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Meet Our Team

Ardvreck has an unbelievable team of staff, they are the movers and shakers, optimists, can doers, smilers and who all care, beyond belief, about the education and wellbeing of every single child in our school.

HEADMISTRESS

Mrs Ali Kinge read Spanish and French at the University of Nottingham and subsequently gained a PGCE. She began her career as Resident Housemistress at Moreton Hall in Shropshire and, after a spell teaching in South America and raising her three boys, she resumed her career at Malvern St James. In 2005 she moved to Scotland to teach at Glenalmond College before joining Ardvreck School, working her way up to be appointed Headmistress in 2018. Her mantra for the pupils is to be Feisty and Fantastic and her number one message to the Ardvreck community comes from her love of Spanish: ¡todo es posible!


 
DEPUTY HEAD

Mr Peter Grant was appointed Ardvreck’s Deputy Head in January 2021.

Born and educated in Edinburgh, Peter studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before working as a professional opera singer for 10 years. Ardvreck is very much a family affair for Peter with both his daughters attending Ardvreck School and his wife Michelle, being one of our singing teachers.

In his time Peter has played rugby for Boroughmuir, London-Scottish and the Honourable Artillery Company and represented both Scotland and the Lothians at golf as a schoolboy.

 
LEADERSHIP TEAM

Sarah Mannion
Head of Pupil Welfare & Little Ardvreck

David Knock
Head of Boarding & French

Peter Banks
Director of Studies & Science

Oliver Pearce
Bursar

 

 

TEACHING STAFF

Fraser Angus
Maths

Sarah Brown
Learning Support

Jessica Downey
Form Two

Flo Earl
Form One & Assistant Housemistress

Richard Gibson
History & Religious Studies

Edward Gilsenan
Latin

Michael Gray
Learning Support

Winsome Hardie
Art

Hannah Livesey
Geography

James Lugton
English

Matthew Mitchell
Form Two &  Assistant Housemaster

Alex Moore
Form Three

Sara Naylor
Little Ardvreck

Leigh Parkinson
Learning Assistant

Andy Robertson
Scottish Adventure School

PASTORAL STAFF

Janine Erdal
Matron

Lucy MacLeod
House Mistress

Beth Kidd
Matron

Sheila Milne
School Nurse

Judith Ridley
Matron

 

ARDVRECK NURSERY TEAM

Anna Gurung
Nursery Manager

Lauren Harker
Nursery Supervisor

Gwilym Hooson
Early Years Practitioner

Louise Haworth
Nursery Practitioner

 

 

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Gillian Murchie
PA to Headmistress

Annie Le Roy-Lewis
Registrar

Jane Fraser
Secretary

Gigha Smith
Marketing Director

Chris Higgo
Assistant to Bursar

 

CATERING STAFF

Allison Brown
Head of Catering

Rona McLennan
Chef

Barry Burgess
Chef

Noreen Ashworth
Kitchen staff

Marie Barton
Kitchen staff

Kyle Bolam
Kitchen staff

HOUSEKEEPING STAFF

Alison Abernethy
Head of Housekeeping

Sandra Galloway

Gillian McDougall

Lisa Anderson


 
ESTATES TEAM

Kevin Ashworth
Head of Maintenance

Marc King
Head of Grounds