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Our People

Teaching and Support Staff at Holy Trinity Pewley Down.

  • Vicky Ellis

    Headteacher

    Vicky joined as headteacher in September 2024.

  • Helen Pronger

    Deputy Head

    Helen is based at the junior school but leads assessment across both schools in her role as Deputy Head.

  • Tom Everard

    Deputy Head

    Tom works across both school sites and teaches in a variety of classrooms during the week. He leads maths and assessment across the school, as well as running the school council and house events. Tom is a deputy DSL. When not in his classroom, he is usually hitting the trails on his mountain bike.

  • Lilja Helgadottir

    Deputy Head & Acting SENDCo

    Lilja works across both school sites and teaches in a variety of classrooms during the week. She leads English, early reading and Music across both schools. Lilja is a deputy DSL and designated teacher for LAC. In her spare time, Lilja enjoys sport and will take any opportunity to be outdoors as well as playing the clarinet and being surrounded by music.

  • Georgie Furlonger

    SENDCO

    Georgie is currently on maternity leave, returning on 17th March 2027. In her absence, Lilja will be Acting SENDCo. Georgie is the SENDCo for both the Infants and Juniors. Before Georgie’s training to become a teacher, she worked in settings for children and adults with autism and other special needs. Georgie loves being outdoors for long walks, sports and gardening. She is also very passionate about football and music!

  • Donna Milsum

    SEND Admin - Infant & Junior

    Donna works in SEND on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

  • Lucy Cray

    Home School Link Worker

    Lucy is our Home School Link Worker, our DDSL (deputy safeguarding lead) and young carers' champion. She is available to provide support for children, parents and carers and runs parent groups and coffee mornings. She is a link between home and school and can make supporting referrals to outside organisations such as local charities and is an ongoing contact as children move from school to school.

  • Hayley Esselen

    Reception Teacher

    Hayley has always worked with young children. She was part of the Special Needs team before moving to be a class teacher. Hayley loves reading, pottering in her garden and walking in the Surrey Hills with her friends, family and little dog Max.

  • Sarah Bligh

    Reception Teacher

  • Beccy Davison

    Reception Teacher

    Beccy teaches Reception in Willow class and is currently on maternity leave.

  • Emily Russell

    Year 1 Teacher

    Emily teaches Oak class in Year 1 (Monday to Thursday lunchtime) and job shares with Frances. She organises house events at the infants with the help of the fabulous house captains. Emily loves being outside - gardening, walking, running and swimming at the lido (when it's not too cold!).

  • Frances Clixby

    Year 1 Teacher

    Frances shares Oak class in Year 1 with Emily. She has a tendency to invent a song for everything, from lining up, to remembering book bags and water bottles! Frances enjoys running, walking her dog, cooking, and spending time with friends and family.

  • Ginnie Gregory

    Year 1 PPA Teacher

    Ginnie has taught at HTPD for many years and is presently a PPA teacher at the infants, which she loves!

  • Sheena Preston

    Year 1 Teacher

    Sheena has taught in years across the year groups in the infants and juniors. She has now moved to Year 1. Sheena lived in Texas for 6 years. In her spare time she likes to walk her dog and watch cookery shows. Sheena is a Deputy DSL.

  • Emma Williams

    Year 2 Teacher

    Emma teaches in Year 2 and leads phonics and early reading across the infants. Emma loves being outside and going for long walks. She also enjoys running, singing, painting, and baking in her free time.

  • Toby Strutt

    Year 2 Teacher

    Toby teaches Walnut class in Year 2 and leads maths across the school. He spends his spare time out on his mountain bike, running in the hills or planning his next trip to the mountains or the beach.

  • Abigail Bromme

    Year 3 Teacher

    Abigail teaches in Year 3 on Monday and Tuesday sharing a class with Laura H.

  • Danni Weston

    Year 3 Teacher

    Danni teaches in Year 3. She enjoys cooking and experimenting with different recipes, chocolate cake being a favourite. She likes to be creative by drawing, painting and sometimes writing. She has travelled here and there and enjoys learning about different cultures. Her travelling highlight of last year was walking along The Great Wall of China. She also loves a good animation movie, Madagascar being top!

