We've got outstanding facilities and a team of staff who make their knowledge and enthusiasm a central part of school life – but it's our inventive, dynamic and creative students who really make St Paul's a unique place to work. So when you're part of our family you can expect to learn as much from our students as they're learning from you.

I love my colleagues and the working environment. I love sitting down to lunch and discussing 1980s music or rhetorical devices in the ancient world. I love the food. I love the staffroom. I like feeling proud that I work with the girls. And I feel sad when they leave.

We won't tie you up in red tape, either. We give teaching staff all the administrative support they need so that they can concentrate on what they do best.

Of course, what we do doesn't stop at teaching. We count just as much on our IT support team, catering staff, administrators... and everyone it takes to keep St Paul's running as a 21st century business. And if you'd like to know more about what it's like to work at St Paul's, read what some of our staff have to say.

 

Senior management team 

High Mistress

  • Clarissa Farr MA (Exeter) English

Business director

  • Arnold Flanagan Adv Dip BFM (CIPFA)

Deputy head (director of studies)

  • Kate Clanchy MA (Cantab), MBA (INSEAD) modern languages

Deputy head (director of school)

  • Paul Vanni BA (London) modern languages

Director of senior school (years 12 and 13)

  • Jenny Brown BA (Oxon) English

Assistant deputy head (director of co-curricular education and events)

  • Su Wijeratna BA (Birmingham) geography

Heads of year

Head of lower school (head of year 7)

  • Kate Frank BA (London), MA (London) modern languages

Deputy head of lower school (head of year 8)

  • Mekhla Barua BSc (Warwick) maths

Head of year 9

  • Rachel Harris BA (Durham) geography

Head of year 10

  • Martin Hanak-Hammerl BSc (Graz), MSc (London) maths

Head of year 11

  • Victoria Watkins BA (Lancaster) drama

Assistant head of senior school (years 12 and 13)

  • Penélope García-Rodríguez BA (Oviedo), MA (London) modern languages

Teaching staff

Christelle Aguillon-Williams BA, MA (Poitiers) modern languages Elizabeth Armstrong BSc (Exeter), MRes (Lancaster) geography
Stephen Arscott BA (Cantab) religious studies Timothy Askew BA (Oxon) history and politics
Howard Bailes BA (Adelaide), PhD (London) history and politics Helen Barff BA (Goldsmiths), MA (Camberwell) art and design
Vanessa Baron MA (Cantab), MA (London), BSc (City) religious studies Julia Barron BA (Wales), MA, PhD (Manchester) modern languages
Wayne Barron BA (Cantab) Classics Sandra Barth BA (Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg) modern languages
Lucy Baxter BA (Central School of Speech and Drama), MA (London) English David Benefer BA (Norwich School of Art) art and design
Paola Bianchi MEng (Cagliari) maths Carole Boothman BA (Liverpool) modern languages
Laurelle Borck BSport (Waikato) PE Clare Brashaw MA (Leeds) art and design
Jonathan Bromley BA (Oxon) history and politics Spencer Buksh BSc (London) maths
Elizabeth Coutts MA (Oxon), MA (London) history and politics Ian Crane BSc (Durham) maths
Alexander Daglish BA (Plymouth) art and design Nicholas Dakin BA (Birmingham) English
Alice Dvorakova modern languages Anthony Ellison BSc (Nottingham) chemistry
Kate Evans BA (London) art history Kate Fisher MA (Courtauld Institute) art history
Isabel Foley BA (Central School of Speech and Drama) drama Daniela Footerman MEng (Oxon) maths
Adrian Frost MA (Oxon) biology Hannah Fussner BA (Oxon), MA (Stanford) learning support
Blanche Girouard BA (Oxon), religious studies Corissa Gould BMus (Birmingham), MA (Southampton), PhD (London) music
Roger Green BSc (CNAA), MA (Kent) maths Christopher Hack MSci, MA (Cantab) physics

Emily Hardy BA (Cantab) English

Eilis Harron-Ponsonby BA, MSc, PhD (Cantab) chemistry

Elizabeth Hodges BA (Wolverhampton Polytechnic), MA (Royal College of Art) art and design

