Governors

I am married with two children, now in their 20s. I was born in Bournemouth and attended Bournemouth School for Girls. On leaving school I went to work for an Estate Agent and later qualified as a Chartered Surveyor. I have now worked in the property industry for some 30 years, managing commercial property for companies and individual clients, including the Metropolitan Police, HSBC, QinetiQ and major banking institutions. My work brings me into contact with a wide range of businesses across the south coast of England. I have loved music all my life and continue to play the piano and church organ. I also enjoy choral singing. I keep fit by training at the gym and walking with our dog. Until recently I have been a leader in Girl guiding and was wardrobe mistress for a local theatre school where my daughter was a member.

After qualifying in Dentistry from the University of Birmingham in 1988 and working in The West Midlands I moved to Poole with my wife Jane in 1993 taking over a small Dental Practice. We successfully grew the practice to a 4 site practice with 10 dentists and 50 support staff. After the sale of our business I now Co own a small private practice in Westbourne. At the same time we were fortunate enough to have 4 children. My three daughters all attended Talbot Heath Senior School which they loved, the last one leaving at the end of 6th form in 2019. I hope I can help the school continue to thrive and produce the amazing, capable and well rounded pupils it has always done who are a credit to their parents and society as a whole. I hope that through my business experience and through being in regular touch with a number of TH families I can offer the board of governors insights and information from alternative perspectives. My external interests are mainly sports based. I am an Ironman Triathlete, race Catamarans at Parkstone Yacht Club and a former swimming international. I feel very honoured to be asked to join the governing body and really look forward to working with the dedicated team of governors at TH.

Graduated from London University in 1975 and taught Chemistry and Biology in a local secondary school before training to become a priest in the Church of England in Cambridge.  A mixture of parish and secular employment followed, including parishes in Weymouth, rural Dorset and West Wiltshire. Posts in the community included both charitable and public sector positions.  Retired back to Bournemouth in 2015 to be near to children and grandchildren and became Chaplain at Talbot Heath School in September 2015.  Married to Sandra, a health professional, now also retired.  Jonathan and Sandra both have volunteering roles in the area.

Qualified in medicine in London in 1978. After training in London, Hull, Portsmouth and Southampton, he was appointed as a consultant geriatrician to Poole Hospital in 1988. His clinical interests included drugs and prescribing, and stroke medicine. He was regional advisor to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and examined regularly for the college. Other commitments include work with the King’s Fund on hospital governance in the 1990s, and a spell as Secondary Care doctor to Southampton City CCG from 2012-17. He is Medical Director for Care South, a charity providing residential and domiciliary care in the south of England. He retired in 2017, and is now entertained by art, piano and grandchildren. His daughter flourished as a pupil at Talbot Heath for 11 years to 2003, his wife Morag was an ex-TH governor, and he was appointed as governor in 2018.

Born in Poole, I have lived and worked in this area all my life. I have a long-standing relationship with Talbot Heath School. I am an old girl (1970 – 1980); my two daughters attended and excelled at the school (age 3 to 18); I taught there for 7 years. I resigned from my role as a teacher of Mathematics in 2017 to look after my ageing parents but continued to work part time for the Further Mathematics Support Programme until 2020. Teaching was my second career; I was an Actuary working at Abbey Life in Bournemouth for 15 years before taking a break when my children were small. I keep fit by attending gym classes, I enjoy the theatre, reading and bothering my children. I have always been proud of being an alumna of Talbot Heath and wish to contribute to the further development of the school in its aim to meet the changing needs of pupils in the modern world.

In September 2023 I started as Vicar of St Marks Talbot Village, before that I served as Curate at Wimborne Minster. Previously I was a professional Youth and Community worker, working mainly with Bournemouth Youth Service and Bournemouth YMCA. I studied for a BA in Applied Theology with a JNC level 2 in youth and community work at Moorlands College, graduating in 2003. In 2020 I completed a MA in Theology, Mission and Ministry at Sarum College. I enjoy, running, reading, playing guitar and spending time with my wife and three children. I look forward to supporting the staff, children and young people as we seek to ensure that Talbot Heath school is a community where students are enabled to thrive and flourish.

Now retired after three Headships in very different schools and eight years working as a Lead Inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate, I am looking forward to being an active and committed Governor for Talbot Heath School. I trained as a teacher and graduated with an Honours Degree in Education.  I then went on to complete a Masters Degree in English and Education.  My first Headship was in a Preparatory School in Surrey. I then moved to The Midlands to take up a Headship in a school for children aged six months to eighteen years.  My final Headship was in an international Ballet School, catering for elite dancers aged between eleven and nineteen.  Following this, I led the inspection of schools through the United Kingdom and abroad.  Latterly, I was invited to form part of a small team involved in the training of Inspectors and offering consultancy to individual schools on a diverse range of matters ranging from Governance to Child Protection. In fact, I first visited Talbot Heath school some years ago, offering training to the Governing Body! I have been married for a very long time and have two children and five grandchildren. My various granny duties ensure that I keep up to date with educational matters and current social interests, although I have not yet been converted to an appreciation of Taylor Swift!