  • Laura Hanley

    Year 3 & Art Teacher at HT

    Laura teaches in Year 3, sharing with Abigail and teaches Art at HT. Having specialised in Art at university, Laura particularly loves teaching this subject. She enjoys being creative and reading a good book, especially during story time at school.

  • Lydia Pope

    Year 3 Teacher

    Lydia joined us at HTPD after teaching in Brighton, where she previously lived. She loves teaching Year 3 and especially enjoys welcoming new faces to our school community. Outside of the classroom, Lydia spends most of her spare time travelling, hiking and walking her dog, Winston.

  • Ben Stackhouse

    Year 4 Teacher

    Ben teaches in Year 4. He loves being out and about. He enjoys watching his beloved Burnley FC, finding new places to eat and travelling in his campervan trying to find the best waves.

  • Kathryn Thomas

    Year 4 Teacher

    Kathryn relocated from London last year, where she taught for many years. Outside of school, she loves the great outdoors and is at her happiest when walking in the countryside or along the sea shore with her young family.

  • Sarah Jackson

    Year 4 Teacher

    Sarah is a Year 4 teacher and leads History. Her drama background means she is never happier than when dressing-up, either as an historical figure, an assembly character or for reading stories. She also has the fun of directing the Christmas play! Sarah loves to immerse herself in the world of sci-fi and fantasy and can usually be found practising her lightsaber skills, whipping up a potion or day-dreaming about Middle-earth.

  • Helen Campbell

    Year 5 Teacher

    Helen is a Year 5 class teacher, specialising in Drama. When not looking after her 2 children and performing in assemblies, Helen enjoys nothing more than creating dances for shows and for fun. She also loves reading books out to the class and following Reading FC in the championship.

  • JJ Walker

    Year 5 Teacher

    JJ teaches in Year 5 and shares a class with Helen.

  • Kayleigh Ashraf

    Year 5 Teacher

    Kayleigh teaches in year 5 and leads Science across the school. She loves baking, reading and can often be found at the side of a cricket pitch cheering on her sons.

  • Scarlett Close

    Year 5 Teacher

    Scarlett teaches in Year 5, having returned to her old primary school as a teacher! Outside of school, she loves all things artsy - especially music, reading and singing! She can often be spotted performing with her choir, or enjoying Guildford’s green spaces with her dog, Buddy.

  • Jo White

    Year 6 Teacher

    Jo is a class teacher in Year 6 and she leads English across the school.

  • Nick Walker

    Year 6 Teacher

    Nick is Head of Sport and Head of House. He loves getting involved in all aspects of school life can normally be found outside with his class or one of HTPD's many sports teams.

  • Jo Pillay

    Year 6 Teacher

    Jo teaches in Year 6. She enjoys running (very slowly!) around the beautiful Surrey Hills. She also loves all things crafty, and always has a creative project or two on the go. With a background in Geography, she enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for the subject with the children.

  • Cat Allen

    SEN Teacher

    Cat is a specialist teacher working in our SEN team. She provides focused support for children individually or in small groups focused on reading, spelling and also maths. Currently, she is working in Y5. Cat has a particular interest in dyslexia. Cat has lived in New York and Tokyo but more recently you are likely to find her travelling down the river Wey in her kayak or walking the family dog on the Downs.

  • Julia Grocott

    Teacher

    Julia teaches part-time across HT.

  • Catherine Finniear

    Teacher

    Catherine is currently on maternity leave.

  • Claire Katmeh

    Reception TA

    Claire works in Reception.

  • Misa Kethero

    Reception TA

    Misa works in Reception.

  • Parul Patel

    Reception TA

    Class TA in Reception. Parul also looks after children at PUPS, our after-school care at Pewley.

  • Sue Bradley

    Reception TA

    Sue works in Reception on Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

  • Julie Everitt

    Year 1 TA & Clubs

    Julie works as a Teaching Assistant in Year 1 and is one of the Clubs+ Support staff.

  • Laura Morris

    Year 1 TA

  • Caroline Shilton

    Year 2 TA

  • Saptadipa Banerjee

    Year 2 TA

  • Eva Press

    Year 3 TA

  • Banu Konyali Imam

    Year 3 TA

  • Carolyn Ganski

    Year 4 TA

    Carolyn is a TA in Year 4.

