Jonathan Teesdale

I have been for­tu­nate enough to have lived in Stam­ford my whole life, with the excep­tion of brief peri­ods away to work, study and trav­el. Being a Gov­er­nor of New Col­lege Stam­ford feels par­tic­u­lar­ly poignant, as I under­took my first teach­ing place­ment at Stam­ford Col­lege many years ago! After teach­ing A Lev­el, GCSE and BTEC Busi­ness and Finance, PE and IT, I returned to Stam­ford in 1995 to run Copthill Inde­pen­dent School as Head­teacher and recent­ly as Prin­ci­pal. I still teach reg­u­lar­ly and remain pas­sion­ate about edu­ca­tion in all forms and for all age groups.

My par­tic­u­lar areas of inter­est are envi­ron­men­tal edu­ca­tion, out­door learn­ing and activ­i­ties which pro­vide such ben­e­fi­cial chal­lenges for stu­dents of all ages to learn about them­selves and pre­pare for adult life.

Out­side of work I enjoy look­ing after the farm small­hold­ing and lead an active life run­ning, walk­ing and extreme camp­ing in remote places! I look for­ward to bring­ing my expe­ri­ence and enthu­si­asm to the Col­lege over the com­ing years.