I would describe myself as a “working class lad from t north” driven by my childhood experiences at school.

I attended a “rough comp” where standards were pretty low with regards to pushing students to get better grades and I then studied for my A levels at a selective Grammar school (and was laughed at by some of the staff for being a “bit thick”).

Both experiences ignited a passion to make comprehensive education in this country better so that ALL children could have a superb education and be taught by teachers that cared for their students.

As a country we are still so far away from this. As a school I know that staff at EGS get up in the morning to try and help in this endeavour.

“The devil wins when good people do nothing”, so at EGS we welcome good people to our staff and try to make good young men from the year 7 boys that walk through our doors year on year.