Today we say goodbye to a longstanding and  excellent teacher; Mr Stuart Playford. If I was looking for an outstanding example of growing your own, Mr Playford is it.

He started as a member of our IT support team, graduated and qualified to teach, and is a dedicated Assistant Principal. He has had many roles in his fourteen years at St Edmund’s and was particularly influential in the planning and construction of our new academy building. Mr Playford is a valued and hardworking  member of our community, who always has the interests of the students foremost in his thinking.

He is going from St Edmund’s to Headship. I hope his new school realise how lucky they are and look after him.

On behalf of us all, I wish Mr Playford every success leading his school. We are going to miss him very much.

Maggie Hughes

Principal