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5 unusual facts about head teacher


Abdirizak Waberi

Prior to entering politics, Waberi worked as a principal at the Römosseskolan Islamic private elementary school in Gothenburg.

Arthur Hinsley

He took up pastoral ministry in Westminster in 1898, and served as headmaster of St. Bede's Grammar School (which he also founded) from 1900 to 1904.

Battlefield Baseball

His hopes are dashed, however, when the Head teacher reveals to him that the first game will be played against the infamous Gedo High School.

George Courtney

His vocational career was spent as a primary school headteacher.

Kurza, India

As of 2011, Shri Chintaman Shalikram Yawalkar is the Head Master and is ensuring that he maintains the reputation of the school.


Harry Cortis Jones

In 1897, Cortis Jones commenced as a teacher at his alma mater, Newington College, during the Headship of the distinguished scientist Arthur Lucas and the presidency of the Rev James Egan Moulton.

Tommy Garnett

Thomas Ronald Garnett OAM (1 January 1915 –22 September 2006) was an English and Australian headmaster, horticulturist, ornithologist and author.

Wenceslao National High School

The first to become an OIC of the school from 1996-1999 was Jovita Bascos, a head teacher of Don Eulogio de Guzman Memorial National High School, Bauang, La Union.


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Ahead of the Class

After being Head teacher at The Douay Martyrs School, Ickenham, she takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in North West London.

Cecilia Galloway

In 2006 Galloway once again took the title of first female head teacher, this time at Methodist College Belfast.

Geoff Hampton

Sir Leslie Geoffrey Hampton (born 1952), best known as Sir Geoff Hampton, is a British head teacher who gained notability in March 1998 when he received a knighthood in recognition for his achievements as head teacher of Northicote School in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

Geri Larkin

P'arang Geri Larkin, born Geraldine Kapp Willis, is founder and former head teacher of Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple, a Korean Chogye center in Detroit, Michigan.

High Arcal School

The school's current head teacher is Mrs Jo Manson, who took the position on a temporary basis in August 2006 following the resignation of Mr Jeffrey Williams, who quit after being fined at Wolverhampton Crown Court following a conviction for kerb-crawling.

Kilmersdon

The children's author Steve Voake was head teacher of Kilmersdon Primary School for eight years.

Margaret Wintringham

Margaret Longbottom was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bolton Road School, Silsden where her father was the head teacher, and then Keighley Girls' Grammar School.

The four greats of Chilean poetry

For example, while Gabriela Mistral was head teacher at the Girls’ High School in Temuco, Chile, and already recognized as an outstanding poet, a teenage boy came to her with his own poems, asking for her opinion.