  • Martina Hayter

    Year 4 TA

  • Marketa Chester

    Year 4 SEN TA

  • Carla Berry

    Year 6 TA

    Carla is a TA in Year 6. She has taken to working in school like a duck to water and her cheery smile brings out the best in everyone she works with. She says she's not sporty but she loves getting stuck in with all our lessons including PE and the extra curricular activities. She's already got involved with sports events and residentials.

  • Mel Beskin-Byrne

    Year 6 TA (1:1)

  • Hajera Siddique

    TA at HT

  • Julie Williams

    TA at HT

  • Viktoriia Arestova

    TA at HT

    Viktoriia works at Holy Trinity.

  • Eleanor Firth

    TA at PD

    Eleanor works at Pewley Down.

  • Emily Walker

    TA at PD

    Emily works at Pewley Down.

  • Kim Phillips

    TA at PD

  • Jan Appleton

    SEN TA at PD

    Jan is a SEN TA in Year 1. She has 2 sons, and is a dab hand at Lego and talking about Pokémon. In her spare time, she plays tennis and football and coaches at a local football club. 

  • Jo Matysiak

    SEN TA

  • Theresa Sherry

    SEN TA

    Theresa started with us in Sept 2025.

  • Amanda Moon

    Maths Teaching Assistant

    Amanda is a Specialist Maths TA. She works to support and enrich the maths teaching in Year 6, and runs maths activities across HT.

  • Kendra Jones

    Maths Teaching Assistant

    Maths TA and support in Year 5.

  • Linda Britain

    HLTA Music Teacher and EAL at HT

    Linda enjoys sharing her passion for music in Y3,4 and 5 and runs school music clubs, playing the piano with the children at every opportunity! She also works with Y3-6, helping our children who speak English as an additional language. Amidst her travel adventures, Linda has lived, studied and worked in France so understands the challenges of speaking a different language in a new country! In school Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

  • Laura Sutton

    Sports Co-Ordinator at HT

    Laura's the enthusiastic Sports Co-Ordinator at Holy Trinity and works closely with Nick and other sports teachers arranging and co-ordinating matches and events with other schools.

  • Paul Horsfield

    Woodcraft Leader

    Paul moved to Guildford after working as a Outdoor Education tutor in Scotland for many years. He now looks forward to supporting PE lessons with the use of some additional physical training and a holistic view of sport health and well-being. Working in smaller groups Paul is able to focus more on the needs of the individual.

  • Danielle Buckett

    School Business Manager

    Danielle has recently joined us as School Business Manager, having worked as an SBM for 9 years in another Surrey school. In her spare time she enjoys walking her dog; going to gym classes; reading and watching films and plays.

  • Flora Bevan

    Finance Officer

    Flora works with Danielle and the Admin Team in the Finance Department. She manages ParentPay among her other responsibilities.

  • Carol Andrews

    Admin at HTPD

    Carol can be found at Pewley on a Monday and at HT on Wednesdays and Fridays.

  • Natalia Cadman

    Admin at HT

    Natalia is enjoying her bigger role at HT. She works Monday - Thursday each week.

  • Sue Ellis

    Admin at HT

    You will see lovely Sue in the HT Office on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

  • Ruth Busby

    Admin at PD

    You can find Ruth smiling at you from the office. She has an uncanny knack of knowing every child and all of their needs and problems! Ruth offers a warm welcome to all as you step into Pewley.

  • Sarah Hurst

    Admissions & Admin at PD

    Sarah works alongside Ruth in the Office at Pewley Infants. She takes the lead on all Admissions related activities and her working days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Away from work, Sarah is a keen musician, loves cooking and has 3 sons to keep her busy.

  • Jane Bennett

    Clerk to Governors

    Jane is Clerk to the Holy Trinity Pewley Down Governing Body.

  • James Peers

    Technical Support

    James is our IT Manager and keeps our servers and PC's up and running.

  • Geraldine Tame

    Librarian

    Geraldine is our wonderful librarian who is a wealth of information about all things literary and so much more! Her enthusiasm spills over to us all. She goes beyond the realms of librarian offering us some great opportunies and clubs.

  • Agnes Kotroczo

    After School Club Manager

    Agnes joined us as After School Club Manager in January 2026.

  • Julie Batt

    Site Manager

    Julie is one of our longest serving members of staff. She is Site Manager of both the Infant and Junior school and is based at the Junior school. Julie also runs breakfast club at the Junior school.