Meet the Team
Find out more about the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub leadership team:
Claire Taylor: AMSP Project Manager (Chair)
Claire has been involved in national initiatives to improve the delivery of Mathematics since 2018 and is currently the National Project Manager working on the Advanced Maths Support Programme (AMSP). Having previously worked as a Senior Leader within Secondary schools, Claire has managed change and implemented a number of whole-school initiatives and understands the importance of high quality, timely and relevant PD to drive improvement in the sector through all phases. As a graduate of the University of Hull and after teaching in Bridlington for a number of years, Claire has an interest in working to develop provision in the Yorkshire and Humber area, as well as Nationally. She has a good understanding of the working of Maths Hubs and Teaching for Mastery through her work with the NCETM prior to joining the AMSP and is looking forward to offering a level of challenge to the Maths Hub and helping to develop their strategic vision for the coming year.
Kathryn Greenhalgh: Senior Lead Link
Kathryn has led the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub since its inception in 2014, and is also Chair of the Maths Hub Council. She visited Shanghai in 2014 and came back bursting with ideas of how to develop teachers’ thinking in the way maths is taught and how to improve outcomes for pupils. The Maths Hub programme’s national drive to improve maths for all absolutely reflects her ethos and she considers it a real privilege to work with amazing local leaders of maths education and teachers.
Her 15 years’ experience leading the maths across a large and successful Trust, while continuing to teach whenever possible, means that her passion for improving maths across the region is demonstrated in the practical sense every day.
Emma Sikora: Senior Lead Link
Emma, the Director of Outwood Institute of Education, is delighted to be involved in the strategic planning and decision-making processes for the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub. Her main goal is to provide comprehensive support to educators in schools, ensuring they have access to purposeful networks and resources. Emma is particularly passionate about inspiring trainee teachers and early career teachers to find their confidence and creativity in the classroom.
Charlotte Thornton: Maths Hub Lead
Charlotte began working with the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub in 2016 as a Mastery Specialist Lead working with Primary Mastery Specialists and has also been a Work Group Lead for several of the secondary National Collaborative Projects. She became Maths Hub Lead in 2019 and considers it a pleasure to work with Local Leaders of Maths Education who deliver high-quality CPD to colleagues all across our region.
Her belief has always been that if you give students "the why" in Maths it often leads to greater success and enjoyment so she has been delighted to be a part of the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub which really drills into the depth of students' understanding.
Karen Hill: Assistant Maths Hub Lead Primary/Targeted Support
Karen is a Primary Mastery Specialist and has worked with the Maths Hubs since 2016. She has led many of the different primary Network Collaborative Projects and has supported others to lead these as Assistant Maths Hub Lead since 2018.
Karen qualified as a teacher in 2001 and has taught across the primary phases as well as being a Maths Lead and Assistant Headteacher. She also works across her school’s trust as a lead maths practitioner and finds it an honour to work with teachers here and across the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub region to fulfil her passion of enhancing mathematics learning for all pupils.
Rose Dalders - Assistant Maths Hub Lead Secondary/Targeted Support
Rose began working for the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub in 2018 as a work group lead for several of the secondary National Collaborative Projects. She qualified as a secondary teacher in 2011 and has had the pleasure of being Head of Department in several excellent schools. She is currently working as Associate Director of Maths for Outwood Grange Academies Trust.
Rose has a passion for developing teachers through high quality CPD; she believes that quality first wave teaching is the key to students being successful in their maths journey.
Sarah Young: Assistant Maths Hub Lead (Primary)
Sarah is a Primary Mastery Specialist who has worked with the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub since 2017. She has taught since 2009 and has experience in both primary and secondary settings as a class teacher, a Maths Lead and an Assistant Headteacher. Sarah currently works for Outwood Academy Trust, as a Lead Primary Maths Specialist, supporting colleagues to develop lessons which challenge children to think deeply and make mathematical connections.
She is passionate about Teaching for Mastery and helping others to develop maths teaching through being involved in Maths Hub Work Groups.
Megan Bailey: Assistant Maths Hub Lead (Secondary)
Megan joined the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub as Assistant Maths Hub Lead in September 2023 and was previously the Assistant Maths Hub Lead for London Central and North West for 5 years. Megan became a Secondary Mastery Specialist in 2015 and has been working with colleagues to support their Mastery development ever since. She believes that high quality Maths education should be accessible to all and has seen first hand how Teaching for Mastery facilitates this. Megan is passionate about high quality continual professional development and was particularly inspired when she visited Shanghai in 2019. She has hosted many Open Classroom events and believes that collaboration is fundamentally the most effective way to ensure long term change.
Vanessa Beaumont - Assistant Maths Hub Lead (Secondary)
Vanessa has been working for Maths Hubs as a Secondary Mastery Specialist for 4 years and also leads Work Groups to support schools and colleagues at different levels. She is incredibly passionate about Teaching for Mastery. Her goal is to develop and foster determination and resilience in maths and make a real difference to the next generation. Her drive is to provide opportunities for students to access high quality education, this will develop their relational understanding over rote procedural memorisation in maths learning.
In addition to the work she does for Maths Hubs, she is also an ECT Induction Lead and ITE Lead supporting Early Career Teachers and trainee teachers for several years. She believes that the high-quality professional development that improves teachers’ knowledge, practice and confidence can have a huge impact on pupils’ outcomes.
Christine Robinson: Assistant Maths Hub Lead (Post 16)
Christine had been involved in school improvement and in particular maths school improvement for many years. Before her relocation from the West Midlands, she was a Senior Vice Principal in a Secondary Trust and worked both within and outside of the Trust to develop the teaching of mathematics. Christine became the Maths Hub Lead for East Midlands West before joining Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub as the Post 16 Lead. Christine has been an A level examiner (Maths and Further Maths) for almost 30 years but is just as passionate about the journey for our Level 2 students and the benefits for non-A Level mathematicians studying Level 3 Core Maths.
Holly Myers: Manager
Holly is based at the Outwood Institute of Education in Doncaster and leads on the operational running of Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub.
Holly provides senior administrative support to the OIE Leadership team and line management support for hub administrators. Holly supports recruitment events, financial reporting and liaising with relevant DfE teams.
Charlotte Wykes: Senior Administrator
Charlotte is based at the Outwood Institute of Education in Doncaster and works closely with the Maths Hub leadership team. Charlotte oversees events run by the Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub and provides senior administrative support to the OIE Leadership team.