Grammar head moves to a comprehensive

by Graham Tutthill

SALLY Lees, head teacher of Dover Boys’ Grammar School, will be leaving next July to take charge of a 2,200-pupil comprehensive.

Mrs Lees, who was appointed head at Dover in September 2004, said she has mixed feelings about the move.

She said: “I have loved every minute of it here. It’s been quite a joumey for the school and I am proud of the way the staff and students have come with me.” When Mrs Lees was appointed it was a foundation school with about 600 pupils.

It was given its business and enterprise specialist status in 2005 and received an International Schools Award in 2008.

Several other awards, including Healthy Schools, have also been achieved. There are now 760 boys at the school.

She said: “We have a more outward-looking approach and links with other schools across the region, Europe and beyond, including one with a school in south east Asia.

“We have introduced the International Baccalaureate and students are now getting a real international dimension to their education.”

Mrs Lees is to become head teacher at Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre in Tenterden.

She said: “I will be leaving with mixed feelings. There are new opportunities for me, but I have been, and still am, very happy here.”