🎉😄🎊 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

Helen - Inclusion Assistant

Caroline - Early Years Educator

Nicole - Early Years Educator

Laura - Room Leader/Early Years Assistant

Ali - 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

Louise - Early Years Assistant

Steph - Early Years Assistant

Lorna - Early Years Assistant

Lily - Early Years Assistant

Rachael - Supply staff

Wendy - Supply staff

Amanda - Supply staff

Cathy - Supply staff



Support Staff

Helen - Finance Administrator and Site Supervisor

Clare - School Administator

Jackie - School Administrator

Debbie - Lunch Club Assistant

Hayley - Lunch Club Assistant

Rachael - Lunch Club Assistant

Vicky - Lunch Club Assistant

Chloe - Lunch Club Assistant

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 2025-2026
  • ADHD - a guide for Early Years profeccionals
  • Allergies and educational visits
  • Buccal training
  • Building gross and fine motor skills in babies and toddlers
  • Domestic Abuse Lead training
  • Epilepsy training
  • Food Allergy Awareness for Early Years
  • Food Hygiene
  • Gestalt Language Processing
  • How communication, SEND and behaviour connect in the Early Years
  • Managing allergies in school
  • Micro transitions
  • Neurodiversity in the Early Years
  • NSPCC Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Paediatric First Aid theory and practical
  • Peg Feed competency
  • PREVENT Lead training
  • Pump Feed Theory
  • Safeguarding and Child Protection
  • School Readiness
  • Speech & Language - EAL
  • Super Scribers - Physical Development
  • Stirring up healthy habits - the power of cookery in the Early Years
  • Supporting parents in the school admissions process
  • VI Awareness
  • Work stattions & work baskets for beginners