Our Staff

• Mrs Bate
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Bate

  Likes - walking and animals

  Dislikes - Liver! uurgh!

  Favourite Film - Beauty and the Beast

  Favourite food - Roast beef + Yorkshire puddings

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - VE Day celebrations

• Miss Butters
  Play Co-ordinator
  Miss Butters

• Mrs Cade
  Extended Schools Assistant
  Mrs Cade

• Mrs Campbell
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Campbell

• Mr Childs
  Headteacher
  Mr Childs

  Likes - Cooking, sport and reading

  Dislikes - Cheese & cauliflower (cauliflower cheese is my worst culinary nightmare!)

  Favourite Film - Back to the Future, The Karate Kid, The Goonies and The Mighty Ducks

  Favourite Musical Artist - Counting Crows & Tom McRae

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - Becoming Headteacher of this amazing school!

• Mrs Connell
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Connell

  Likes -Working out, shopping, eating out and fun things with my children

  Dislikes - Selfishness and cold wet weather

  Favourite Dance Music - Ultra Nate- Free

  Favourite Ryarsh moment - Getting a preview of the nativity

• Mrs Cowling
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Cowling

• Mrs Crozier
  Teacher
  Mrs Crozier

  Likes - Hockey, swimming

  Dislikes - Wet break

  Favourite Book - Wind in the Willows

  Favourite Film - A Few Good Men

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - Going on the Y5 Residential to Swattenden

• Mrs Deamer
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Deamer

  Likes - I love being in my garden, visiting museums, exploring new places and reading books

  Dislikes - Boring household chores like doing the ironing and the weekly food shop

  Favourite place - London. I've visited lots of cities but still this it's the most interesting of all

  Favourite food - Tapas in Spain

• Mrs Eames
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Eames

  Likes - Dancing, Art, Davina Workout and Pom Poms!

  Favourite food - Homemade cakes and Mrs Campbells brownies.

  Favourite place - collecting driftwood and shells on Tenby Beach, Pembrokeshire

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - Every Day; I love my Job

  Favourite TV show - I love the sparkle of Strictly Come Dancing

• Mrs Fiander
  Teacher
  Mrs Fiander

  Likes - Cooking....and eating! Drawing, dancing, history, escape rooms, Halloween and horror films

  Dislikes - Celery, running and unkindness

  Favourite film - Casino Royale

  Favourite place - Whitstable, Norwich and my home

  Favourite food - Too much to choose from! Anything spicy and interesting

  Favourite book - Anne of Green Gables

  Favourite TV show - Task Master

• Miss Fisher
  Teacher
  Miss Fisher

  Likes - Cats, patterns, sewing, knitting, book, museums, art, gardening, yoga, cheese, cows, old things

  Dislikes - Snakes, lies, injustice

  Favourite film - The Horse Whisperer or Lord of the Rings

  Favourite place - On top of a hill, preferably in Umbria and surrounded by olive groves

  Favourite musical artist - Joni Mitchell

  Favourite book - Orlando by Virginia Woolf

  Favourite TV show - The West Wing

• Mrs Harris
  SENCo
  Mrs Harris

  Likes - Baking, walking, guinea pigs, chocolate and spending time with my family and friends

  Dislikes - Baked beans!

  Favourite Book - The Twits by Roald Dahl

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - I love it when the Easter Bunny visits.

  Favourite Place - Copenhagen and New Zealand

  Favourite Film: Inside I'm Dancing

• Mrs Howe
  Teacher
  Mrs Howe

  Likes - Chocolate, pasta, running and walking my sausage dog

  Dislikes - Spicy food and sweets

  Favourite TV programme - Friends

  Favourite Food - Dairy Milk Buttons or Twirl

• Mrs Howlett
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Howlett

  Favourite film - Any rom-coms

  Favourite place - Paris

  Favourite food - Pie, roast veg and anything with gravy!

  Favourite TV show - Master Chef Australia

• Mrs Howman
  Teacher
  Mrs Howman

  Likes - Good manners, laughing, the mountains and forests, and anything salted caramel!

  Dislikes - Trifle, birds....apart from Robins, they're lovely!

  Favourite Book - Alice in Wonderland

  Favourite Film - The Lion King/Miracle on 34th Street

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - receiving letters from the dinosaurs - we were so excited

  Favourite Place: North Wales, in the mountains and forests is my happy place!

• Mrs Jenner
  Cleaner
  Mrs Jenner

  Likes - Having breakfast on Sunday mornings around the family table with all my family

  Dislikes - Dirt

  Favourite film - Mission Impossible

  Favourite place - Dorset

  Favourite musical artist - UB40

  Favourite food - Lamb chops

• Mrs Jennings
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Jennings

  Likes - Cooking and walking my dogs (Teddy and Ralph)

  Dislikes - Spiders

  Favourite film - Mamma Mia and Dirty Dancing

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment -Going back in time to 1940s week in school

• Mrs Kemp
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Kemp

  Likes - Anything Disney

  Dislikes - Bad manners and rudeness

  Favourite film - The Nightmare before Christmas

  Favourite place - The New Forest

  Favourite food - Chocolate

  Favourite musical artist - Kylie

• Mrs Loveday
  Teacher
  Mrs Loveday

  Likes - Films, chocolate and family days out where we can go off exploring

  Favourite place - Tintagel Castle in Cornwall

  Favourite food - Anything chocolate! I also love pizza and most Italian dishes

  Favourite book: Harry Potter series

• Miss Lucas
  Teaching Assistant
  Miss Lucas

• Mrs McMulkin
  Assistant Headteacher
  Mrs McMulkin

  Likes - Spending time with my family and friends, cooking and reading

  Dislikes - Spiders

  Favourite book - The girl of ink and stars

  Favourite film - Jurassic Park

  Favourite Ryarsh moment - Drawing on the tables to partition numbers with my lovely Leopards!

