2025 Staff

At St Martins School we are fortunate to have a passionate, dedicated, and professional team of teachers, lead by a strong management team, and supported by experienced teacher aides, specialist teachers, and administration and support staff.

You are welcome to contact staff via email. Click on their name below to access their email address.

School Leadership – Implementation Team

• Principal/Tumuaki, Andrew Mouat
• Deputy Principal, Alice Denley
• Deputy Principal / SENCO, Leanne Parnham
• Explorers Syndicate Leader, Michelle Parsons
• Discoverers Syndicate Leader, Chris Sumer
• Navigators Syndicate Leader, Chantal Ward
• High Fliers Syndicate Leader, Nicky Pateman

School Office – Student & Community enquiries

• Support Staff Team Leader / Enrolments Kate Thomson
• Student and School Accounts / Private & Itinerant Music Coordinator Megan Moore
  

Teaching Teams

Explorers (Year 0-2 Syndicate)

• • Room 1 (Aruhe),Jemimah O’Leary
  • Room 2 (Aruhe), Michelle Parsons
  • Room 5 (Harakeke), Charlotte Bates
  • Room 6 (Harakeke), Anne-marie Sherrett
  • Room 7 (Rāupo), Paige Hampton
  • Room 8 (Rāupo), Emily Smith

Discoverers (Year 3-4 Syndicate) 

• • Room 13 (Awaawa), Caitlin Ross, Jenny Oldridge
  • Room 14 (Awaawa Susie Keenan
  • Room 15 (Pari), Helen Norcliffe
  • Room 16 (Pari)0, Chris Sumer & Catherine Dalley 

Navigators (Year 5-6 Syndicate)

• • Room 17 (Tawhatanga), Oscar Adams
  • Room 18 (Tawhatanga), Chantal Ward
    
  • Room 19 (Kaniuniu), Tamara Saxon
  • Room 20 (Kaniuniu), Kate Keenan
    

High Fliers (Year 7-8 Syndicate) 

• • Room 9 (Kahikatea), Jarad Pateman
  • Room 10 (Matai), Briana Weaver
  • Room 11 (Tōtara),Nicky Pateman
  • Room 12 (Kāpuka), Ben Irvine
  • Room 21 (Taramea), Alice Barakat

Support Staff

Contact support staff via the office or, in the case of teacher aides, the classroom teacher.

Release Teachers – Penny Ledgard, Julie Young, Nic Geesink, Suzie O’Hara, Kendall Skelton, Maha Sandaran

Teacher Aides – Callum McLean, Chris Swain, Lisa Dunn, Vickie Rickard-Green, Tam Edensor, Teigan Reid

Garden to Table – Marie Cliff (Kitchen Specialist) and Philippa Curtis (Gardens)

Reading Recovery, ESOL & Special Needs – Cate van Leuven

Music lessons – see our Music Lessons page

Performing Arts – see our performance groups page

Librarian – Marie Cliff

Caretaker – Adrian Marr