IN ASSOCIATION WITH Salisbury Cathedral School
Meet the headmistress: Samantha Price
Godolphin School headmistress Samantha Price was not put off education by her earliest school memory of playing the back end of the nativity camel... She has been at Godolphin since September 2010.
Where did you go to school? I went to school at Bute House and Malvern.
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What is your earliest school memory? My earliest school memory is of performing as the backend of a camel in the nativity play! This year my daughter in her nativity play got to play the whole camel!
What did your school reports say? Until I was 15 they said that I needed to knuckle down and take my studies seriously. From the age of 16 they said I had surprised them by what I could achieve and was showing myself to be a leader. Hence my belief that young people develop at different stages of their school career and it is the support of the school that enables you to achieve your full potential.
Did any individuals make a lasting impact on you? My headmistress at school made a lasting impact on me.
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Caitlin Moran’s How to be a Woman is my bedside book
How long have you been at Godolphin? I have been at Godolphin since September 2010.
What is unique about Godolphin? The compassionate and caring environment which encourages our girls to extend themselves in all aspects of school life.
Did you always want to go into teaching? No, I started in marketing at the Tate gallery. My friends all said I would go on to be a teacher, which I fervently dismissed at the time!
What do you enjoy most and least about your job? I particularly enjoy the variety and the privilege of steering a school through the next phase of its development, together with contact with pupils, staff and parents.
You are education secretary for a day... What changes would you make? To reinstate a linear A-level system. Public
exams at GCSE, AS and A2 dominates teaching and I would like to see the lower sixth as a year free of public exams. This will provide students with the space to explore their subjects beyond the curriculum, engage in further academic enrichment and pursue new extra-curricular opportunities. Thus performance at A-level will, I believe, be enhanced and will honestly reflect pupils’ ability.
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Who were your childhood heroes? Boris Becker – I was a keen tennis player. Simon Le Bon from the pop group Duran Duran and George from The Famous Five books by Enid Blyton.
Which book is by your bedside? The Art of Marriage – sent to me by the author Jilly Cooper, who is an Old Girl, plus The Help by Kathryn Stockett,War and Peace by Tolstoy and How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran.
Above: Samantha with Godolphin pupils WILTSHIRE LIFE Schools Supplement March 2012
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