WELLINGTON School has announced the appointment of its next headteacher to replace Henry Price, who is leaving in September 2019 after five years at the school.

Eugene Du Toit has been senior deputy head at Trinity School of John Whitgift, Croydon, since 2014 and has an impressive academic and pastoral leadership background. He is married to Angela and they have two young daughters.

Chairman of governors Anna Govey said: “I am confident we have found an ambitious leader with high personal standards and expectations, who will take Wellington School successfully into the future.

“Eugene showed enormous energy, passion for the possibilities that being part of the Wellington community will offer him, as well as an immediate affinity with our culture and ethos.”

Mr Du Toit is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and has an MA in Educational Leadership from the Institute of Education, University of London. He is currently studying for his MBA in Educational Leadership (International), which he will complete next summer.

He began his teaching career at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg before moving to England and taking up a position at St Paul’s School, London, as a teacher of Economics and Mathematics, Undermaster (Assistant Head) and Head of House.

Henry Price will move to Oakham School in Rutland.

For the full story see this week’s Wellington Weekly News.