Mrs Fran Barnes HOUSEMISTRESS KENELM Fran has a BSc from Lancaster and a PGCE. She joins us from Hazelgrove Prep School where she was Head of Geography prior to which she was a housemistress at Felsted School. Mrs Joanne Edmondson MATHS TEACHER Joanne has a MA from Rhode Island, USA. She joins us from Port Regis School where she was Head of Maths.
Mr Damian Brown MATHS TEACHER Damian has a MMath from Leicester and a PGCE from Bath.
Florence Corran
Head of Sixth Form
What did you do before joining Sherborne Girls? Miss Lucy Suttle ENGLISH TEACHER Lucy has a BA from Birmingham and a PGCE. She joins us from The Castle School, Wellington, Somerset.
Mrs Joanna Massey PHYSICS TEACHER (PT) Jo has a MA from Cambridge. She is a Project Structural Engineer (Chartered).
We also welcome to the sports department, Mr Frank McMorrow as Director of Sport along with Sarah Hardman, Assistant Sports Teacher and Matthew Murphy as resident Hockey Coach. Our modern foreign languages department is strengthened with the addition of Michelle Calle as resident Spanish assistant and Marian Ling as resident French assistant.
Nick Wright joins as photography teacher, Kiyomi Seed is a visiting teacher of Orchestral Percussion and Vicky Tapsell a resident graduate assistant for Adventure. Katherine Massey comes as Head of Marketing, Jessie Clarke as a teaching assistant, Sarah Bersey as Assistant Librarian, Max Howard as IT Apprentice, Paul Folan as Maintenance Technician and Joe Woolmington as Matron in Dun Home.
A warm welcome to all our new staff.
My previous job was in Birmingham, at a girls’ day school called King Edward VI High School for Girls. I really enjoyed teaching there because there was a palpable sense of excitement about the students’ future and belief in their ability to be and do whatever they chose. It was my first time teaching in an all girls’ school, though I have previously taught in an all boys’ boarding school. Before I was at KEHS, I taught English for a long time at St Edward’s School in Oxford, which is co-ed. I lived in a boys’ boarding house with my family, but my responsibility was largely for Sixth Form girls.
Why did you decide to move to Sherborne Girls?
I decided to move to Sherborne Girls partly because it is a boarding school. I am a great believer in the benefits of boarding and it is what I have mainly been used to in my working life. But Sherborne Girls also does single sex girls’ education in a particularly brilliant way that I wanted to be part of. There are so many opportunities to do all kinds of academic and co-curricular activities here, both with and without the company of boys, which means each girl can be an individual whilst being part of a really supportive community.
What are your first impressions of the school?
My first impressions are a bit of a blur, as I have been so busy! The girls and staff have been brilliant: courteous, helpful, funny and interesting. I look forward to getting to know everyone better in the next few weeks.
What do you hope to achieve here?
A lot of my hopes for the Sixth Form are to maintain and build on what already happens. What I would like to achieve is to provide a launch pad to adult life. By the time the girls leave, I hope they have developed the confidence and skills to contribute positively to society in many different ways, helping themselves and the people around them to achieve their best. And to get into the habit of trying new things and to keep learning throughout life.
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