  Favourite musical artist - The Hobbit

• Mrs Mills
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Mills

• Mrs Moloney
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Moloney

  Likes - Spending time with my friends and family, crafting, eating chocolate and being in the sunshine

  Dislikes - Dishonesty and bad manners, putting laundry away and peas....eughh!

  Favourite place - South Africa, the best place in the world

  Favourite food - Roast chicken with Yorkshire puddings, or a yummy afternoon tea.

  Favourite musical artist - Tina Turner and Celine Dion will always get me singing.

• Mrs Morgan
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Morgan

  Likes - Walks with my family and spaniel, afternoon tea and the beach

  Dislikes - Watching my sons play ruby in the rain

  Favourite Film - Mary Poppins

  Favourite Food - Anything with cheese!

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - Watching Year 4 children learn the opening dance from the Lion King

• Mrs Morris
  Deputy Headteacher
  Mrs Morris

  Likes - Running, creating things and making people smile

  Dislikes - Mushrooms, rude people and snakes

  Favourite place - Carlisle Bay in Antigua, although I'm happy anywhere if I can see the sea

  Favourite Foods - Macaroni cheese, Galaxy chocolate, steak and Magnum ice-creams

  Favourite musical artist - Phil Collins, Ed Sheeran, Lewis Capaldi

  Favourite Books - The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Tadpole's Promise and Little Women

• Mrs Oborne
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Oborne

• Mrs Parfitt
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Parfitt

  Likes - Walking, running (especially early in the morning) kayaking and days out with my family

  Dislikes - tomatoes!

  Favourite TV Show - police or crime dramas and period dramas

  Favourite food - Pasta/Spaghetti carbonara

  Favourite film - The Holiday

• Mr Payne
  Teacher
  Mr Payne

  Likes - Battenberg cake, reading and days out with my family

  Dislikes - White chocolate

  Favourite food - Chilli Con Carne

  Favourite film - any of the Marvel or James Bond series

  Favourite Ryarsh moment - Our socially distanced dance-off on the field with the Year 6 leavers

• Mrs Pope
  Cleaner
  Mrs Pope

• Mrs Salvidge
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Salvidge

• Mrs Shardlow
  Office Manager
  Mrs Shardlow

  Likes - Travelling, skiing and getting together with my best girls!

  Dislikes - Rudeness and bad manners

  Favourite film - Labyrith

  Favourite place - Austria

  Favourite food - Tiroler Grostl

  Favourite musical artist: Prince

• Mr Steenkamp
  Caretaker
  Mr Steenkamp

• Mrs Tait
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Tait

  Likes - Long walks in the country, keeping fit and having fun with my family

  Dislikes - Feet!

  Favourite Film - Mary Poppins and the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  Favourite Food - Italian

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - Meeting Dolphin class for the first time

• Mrs Taplin
  Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA)
  Mrs Taplin

  Likes - Languages, good manners, music and Christmas

  Dislikes - Bad spelling

  Favourite food - poached eggs on toast

  Favourite film - Aladdin (animated!)

  Favourite Ryarsh moment - I love the Excellence Awards assemblies and all of the Nativity plays

• Miss Tye
  Extended Schools Supervisor
  Miss Tye

  Likes - Walking and keep fit

  Dislikes - Bad manners

  Favourite food - Anything that contains garlic

  Favourite film - Pretty Woman

  Favourite Ryarsh moment - Being part of the outstanding Ryarsh Team and meeting all the children

• Mrs Wadman
  Office Administrator
  Mrs Wadman

  Likes - Making memories with my family and friends, stand up comedy, reading books...not Kindles, Garage music and having fish and chips on the beach

  Dislikes - Ironing

  Favourite Film - Elf

  Favourite Food - Cheese!

  Favourite Musical Artist - Hmmm..... a tie between Jamiroquai and Stevie Wonder.

  Favourite TV Show - Live at the Apollo

• Mrs Walker
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Walker

  Likes - Nature, people with "twinkly" eyes and cake with a cup of tea

  Dislikes - Bad manners, mean people, spiders and Brussel sprouts

  Favourite place - Sitting in my bed drinking a cup of tea with my daughters beside me all cosy

  Favourite food - Everything that is bad for you, but especially sausages and chocolate...but not together!

  Favourite book - Lark by Anthony McGowan

• Mrs Walsh
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Walsh

  Likes - Family time and trips to the seaside

  Dislikes - Ironing

  Favourite Film - The Greatest Showman and the new Cinderella

  Favourite Food - Cake! I love cake! Who doesn't

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - Our recent Ryarts Day

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• Mrs Watts
  Teacher
  Mrs Watts

  Dislikes - Feet!

  Favourite film - A Man Called Otto

  Favourite food - Roast Beef with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and all the veggies

  Favourite Ryarsh Moment - Watching Year 6 joining hands and completing the long distance race together on Sports Day.

• Mrs Wildish
  Teaching Assistant
  Mrs Wildish

  Likes - Meals out

  Dislikes - Windy days

  Favourite film - Born Free

  Favourite place - Devon and Cornwall

  Favourite food - Indian

  Favourite music - George Benson

  Favourite Ryarsh moment - Getting Kelly Holmes to visit Ryarsh Primary School

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• Mr Yates
  Teaching Assistant
  Mr Yates