Claire Oberman

Clare took on the role of Senior Maths Hub Lead in 2018. Clare is also the Director of Painsley Catholic College Teaching School Alliance and delivers training on a variety of themes such as pupil premium and NPQML.

Sarah Long

Sarah took on the role of Maths Hub Lead in January 2024. She oversees the implementation of all Maths Hub Work Groups, the Maths Hub Team and the organisation of conferences. Sarah has been teaching maths since 2005 at key stages 3 to 5. She is currently part of the Mathematics department at Painsley Catholic College.

Michelle Eamens

Michelle joined the Maths Hub team in September 2023 alongside Jo Brereton as a shared role. Michelle and Jo work together coordinating our Work Group sessions ensuring participants are invited, attending and enjoying their sessions through evaluations.

Michelle also focuses on Marketing and Website/Social Media

Email:- mathshub@painsley.staffs.sch.uk

Joanne Brereton

Joanne aka Jo is our longest serving member of the Maths Hub; being in our original team. Jo works with Michelle as a shared role. Michelle and Jo work together coordinating our Work Group sessions ensuring participants are invited, attending and enjoying their sessions through evaluations.

Jo focuses on Mastering Number KS1 and Reception and KS2

Email:- mathshub@painsley.staffs.sch.uk

Sarah Minor

Sarah is our newest admininstrator member to the team; joining in November 2023. Sarah works alongside Michelle and Joanne

Sarah focuses on reminders to our scheduled participants and communicates with our Work Group Leads and Venues.

Email:- mathshub@painsley.staffs.sch.uk

Nicky Hankey

Nicky joined the Maths Hub team in April 2022 as Hub Finance Officer.

Her role is to oversea the hubs accounting procedures, ensuring compliancy in line with both the academy financial handbook and requirements of the DFE. This includes monitoring of the annual budget, preparation of financial reports for the CFO and Trust accountant and also completion of all statutory DFE returns.

Email:- nih@painsley.staffs.sch.uk

Donna Preston

I am one of the Assistant Maths Hub Leads for Primary and also Head of School at a small, rural primary school in Staffordshire with mixed age classes. I began my training as a Teaching for Mastery Specialist in 2016 and was fortunate to experience the Shanghai-England Maths Exchange in 2017.

I have more than 30 years of experience of teaching and leading in primary schools and have been maths subject leader in multiple settings. I have also led Initial Teacher Training in maths and am currently facilitating the NPQLPM. Maths has always been my passion and it has been my mission throughout my career to get all the children I teach to love learning maths, to believe they can succeed in the subject and to work collaboratively with teachers and support staff to try and achieve these goals.

Gill Holmes

Gill has taught in primary education for 27 years across a variety of schools including large urban schools and small rural schools. She has been a Deputy Head Teacher at a large primary school for 7 years and the Maths Lead for 10 years. She now works as an Independent Primary Maths Specialist and as Primary Assistant Maths Hub Lead for the North Mids Maths Hub.

Gill completed the MaST accreditation with Edge Hill University in 2015. She trained as a NCETM Cohort 1 Teaching for Mastery Specialist in 2015 and had the opportunity to visit Shanghai to observe teaching and teach in China. Over the years she has led numerous workgroups and supported schools and specialists across the Maths Hub with the Teaching for Mastery pedagogy. Gill has been accredited the NCETM PD Lead and is currently training on the NCETM School Development Lead Programme. She has worked as an SLE supporting schools in Special Measures and Requires Improvement to make improvements in maths.

Jason Darley

I have extensive experience of working successfully with primary school teachers over the last 20 years to improve their quality of teaching practice. As a Primary Teaching for Mastery Specialist, I have a proven track record of bringing my authentic and passionate approach to improving the teaching of mathematics for the benefit of all pupils.

Amie Meek

Amie Meek is Regional Lead Practitioner at Ormiston Academies Trust and the Assistant Maths Hub Lead for the NCETM, North Midlands. She has a PGCE in Secondary Mathematics and a BSc (Hons) Mathematics. She has coauthored the book ‘Succeeding As A Maths Teacher'.

Follow Amie on twitter @alcmaths.

Caroline Kennedy

I joined North Mids as AMHL in September 2022. I work with the Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme and Developing teaching for mastery. I am also a secondary mastery specialist working with schools in the area. I have been teaching maths since 2001 and currently work as a regional lead practitioner for a large multi-academy trust.