Leadership Team
Meet our Senior Leadership Team
Mr Hicks
Headteacher
Mr Smith
Deputy Headteacher
(Behaviour, Attitudes & Attendance)
Mrs Wilkinson
Deputy Headteacher
(Personal Development, Safeguarding)
Mr Flanagan
Deputy Headteacher
(Quality of Education)
Mr Hulme
Assistant Headteacher
(Head of Post 16)
Mrs J. Jones
SENDCo
Meet our Middle Leadership Team
The Education Team Leaders (ETLs) are part of the curriculum leadership team. The ETLs share an unwavering passion for teaching and learning at West Kirby School and College. They have built strong curriculum teams that focus on delivering, ensuring the best possible outcomes for the pupils.
As the 'middle leadership team', they are the ‘engine room’ of the school. The team meet weekly to moderate all aspects of teaching and learning at West Kirby School and College to ensure parity and progression in each curriculum area and feed back to SLT. They support with the Continuing Professional Development of the Teachers and TAs and create a progressive culture and promote positive relationships. The breadth of knowledge and experience of the ETLs ensure a culture of high staff professionalism at West Kirby School and College.
Clinical & Support Services Management Team
Our Support Services are an intrinsic part to pupils' education at West Kirby School and College; integrated across the school and Residential Care provision, this provides valuable support to enable our pupils' learning, development and success.
Occupational Therapy team - Their aim is to support our pupils' sensory needs, emotional regulation and improve functioning in order to promote independence and enable our young people to access effective learning.
Pastoral Care team - Miss Emma Killey is our Pastoral Care Manager. Pastoral Care is the provision the school makes to ensure the physical and emotional welfare of your child.
Speech and Language Therapy Team (SaLT)
Our SaLT team provide detailed assessment and therapy interventions and target the development of: speech, language, communication, social skills, and emotional literacy skills.
SALT say "We are a team of Therapists, proud to be part of the in-house therapeutic services at WKS! Our aim is to provide our pupils’ with clinically-effective specialist Speech and Language Therapy. We believe that everyone has the right to communicate! Every pupil at WKS has access to our Speech and Language Therapy provision. This helps our pupils to access the curriculum in a meaningful way, and achieve the very best outcomes."