he cycled from John O’ Groats to Land’s End, doing it in the opposite way to most cyclists just to be different. He soon realised this meant he was battling prevailing south-westerlies for the whole journey, demonstrating that intelligence and common sense don’t always go together. Ms Veasey, has been a Drama and Dance teacher for over twenty-five years. Most recently, she established and led the PGCE Secondary Drama course at the University of York St John. Ms Veasey has also worked as a GCSE and A Level examiner and, as an AST, she supported colleagues across several schools in Yorkshire. She welcomes the opportunity to focus on classroom teaching at both St Peter’s and St Olave’s Schools. Since arriving she has already directed productions and established various co-curricular projects.

We also thank Elaine Brown (maternity cover for Sarah Tucker in Classics) and Lynne Keenan (maternity cover for Amy Wong, our Librarian) for all that they contributed in 2018-19. In the support team we welcomed Sarah Opie (Director of Admissions, Marketing and Communications), Francesca Divorty (IT Technician) and Charlotte Frank (Head Master’s PA), whilst Gemma Williams joined us as a School Nurse.