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Miss Lauren Crawley Miss Crawley is the newest Foreign Languages teacher at St Peter’s. Having grown up in Hull (‘I wish it was Barbados but I would like to mention it is actually the future City of Culture 2017!’) and attended South Holderness Technology College, Miss Crawley studied Modern Languages at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In between the terms at university during the summer, she had the somewhat strange job of working in a pea factory before spending time working in a hotel in rural Spain doing ‘pretty much everything’. When she isn’t teaching, Miss Crawley says she can likely be found in the gym, but she thoroughly enjoys travelling and especially dreams of visiting India. So far Miss Crawley has found St Peter’s to be very busy but focused and happy, stating she felt it was a ‘perfect fit’ for her when she came for her interview. We wholeheartedly wish her all the best and hope that she continues to enjoy her time here. Polly Moss, LVI
Miss Rebecca Jones Miss Jones is our newest member of the Classics department and has already made a name for herself with her enthusiasm for acting out epic poetry and Roman rituals. Having been educated at the King Henry VIII School in Coventry, Miss Jones studied Classics
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at Newnham College, Cambridge, under the infamous Mary Beard. Prior to turning to teaching, Miss Jones had a job in advertising, working with everyone from international footballers to nappy companies. She now lives in York with her son Felix, named after a Roman dictator who ‘whilst a bit evil’, she has a lot of respect for! Miss Jones’ interests extend far beyond the classroom, however: she has a diploma in wine-tasting, is a qualified tennis coach, and has also studied operatic singing. She was attracted to the school because of its location and its thriving Classics department, where all pupils have some relationship with the Classical world during their time at the school. So far she is impressed with the genuine enthusiasm and sense of fun shown by the pupils. We hope she continues to enjoy life at Peter’s and we wish her all the best. Polly Moss, LVI
Mr Howard Bowden Mr Bowden was born in Sheffield but moved to Roundhay in north Leeds at the age of two. Describing himself as a proud Yorkshireman, he was one of last to take the eleven-plus exam in Leeds and attended Roundhay Grammar School, of which he has fond memories; he says, ‘I recommend keeping in touch with school buddies in later life.’ He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge to read Geography, but also found time to represent his college at tiddlywinks (he reports: ‘the sport has a rich lexicon, for example, scrunge – a shot in which a wink lands in the pot, but bounces out again’), rowed bow in an eight (very badly) and founded a cheesecake appreciation society (lemon is his favourite). Before becoming a teacher, Mr Bowden had jobs as varied as being a male model for publications including What Camera Weekly, and spent a particularly testing summer working as a server in a takeaway in a now-defunct holiday camp in Filey. Taking up the post in the Geography department at St Peter’s coincided with a plan to move to York, so all fell into place very neatly. His initial impression of the school is very positive: ‘the staff room in general and the Geography department
