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 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 12 to 23 years old.
The Very Revd Jeffrey John
(Honorary Vice Chairman of Council)
Dean of St Albans. He 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.
Mrs Heather Greatrex
Chartered Accountant with substantial experience as a headhunter, working for Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Capita. She has recently completed a Masters in Executive Coaching at Ashridge and is working independently as an executive coach.
Heather is an Old Girl of the School, Treasurer 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.
Mrs Sarah Williams
Sarah joined the School at age 11 and has been associated with the School for over 30 years in various capacities – pupil, Chairman of the Old Girls’ Association, parent, High School Society Treasurer and Governor. As a Chartered Accountant she sits on the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
Alderman Jenny Stroud
Jenny sits on the Education Committee where her experience as a history teacher is greatly valued. In addition, as a former St Albans District Councillor she has helped to guide the School in Planning matters. Jenny’s daughter attended the High School and one of her granddaughters is a pupil at Wheathampstead House.
Mrs Penelope Barrison
Penelope has been a Governor since 1991, when her daughter joined the Senior School. Previously School Medical Officer at St Paul’s Girls’ School (1983 – 1988). Formerly a General Practitioner and Hospital Practitioner in Dermatology. She sits on the Education and Finance & General Purposes Committees. She is particularly interested in the development of Wheathampstead House and the continuing provision of high quality teaching in Science and the Classics. She represents the Governors on the School’s National Healthy Schools Committee.
Mrs Janice Woolley
Janice has been a governor since 1991. She 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 12 years she worked part-time as a volunteer with the Citizens Advice Bureau. She 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. She is a CIPD qualified trainer.
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 10 years with The Coca-Cola Company, she launched her own food brand in 2003.
Liz is Chair of the Old Girls’ Association and has two daughters in the Senior School. As a Governor, she sits on the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
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, as well as sitting on the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
In the past, he 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. 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 Haberdashers’ Aske’s School 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. She 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, sits on the Education Committee 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. He has been a Governor of the High School since 2007, continuing a long-standing association between the School and St Anne’s College.
Mr Robert Allnutt
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, he is a trustee of the Oxford University Pension Fund. As a Governor, he sits on the Estates and Finance & General Purposes Committees.
Mrs Esther Hurst
Wheathampstead House Parent Governor from April 2009, Esther sits on the Finance & General Purposes Committee. Chartered Accountant qualified with KPMG, Esther is currently working for GM Europe. Graduate in English Language and Literature (Oxford) and MBA (Cranfield). She has one daughter in Year 2 at Wheathampstead House.
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, retired summer 2008. She sits on the Education Committee and is particularly interested in Wheathampstead House.
Miss Dorothy Henderson
Dorothy studied law at Newnham College, Cambridge, qualified as a solicitor in 1985 and is currently joint Head of Employment Law in City firm, Travers Smith LLP. She is a member of the firm’s graduate recruitment panel and Charity Committee and also sits as a part-time Judge at the London Central Employment Tribunal.
She is President of the Newnham Associates, and sits on the Individual Giving Committee of the Almeida Theatre in Islington. Any spare time she has is divided between riding her horse and going to the theatre.
