Clarity Independent School
"Refreshed learning that changes lives."
Excellence at Clarity!
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* 100% performance in Health and Safety audit March 2025 for 3rd year running!
Meet our Staff
Head Teacher and Proprietor
Debbie Hanson (Deputy DSL) d.hanson@clarity.essex.sch.uk
Debbie Hanson founded Clarity Independent School in 2019, following the popular success of Clarity SEN Consultancy Ltd, launched in 2012. This built on her Ofsted Outstanding childcare provision 'Home2home Childcare'.
She is the Proprietor and has been Head Teacher since opening the school in June 2019. She is passionate about enriching children's lives and ensuring they thrive and are happy. She loves teaching and has always been driven to help children who are vulnerable or struggling. Debbie has been teaching for 20 years, 15 of these in SEN, and has built up a wide collection of professional qualifications.
Mrs Ailara has been the Deputy Head Teacher since the school opened in September 2019, working alongside Debbie as the SENDCo and the Designated Safeguarding Lead. She will now pass her SENDCo role onto Richard Clow, who joins us after May half term 2022.Mrs Ailara is an accredited SENDCo and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from her degree in Psychology, her PGCE and many years of teaching in many different roles, including LSA, SEND teacher, leadership roles within mainstream and SEND schools.
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Deputy Head
Sharyn Ailara (DSL) s.ailara@clarity.essex.sch.uk
SENCO
Richard Clow (Deputy DSL) Senco@clarity.essex.sch.uk
I have been teaching in Primary, Secondary and Special schools since 2007, including 5 years at Castledon SEN School. My most recent role was to model high quality teaching in support of the School Improvement Plan for a mixed Year4/5 class. I have been a subject leader for Geography, History, RE and MFL, as well as a middle leadership trainer. I have a First class honours degree in ITT with QTS, which I studied at Anglia Ruskin University, followed by my National Award SENCo Post Graduate study at University College London.
Business Manager
Mary Weidner businessmanager@clarity.essex.sch.uk
Mary Weidner joins us from Juniper Education. As a senior finance consultant and qualified business manager, Mary has over 23 years' experience as a business manager and comes with a wealth of knowledge, strategic planning skills and contacts.
SEN Teacher Michelle Deveney m.deveney@clarity.essex.sch.uk
I have been working with young people for over 30 years. However, I only became a qualified teacher in 2011, my specialism being SEN. My highest qualification is an honours degree, this was achieved through the open university and consists of Maths, ICT and social science.
SEN Teacher Mr Sam Powell
s.powell@clarity.essex.sch.uk
I have a BSc Hons in Biological Science followed by my PGCE teaching qualification and have worked in mainstream and SEN schools for over 3 years.
SEN Teacher Mr Lawrence Hurter
l.hurter@clarity.essex.sch.uk
I have worked as an English Teacher for many years in an award-winning school of 530 pupils in Mtubatuba, South Africa, where I was also the Chairperson for 11 years. Since coming to the UK, I spent last year working as a Young People's Services Manager for Life-Line Projects in Dagenham, working with young people struggling with SEMH needs.
Office Administrator Lauren Gray
admin@clarity.essex.sch.uk
Lauren joins us from a local GP surgery, where she has been working as their receptionist since 2016.
Trainee HLTA English Interventions
c.cattell@clarity.essex.sch.uk
Caroline joins us from Moulsham Junior School, Chelmsford, where she has spent the past nearly 4 years providing English interventions to boost reading and writing, Maths interventions, and cover teaching across all subjects.
HLTA Anita Kidd
a.kidd@clarity.essex.sch.uk
I qualified as a HLTA, Level 4 in 2021 and have 14 years' experience of working with in main stream and specials needs schools.
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Trainee HLTA Miss Grace Louise
g.louise@clarity.essex.sch.uk
I studied Film and Media at college and enjoy bringing my creativity to the school. Since I am at the beginning of my career, working with children has been a new-found interest, and one in which I am training to become qualified as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant.
