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About the Headmistress
Headmistress since Easter 2008 and educated in the maintained sector – something which influenced her, ultimately, to go into teaching herself - from the Isle of Wight, she went to Oxford. At St Anne’s College she read Classics, learning about what human beings thought and did in the Classical world – so much that influences us still today.
After her degree and a PGCE at Bristol University, teaching posts followed at King Edward VIth, Southampton, and Boston, Lincolnshire. At Perse Girls, in Cambridge, she built up her subject, and indulged two of her great loves, taking trips to Classical sites abroad and producing plays. Duties as Examinations Officer and learning to timetable preceded a spell as Head of Classics at Norwich High (GDST).
Being Deputy Head at St Edward’s, Cheltenham, provided further experience in senior management. This was a school which had exactly the vision of education she is strongly committed to at St Margaret’s: that belief in every individual’s innate potential; high academic standards, with equal importance attached to music, the arts, outdoor pursuits and sport. This 'holistic' educational philosophy is very much that of all Woodard Schools.
She is married to Iain, a freelance musician, lecturer and local magistrate. Together they enjoy their extended family (nine nephews and nieces), choral singing, gardening and swimming. In addition to trying learn Mandarin (to understand what it is like for pupils in their learning) she played the ‘cello in a recently- formed Prep School quartet which made its début in the school concert at the Barnfield Theatre.
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