#20 -Welcome back to ‘I’d Rather be at the Beach’, brought to you by The Bonjour Agency. This is the podcast for school marketing people that’s nothing to do with work or school marketing.

I’m Simon, former marketing manager turned owner of The Bonjour Agency, the place for Admissions and Marketing in school. In each episode I speak to someone in the sector who won’t talk about work but we get to find out more about them as a person.

Now in this episode we’re speaking to two people, in fact two Heads. Kathryn Gorman is the Head of Abbot’s Hill School in Hemel Hempstead and we have Katherine Bluck, Head of Prep and also at Abbot’s Hill.

Now we don’t talk about work, there’s no sales pitch involved about the 76 acres of grounds at the school but we do find out briefly how each of them views marketing in the independent schools sector in 2022 and 2023, where they think it’s going and what they look for when recruiting someone into the team. That’s as close as we get to work and we only discuss that because I thought it might help you personally if you’re thinking of looking for another position in the near future.

But we also talk about their backgrounds, I challenge them on SLT members in schools often being Oxbridge educated, we find out what they do at weekends and also what they’ve enjoyed recently for pure leisure time.

That’s all coming up in this episode of I’d Rather be at the Beach, so come with me now as we scoot along the M25 to Hemel Hempstead and speak to the Heads at Abbot’s Hill School, it’s Kathryn and Katherine!

Kathryn Gorman:

linkedin.com/in/kathryn-gorman-85145a93

Katherine Bluck:

linkedin.com/in/katherine-b-543796139

Main website:

www.thebonjouragency.com

Contact me:

simon@thebonjouragency.com