March 12, 2019 - 1595 views
A new Colwyn Bay school Principal who has made significant impact during the first few weeks of his role, has confirmed that he is staying in place until next Autumn.
Rydal Penrhos School announced earlier that John Waszek will continue in his role as Executive Principle until September 2020.
The experienced figure has already made a massive impression at both Prep and Senior sites, and the school’s Governing Body confirmed the news on Monday, March 11th after a recent board meeting.
Julian Barnes, Chair of Governors at Rydal Penrhos, said: “This will bring a much needed period of stability.
“Sally Harding will continue as Senior School Head teacher and Alison Hind as Prep School Head teacher, and combined with the other senior leaders of the school, we are fortunate to have such a very experienced team.
“This decision also gives us time to undertake a full recruitment process for a new Principal, starting in September this year.
“This is the normal time to go to market and for candidates to be looking for new opportunities.”
Mr Waszek is a highly experienced Principal, having led St Edward’s College, Liverpool for 24 years from 1992 to 2016 during which time the school secured several “outstanding” inspections and was subsequently designated as “exempt” from inspection by the Department for Education.
He was previously a Head of Department and Boarding Housemaster at Rugby School.
Since leaving St Edward’s, Mr Waszek has been a School Effectiveness Adviser, working in a wide variety of settings with School Governors and Leadership teams on school improvement.
He is the Chair of Governors at St Aidan’s Primary School in Knowsley and has served as a Governor of Rydal Penrhos School since 2013 - a post he has now relinquished to enable him to take up this interim role.
In addition to his various roles within education, Mr Waszek served as a Non-executive Director of the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital (Alder Hey) for several years at a very challenging time for the Hospital following the publication of the Redfern Report into organ retention.
He is currently advising the new medical school at Edge Hill University on student admissions’ criteria.
