I am the Vicar of St Andrew’s Church, Bishopthorpe and Holy Trinity, Acaster Malbis. I am also Rural Dean of the New Ainsty Deanery.

I was born in Andover, Hampshire and attended a local comprehensive school followed by a sixth form college. After sixth form, I joined a local insurance company on their ‘A’ Level training scheme and joined the IT department as a systems analyst. In my mid-twenties I moved to work for a software house as a software design consultant where my work took me to client sites around the UK and continental Europe. Mid-way through my career there I took a year out to work and travel around Australia. In my early thirties, I married and decided on a change of career path.

I returned to higher education to study law as a mature student at the University of Nottingham, where I obtained an LLB and PhD. Since then I have taught law part-time at both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leeds.

My specialist teaching area is crime and the law of evidence, but I also teach public law and have worked on a small number of empirical research projects. I am married to Rob who is an Actuary and a senior finance director at Aviva and we have a sixteen-year-old son who recently left Manor following his GCSE exams. We have lived in Rufforth for fifteen years. I like to spend my spare time with friends and family and I also enjoy playing tennis, walking and reading.

I have lived in York for 16 years and am a qualified accountant. I work for the NHS and have done so for the last 25 years in a variety of senior roles across a number of organisations. My current role is as a Senior Finance Manager for NHS England. I have 4 children, all of which have attended Manor, the youngest of which attends Manor at the moment in year 10.

I worship at Clifton Moor where I am a Sunday school leader and a member of the church council. My husband Glen is the Finance Director of Archbishops Holgate’s school. I also enjoy singing, yoga, walking and socialising.

Educated in Scotland, I came to Poppleton in 1991, returning to the UK from South Africa where I had taught in a missionary school and at the University of Natal for twenty years. I continued to teach Geography and Psychology at Selby College. In 1999 I moved to Askham Bryan College as Assistant Director of Business and Corporate Development.

In 2005 I retired from full-time work, and have since become involved in local activities, as a Nether Poppleton Parish Councillor, and a Governor at Manor School. I have a strong sense of service to the community and like to feel that I am returning some of the investment in time and encouragement that teachers, lecturers and friends have made in me over the years. I enjoy tennis, walking, cycling, and reading and continue to study.

Born and brought up in York (Clifton), I took English at a Scottish University and joined British Rail (Birmingham) in 1974. While in Birmingham I got involved in youth work in Ladywood, which was distinctly “interesting.” Moving from public to private sector, I stayed with the railways until May 2012, taking advantage of the industry’s many and varied opportunities to become a “jack of all trades”…

I returned to York in the mid-’80s, married Alison, and have lived here ever since. We have two sons who both came to Manor and we were members of the Manor Association (PTA) throughout their time there. Since retiring I’ve actually been able to take up the pastimes that my CV had always rather optimistically claimed, including walking and cooking and, above all, singing with community, chamber and sea-shanty choirs now being my all-weather pursuit of choice.

I was brought up in North London, and then spent 15 years in Oxford, as an undergraduate (maths) then postgraduate student and researcher (computer scientist). I moved up to York in 1995 to an academic post in the Computer Science department, where I’m now a Reader. My role currently is split between the Computer Science department and chairing the university’s assessment committee,
and I am also involved with the university’s new International Pathway College, which offers preparatory courses to international students.

I married Clare in 1997 and we have two children, both of whom are working their way through Manor: Jennifer has just finished, and Charlie is in year 10. Clare also works at the university, as a cell biologist. We all worship at St Olave’s, where Jenny and I (and sometimes Clare) sing in the choir, Charlie helps with altar serving and I serve on the PCC and on Deanery Synod. In my spare time, I enjoy both walking and cycling, sometimes with our dog for company.

I was educated at a North London comprehensive. I went to Liverpool University studying Archaeology & Ancient History. I did an MA at York University in Archaeological Heritage Management and worked as an archaeologist on various commercial and research projects in the UK & Middle East. I then took a change of direction and undertook postgraduate law conversion course. I trained and qualified as a solicitor and worked in a large commercial practice as a litigator for 6 years. Another (less drastic) change of direction now sees me teaching law at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I obtained a PGCE in adult education. I have one child at Manor school and served as a parent governor at my children’s primary school for 4 years.

