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 Huntington School, feeder primaries, local TeachMeets, as well as delivering school-to-school support of Driffield School and Cannon Lee.
At Millthorpe School, as Head of English, he began with a baseline of results that was ‘significantly below expectations’ building the department up to three consecutive years of results that were significantly above expectations.
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.
