Tracey Storey
Executive Chair and CEO
With over 20 years of experience in the early years and education sectors, Tracey’s aspiration for Melrose is to provide outstanding opportunities for learning to all of our children. In addition, providing staff with a sector-leading salary and benefits package, access to training and continuous professional development and encouraging internal promotion and career progression is a high-priority focus. Tracey is thrilled to be able to lead such a great team to achieve Melrose’s purpose, mission, vision, and values.
Tracey has had the honour of receiving several commendations throughout her career, including winning the NMT Top 5 Business Index Award in 2018, being named as “One of the Highest Rated CEOs in the UK” by Glassdoor in 2020 and, also by Glassdoor, ranked as one of the top CEOs in the 15 highest-rated UK companies for staff work-life balance and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In her spare time, Tracey enjoys charity fundraising and volunteering and spending time outdoors using the forest school ethos as a resource for improving mental health and wellbeing access for children and adults. Living close to Dartmoor and the glorious Devon and Cornwall beaches means she has a wide-ranging and wonderful choice for walking and relaxing.
Henrietta Jordan
Schools’ Director
Henrietta has over 15 years of experience of working in specialist education. Throughout her career she has taught from Nursery to A level across a variety of sectors. Henrietta has had a successful senior leadership career culminating in leading successful Ofsted inspections at alternative provisions and specialist schools. Henrietta has gone on to gain further post graduate qualifications is special educational needs and has undertaken the NPQH.
Henrietta has worked with universities as a guest lecturer on inclusion, assessment, and mathematics. In collaboration with national examination bodies Henrietta was selected to lead on designing an inclusive accredited qualification. She has also supported national educational organisation as a schools Inclusion consultant planning and delivering their national inclusion conference.
Henrietta volunteers her time to sit on several safeguarding forums to support local communities in keeping the most vulnerable families safe. She is committed to ensuring the whole family is supported, enabling all students to succeed.
Alex Ringer
Property Director
Alex is passionate about providing SEND children and young people with the best possible start in life. To be part of a team committed to building a network of schools that strive to give our learners the best opportunity for lifelong success is utterly exciting and truly humbling.
He has worked in the education and property sector for many years, firstly for tuition company Explore Learning and then nursery group Kido. His passion lies in designing and creating spaces that inspire and enhance children’s learning and it is a sector that he loves. In his spare time, he volunteers at and runs residential respite summer camps for children with special needs so the chance to join Melrose Education and bring his professional life in line with his personal values is an opportunity that he jumped at. He’s incredibly excited to be part of this journey.
Andy Patterson
Compliance Manager
Andy has over 20 years’ experience of working in the adult education sector and is now passionate about creating environments that allow SEND learners to thrive and prepare for their next steps. With a background in compliance, HR, and training he wants to create safe spaces for SEND learners to develop themselves to achieve the best they can in their education, and also to develop the life skills that will help them in the future.
The opportunity to join Melrose Education allowed Andy to bring all his previous experience together and support the Melrose school teams to create schools their SEND children can be proud of.
Rosy Broughton
Education Manager
Rosy has more than 15 years experience of working within SEN provisions as a qualified teacher and SENCO, leading on best inclusive teaching practices.
In previous roles, Rosy has successfully implemented whole school curriculum for different SEN settings, including for autistic adults with severe learning difficulties, Secondary pupils with educational gaps, and one of the first exclusively online SEN schools.
Rosy is from a neurodivergent family and has experienced as a parent the many challenges of finding the right educational provision for a child with complex needs. This experience has grounded her with an unwavering dedication to promoting true equity and ambition for young people who need the right support to overcome vast learning barriers.
Amanda Bramley
Chair of Melrose Education’s School Advisory Panels
Amanda has over 40 years’ experience in the education sector, working with a wide variety of professionals at all levels to improve educational practice and outcomes for children and young people.
After many years working in secondary schools in the North East of England, she moved to the Excellence In Cities programme and DfES developing and delivering leadership programmes for multi-agency colleagues before working with the National Strategies in the area of behaviour and attendance and SEAL working with the most vulnerable students in the country.
Latterly Amanda worked in North Yorkshire as a Lead Adviser for school improvement supporting Governing bodies and Head Teachers to embed regular evaluative practice into the school improvement cycle to improve standards.
Amanda lives in North Yorkshire and spends her spare time enjoying the beautiful country side, volunteering, and working in her award winning garden.
