Governors

The full governing body (the Council) typically meets once a term and much of its work takes place in its various committees. The three principal specialist sub-committees are Estates, Education and Finance & General Purposes.

Mrs Jacqui Boulton
(Chairman of Council)

You can contact Mrs Boulton via the Senior School Office at St Albans High School for Girls, Townsend Avenue, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 3SJ or info@stalbans-high.herts.sch.uk

Jacqui is a Chartered Surveyor. As well as chairing the Council of Governors, she sits on the Estates Committee. She has been a Governor at the High School for about ten years, having been a Parent Governor at her daughter’s prep school and a Foundation Governor at a village Church school.

Jacqui is a Parish Councillor and was chair of North Mymms Parish Council in 2008. She is married to Stephen, another Chartered Surveyor, and they have four children – two of each ranging from 15 to 26 years old.

Mr Robert Allnutt
(Vice Chairman of Council)

Robert is a solicitor and company secretary working in the healthcare sector previously for Amersham plc and Consort Medical plc and as director of NorDiag ASA and UME Health. He has close family associations with the School over several generations and children educated at independent schools. Formerly Secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association, Robert is a trustee of the Oxford University Pension Fund.

The Very Revd Jeffrey John
(Deputy Vice Chairman of Council)

Dean of St Albans, Dr John has previously been Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Canon Theologian and Director of Ministerial Training in the Diocese of Southwark. He especially represents the close link between the School and St Albans Cathedral, and the School's wish to define its ethos in relation to the Christian faith as received by the Church of England.

Mr David Alterman

David has been a Senior School Parent Governor from April 2010. He is owner/director of a market research consultancy, specialising in brand and communications research, and his career has taken in roles in New Zealand, Australia and Asia. He returned to the UK in 2002 and has had daughters at the High School ever since.

David has a MA in Mathematics from Wadham College, Oxford.

Mrs Penelope Barrison

Penelope has been a Governor since 1991, when her daughter joined the Senior School. Previously she was School Medical Officer at St Paul's Girls' School (1983 – 1988) and formerly a General Practitioner and Hospital Practitioner in Dermatology. She is particularly interested in the development of Wheathampstead House and the continuing provision of high quality teaching in Science and the Classics. Penelope sits on the Education and Finance & General Purposes Committees and represents the Governors on the School's National Healthy Schools Committee.

Mrs Kate Callegari

Kate has taught in village and busy London schools in the maintained sector and in girls' prep schools in the independent sector. She was Headmistress of Grange Park Prep School, 1997 – 2002, and then Rickmansworth PNEU School, from which she retired in the summer of 2008. She sits on the Education Committee and is particularly interested in Wheathampstead House.

Mrs Liz Curtis

Liz joined the School in the Junior House and was Head Girl in 1980. She went on to study Food Science at Reading University. Having worked in the UK and overseas with major food companies, including ten years with The Coca-Cola Company, she launched her own food brand in 2003.

Liz is a Committee Member of the Old Girls' Association and AROPS Representative and has two daughters in the Senior School. As a Governor, she sits on the Finance & General Purposes Committee.

Miss Caroline Eke

Caroline attended the Senior School between 1993 and 2000, and went on to obtain a Natural Sciences degree in Mathematics with Geography at Durham University. On leaving Durham she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in St Albans qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in September 2006. Recently she has specialised in Learning and Education (L&E) at PwC in London. Caroline is a member of the Finance & General Purposes Committee.

Mrs Heather Greatrex

Heather is a Chartered Accountant with a number of years' experience in the Audit department of Deloitte. She subsequently spent 17 years as a headhunter, working for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Capita. Since 2009 she has been Head of Career Transitioning and Coaching at Executive Action, a company specialising in coaching and career transition/outplacement. Heather also has a Masters' degree in Executive Coaching from Ashridge Business School and is currently working towards the Ashridge Diploma in Advanced Coaching and Supervision.

Heather is an Old Girl of the School, Chair of the Old Girls' Association and has a daughter in the Senior School. She became a Governor in 2008 and sits on the Estates Committee.

