Chris became CEO of Chorus Education Trust in November 2019. He joined us from Nova Education Trust in the East Midlands, where he was Senior Executive Headteacher for four years. He also led Nova's teacher training SCITT.

Previously to this, he was Head Teacher of The Garibaldi School where he moved the school to ‘Good’ in nine months, establishing it as an oversubscribed school regularly in the top 5% of all schools in the country in terms of progress at GCSE.

He has family roots in Sheffield and also studied Economic and Social History at the University of Sheffield, before training to be a history teacher in Nottingham.

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Ann is a qualified banker with experience in business client relationship management, spanning both the private and public sectors. She has worked for HSBC, Barnsley Development Agency and, most recently, Creative Sheffield where she was Head of Inward Investment and Sector Growth.

She has brought her considerable expertise into the world of education, where she was Business Development Manager at Silverdale School for several years. As part of the school's Senior Leadership Team she had responsibility for the operational (non-teaching) elements of running the academy, including finance, IT, HR, risk management and premises. 

Ann was previously a govenor at a Sheffield primary school, and a Trustee of the Autism Plus charity. She has a keen interest in improving the outcomes for pupils by professionalising and developing efficient central support services for schools, to enable teaching resources to focus on the classroom.

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Robbie is the Headteacher at Malin Bridge Primary School which was judged by Ofsted to be Outstanding in all areas in October 2017.

Robbie has worked in three Sheffield Schools with differing context and needs. He has provided training to schools and local authorities across the country on a range of school improvement areas, much of this work focusing on curriculum and assessment.

Before teaching, Robbie undertook a Business Studies Degree at Nottingham Trent University, he then worked as a buyer at Outokumpu Steel, before completing a PGCE at Nottingham Trent University.

Robbie is a Primary Lead for the Chorus Education Trust; he has helped to shape the Primary offer and strategy whilst supporting schools that are in the process of joining the trust.

Georgina joined Silverdale school as a Finance Assistant in Sept 2012 just before the school's conversion to academy status. In 2014, she was appointed as Silverdale’s Finance Manager, subsequently joining the central Chorus Trust team as the Trust Finance Manager, then Director of Finance.

Georgina has a BA Honours Degree in Accounting & Financial Management and is continuing her professional development studying CIMA. 

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Carly started work in the education sector in 2006, at a Sheffield primary school which later became a Multi Academy Trust. She moved to Silverdale in 2016 to join the HR and Finance team and has now moved over to Chorus as the Trust HR Manager.

She is a qualified Accounting Technician and has recently become an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) following completion of her HR Management Level 5 qualification.

Carly previously worked in financial services as a qualified Financial Planning Consultant. Her interests are people wellbeing, spa retreats and family holidays.

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Katie joined Silverdale school in 2014 having worked for over 20 years in a number of educational settings both in a teaching capacity and as a pastoral and safeguarding lead. As a teacher of dance and performing arts, Katie has experience of working across both primary and secondary phases in mainstream schools, referral units and specialist inclusion provisions as well as delivering training to staff across the city in her role as lead practitioner for dance with Sheffield Arts Education.

Since 2009, Katie’s main role has been in leading various areas of pastoral support including behaviour, attendance and complex need and in 2015 Katie commenced the role of Safeguarding, Pastoral and Inclusion Manager at Silverdale School. Katie is passionate about increasing access to mental health support for all children and young people and has developed the mental health and wellbeing provision at Silverdale on which she has been asked to speak both at local and national levels. Katie is also a committed advocate for children in, or leavers of, local authority care and is determined to ensure that those children have access to the highest quality support and provision.

Katie joined Chorus Trust as Director of Safeguarding in 2019 and as an accredited trainer and practitioner with Trauma Informed Schools UK and is keen to reflect a trauma informed model of understanding across all the schools in the Trust. Katie is also an accredited trainer in Safer Recruitment and Team Teach enabling her to deliver training to staff and leaders across the Chorus Trust.

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Anita has over 22 years' experience in accounting and finance within the industry sector - the last 18 of which were concentrated on all aspects of payroll. She joined Chorus in 2019.

She has a Certificate in Accounting and Management Control; a BTEC National Diploma in Business and Finance; and holds the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals' Payroll Technician Certificate.

She was previously a governor and secretary for the PTA at a Rotherham primary school.