New Headmaster for Wellington School
09 Aug 2024
New Headmaster for Wellington School, Mr Alex Battison BSc (Hons), PGCE, MSc (Oxon).
Alex Battison, along with his wife Pippa and their three sons: Charlie (6), Freddie (4) and Jack (2) joined the Wellington family in September 2024.
Alex was previously Senior Deputy Head at the prestigious Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire since 2018 and has extensive strategic development experience, as well as an impressive academic and pastoral leadership background. He has been responsible for the day-to-day running of the school, the co-curriculum, safeguarding, character education, student voice and pastoral care as well as playing a key role in crafting its strategic journey.
He is Chair of Educational Futures as part of Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Programme, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, and a Global Ambassador for HundrED, where he helps select the top 100 educational innovations in the world each year. Furthermore, as a Salzburg Global Fellow, he collaborated on material published for the United Nations Education Conference in New York, 2022.
Alex also consults for organisations such as The Premier League (football) on the leadership and management of high performing learning environments and is an international speaker and writer on leadership, futures and education.
Alex has a BSc (Hons) and PGCE from the University of Wales, Cardiff, a Masters from Oxford University in Learning and Teaching and is currently working towards the latter stages of his Doctorate in Leadership, Learning and Policy at Bristol University which he will complete this Summer.
Prior to Lord Wandsworth, Alex led the teaching and learning as Assistant Head at Wells Cathedral School and previously as Director of Learning and Innovation, as well as Assistant Houseparent and Head of Sports Science at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex. He also has over 15 years experience in boarding.