NEW DEVELOPMENTS
CHANGING FACES Heads on the move
Badminton Junior School, Bristol, warmly welcomes its new head, Heidi Pedlar, who is moving from Bristol Grammar School where she is assistant head.
COOKING UP A STORM
St George’s Ascot’s state-of-the-art Cookery and Food Technology Room with seven cooking stations and a capacity for 14, has successfully fulfilled the growing demand for cookery programmes.
St George’s Ascot’s new cookery facility
SCHOOLS EXPANDING Bruern Abbey Prep School in Oxfordshire is expanding its provision with a new Senior School in Sept 2022. The Senior School will be an all-boys weekly boarding and day school in a gorgeous Georgian manor house in Chilton, Buckinghamshire. Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys School has opened a new age 4+ reception classes for the first time in school’s history to ensure a seamless start to life at Habs, and relieving pressure on families facing the disruption of moving their child at Year 1.
NEW SCHOOLS FOR LITTLE ONES
Paint Pots opened its latest Montessori nursery, The Grove, in the beautifully renovated Westbourne Grove Church in Notting Hill, London. Bilton Grange Prep School, Bilton Grange children Warwickshire, is opening the Little getting stuck into gardening Grange Nursery for six month to five year old pre-schoolers St Margaret’s Junior School in Hertfordshire has opened a new nursery school with a garden, resident hens, a woodland play area and brand-spankingnew classrooms. Moulsford Prep School, Oxfordshire, is opening a state-of-the-art building for St Margaret’s Junior a Pre-School, Reception and Years 1 and School, Hertfordshire 2 in September 2022 incorporating ecofriendly systems such as solar panels and air source heat pumps to provide underfloor heating, as well as natural ventilation. Belhaven Hill School, Scotland, is launching its new pre-prep in April 2022 to coincide with the school’s 99th anniversary and are looking forward to welcoming younger pupils into the fold. Dolphin School is opening a new nursery, the Noah’s Ark Nursery School, on its site in southwest London. As well as the outside playground they have a school garden where children can plant flowers and learn about nature.
Locker’s Park School, Hertfordshire, is delighted to announce the appointment of deputy head, Gavin Taylor as their new headmaster. Previously deputy head at Westminster Cathedral Choir School, Ed Graham takes up the headship of St Andrew’s Pangbourne, Berkshire, this term. Cambridge graduate and head of Millbank Academy, Catherine Jefferson will take over at Westminster Under School, London, following Mark O’Donnell’s retirement. Sherborne Prep, Somerset, welcomes former professional dressage competitor Natalie Bone as head to build on the legacy left by departing head, Nick Folland. The Dolphin School in southwest London has announced that music enthusiast Sam Gosden is moving from Kensington Park School to become their new head.
Jane Bond BSc MA (Ed) PGCE succeeds Marianne Austin at Kew College, Surrey, in September following her twoyear senior deputy headship at Rokeby Prep in Kingston.
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