Mrs Arnold gained a BA HONS in Management at UCLAN before moving on to studying for a Post Graduate Certificate of Education at Sheffield University, leading onto a Masters Diploma in Education Leadership at Edge Hill University. She has experience working in prisons with prisoners and their families across the North West. She has since held pastoral senior leadership positions in schools across the North West and won the DATA Design and Technology Teacher of the Year in 2011.
Mrs Arnold is on the National Future Leaders programme cohort 2012, and has facilitated programmes for the National College, Future Leaders, NPQSL, NPQML and has gained the Women in Headship Qualification and the National Professional Qualification in Executive Leadership. She has also been involved in the change of the national strategy for the British Nutrition Foundation and Schools Food Trust. She sits on the Management Committee for Tameside Children’s Services Improvement Board and has worked on Department of Education round tables, influencing and shaping national policy. Mrs Arnold has visited the leading schools in the UK and the United States to research pedagogy and school culture. Mrs Arnold is also the Tame River Education Trust lead for Safeguarding, Attendance, Behaviour and Attitudes.