Mrs Michelle Lawson joined Endeavour MAT as Deputy CEO – Education & Safeguarding in September 2025 having previously been Headteacher at WGSG since 2019 where she worked to shape and direct the school to ensure that it focused on its moto of ‘Striving for Excellence’. Her career to date has involved leadership in two outstanding Grammar Schools in both curriculum and pastoral roles before she moved to become Deputy Head in a school that needed rapid improvement from being inadequate which was achieved in 2019. Mrs Lawson had focused her educational career around instilling in young people a love of learning and a demand to explore the ‘big questions’ that life throws at them. As a self-confessed philosophical geek she is never happy with the simple answer and always strives to open up the students to the world of alternative possibility. Mrs Lawson is a member of the National Association of Pastoral Care in Education and this underpins all of her work as she believes that the care of the individual results in progress at all levels. When not busy philosophising she is often to be found anywhere there is water that she can swim in or planning her next mountain climb, normally in Switzerland.