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Abbotsholme is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr Simon Ruscoe-Price (NPQH PGCE BA (Hons)) as the new Headmaster. He is a highly talented leader with a great deal of experience and an excellent track record. He has a passion for holistic learning and cutting-edge practice and has a real desire to provide the best possible education for all students.
Mr Ruscoe-Price has over twenty-seven years of diverse experience in education as a school leader, teacher trainer, and as a pioneer of education reform across the globe. After having served nine years as Director of Specialism focusing on language, culture and diversity at a high school in Suffolk, Mr Ruscoe-Price took his first step into international education as Deputy Director of a national school improvement programme for the government of the United Arab Emirates. Mr Ruscoe-Price then moved to India to implement a specialist international curriculum delivering academic excellence across a group of schools.
In 2014, Mr Ruscoe-Price took on his first UK Headship and he successfully set up a new free school in Sussex. He was then tempted back overseas by Wellington College who employed him as a Director with responsibility for the academics for their six prestigious schools in China.
Mr Ruscoe-Price, who is a fluent French speaker, graduated from Anglia Ruskin Cambridge and the University of Montpellier with a BA Hons Degree in Humanities and Social Studies majoring in French and Economics. He has a PGCE teaching qualification from the University of Reading, an NPQH from the National College of school leadership and a post-graduate degree in leading change in education. His understanding of progressive education and his passion for child-centred learning practice will nurture a culture of excellence. Mr Ruscoe-Price is married to Selina, and they are blessed with three grown-up daughters and a grandson.
Mr Ruscoe-Price is relentlessly focused on developing pupils’ learning to encourage independence, confidence and academic success within a nurturing and all-inclusive environment, where pupils are inspired to develop their intellectual, physical, spiritual and emotional needs equally. Mr Ruscoe-Price brings dedication, resilience and a passion for driving world-class standards at Abbotsholme in its next exciting chapter as a progressive school in a fantastic setting built upon British family values driven by excellence for every child in his or her chosen domain.
See the headmaster's welcome from 1 May 2019