Our Team
hannah turbet
Hannah is currently part of Ark central strategy team. She is also co-chair of governors at Wanstead Church School in East London. Hannah was co-Headteacher at Haggerston School in Hackney until 2025. Prior to that she was 0.8 Deputy Headteacher at Haggerston leading on student achievement across the school, with a particular focus on KS4. Hannah has presented her work on Assessment without Levels at a national conference.
Hannah loves working with young people to help them achieve their potential.
She strongly believes that the Shared Headship Network will enable like-minded individuals to lead schools together in a dynamic, effective and sustainable way.
Hannah has worked at three inner-city schools in London, is a 2006 TeachFirst ambassador and 2012 Ambition School Leadership alumni. She graduated from the University of Bristol with an LLB in Law and French. Hannah took a career break from teaching to work as a Strategy Consultant on projects across Europe for 4 years.
lucy Helan
Lucy is Co-Deputy Headteacher for Curriculum at St Andrew the Apostle School in Barnet, North London. She met her wonderful job-share partner through the Shared Headship Network’s London pilot group. Lucy has experience of timetabling a variety of successful flexible working arrangements. Prior to that, Lucy worked as an assistant headteacher working between 0.6 and 0.8 in Harringay. She is also a governor at St Aidan’s VC primary school in Harringay.
Lucy co-founded the Shared Headship Network in 2017. She envisioned a network of committed professionals, enthusiastic about school leadership supporting each other to balance professional and personal passions. Lucy’s ambition is to be co-head of a challenging London school.
She has an MEd in Politics, Democracy and Democratic Education from Cambridge University and a BA Hons from Oxford University.
She is a 2007 TeachFirst ambassador and 2012 Ambition School Leadership alumni. Lucy worked for Teach For India in its start-up year recruiting and supporting first year teachers in Indian public schools. She was also Lead English Teacher for Up Academy Dorchester, a charter school in Boston, Massachusetts.
Catriona Jenkins
From 2012-2024, Catriona was 0.7 Deputy Head at Hampstead School in Camden. She was responsible for staffing, the impact of the Pupil Premium and Teaching and Learning. Catriona currently lives in Massachusetts and supports and advises local elementary schools on aspects of school improvement.
She is a 2006 TeachFirst ambassador and 2012 Ambition School Leadership alumni and has also worked in urban complex schools in Tower Hamlets and Enfield. She graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA Hons in English Literature and Language.
Catriona passionately believes in the benefits of shared headship; working with a like-minded leader to empower students and staff and lead an outstanding school, whilst being able to balance this effectively with personal commitments which include spending time with her three children and regular visits to her family in the Shropshire hills.
Amy Brookes
Amy is Headteacher at Lynn Grove Academy in Norfolk.
Before her move to Norfolk, she was Assistant Principal at Ark Bolingbroke Academy in London where she led on Teaching and Learning, CPD and Culture and Ethos. She has worked at three inner-city schools in London, two of which were start-up academies.
Amy is a 2007 Teach First Ambassador and has completed the Teaching Leaders and NPQSL programs through Ambition School Leadership and Ark. She graduated from Durham University with a BA Hons in French and Linguistics with Spanish.
As a Co-Founder of the Shared Headship Network, Amy is committed to empowering schools to embrace flexible working as a means to keeping the best people leading. A big advocate for coaching, Amy is especially interested in the opportunities leadership job shares can offer in terms of professional growth and accountability.
As well as being a mum to two energetic boys, Amy likes yoga, theatre and drinking proper Yorkshire tea.