Having grown up in a small market town in Shropshire I attended Aberystwyth University and studied Physics with French. This involved a year working in an international school in Lille. It was here that I firmly decided to work in education and I believe the pastoral work I was involved in at the time also sowed the seeds for the pastoral focus my career has had to date. After Graduating with a BSc Honours I completed a PGCE in Wales, teaching in two Welsh comprehensives.
Following the completion of my training, I worked for five years in Gloucestershire, teaching physics and also working in the 6th Form Centre of a large Cheltenham comprehensive school. I then spent five years working in a boarding school in Dorset where I ran a boys’ boarding house. It was from here that I made the move up to the Fens with my wife Kate (Head of English), arriving here in 2016 as Head of 6th Form. It is my absolute privilege to now be the School’s Senior Deputy Head Senior School and Designated Safeguarding Lead. Wisbech Grammar School is a wonderful place to work and learn.