Senior Leadership Team

Headteacher: Mr Lee Faith

Until his full-time appointment as Headteacher of the Greenwich Free School, Mr Faith was serving as a Deputy Headteacher at a large comprehensive in West London and is a member of the prestigious Future Leaders programme. This has given him the opportunity to serve on the senior leadership teams of several challenging inner London schools, where he has made an impressive impact.

In his previous school, Mr Faith was part of a senior leadership team that transformed a failing local authority school that had to convert to become an Academy because of its GCSE results. By the end of the second year under Mr Faith's leadership, Mathematics results in the new academy had gone from 28% A*-C to 70% A*-C. He has also led on a variety of academy-wide strategies which have helped improve GCSE results from 17% to 65% of students achieving five or more 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and Mathematics. Mr Faith is extremely proud of the part he played in making sure that the academy was judged as 'Outstanding' by OfSTED.

The key to these successes is Mr Faith's commitment to improving the life chances of every pupil with whom he has the pleasure of working. Raised and educated in Camden, North London, Mr Faith saw that there was an acute need for children from challenging urban areas to be given every chance to succeed, and to have the same opportunities that other children his age had. Wanting to make a genuine difference to the lives of children in inner London, Mr Faith has made sure that his career path has taken him through some challenging training and experiences so he really understands what needs to be done to secure real change.

Now with seven years leadership and management experience in challenging urban schools, Mr Faith has demonstrated the ability to inspire his colleagues and students with his vision that every child can succeed if they are given the right environment in which to do so.

Mr Faith has also made sure his leadership skills and views on education have been informed by the very best practice from around the world. He has been on educational visits to schools in New York, as well as having worked with, and helped train, senior leaders in secondary schools in Rwanda and Uganda.

Read more about Mr Faith's achievements and journey to Headship here.

Feel free to contact Mr Faith at .

Deputy Headteacher: Miss Sarah Jones

Miss Jones graduated with a first class degree in Law from Magdalen College, Oxford, after attending her local state comprehensive. She was accepted on to the TeachFirst programme, an organisation which trains top graduates to work in challenging, urban schools.

Miss Jones received the TeachFirst School Project Award in her first year of teaching for organising a debating competition for schools in the borough. She has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted and the exam results of students in her classes consistently exceed the department, school and borough average.

Miss Jones encourages her students to aim high, and ensures they have access to opportunities usually reserved for those at the top public schools. For example, she recently took her sixth form Philosophy class to a lecture and workshop with Philosophy tutors at the University of Oxford, and has in the past taken groups to participate in mock trials at the Inns of Court with top barristers acting as judges. Two of those students are now practicing law in London.

Miss Jones also enjoys leading extra-curricular activities such as debating and model UN, in which her students have achieved outstanding things: two of her debaters were invited to trial for the England World Schools team this year.

Miss Jones has continued to be involved with TeachFirst in her role as an Ambassador, participating in International Task Force trips to do research into different educational models, and involvement in Policy First.

Contact Miss Jones at .

Director of Resources: Ms Sue Duckworth

Ms Duckworth has joined the Greenwich Free School following 15 years experience in many types of school, contributing to school improvement through Business Management, developing Leadership and leading Governance. She has lived all over the world, and has worked in the catering industry as well as in education, owning and operating a restaurant in the Caribbean for several years.

Ms Duckworth is passionate about providing outstanding education, and is excited to be working together with the whole school team to inspire a love of learning for all pupils. She works hard to ensure the core business of learning is underpinned by a high quality range of exciting resources to meet the needs of pupils, and to make learning enjoyable.

As the Director of Resources, she ensures that pupils have a school environment to be proud of, and one in which they are excited to come to school each day to learn and enjoy their education. While not as visible to pupils as other staff, she enjoys having pupils come to her office to say 'Hello!'.