Helen, the Head of Rowan, has worked in education for over twenty years, most of which has been in or associated with, inclusion and behaviour management. Having initially worked as an Education Welfare Officer, successfully raising school attendance in two of the most deprived areas of Scunthorpe, she then worked at High Ridge Secondary School, where she set up and ran the successful Nurture Group. High Ridge became The St Lawrence Academy, where Helen acted as the Lead Behaviour Professional for several years, developing, delivering and training (staff and students) anger management workshops and leading in Restorative Justice Practices, as well as running Summer School for KS2-to-KS3 transition.
She then became Deputy Head of a local Alternative Provision, where her hard work, dedication and hands-on management style resulted in both improved behaviour and attendance, as well as a dramatic reduction in exclusions over a period of more than four years. She is a qualified counsellor and was Designated Safeguarding Lead in her capacity as Deputy Head. Safeguarding awareness has therefore been, and continues to be, front and centre of Helen’s work.
Helen brings this wealth of experience and skill which, coupled with the expertise and experience of the rest of the staff, makes Rowan Education a unique and successful school.
She believes passionately that all children should have the right to safe education and to achieve their potential and that, with the appropriate support and encouragement, they can do so.
Inspirational Quotes
“I think…that there isn’t any solution to this problem of education other than to realise that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher…
It is impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture…But in our modern times, we have so many students to teach that we have to find some substitute for the ideal….”
Richard P. Feynman, June 1963
“Sweat the small stuff!”
H Jeanette Willert
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
Old Japanese proverb.
Rowan Education is a welcoming, friendly School with an atmosphere created to make pupils feel able to work through their problems, but also one that it is similar to that of the mainstream setting and conducive to academic study, such that the transition back to their referring school will be as smooth as possible.
Number of complaints registered under our formal complaints procedure in Academic Year 2024-25 = 0
School term dates 2025-26
Start of school year
• School opens Wednesday 3 September 2025
Autumn half term
• School closes Friday 24 October 2025
• School opens Monday 3 November 2025
Christmas
• School closes Friday 19 December 2025
• School opens Monday 5 January 2026
Spring half term
• School closes Friday 13 February 2026
• School opens Monday 23 February 2026
Easter
• School closes Thursday 2 April 2026
• School opens Tuesday 21 April 2026
Summer half term
• School closes Friday 22 May 2026
• School opens Monday 1 June 2026
Summer holidays
• School closes Friday 17 July 2026
Bank holidays
• Good Friday – 3 April 2026
• Easter Monday – 6 April 2026
• May Day – 4 May 2026
• Spring – 25 May 2026