How to Be Head of School
While attaining head of school status is far from a simple feat, it reaps rewards aplenty, writes Charlotte Phillips
Most schools have them. Co-ed schools usually have two. They exude faintly alarming levels of gravitas, and something about the high office they?ve attained at such an early age stays with them for the rest of their lives.
Of course, we?re talking head boys and girls. The bees? knees, the cats? whiskers, the top dogs. If selected, they get to do things that would terrify people two or three times their age, like making speeches to audiences of quite literally thousands. As the voice of the school, they have the ear of the Headmaster and all the teachers, and what they say and how they say it can really matter.
For Lizzy Roberts, a pupil at Sancton Wood School, the head boy and head girl were so inspirational that it didn?t take long for her to decide that she?d like to follow in their footsteps. ?I can remember looking up to them giving the speeches in front of the whole school and thinking, ?I want to be able to do that. I want that to be me.?? Former Wellington College head boy Jonny McCausland was similarly impressed by his predecessors? ability to wow 1,000 people with inspirational and enjoyable speeches and for the way they knew and were known by everyone. ?They could speak to any teacher and talk as if they were friends,? he says.
Above, the conference takes place annually at Wellington College, Berkshire
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