🎉😄🎊 2026 is our 80th year! 🎉😄🎊
🎉😄🎊 2026 is our 80th year! 🎉😄🎊
Caverstede Nursery School

Our staff

Published: 5 Mar '26
Senior Leadership team

Debbie Hayes - Head Teacher

Katy Coles - Senior Teacher

Victoria Judge - Business Manager

Katherine Pope - Inclusion Manager


Nursery Staff

Katy - Senior Teacher

Emily - Class Teacher

Hannah - Class Teacher

Katherine - Inclusion Manager

Karen - Early Years Assistant/Inclusion Support Assistant

Caroline - Early Years Educator

Helen - Early Years Educator

Nicole - Early Years Educator

Alexa - Early Years Assistant

Ali - Early Years Assistant

Amy - Early Years Assistant

Becki - Early Years Assistant

Briony - Early Years Assistant

Carly - Early Years Assistant

Katie - Early Years Assistant

Kelly - Early Years Assistant

Laura - Early Years Assistant

Laura - Early Years Assistant

Louise - Early Years Assistant

Sarah - Early Years Assistant

Sophie - Early Years Assistant

Steph - Early Years Assistant

Wendy - Centre Support Worker

Amanda - Supply Early Years Assistant

Cathy - Supply Early Years Assistant

Lorna - Supply Early Years Assistant

Support Staff

Helen - Finance Administrator and Site Supervisor

Clare - School Administator

Jackie - School Administrator

Debbie - Lunch Club Assistant

Hayley - Lunch Club Assistant

Natalie - Lunch Club Assistant

Rachael - Lunch Club Assistant

Fern - Cleaner

Rosie - Cleaner

Stacey - Cleaner

Eva - Cleaner


Staff Professional Development:

All professionals need to continue to update their knowledge and skills. At Caverstede, we are passionate about Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for all team members. Individuals have attended a range of training courses linked to our School Improvement Plan.

Some of the training undertaken during the school year 2024-2025
  • ADHD; what it is, recognising traits and how to support in Early Years.
  • Allergy Awareness training - online in own time in lieu of an INSET Twilight training session.
  • Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)
  • An Introduction to Gestalt Language Processing and Embedding Gestalt Language Processing Supports in Early Years.
  • Basic Safeguarding training.
  • Children who can talk, but don't - Selective Mutism training.
  • Climate & Nature Action in Education - DfE's Climate Change & Sustainability Education Strategy.
  • Early Maths
  • Eco School Early Years training.
  • Embedding Gestalt Language processing and Embedding Gestalt Language Processing Supports in Early Years.
  • Emotion Coaching.
  • EYFS Safeguarding Reforms.
  • Gastrostomy Tube, Stoma care and trouble shooting.
  • Basic Epilepsy Awareness for schools.
  • Effective SEND Target Setting.
  • Forest Skills - Learning through Landscapes.
  • Health & Safety - fire safety, working at height, things you need to know.
  • Pump feed training.
  • Let's talk maths.
  • Makaton Levels 1 & 2 Session 4.
  • Nasogastric Tube Care and trouble shooting.
  • Paediatric First Aid.
  • Prevent.
  • Speech & Language - Making my setting language-rich.
  • Teaching Early Communication and interaction skills in the early years - Intensive Interaction.
  • Teddy Talk test training.
  • Tube feeding equipment.
  • Understanding and supporting Micro-transitions.