Diane Compton is headteacher at Michael Drayton Junior School in Nuneaton. It is a large school with more than 500 pupils and it is Diane’s first headship.
That is perhaps quite unusual in itself, such a large school in your first headship isn’t the norm. But what is even more noteworthy is that Diane is just 32 and when she took up post at Michael Drayton she was only 30.
“I’d had in mind that I’d like to be a headteacher by the time I was 30 since probably my second year of teaching. I realised that it was something I could do,” explained Diane.
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