Kerry has been in education for the past 20 years, becoming a Head teacher in 2012. 

Under Kerry’s stewardship, Eyres Monsell has gone on a journey of significant improvement, with Key Stage 2 progress rates in the top one per cent nationally, despite drawing from an area of significant deprivation, in the lowest 5% nationally.

As head, Kerry has instilled a “no excuses” culture in pursuit of ensuring the very best for every pupil, and this approach led the school to its first ever “good” Ofsted rating in 2018. In the same year, the school received the prestigious Princess Royal Training Award, for its staff training programme linked to mental health and wellbeing and became the first school in the Country to achieve Gold standard in the Mental Health in Schools Award. 

In 2019, Kerry was a finalist for the TES Headteacher of the Year Award in recognition of her achievements and went on to speak at the 2019 national Bett / Education Show in London. 

In 2020, Kerry became a Fellow of the Chartered College and was one of the first ever cohort to achieve a Masters in Leadership of Mental Health In Schools, through the Carnegie Centre of Excellence and Leeds Beckett University. 

Kerry is a passionate advocate for the importance of mental wellbeing and character development in Education. She has written articles for Leeds Beckett University on mental health in schools and has had articles shared as widely as Asia. In 2018 and 2019, Kerry worked with BBC Teach on a series of videos to raise the profile of the importance of teacher mental health.