Meet The Team
Meet our fantastic team who all help to create the enjoyable and educational experience here at Wrights Academy
Junior Wright aka DJay-R
Head Tutor
Company Co-director Junior has over 15 years experience as a PE teacher working with individuals from many different background and demographics across London.
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Junior also has over 20 years as a professional DJ and is now passing on his experience and music knowledge to the next generation of budding DJs
Gemma Wright
Business Development Manager
Company Co-director Gemma brings high quality administration, event planning and customer management skills gained from over 15 years in the charity sector.
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As the main contact for Wrights Academy, Gemma is on hand to help with any query or booking.
Eddie
DJ After School Club Tutor & Football Referee
Eddie has worked with us for over 4 years and covers our sport and music programmes in Lambeth. Eddie supports the Wrights Academy Lambeth football league as a senior Referee as well as delivering our DJ After School Programme in primary schools in Lambeth.
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No matter the subject, Eddie has great enthusiasm and child engagement with all children. We are very lucky to have Eddie working with us, his hard work and dedication along our journey has supported us immensely.
Paschal aka DJ Iron
DJ After School Club Tutor
We have the amazing DJ Iron! His journey began back in 2001 using equipment in his local community youth centre. That same year he had secured bookings and his DJ career had begun.
DJ Iron's music career includes making music with garage & grime scene artists and a collaboration with other DJs.
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Chris aka DJ Poet Curious
Scratch Tutor
Poetcurious began his journey into DJing in the mid 90s. A regular on the London Hip-Hop scene and the thriving record shops of Soho, Poetcurious bought his first decks after moving to Newcastle to study film making and dedicated all his spare time and energy to learning his craft as a scratch DJ.
Since those early formative days, Poetcurious has used his ever-evolving skills to rock crowds in clubs, house parties and on radio shows, as well as laying down cuts on a range of recordings, including his own collaborations with artists such as Ashwan (Liverpool), and I.L. (Chicago).
David
Football Referee
David joined us as a referee at the beginning of the 2018/19 season. David has a great wealth of experience within football having played semi professionally, which is very important training for a referee to have.
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David is a fantastic role model to the children with his calm and measured approach, and is a valued team member to Wrights academy.
Courtney
Football Referee
Courtney has worked with us as a referee for over 4 seasons in lambeth. and is one of our senior referees gaining huge respect from players and staff members over the years.
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Courtney makes the football experience fun and enjoyable during matches for the children, something that is very important to us at Wrights Academy