Tracey Storey
Executive Chair, CEO and Founder
With over 30 years of experience in the early years and education sectors, Tracey Storey is the founder of Melrose Education. Driven by a personal passion to support children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), Tracey established Melrose to provide a tailored approach to education, focusing on each child’s unique needs.
Tracey’s vision for Melrose goes beyond exceptional learning opportunities for children. She is deeply committed to creating an environment where staff thrive, offering a sector-leading salary and benefits package, access to comprehensive training, continuous professional development, and clear pathways for career progression.
Tracey is proud to lead an outstanding team who are wholly dedicated to delivering Melrose’s purpose, mission, vision, and values.
During her career, Tracey has had the honour of receiving several commendations, 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.
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, Company Deputy Strategic Safeguarding Lead and Prevent Lead
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.
