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Head Space
What or who inspired What would be your act you to teach? on Britain’s Got Talent?
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Throughout my life I I was once challenged have always got a buzz by some prep school from helping, supporting children to learn to hula and teaching others. It is hoop and juggle when so rewarding. I told them anything is What was your favourite possible. I spent a few subject at school? weeks practising and I was best at maths (and returned to show them. became a maths teacher) What is your biggest but my favourite was achievement? always history and still is. Professionally, running All-time favourite book? the world’s finest school; Birdsong, personally, trekking to the whose author, South Pole. Sebastian Faulks, Why, in your opinion, is is coincidentally an Old Wellingtonian. HEADspace your school the best? It is, quite simply, the most dynamic and What is your exciting educational best-loved piece We chat to Wellington College’s environment I have ever of music? Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia or There She Julian Thomas about what both motivates and inspires him at encountered. Who is your most infamous alumni? Goes by The La’s. school and beyond Christopher Lee’s Favourite Shakespeare Dracula scared me as play and why? blanket and a water purifier. a child just as his Saruman I am always inspired by the What’s the hardest thing you’ve scares current generations, but monologues in Henry V but I ever done? James Hunt has the strongest also find Much Ado About Physically, it has to be running reputation as an enfant terrible. Nothing highly amusing. the Marathon des Sables. But a terrific Wellingtonian by What is your personal Who would you most like to be all accounts.
motto for life? for the day? What three things do you need
Anything is possible. Whoever is currently at Camp 4 to be a successful headmaster? Are you more of a hunter or a on the South Col of Everest, just Only two things: passion and gatherer? one day’s climb from the peak. compassion. Hunter, definitely! What would your What advice do you have for
If you could only bring last meal be? school leavers?
three things with you Fish and chips Whatever you do, you’ll be doing to a desert island, what with all the it for most of your life, so make would they be? trimmings from sure it is a passion and then you If not my children, then the Wellington will never feel that you have to a signalling mirror, a foil College canteen. ‘work’ a day in your life.
