Brendan Robson
Brendan Robson is a serving Headteacher at Cardinal Hume Catholic School. Part of the Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust, Cardinal Hume is a large secondary academy in East Gateshead. He is also a Director at Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust, Vice Chair of Governors of a primary school, and Chair of Gateshead Local Authority’s Secondary Headteacher’s Group.
His career journey is somewhat unusual, in that he now leads the school where began his teaching career as an NQT, in 2002. After taking on early pastoral and curriculum roles, Brendan went on to become Head of English, Assistant Headteacher and Head of School, before his appointment as Headteacher in 2019.
He is a great believer in the power of collaboration and has been involved in school-to-school support for several years, focusing on curriculum impact, disadvantaged provision, quality assurance, school leadership, behaviour culture and the development of literacy.
He is committed to Catholic education, and advocates passionately for the duty we have, as school leaders, to be truly ambitious for all young people, in particular the most vulnerable and deprived.