
Marianne Porter
Head Teacher
Marianne Porter
Head Teacher
Marianne Porter
Head Teacher
Whole school leadership
Responsibility for Safeguarding and Child Protection
Marianne takes advice from all sorts of people – but the best she’s had came from the wonderful Dr Seuss – ‘The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.’ She obviously has a funky soul side as the first record she ever bought was ‘It’s a family affair’ by Sly and the Family Stone but this isn’t her only musical style, she likes a bit of the 1930s and 40s too as the most fun thing she has ever learnt to do was learn to dance the Jive. She’s an avid quiz fan and has tackled the Guardian Cryptic Crossword every day for the last twenty years! It explains why she would have loved to meet John Galbraith Graham – better known to crossword buffs as Araucaria – who set fiendishly difficult clues to be solved. For inspiration she doesn’t have far to look – she gets this from the children she feels privileged to be able to work with as a teacher, the only job she’s ever wanted.