NEWS UPDATE
ALL CHANGE AT ST PETER’S SCHOOL
St Peter’s CofE Primary School
headteacher Jean Shipton bows out
on a high after 24 years as ambitious
development project gets underway
headteacher in 2000 – added: “I now
feel it is time for me to move on and let
the school continue to go from strength
to strength with a new leader.”
The decision to leave was not easy.
“I have spent some considerable time
deliberating between the joy of leading
St Peter’s and the possibility of pursuing
other careers in education or outside
the world of teaching and learning,”
she said.
She added that she was confident the
governors and the London Diocesan
Board for Schools would find a good
replacement in the next six months to
ensure a smooth transition.
It sounds like such a long
time ago but I can remember
my classroom days and the
children very well indeed
T
he much-loved headteacher
of St Peter’s CofE Primary
School is saying farewell
to her pupils after nearly a
quarter of a century. Jean
Shipton is leaving the
Hammersmith school in the summer
after overseeing the start of major
development work set to transform the
buildings for the future.
Mrs Shipton joined the school, in
St Peter’s Road, as a Year Six teacher in
September 1991. In a letter to parents
in February, announcing her decision,
she wrote: “It sounds like such a long
time ago, but I can remember my
classroom days, and the children, very
well indeed’.
Jean – who took up her post as
Deeds to the school,
signed by founder Lucy
Hannah Scott, discovered
during building works
She praised the partnership between
parents, carers and the school, as well
as the close ties with St Peter’s Church
which have helped make the school so
successful for 165 years.
Mrs Shipton added that the St Peter’s
community had a ‘great deal to look
forward to’ with the school’s ambitious
new development plans which will
create new classrooms, hall, kitchen
and playground, set to be completed by
September 2016.
And the school is also consulting
on its admissions policy to allow a
percentage of places to be allocated
to local children without needing to
demonstrate religious commitment.
Mrs Shipton finished the letter by
saying: “The school was founded 166
years ago in 1849 by Lucy Hannah
Scott, and it has been my immense
privilege to continue her legacy in
educating the children of the local
community.
“I will treasure the memories of the
past 24 years here at St Peter’s and
would like to thank each and every one
of you for all your support, care and
encouragement.”
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