Anna Holland MA DPhil (Oxon), Classics

Ludmila Iakobachvili MA (Uralian State) modern languages

Philip Jackson BSc (Sussex), PhD (London) chemistry

Suzanne Johnston MA (Oxon) maths

Divya Kansagra BSc (Illinois), EdM (Harvard) chemistry

Amy Kember MChem (Oxon) chemistry

Manuela Knight BA (Milan) modern lanugages

Kingston Koo BSc (Warwick), PhD (London) physics

Nina Lau BSc (London), MEd (Cantab) biology

Kate Lee BSc (Witwatersrand), MSc (Cape Town), PhD (London) physics

 John Lee BA (Oxon), BA (London) maths

Marika Lowe BSc (Sheffield Hallam) PE

Paula Mahoney-Vélez MA (Cordoba) modern languages

Silvana Marconini BA (Turin) modern languages 

William Martin BA (London) Classics

Lydia Mason BA (Durham) English

Hélène May MA agrégation (Sorbonne) modern languages

Paul McDonald BA (Oxon), MSc (LSE) maths

Katie McHugh BA (Loyola, Maryland) PE

Angus Meryon BMus, ARCM music

Richard Michell BA (Bristol), MA (Chelsea School of Art) art and design

Jo Moriarty MSc (Birmingham), PhD (Reading) biology

 Irina Ninnis BA (Moscow and London) modern languages

Narelle O'Byrne BPhEd (Otago) PE 

Jonathan Patrick MA, DPhil (Oxon) English

Thomas Peck BA (Manchester) history and politics

Emma Payler BSc (UCL) biology

Heidi Pegler BA (Cardiff), FTCL music 

Jocelyne Rapinac MA (Aix-Marseille) modern languages

Matthew Reeve BSc (Newcastle) biology

Katie Roberts BA (Cantab) modern languages
Leonie Rushforth BA (Cantab) English Caroline Saunders BA (Dublin) music
Alexandra Shamloll MA, MMath (Cantab) maths Holly Shao BSc (Hunan), MA (Sheffield) modern languages
Clare Sharp MA, DPhil (Oxon) classics Marcin Slaski BSc (Kraków), PhD (Kraków) physics
Kate Snook MA (St Andrews) MPhil (Cantab) history and politics Hilary Sturt AGSM, ARCM music
Claire Suthren BA (Cantab) Classics Rachel Tomlinson BSc (Durham) natural sciences
Michael Turner MA (Oxon) economics Sarah Wah MA (Leeds), DPhil (Cantab) English

Mary Wenham BA (Oxon) modern languages

Alexis White BMus (RNCM Manchester), MMus (Eastman School of Music, Rochester USA)

Sydne Wick BA (Queen's, Charlotte) PE

Gregory Wilsdon MA (Oxon), MBA (Stanford) Classics

Mark Wilderspin MA (Oxon), MMus (RCM) music

Jane Zeng BSc, MCSE (South China) modern languages

 

Visiting music teachers

Rose Andresier LLCM, FRSA guitar Charlotte Ansbergs LRAM, DipRAM violin
Edward Barry DipMus LTCL violin Emily Bates BA, MSTAT Alexander technique
Lisa Beckley MA (Oxon) singing Jane Clark-Maxwell BMus (London), AKC, LTCL singing
Gillian Cracknell LRAM piano, aural Vivian E Davies BMus trombone, horn
Matthew Dickinson BA GGSMD percussion, drumkit Harold East GRSM, ARCM piano
Jane Fisher LTCL, PGCE flute Carolyn Foulkes ARAM, Dip Adv Studies (opera), GRSM, LRAM singing
Nicola-Jane Kemp MA (Cantab), MMus (Opera), RSAMD singing Pete Kershaw MA guitar
John Langley BA theory Mornington Lockett BA (Dartington)
Naadia Manington BMus, LGSM jazz piano, piano Andrew Mason BMus ARCM clarinet, saxophone
Helen Mason BMus (RCM), PG Dip Solo/Ensemble RCM horn Alexander Mobbs BMus (Hons) RCM contemporary guitar (electric/acoustic), double bass
Susan Monks BEd, MA Mus, PhD singing Catherine Morphett BMus (Sydney) clarinet
Amanda Morrison BA singing Helena Mowat-Brown ARCM harpsichord
Helen Neilson BSc (Hons), PG Dip Adv (RCM), MMus cello Jessica O'Leary BMus, Dip CSM, LTCL, LRAM violin, viola
April Pierrot MSTAT Alexander technique Julie Ryan ARCM trumpet
Rachel Shannon MA (Cantab), RAM singing Erica Simpson ARAM, ARCM cello
James Sleigh ARCM, Hon ARAM viola Louise Strickland BMus, MMus, LGSM recorder, clarinet
Sarah Stroh BMus, Dip (Dist) RAM, LRAM singing Shelagh Sutherland ARAM, LRAM, STAT piano, Alexander technique
Emma Tingey LWCMD, ACC, PG Dip Trinity oboe Judith Treggor BMus (Connecticut) flute
Joanne Turner Dip RCM, ARCM bassoon, flute Simon Weale MA (Oxon), LGSM piano, organ
Enloc Wu ARCM, LRSM piano Fiona York AGSM piano

Administrative staff

High Mistress's assistant

  • Lindy Hayward BA (Open)

Deputy business director

  • Barbara Sussex BA, MPhil (Birmingham)

Accountants

  • Susannah Parsons MA (Cantab), ACA
  • Frances Sterling ACA

Admissions and communications officer

  • Jessica Dow BA (Exeter)

Human resources department

  • Geraldene Lyon BA (Bristol), MCIPD
  • Francesca Ryder-Smith BA (London)

Foundation director

  • Rosemary Torrington BA (London)

Development officer

  • Lucy Mellows BA (Northampton)

IT director

  • Jane Porter MA (Essex)

Alumnae relations manager

  • Sarah Dedomenici BA (Leeds)

Health co-ordinator

  • Susan Sharland RGN

Medical officer

  • Christine Elliott MB. BS

School counsellor

  • Diana Sharp PG.Dip Psych, FDAP

Librarian

  • Linda Kelley BA (Manchester), MCLIP, MSc (UCE)
  • Amy Icke BA, MSt (Oxon)

General services manager

  • Mark Vernon HCIMA

Executive head chef

  • Fred Achurch