FAIRFIELD COLLEGE ANNOUNCES NEW PRINCIPAL
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Since August, the Board of Trustees has been working with Hineihaea Murphy (Limited Statutory Manager, LSM), to appoint a new Principal for Fairfield College.
We received an encouraging number of applications and were particularly impressed by the quality and calibre of the candidates. This has served to make the process more challenging.
The Board has been seeking a strong leader, knowledgeable educator and effective chief executive for our school who would support us in rebuilding Fairfield College to be the school that we all believe it can be.
The appointments panel and LSM have now identified a preferred candidate who we believe matches well the qualities, experience and skills prioritised by our school and community.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Mr Richard Crawford to the position of Principal for Fairfield College. He will take up this position at the beginning of the 2012 school year.
Richard is proud of his Scottish, Irish and New Zealand Māori whakapapa. His iwi affiliations are Ngati Porou and Ngati Kahungunu. Both he and his wife have a 23 year old son and an 18 year old daughter.
Richard has been part of a secondary school leadership team for 14 of the 22 years that he has been teaching. His leadership experience and skills have been developed by working in schools and communities of similar makeup to Fairfield College. Since 2007 Richard has been Principal of Forest View High School, Tokoroa. Previously he was Deputy Principal of Whakatane High School and Ngaruawāhia High School.
Mathematics is Richard's curriculum area and prior to entering senior management he was a Head of Department of Mathematics and Pastoral Dean.
In 2010 Richard completed a Master of Educational Leadership and Management with his dissertation titled: Data Driven Decision Making and the New Zealand Secondary School Principal.
Richard is hugely excited to be appointed to this position. Contributing to the community that he lived in during high school and early university years is something that he is particularly looking forward to. We hope you will join with us in welcoming him to our school community. We will look for opportunities to introduce Richard to staff, students and our community as soon as possible.
On behalf of:
Fairfield College Board of Trustees and LSM, Hineihaea Murphy