Contact Us
Upper Lumsdale, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 5NA
Telephone: 01629 581888
Lower Site
Starkholmes Road, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3DD
Telephone: 01629 584020
General Email: info@highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk
Admissions: admissions@highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk
Chair of Governors: chair@highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk
SENCO: mhodkin@highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk
Careers & Apprenticeships: careers@highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk
Year Managers
To contact a year manager, call the phone number for the site they are located on followed by their extension.
Lower School Site (Starkholmes)
Mrs Stephens – Year Manager (Year 8)
Email: cstephens@highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk
Ext: 235
Upper School Site (Lumsdale)
Mrs Collenette – Year Manager (Year 11)
Email: ecollenette@highfields.derbyshire.sch.uk
Ext: 159
Key Staff for 2023-24
Headteacher – Mr A Marsh
Deputy Headteachers – Mr P R Cole & Mr M Hodkin
Assistant Headteacher – Mrs C Rifkin
Directors of Catch-up – Mrs C Morgan (Curriculum) & Mr G Roberts (Engagement)
Director of Sixth Form – Mr M Flett
PA to the Headteacher/Office Manager – Laura Leverton (for general enquiries)
Heads of Year
Year 7 – Mr K Rodgers
Year 8 – Mr A Bishton
Year 9 – Mrs A Ruston
Year 10 – Miss J Hughes
Year 11 – Mrs A Hollinrake & Mrs L Redhead
Sixth form – Mr M Flett
If you wish to report student absences, please contact the relevant pastoral staff to your son/daughter’s year group as indicated above.
Department Contacts
Art – Mrs K Fairbank
Business – Mr I Lovatt
Computing – Mr C Davies
D&T – Mrs C Hakin
Drama & Dance – Miss Bonsall
English – Mrs C Cooper
Film Studies – Mr C Warrington
Geography – Mrs M Barker
History – Mr P Copeland
Maths – Mrs R Brown
Modern Foreign Languages – Mrs M Bowen
Music – Mr K Rowley
PE – Mr C Shirtcliffe
Psychology – Miss H Ould
PRS – Mr R Platts
PSHE – Mr J Waller
SENCO – Mr M Hodkin
Science – Mr R Atkins
Sociology – Mrs A Llewellyn