I was born and brought up in York. I am married to Deborah, my daughter and son attend Manor CE Academy. I am the Commercial Manager for BAM Construct UK (North East), part of the Royal BAM Group, one of the largest European multidiscipline construction companies based in Holland. I attended Nunthorpe Grammar School and then trained as a Quantity Surveyor on a day-release basis at York College.

I serve the Poppleton Scout Group as a Section Assistant Leader, helping to organise a wide and varied programme based on a faith ethos, helping the young Scouts grow together and individually, into the community. My current work affords me the opportunity to help young people with work experience and I have also assisted in the supervision of DoE bronze and silver expeditions and I have previously mentored at York High School.

I was born in York and lived in Haxby until I was 18 and remember when it was a small village surrounded by fields! I trained as a chef and worked in Hotels and Restaurants in the city until I went on tour with Elton John. Then followed 10 years of touring with many bands and artists including everyone from Peggy Lee to Van Halen, Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton; and lots of others in between.

I have worked in many countries and ended up with my own London based catering company specialising in the music business. After closing the business I emigrated to New Zealand, then returned to the UK, went to college, then on to York St John to take a degree in Film, Television, Literature and Theatre, whilst there I started working at BBC Radio York. After completing my degree I worked as a broadcast journalist and programme producer at Radio Leeds and Radio Cleveland and then back to Radio York. I came into teaching via the Graduate Teacher Programme route and became a Fast Track teacher.

I quickly developed a passion for pastoral care and in my NQT year became a Head of Year. After several years as an Assistant Head at Burnholme, I came to Manor after its closure. I hold the Special Education Needs Award and have recently completed an MA in Education. I enjoy painting, cooking, relaxing with friends, gardening and my job!

I was born in Canada and brought up in Cambridge. I moved to Yorkshire at the age of 18, when I went to Leeds University to study medicine. I spent the next 18 years studying and working in different hospitals around Yorkshire until I moved to Poppleton in 2005 when I became a consultant Paediatrician at York Hospital. I work part-time and have a special interest in neuro-disability (and in particular autism). I’m also the Designated Doctor for child deaths in York and North Yorkshire. This challenging work gives me a unique insight into the threats facing our young people, and mental health issues and suicide prevention are a major focus for me at the moment.

I’m married to Andy, and we have two children, one in year 8 at Manor and one in year 5 at Poppleton Ousebank. Football is all important in our family – I’m a lifelong Cambridge United supporter (this has made me very resilient when it comes to failure….) and played for the Leeds University women’s team whilst at University.

These days I leave the playing to my sons, who both play for Poppleton JFC, and my husband, who plays 6 aside for a Manor parents’ team. My husband and older son are season ticket holders at Stoke City, and my younger son supports Leeds United. The only team we all watch together is York City! When not busy football watching / kit washing / taking children to matches, in my spare time I also enjoy skiing and photography.

I started life in the beautiful wilds of Cumbria, before moving away to study at York University. There I met my dear wife and we now have three wonderful children. The eldest has now left Manor and is a student at York College. Our middle one is in year 11 at Manor and our youngest in year 7. I graduated from York with a Masters in Mathematics and a young family. After which I took employment North of London as a Software Developer, something I had been doing as a hobby from the age of about eight.

The job was a great introduction to the world of Commerce, and about three years later we moved back to York. I’ve now spent just under 20 years developing software for a small number of companies in the financial and security industries. It’s a job I love and I’ve been privileged to work with many brilliant people. I’ve been actively involved with the PTA at Manor since our eldest joined Manor, over nine years ago, and I’ve been Chair of the PTA for over seven years now. I’m looking forward to helping in yet more ways as a Parent Governor.

What little spare time I have, between family, work and school, is spent doing everything from reading, listening to a very eclectic range of music, walking, cycling, writing software and nature photography.