The Leeds Teaching School Hub Team

Pascoe Gill

Principal of Leeds Teaching School Hub

(Including oversight of National Professional Qualifications)

Pascoe Gill graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a first class Mathematics degree. Following this Pascoe pursued her career ambition to become a Mathematics teacher, completing a PGCE at the University of Leeds. She continued her academic studies alongside her teaching career and gained a Masters in Education, also from the University of Leeds.

Pascoe’s enthusiasm and commitment to educating the young people within Leeds, especially those who are less advantaged, has been a driving force in her career to date. She has been influential in improving the outcomes of young people through her leadership across the city at Leeds East Academy, The Farnley Academy and most recently as Senior Vice Principal at Bruntcliffe Academy.

Stephen McKenzie

Director of GORSE SCITT

Stephen worked in scientific roles in the NHS before training to be a teacher. His first teaching role was as Head of Drama and teacher of English in a community school in the Midlands, before subsequently leading two very large English departments in the north. Both of these roles, and subsequent role of Assistant Headteacher, involved significant delivery of CPD and outreach work.

Stephen has been heavily committed to training and teaching school work for well over a decade, first as Vice Principal at The Morley Academy before becoming Principal of GORSE SCITT and leading it to an Outstanding Ofsted inspection in June 2017. His passion remains with teaching children, young adults and adults at every opportunity.

Anne-Marie Garnett

Director of Early Career Framework

Anne-Marie joined The Morley Academy, then Morley High School in 2003, as an Assistant Headteacher with a passion for teaching English. In 2011 she became Principal at The Morley Academy when the trust was formed to support failing schools across the Leeds city area. Under her leadership, along with Sir John, the school was redesignated Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in May 2013.

Since then she has spent a period of time leading Bruntcliffe Academy, along with Adam Ryder, to move the school from a position of inadequacy in 2015 when they took over the school, to an Ofsted judgement in February 2018 of Good with Outstanding features.

In more recent years Anne-Marie has been a member of the Central team as a Partnership Director with specific responsibility for new and recently qualified teachers, literacy and the trust’s innovative and highly successful Forensic Reading initiative. Anne-Marie’s love of being an English teacher, and the thrill of being in a classroom, still continues after more than 30 years in the profession.

Adam Ryder

Principal of The Morley Academy

Adam is currently Principal of The Morley Academy, and under its leadership it secured its place as the highest performing school in Leeds. This also placed the academy in the 250 highest performing schools in the country and the top 2% of schools nationally.

Prior to his appointment as Principal of The Morley Academy, Adam was the Principal at Bruntcliffe Academy where he led the academy through its first Ofsted Inspection following its conversion to an academy as part of The GORSE Academies Trust. With a sharp improvement in attainment and progress over a three-year period, the academy improved from the bottom 5% of schools in the country to the top 25%.

As well as being the Principal of The Morley Academy, Adam is also Principal of Boston Spa Academy and Deputy Executive Principal (11-16).