Meet Cavelle

Cavelle is the Executive Director of People and Development for the Trust – working closely with our schools to harness talent, develop leaders and ensure robust professional learning impacts on school improvement. Cavelle builds high performing teams and has a wide range of expertise in leading and advising on appropriate whole school improvement strategies, writing and delivering professional learning, developing coaching and facilitation skills and talent spotting. Cavelle has strategically grown the brand of the Alliance of Leading Learning and the National Professional Qualifications at national and international level, establishing a reputation for high quality leadership training, with over 10,000 school leaders and governors accessing the leadership programmes delivered.

Cavelle Priestley-Bird, Team Members | Marches Academy Trust

Nurturing staff talent across the Trust, developing leaders of change and harnessing the energy and expertise of our school teams to drive school improvement.

Cavelle, Executive Director of People and Development

About Cavelle

Cavelle has developed The Alliance of Leading Learning from its inception in 2017. Previous to this role Cavelle was a senior leader in a diverse range of schools for over twenty years, provider of professional learning programmes across Cheshire East and the Director of “The Leadership Academy” at Edge Hill University. Cavelle has also driven major bespoke projects with city councils in transformational leadership with measured results in schools across whole local authorities.

Other team members

Charlotte Allsopp | Marches Academy Trust
Nicola Fox | Marches Academy Trust
Claire Turner, Team Members | Marches Academy Trust
Cavelle Priestley-Bird, Team Members | Marches Academy Trust
Sarah Finch, Team Members | Marches Academy Trust

Mandy Jones

Executive Director of Education (School Improvement)

Amy Chevin-Dooley

Executive Director of Education (Inclusions and LEAD for Safeguarding and SEND)

Charlotte Allsopp

Executive Director of Finance and Business

Claire Turner

Senior Executive Director of Education

Alison Pearson

Executive Director of Education

Cavelle Priestley-Bird

Executive Director of People and Development