Tony Hand

Tony Hand is the Vice-CEO of the Fierté Multi-Academy Trust and a Trustee.  He has spent over a quarter of a century in education and was formerly a Head Teacher of two schools including a large primary school for fifteen years. In addition, he has held two Executive Headships supporting schools during periods of turbulence and previously carried out the role of Local Leader of Education.  Alongside colleagues, Tony set up the Tamworth Primary Consortium bringing Headteachers together to serve the best interests of children and families in the locality; he has also Chaired this organisation at various intervals.  He fervently believes that school to school support and collaboration presents a unique opportunity to release and maximise the potential of all children whatever their needs or backgrounds.  His desire to inspire all to excellence extends beyond children to include the staff, parents, governors and other stakeholders that form part of the extended Fierté family. 

Amanda Prosser-Davies

Amanda Prosser-Davies is the Chief Operating Officer of the Fierté Multi-Academy Trust and is responsible for the Central Support Service that supports all Academies within the Trust. She has spent over 30 years working in various roles within Local Government. During her career she has supported and developed links with a wide range of businesses where she has gained extensive knowledge and skills in areas such as Governance, Compliance, HR and Finance. She is passionate about ensuring that individual Academies are supported effectively to allow them to continue to provide an excellent teaching and learning experience to all children within the Trust. 

Linda Smith

Linda is the Catering Lead for the Fierté Multi-Academy Trust. Linda’s role plays various parts within our school families, but nothing gives her greater pleasure than seeing our children enjoying the food that our teams create in our social lunch hubs with a real friendly atmosphere, fresh local products and real crockery playing a big part of that.

She is responsible for creating varied menus for our children complying to school nutritional standards and obesity plans whilst incorporating products to fit with allergy requirements, religious requirements and our children’s needs. As far as possible she looks to source local suppliers along with fresh local ingredients. Staff training is another key part of Linda’s role and she endeavours to ensure that we go above and beyond to cover all legal training required along with good staff development.

Linda has worked within the school environment for twelve years and before that had several roles within the hospitality industry, this has given her  a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge to which she now uses every day and the ability from that to be able to think outside the box when developing the catering experience.

Linda Webster

​​​Linda took up her post initially as the Data Protection Officer in 2017.  Her role has developed to incorporate Trust compliance.  She is responsible for overseeing the implementation of GDPR, monitoring the Trust’s compliance with data protection law, and developing related policies and guidelines where applicable.  

Linda is the first point of contact for individuals to communicate with when requesting personal data from any of our academies.

She has had over 20 years’ experience working in education and prior to starting her own family over 10 years’ experience working in industry.  Working for Fierté Multi-Academy Trust has brought a wonderful opportunity for her to use her experience in education to continue to support children’s learning alongside her colleagues in the Central Team.  Linda is also a school governor.   

Linda can be contacted via email at dpo@fierte.org.

Claire Keay

​​​Appointed as Fierte Trust Lead Practitioner in November 2021, Claire Keay’s role is to work across Academies to enhance the quality of teaching and learning. Claire is passionate about all children flourishing as confident, knowledgeable, and reflective life-long learners who are never afraid of challenge or making mistakes due to their love of learning which is fostered by their teachers.  Claire started teaching in 1998 and has held wide ranging teaching and leadership roles in Primary schools for over twenty years. Claire has enjoyed phase leader, History, Science and English subject leader responsibilities as well as leading in the role of Assistant Head, Deputy Head and as Headteacher. Throughout, teaching, learning, assessment and curriculum have been at the heart of Claire’s roles due to her expertise in these areas. Previously, Claire has also led the Power of Coaching, Improving and Outstanding Teacher programmes for primary and secondary teachers in her role as an Olevi trained facilitator. Claire believes in the potential of all (children, teachers, leaders, parents). Relationships, belief, trust and care along with the highest of expectations will ensure that self-esteem blossoms, challenge is embraced and thinking, learning and knowledge are deepened and secured minute by minute.  

Sue Marriott

​​​Sue Marriott works as part of the Central Support Team supporting all schools within the Fierté Multi-Academy Trust. Sue has 18 years’ experience of working in education having worked for the local education authority for a number of years supporting different schools across Staffordshire and more recently as Trust Business Manager at Dosthill Primary Academy in Tamworth. Sue has the CSBM and DSBM qualifications, which she attained as part of the National College development programme some years ago.