Our Staff

P1a    Christine Kenney and Claire Connolly

P1b  Corinne Quinn

P2a  Gemma McMenamin

P2b  Carly Brown

P3a  Julie Anne MacNeill 

P3b  Suzanne Caldwell (PT) and Laura Breslin

P4a  Marie McKeever

P4b Margaret Anne Robertson

P5a Annie Coll

P5b Lynsey Bremner

P6a Jennifer Rankin

P6b Martin Currie

P7a Lucy Smith

P7b Mark Meikle 

Class non contact Roslyn deVoogd and Peter Docherty

Ms Hatrick, Mrs Briggs and Mr Petrac visit the school for an hour per week and teach violin and woodwind and Strings (cello/double bass) to small groups of pupils from P.5, P.6 or P.7.

Mrs Amy Nolan  is our link Educational Psychologist. In addition, at any given time Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists or Physiotherapists may visit the school to work with individual pupils. Schools can make referrals to the Central Support Service (CSS) to seek specialist help with those children identified as having additional support needs and requiring targeted support, this is supported through the Staged Intervention process.

Facilities: 

Mrs Kerr

Clerical Assistants: 

Mrs McLaughlin

Mrs Kelly

Mrs Wilkie

Learning Assistants:

Mrs Kennedy

Mrs McGregor

Mrs  Scott

Mrs Bain

Mrs McLeod

Mrs Brown

Miss King 

Ms Lynn Ross 

Miss Costello 

Catering Manager:

Mrs Sartain

Cleaners:

Mrs O'Neil

Mrs Sharkey 

Mrs Brooks

Crossing Patrol: 

Mrs O’Meara

Mrs Sweeney

Each session the number of teachers in the school is adjusted according to the size of the school roll.  With a roll of 356 the staffing is 19.17 full time equivalent members of staff of whom Mrs Maureen McHugh is the Head Teacher.

The first Depute Head Teacher is Mrs Michelle Lang and she has pastoral care responsibility for P.1-4.  She has the whole school responsibility for Literacy.  Mrs  Lang is also the Pupil Support Coordinator for the school and as part of this remit, manages our learning assistants and organises timetables and health care plans. 

At present, our Acting Depute Headteacher is Mrs Cheryl MacPherson who will be joining our school community in November 2023.  Her remit will mainly consist of pastoral care for P.5-7, curriculum development in  Numeracy & Mathematics and Religious Education, along with Learning and Teaching throughout the school. 

Miss Suzanne Caldwell is the Principal Teacher. She has responsibility for transition from early years to P1, transition from Primary to Secondary ,Play Pedagogy, Languages 1 +2 and student teacher mentor.

Mr Docherty and Mrs Breslin have responsibility of learning and teaching throughout the school in small groups and learning and teaching at various stages to allow for stage partners to participate in collaborative planning.  

Class teachers have 22.5 hours class contact per week.  During their teacher’s non-class contact time pupils are taught by one of the following members of staff: Mrs Ros Devoog, Mr Docherty and Mrs Breslin.