ABSTRACT

There was a fairly sharp change of direction for the curriculum during the school’s third headship. Partly it was the result of a very different style from her two predecessors. Whereas for them Senacre was their first headship, each beginning aged 32, with relatively little experience, the third, aged 51, arrived as a very experienced and successful head of a difficult girls secondary school in Deptford, south-east London which was about to be combined to create a large prestigious comprehensive school. Maidstone was also her home town. She came along a different route. As a sign of the times, her official title displayed on the school’s signboard by the entrance from the road was ‘headteacher’. Her two predecessors were ‘headmasters’.