Gareth has been a senior leader since 2009, having held roles leading teaching and learning, intervention, and curriculum across three different secondary schools. Gareth was a Deputy Headteacher and stepped into the role of acting Head of School at Woldgate during the pandemic before being appointed as the Trust Head of Curriculum and Assessment.
At the Joseph Rowntree School, he built a team to share responsibility and ensure that improvement in teaching could contribute to a rapid cultural change. Under his leadership at Joseph Rowntree School the Ofsted report commented that the school was “focused relentlessly on improving the quality of teaching… As a result, pupils are making better progress across the curriculum and differences between groups of pupils are diminishing rapidly.” He also led CPD and ran shared training with local schools, feeder primaries, local TeachMeets, as well as delivering school-to-school support for Canon Lee.
Before that, Gareth was the Assistant Headteacher for Teaching and Learning at Millthorpe School and was part of the team that moved the school to Good from Satisfactory in 2011. Gareth was the winner of the Community Pride Award for Teacher of the Year that year for his engaging teaching.
He has worked on a project for the Trust to review and re-write the long-term curriculum planning for every subject at Longcroft School and Woldgate School, helping build the Kingfisher data system, and has facilitated the construction of the Trust Primary curriculum.
