New Headmaster for Wrekin College

14 Mar 2016

The Governors are pleased to announce that Tim Firth, currently Senior Deputy Head of Hurstpierpoint College, West Sussex, will succeed Dr Haydn Griffiths as Headmaster of Wrekin College from September 2016.

Tim Firth was educated at Stockport Grammar School. He studied English Literature at Sheffield University and completed his PGCE at Oxford University being awarded a Blue for cricket. He started teaching English at Bedford School, where he was also a resident boarding house tutor, before moving to The Leys School in  Cambridge where he also took charge of the cricket.  He was promoted to be Head of English at The King’s School, Ely and is now the Senior Deputy Head at Hurstpierpoint College, West Sussex having previously run the Sixth Form and been Acting Headmaster for a short period there.

Tim is a keen sportsman, with a particular interest in cricket, and also enjoys writing poetry. His wife, Jane, had a career in Human Resources working for, among others, Arthur Andersen and now teaches in the Learning Support Department at Hurst. They have three children: Michael is at Durham University studying Theology and Religion, Edward is Head Boy at Hurst and Lydia is in Year 7.