The Senior Leadership Team

Please view the Senior Leadership Team's roles and responsibilities below.

Sue Hearle - Headteacher

I am very proud to be the Headteacher of such a superb school.

My role is to ensure that our school community is happy and everyone in the community feels supported and appreciated and that the school maintains the highest standards of education for your child.

I am very well-supported in my role by teaching and support staff who have children at the heart of every decision they make. My regular learning walks around the school allow me the opportunity to see great teaching in action. Our students are focused, engaged and ready for the challenges that learning at The Henry Beaufort School brings. I meet on a regular basis with students to hear their views on the school and how we can make it an even better place to learn and provide enriching opportunities. They talk to me about the ambition they feel for themselves as well as how that ambition is supported by their teachers and tutors and Heads of Year. The community atmosphere of the school is very important to us all, and it is one of the reasons that we operate a vertical tutoring programme, allowing students of all ages to work together in a structured pastoral environment.

In addition to my main role and my teaching commitment, I also work with colleagues in the following capacities:

Miss Shelton – Deputy Headteacher
Mr Applin – Deputy Headteacher
Miss Colebourn – Assistant Headteacher
Mrs Briggs - Assistant Headteacher
Ms Caplin – School Bursar
Mrs Fradley- Whole School Literacy Coordinator
Mr Donaldson – Whole School Student Voice including the Whole School Student Council

Eleanor Shelton - Deputy Headteacher

Strategic Lead for Quality of Education: Curriculum: Implementation, Intent, INSET and CPD

The Henry Beaufort School is a unique place to work; I consider it such a privilege to be a part of such a great team of staff and students. As well as teaching GCSE English Language, my role centres around ensuring that our curriculum enables every child to reach their potential. This involves looking at the courses we offer each year to make sure they best fit each year group as they approach their option choices in Year 8. Working with Year 8 on their options is a fantastic opportunity for me to lead them in their decision-making and exploring what they enjoy. It’s a long process but vitally important to their long-term success at Henry Beaufort.

I also have strategic oversight of Homelearning, CPD, Teaching and Learning, and Quality Assurance processes including Student Voice. These roles support both students and teachers in striving for consistency and excellence in all that we do.

Andrew Applin - Deputy Headteacher

Strategic Lead For Quality Of Education: Impact, External School Partnership Working

From September 2024, my main role is oversight of Student ‘outcomes’ and this will also involve the strategic oversight of exams and the examination team. My ongoing work with data and assessment monitors the internal progress and attainment of all-year groups.

As well as working with a great group of colleagues at Henry Beaufort, I will be working collaboratively with two SCITT providers this year: HISP, part of Inspiring Future Teachers, and The South Farnham Partnership. One of my favourite parts of the role is the support and development of the next generation of teachers.

Arbor will continue to be part of my role and ensuring it is embedded with all stakeholders. Previously known as the Senior Line Manager for IT Services within the school, it has been enhanced to ‘Digital Technology Lead in School’ focussed on meeting the DFE digital standards. Part of this role is to ensure secure infrastructure but also to explore the gains and limitations of AI within education.

In addition to this, as the strategic oversight of the English and Maths teams, I work closely with the leaders in both departments to enhance the outcomes in each subject and the crossover headline figures. In addition to these subjects, I retain strategic responsibility for Technology (D&T, FPN and Engineering) as well as statistics within maths.

Holly Briggs - Assistant Headteacher

Strategic Lead for Pastoral including Behaviour, Attitudes and Personal Development

I joined The Henry Beaufort School in January 2019 after twelve years of teaching in London.  The school’s core values of Pride, Happiness and Ambition initially attracted me to Henry Beaufort, as they resonate with my own educational ethos.

I am extremely committed to the teaching profession and am passionate about pastoral care and the development of students in every aspect of their lives. As the Assistant Headteacher, I have a strategic leadership role in overseeing all pastoral matters, including safeguarding, behaviour, attitudes and personal development. 

Emma Colebourn - Assistant Headteacher

Strategic Lead for Life Chances/Student Opportunities

I was appointed Head of PE at the Henry Beaufort School in September 2013, having relocated from the Midlands. I am extremely proud to be a member of staff at the Henry Beaufort School. My passion is to support and challenge students to be the best that they can be, whether that be in the classroom, or in an extra-curricular capacity. I seek to promote the school’s values of ‘Pride, Happiness and Ambition’ in everything I do.

I am excited to continue to develop a highly inclusive curriculum and opportunities outside the classroom to meet the demands and needs of all our students.

I will have strategic responsibility for:

Pupil Premium initiatives including monitoring outcomes and impact
Whole School Attendance
Exams including line management of Exams Officer
EVC, Extra Curricular and Enrichment Week
Cultural Capital Days and HbX
Open days and Open Evening
Primary Provision

I line manage the following areas in school:

Music
Drama
MFL
TLR3 Curriculum Leader Vocational including monitoring outcomes and impact
Services/ EAL (English as an Additional Language) Co-ordinator including monitoring outcomes and impact
OLC and LAC/PLAC coordinator

Alison Caplin - Bursar

I have been working at The Henry Beaufort School now for 7 years following a 20 year career within the education sector, including 8 year as a chair of governors at my local secondary school. I am passionate about education and the experience and opportunity this can lead to and completed my own Bachelors qualification in 2023 with the Open University, having never had the opportunity on leaving school in 1982!

The education landscape is very challenging, and my role is to manage the budget and ensure that the culture for learning, in and outside of the classroom, is economically sustainable. My team of professional services underpin and support the teaching and learning, from the management of the site to administering the many trips and events that students have access to. The Henry Beaufort School offers so many positive experiences and opportunities for students and it is extremely rewarding to see the student transformation from year 7 to year 11 as they grow in confidence and maturity, a transition that I am privileged to be a small part of.