CLHS Local Governing Body

Sharon Asquith (Chair)

Sharon Asquith is a serving headteacher at a Lancashire secondary school.  She qualified as a teacher in 1988 and worked as humanities teacher at Penwortham Priory High school before moving on to head of RE at Carnforth High school.  She gained her master’s degree in religious and Moral Education in 1996 from Lancaster University and achieved the NPQH in 2000.   Sharon moved to Fleetwood High School in 1999 initially as SENCO, achieving promotion whilst at the school to Deputy Headteacher.  During that time, she was nominated for an excellence in special needs award through the Teaching Awards Trust, and was the North West Regional winner of this category. She moved to her current school in 2005 to the post of deputy headteacher and was promoted to headship at the school in 2013.

Anne Rickards (Vice Chair)

Anne has taught for 35 years, although she has predominantly worked in 11-18 comprehensive schools, she has also taught in both primary and special schools as well as delivering modules to both post graduate and under graduate students.

Initial trained as a Specialist PE and Special Needs teacher, her teaching career began teaching PE and Outdoor Education, before she moved into pastoral leadership as Head of Year 7 and Primary Transition. She has spent the last 15 years in Special Needs working as a Specialist Teacher for Dyslexia and SENDCo.

Anne retired from teaching in July 2021, however she continues to work freelance as a Specialist Teacher and Assessor assessing and tutoring children in the local area. She is also working with the Bay Learning Trust as a Special Needs Consultant supporting two new SENDCos develop their skills and expertise.

Outside of work, Anne enjoys spending time with her family, walking her dog either locally or on the fells and horse riding.

Victoria Crossman

Victoria joined Central Lancaster High School in 2008 as a Dance Instructor where she supported the Performing Arts department with dance and drama teaching and bringing to the school a range of extra-curricular opportunities directing a number of school whole school musicals including ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘Oliver’. In 2013 Victoria led a performance visit to Sadler’s Wells theatre in London. Two further visits for pupils to perform we arranged to The Royal Albert Hall in 2014 and 2016 where pupils from Central Lancaster High School joined South African pupils from partner school, Stirling High School East London, to perform in one of Europe’s largest performance spaces – a truly incredible opportunity for all pupils

Victoria qualified with a first class honours degree from Buckinghamshire University and qualified as a teacher with the University of Cumbria. Victoria joined the Senior Leadership Team at the school in 2020 and took on the role of Acting Headteacher in September 2024.

Gavin Gomersall
Gavin qualified as a science (Chemistry) teacher from King’s College, London in 1993, after having spent his undergraduate studies there.  He has taught in a number of schools during his career, most recently teaching agriculture at Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy.  He has also taught science, mathematics, ICT and Environmental Science.  During his career, Gavin has worked in seven schools at all levels of school management.  He is currently working at the Bay Learning Trust, supporting schools with building and compliance matters. 
Laurie Ibbs

Laurie Ibbs is a highly skilled technologist. He earned his first-class degree in Computing and Mathematical Sciences from the Open University. With a passion for technology, Laurie has led development teams and contributed to cutting-edge projects, including his recent role as Lead Developer at Relative Insight, where he spearheaded the implementation of new features for their SaaS platform utilizing natural language processing. Currently, Laurie is focused on security risk assessments for European projects, leveraging his extensive experience to address emerging cybersecurity challenges. His expertise spans infrastructure and platform engineering, product development, and enhancement, acquired through hands-on involvement in various innovative initiatives. Beyond his professional pursuits, Laurie is also an accomplished guitarist and musician. He recently achieved IPC accreditation in soldering, reflecting his growing interest in electronics.

Juliana Silveira
Juliana Silveira is a research assistant at Lancaster University since 2016. She is originally from the second biggest city in the Brazilian Amazon (approximately 2 million people), where she lived until moving to Lancaster in 2010. Juliana is an Ecologist and she studies the effects of disturbances like logging and fire on the biodiversity of the Amazon forest. She has been a secondary school teacher in Brazil and has delivered modules/ lectures in some universities in the UK. Her daughter attends to Central Lancaster High School.
Paul Young

Paul Young is a senior climate specialist for JBA Risk Management and a visiting researcher at Lancaster University. His work and expertise embraces climate change, air pollution, and the ozone layer, and has experience teaching high school-level maths to first year undergraduates and climate science to masters students in his former role as a Lancaster University faculty member. 

He grew up in Portsmouth, completed degrees at Bristol and Cambridge Universities, and lived and worked in Colorado for four years before moving to Lancaster in 2012. He lives with his wife Joanna in Heysham with their three children, two of whom attend Central Lancaster High School.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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