Alice Hudson
CEO
Before becoming CEO, Alice had been Executive Headteacher of Twyford CofE Academies Trust since 2012. She was previously Headteacher at Twyford CofE High School since 2002. She joined Twyford in 2000 as Deputy Headteacher then progressed to Acting Headteacher. Prior to Twyford High School she was Deputy Headteacher at Brentside High School, and previous to that she taught at Central Foundation Boys’ School in Islington and Maria Fidelis School in Euston. Alice was educated at Slough Girls’ High School, Leighton Park School and St Hilda’s Oxford where she read English.
Keir Smith
Headteacher
Graduated as a Geography teacher from the Institute of Education in 1995. First teaching post was at Cardinal Wiseman and was appointed as an Assistant Head Teacher at Twyford High School in 2000. He was Deputy Head at Twyford from 2003 and was awarded the NPQH Qualification in 2008, which led to his appointment as Associate Head Teacher at William Perkin CofE High School in 2013. He was appointed as Headteacher for Ada Lovelace CofE High School in September 2019.
Emily Lewis
Assistant Headteacher
Graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in 2013 in Modern Languages and Philosophy, she went on to train as a teacher with the Institute of Education. She joined William Perkin as a newly qualified languages teacher in 2014 and went on to become Head of Languages in 2016. Following appointment to the wider Senior Leadership Team in 2018 and completion of a master's degree at UCL, focussing on special needs education, she was made Assistant Headteacher for Curriculum Organisation in 2022.
Josie Lyon
Assistant Headteacher
Josephine graduated from the University of Oxford in 2016 with a degree in French and German and trained as an MFL teacher in 2017/18 at the Institute of Education. She previously worked at William Perkin High School as Acting Head of Modern Foreign Languages before becoming Head of Modern Foreign Languages at Ada Lovelace in 2020. Josephine was appointed to Assistant Headteacher, Quality of Education in September 2023.
Jason Lobo
Head of MFL
Jason graduated from the University of Manchester in 2011 with a degree in French and German and then went on to train as an MFL teacher in 2012/13 at the Institute of Education. He previously worked at Mayfield Grammar School Gravesend for nine years, progressing from NQT to Subject Leader for German and Director of Languages. Jason was appointed at Ada Lovelace CofE High School in January 2024 as Head of MFL.
NPP (National Priority Project) team
Eve Althaus
NPP Lead for KS3 (French)
Hi, I’m Eve and I am part of a National Priority Project team focusing on low literacy language learners, their transition from KS2 to KS3 and how we can make language learning more accessible for them.
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Catherine Lyon
NPP Lead for KS3 (Spanish)
¡Hola! My name is Cat, I am the KS3 Spanish lead at Twyford CofE High School and I am delighted to be part of the National Priority Project. We are looking forward to sharing how we can support our lower-literacy learners to make excellent progress in Languages. As Assistant Head of Year of Year 7, I am also particularly passionate about supporting students in their transition from KS2 and helping them to establish excellent learning habits which promote outstanding progress.
Julia Finucane
NPP Lead for KS2 (German)
Guten Tag! My name is Julia, I am KS3 German coordinator at Ada Lovelace CofE High School and I am incredibly excited to be part of this National Priority Project. As part of my new role as KS2 Lead, I get the opportunity to teach German at our partner school Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Ealing. Together with the Goethe Institut we have developed a whole new curriculum for the Years 3 to 6 and have already started delivering interactive sessions with a communicative focus. I am confident that being able to teach in both environments, primary and secondary education, will provide me with useful insights in supporting students in their transition from primary to secondary school.
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