STAFF VALETE
TEACHING STAFF:
Steven Berryman (Assistant Director of Music) left for a promotion to Director of Music at City of London School for Girls. Charlie Dehaan (Canons Duty Manager), left to pursue his career in the Sport & Leisure Industry further at Highgate School. Fleur Delany (Teacher of Geography) left for a promotion to Head of Geography at Queen’s College, London. Sarah Donwa (Teacher of Mathematics) left to have a baby. Axelle Douillet (French Language Assistant) left to pursue a PGCE course. Emilie Eymin-Petot (Teacher of French and Spanish) left for a promotion to Lead Teacher of French at St Paul’s Girls’ School. Hanna Heffner (German Language Assistant) left to pursue other interests. Caroline Kalms (part-time teacher) left after completing a one year contract with us. Ben Kerr-Shaw (Teacher of Religious Studies and Philosophy) left for a promotion to Head of Religious Studies at St Albans High School. Rebecca Levy (Maths Specialist) left after completing a one year contract with us,
Niranjali Manek (Teacher of Mathematics) left to join Merchant Taylors’ School. Christian McCarthy (Teacher of History and Politics) left having completed a maternity cover post. Laura Needoff (Teacher of Art) left to spend time with her family. Angela Novick (part-time teacher) left after completing a one year contract with us. Robert Paler (Teacher of History and Director of IB Diploma) left for a promotion to Head of Politics and Director of IB at Charterhouse. Hilary Tilley (Teacher of French) left to pursue other interests. Kitty Turley (Teacher of English) left to spend time with her family. Hannah Wiedermann (Teacher of French and KS4 Co-ordinator Modern Languages) left for a promotion to Head of French at UCS.
NON-TEACHING STAFF
Chloe Fitchet (Support Assistant and After School Club Coordinator) left to join the Metropolitan Police Force. Emma Maltz (Alumnae & Development Officer) left to spend time with her family. Graham Partington (Bursar) left to pursue other interests.
STAFF OBITUARIES
Betty Dass was a Geography Teacher at North London from 1951 to 1955, and Head of the Geography Department for ten years until 1965. Miss R. M. Scrimgeour (19062000; NLCS 1934-1971) spent four decades at NLCS as an English Teacher, Head of English and then Deputy Head to Dame Kitty and later Miss McLauchlan before she retired in 1971. She loved Canons and wrote in her will that she wanted a small service held in the grounds. On 16 July 2015 the Bursar, Graham Partington, welcomed her executor, Margaret Cook, and former members of staff Enid Ellis, Joan Lundie, Ann Thomas and Kay Moore and ONL Heather McManus to Canons. To mark her retirement Miss Scrimgeour had planted a cherry tree near the gates; we gathered there and Miss Ellis, who is a lay preacher at St Mary’s Harrow on the Hill, and a good friend of ‘Scrim’, conducted a short service and read a moving eulogy. On a beautiful day it seemed a fitting tribute to a remarkable scholar and friend of NLCS. Mr Gordon Rodney Wood died peacefully in hospital on 23rd October aged 84. He worked at the School for about five years leaving in 1997, maintaining contact with many staff friends. He
helped the School stay at the forefront of modern educational methods via his work as an Audio Visual Technician, and spoke warmly of his time at NLCS. Lucy Wood (NLCS 1950-1961) came to teach part-time in the Maths Department for one term to cover an emergency. She stayed for 10 years! She arrived in time to help with costumes for the centenary Tableaux Vivants and to be an usher at the service in St. Paul’s Cathedral and she continued to play a full part in the life of the School. Her two daughters were pupils and Lucy left to give them more breathing space. How often had she made her way to dinner to find either Jane or Frances having been sent out of the dining room for talking at the wrong time! Lucy was always ready to learn new skills and follow up new interests. She started to play the bassoon in her 50’s and played in amateur orchestras and wind groups until she was 99. She travelled extensively and in her later years took up creative embroidery, partly ‘to get to know new people’. Lucy died unexpectedly and peacefully in her sleep on 23 August 2015 at the age of 103.
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