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The Leeds Teaching School Hub Team
Core Team
Principal of Leeds Teaching School Hub
Nicci Cornfoot
Executive Director GORSE SCITT
Emma Worrincy
Director of Early Career Framework
Anne-Marie Garnett
Principal of The Morley Academy
Adam Ryder
Nicci Cornfoot
Principal of Leeds Teaching School Hub
(Including oversight of National Professional Qualifications)
Nicola Cornfoot read Mathematics at the University of Leeds after which she pursued her career ambition to be a Mathematics teacher by completing a Fast Track PGCE course at Edge Hill University.
Nicola’s enthusiasm and commitment to educating the young people of Leeds, especially those who are less advantaged, has been a driving force in her career to date. She has been influential in improving educational outcomes throughout her leadership career at The Farnley Academy and The Ruth Gorse Academy. Most recently Nicola has been a member of the central team at The GORSE Academies Trust as a Partnership Director with specific responsibilities for Teaching, Learning and CPD.
Emma Worrincy
Executive Director GORSE SCITT
Emma Worrincy graduated from the University of Leeds where she read English Language and Literature. Following this, she then remained at the University of Leeds to complete a PGCE in Secondary English and began her teaching career in East London.
Joining The Morley Academy, then Morley High School, in 2010, Emma quickly progressed to the role of Director of English and Media Studies and was influential in further improving the English outcomes of young people at both The Morley Academy and across the trust more widely. Ensuring that all students succeed, regardless of their starting point or background, is at the heart of Emma’s practice.
More recently, Emma has been a member of the Central team at The GORSE Academies Trust as a Partnership Director with specific responsibility for Early Career Teachers, the trust’s Forensic Reading programme and literacy more widely. Working with teachers at the very start of their careers remains a passion; Emma recognises that one of the most powerful ways to improve the quality of education and close achievement gaps is to invest in the expertise of teachers.
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).