Teachers

We are currently recruiting for a range of teaching and non-teaching positions, which can be found here. If you are an outstanding teacher interested in working at the Greenwich Free School, please do get in touch by emailing lfaith@greenwichfreeschool.co.uk.

We are delighted to have already secured two outstanding teachers as our Head and Deputy Head, and you can read more about them below. As we appoint more staff, we will post their bios on this page.

Headteacher: Mr Lee Faith

Until his full-time appointment as Headteacher of the Greenwich Free School, Lee was serving as a Deputy Headteacher at a large comprehensive in West London and is a member of the prestigious Future Leaders programme. This has given him the opportunity to serve on the senior leadership teams of several challenging inner London schools, where he has made an impressive impact.

In his previous school, Lee was part of a senior leadership team that transformed a failing local authority school that had to convert to become an Academy because of its GCSE results. By the end of the second year under Lee's leadership, Mathematics results in the new academy had gone from 28% A*-C to 70% A*-C. He has also led on a variety of academy-wide strategies which have helped improve GCSE results from 17% to 65% of students achieving five or more 5 A*-C GCSEs including English and Mathematics. Lee is extremely proud of the part he played in making sure that the academy was judged as 'Outstanding' by OfSTED.

The key to these successes is Lee's commitment to improving the life chances of every pupil with whom he has the pleasure of working. Raised and educated in Camden, North London, Lee saw that there was an acute need for children from challenging urban areas to be given every chance to succeed, and to have the same opportunities that other children his age had. Wanting to make a genuine difference to the lives of children in inner London, Lee has made sure that his career path has taken him through some challenging training and experiences so he really understands what needs to be done to secure real change.

Now with seven years leadership and management experience in challenging urban schools, Lee has demonstrated the ability to inspire his colleagues and students with his vision that every child can succeed if they are given the right environment in which to do so.

Lee has also made sure his leadership skills and views on education have been informed by the very best practice from around the world. He has been on educational visits to schools in New York, as well as having worked with, and helped train, senior leaders in secondary schools in Rwanda and Uganda.

Read more about Lee's achievements and journey to Headship here.

Feel free to contact Lee at lfaith@greenwichfreeschool.co.uk.

Deputy Headteacher: Miss Sarah Jones

Sarah graduated with a first class degree in Law from Magdalen College, Oxford, after attending her local state comprehensive. She was accepted on to the TeachFirst programme, an organisation which trains top graduates to work in challenging, urban schools.

Sarah received the TeachFirst School Project Award in her first year of teaching for organising a debating competition for schools in the borough. She has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted and the exam results of students in her classes consistently exceed the department, school and borough average.

Sarah encourages her students to aim high, and ensures they have access to opportunities usually reserved for those at the top public schools. For example, she recently took her sixth form Philosophy class to a lecture and workshop with Philosophy tutors at the University of Oxford, and has in the past taken groups to participate in mock trials at the Inns of Court with top barristers acting as judges. Two of those students are now practicing law in London.

Sarah also enjoys leading extra-curricular activities such as debating and model UN, in which her students have achieved outstanding things: two of her debaters were invited to trial for the England World Schools team this year.

Sarah has continued to be involved with TeachFirst in her role as an Ambassador, participating in International Task Force trips to do research into different educational models, and involvement in Policy First.

She is now in the Senior Leadership team of a school in South East London, as well as being a Subject Advisor in Wellbeing and Social, Political and Religious Studies across four schools.

Contact Sarah at sjones@greenwichfreeschool.co.uk.