LEARN Central Team

LEARN Central Team (ID 1098)

• Christina Derbyshire
  Director of Operations
  Christina Derbyshire

• PAUL COWBURN
  Initial Teacher Training & Early Career Framework Lead
  PAUL COWBURN

  Paul joined the Trust in 2019 as Assistant Principal and has since worked in many of our schools in his role as Learning and Teaching Lead. He began working at St. John with St. Michael in 2023 as Head of School and was appointed Acting Headteacher in September 2024. Alongside his senior leadership roles, Paul is Early Career Teacher lead for Forward as One C of E MAT and has been a Visiting Fellow with Ambition Institute since the Early Roll Out. He regularly facilitates conferences and clinics for ECTs and their mentors. Paul is passionate about teaching and learning ensuring both pupils and staff have the highest quality of education and support to enable all to flourish and teach their true potential.

• SAM RUSH
  NPQ Lead
  SAM RUSH

  Sam started working as NPQ lead in April 2022. She is responsible for overseeing the NPQs that we are deliver as a trust in partnership with Ambition. Sam has previously been a teacher in different aspects initially at St Paul's and then various schools within Forward as One, for 20 years. She is thoroughly enjoying the new challenge and working in education from a different angle.

• IAN HAYDOCK
  Programme Operations Co-ordinator
  IAN HAYDOCK

  Ian joined Forward As One in 2021, taking up a new role as Programme Operations Coordinator overseeing the delivery of the Early Career Teacher Framework and National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) that the Trust deliver in Partnership with Ambition Institute. Ian has extensive Operational and Team Management experience in both Private and Public Sectors. His roles have encompassed the Financial Services, Property, Regulatory, Service, Sales and care industries. Ian has built and led numerous successful teams within competitive customer focussed organisations and is relishing the prospect of a new challenge within Education as part of a forward thinking and innovative Multi Academy Trust.

• Lucy Jackson
  Marketing & Partnerships Administrator
  Lucy Jackson