Miss Dorothy Henderson

Dorothy studied law at Newnham College, Cambridge, qualified as a solicitor in 1985 and was formerly Head of Employment Law in City firm, Travers Smith – with experience in graduate recruitment. Dorothy currently sits as a Judge at the London Central Employment Tribunal.

She is on the committee of the Newnham Associates, and also sits on the Individual Giving Committee of the Almeida Theatre in Islington. Her spare time is divided between riding her horse and going to the theatre.

Dorothy has been a Governor of the High School since 2009 and sits on the Education Committee.

Mrs Jessica Jennings-Mares

Jessica was elected as the Wheathampstead House Parent Governor in April 2011 and sits on the Estates Committee. Trained as a lawyer, she lived and worked in Asia until moving back to England in 2005 when her eldest child joined the School. She now has two daughters at Wheathampstead House in Years 5 and 6 and a son at Aldwickbury in Year 3. No longer practising law, she now volunteers at the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Mr Bruce Kettle

Bruce is a Chartered Surveyor and Registered Construction Adjudicator specialising in construction dispute resolution. He has served as a Governor of the School since 2005 and is currently chairman of the Estates Committee.

In the past, Bruce was a governor of a state primary school for eight years. He is particularly interested in the development of the School’s premises to ensure that it is properly equipped to meet the demands of the 21st century.

Bruce has two adult children and four grandchildren and his daughter attended the High School from 1980 to 1991.

Miss Rosanne Musgrave

Rosanne is the national Member Support Director for the Association of School & College Leaders, the professional association for senior leaders in independent and maintained schools through the United Kingdom.

Rosanne's career in education includes teaching in the maintained sector and in independent schools. From being Head of English at the Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree, she became Headmistress of Blackheath High School GDST and was elected President of the Girls' Schools Association in 1999. This was followed by eight years of consultancy work, inspection, lecturing and training. Rosanne currently lectures on employment law for schools as well as working full-time for ASCL.

Rosanne has been a Governor of the High School for over twelve years and lives in East Finchley.

Dr Don Porcelli

Don is a University Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University, where he conducts environmental research, teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students, and is involved in undergraduate admissions. He is also a Tutorial Fellow and member of the governing body of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has previously managed an environmental consultancy in the United States of America. Don has been a Governor of the High School since 2007, continuing a long-standing association between the School and St Anne's College.

Alderman Jenny Stroud

Jenny was a History scholar at Newnham College, Cambridge. She has been a Governor since 2006 and sits on the Education Committee where her experience as a history teacher is greatly valued. In addition, as a former St Albans District Councillor Jenny has helped to guide the School in Planning matters. Jenny's daughter attended the High School and two of her granddaughters are pupils at Wheathampstead House.

Mr John Thomson

John qualified as a chartered accountant in Scotland, after which he moved to London. He then held a number of senior financial positions within the financial services sector in the City of London. Since his retirement he has acted as a business adviser in various capacities to a number of local charities and SMEs.

John has lived in the St Albans district for nearly 40 years; his two daughters attended the High School between the years 1981 to 1992. John is a member of the Finance & General Purposes Committee.

Mr Robert Ward

Robert was appointed a Governor in 2011 and is a member of the Finance & General Purposes Committee.

Robert retired from the accountancy profession in 2010 having worked for several large accountancy practices, principally KPMG. For a number of years he specialised in restructuring work.

He has previously been a governor of a local primary school and held various voluntary posts in his local church. Current charitable activities include work for the Scouts and Rotary and as a volunteer adviser for the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Mrs Janice Woolley

Janice has been a Governor since 1991 and currently chairs the Education Committee. Both her daughters, Josephine and Victoria, were at the High School from age 11 and Victoria was Head Girl.

Janice was admitted as a solicitor in 1969 and has worked in private practice mainly in the field of High Court litigation on behalf of insurance companies. At home with children for twelve years she worked part-time as a volunteer with the Citizens Advice Bureau. Janice became a legal advisor in the Magistrates' Courts' Service and was appointed a Justices Clerk in 1996 from which she retired in 2003. She has been sitting as an Immigration Judge since 2002. Janice is a CIPD qualified trainer.