the headmaster

Geoff Link MEd Cert Ed
I was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and gained my teaching certificate in PE and History at St Luke's College, Exeter. My first teaching post was at King's School, Wimbledon. At Grenville College I was Head of Sixth Form and a Senior Housemaster. In 1993 I gained an M.Ed. specialising in Pastoral Care from Exeter University.

I am a representative on the independent School’s Council Special Educational Needs Committee which advices the full Council on all aspects of SEN issues that affect Independent Schools. I am also a registered ISI Inspector and until I became Headmaster, I also tutored on Professional Development Courses for the Boarding Schools Association. My wife, Sue, and I live on campus and have two grown up children Sam and Keri.

Stanbridge Earls is a very happy and close-knit community which places the academic, pastoral, emotional, spiritual and physical development of its pupils central to its ethos. We endeavour to identify, and develop to its fullest, the potential of every pupil both in the classroom and in extracurricular activities.

Head For A Day

Every December pupils vote for their 'Pupil Head for a Day'. Each House puts forward its candidate based on his or her manifesto. A week later the whole School gathers in the theatre to listen to the four selected candidates followed by a voting session.

This year's 'Head for a Day' promised a lie-in 'till 10.30 followed by Brunch. He then interviewed a prospective pupil and parents, co-signed some of the more mundane paperwork and addressed the staff on their new duties at break-time.

The rest of the day was filled with fun, huge inflatable play areas, DVDs, computer games and throwing cold sponges at teachers for charity.

Thank goodness it happens only once a year!

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