Dr Christopher Greenfield
International College, Sherborne
Born in Bristol at the end of 1948. Educated at State schools in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Took first degree at Leeds University in 1971.
His first job after university was for the Rowntree Social Service Trust based in York. He then became a constituency organiser for the Liberal party in a part of Leeds. After this he moved on to be a Parliamentary assistant to Richard Wainwright, then the Liberal MP for Colne Valley (just outside Huddersfield), a job he held for four years.
He decided to train as a teacher and took his PGCE at Leeds University. He then taught at a comprehensive school in Huddersfield for two years.
He served as a Councillor in Leeds and has contested four General Elections as a Liberal/ Liberal Democrat.
In 1980 he took a job in the Arabian Gulf State of Bahrain (recruited through the British Council), teaching at the Bahrain International School where he stayed for two years. He then worked for his faith for four years, as the Quaker Middle East Secretary, spending the majority of his time in Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan. Amongst the projects he was responsible for was a well-established school in Brummana, near Beirut.
He opted for a less dangerous lifestyle in order to raise a family with Gill, his wife, and then became Head Master of Sidcot, a Quaker school in Somerset, in 1986. Two children arrived soon afterwards, George in 1987 and Laura in 1989.
He gained his doctorate at Bristol University, which involved a term’s sabbatical at Corpus Christi Cambridge.
He is now the Principal (since 1997) of the International College in Sherborne, a College owned by Sherborne School. The College is widely acknowledged as the leading practitioner for care and education of international students in British boarding schools. He (together with his Vice-Principal, Phil Hardaker) was invited to write a book on the subject by the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2005.
The Independent Schools’ Association, of which the International College is an accredited member, nominated him as their representative to the Executive of the Boarding Schools’ Association in 2006. He served as Vice-Chairman of the Association in 2008-2009 and will be the Chairman from September 2009-August 2010.
He has lectured widely on the subject of the needs of international boarders, as well as having travelled extensively in the course of his work at the College.
He is a diabetic, governor or trustee of several organisations, an elder of his local Quaker Meeting and is still an active Liberal Democrat!
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2009 – 2010
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| Christopher Greenfield |
Chairman |
ISA |
Sherborne International College |
| Jan Scarrow |
Vice Chairman |
GSA |
Badminton School |
| Melvyn Roffe |
Vice Chairman |
SBSA |
Wymondham College |
| Stephen Withers Green |
Honorary Treasurer |
ISBA |
St Edward's, Oxford
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Elected Members
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| Stefan Anderson |
ISA |
Tring Park School |
| Richard Harman |
HMC |
Uppingham School |
| Mark Johnson |
IAPS |
Cheam School |
| Malcolm Lloyd |
SBSA |
Brymore School |
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GSA |
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| June Taylor |
AGBIS |
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| Mark Taylor |
ISBA |
Bedales School |
| Andy Waters |
SHMIS |
Grenville College |
| Advisory Committee |
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Simon Bennett
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ISI |
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| Olivia Denson |
Children's Education Advisory Service |
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| Barbara Ingram |
Director of Education IAPS |
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| David Lyscom |
ISC |
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| Christine Ryan |
Chief Inspector ISI
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| Gordon Woods |
SCIS |
Glenalmond College |
| BSA Office |
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| Hilary Moriarty BA (Hons) MA PGCFE |
BSA National Director |
| Alex Thomson BSc (Hons) PGCE DipEd FCIPD MIfL |
BSA Director of Training |
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