Mr John Narey appointed as new Headmaster (1974)

School's new head is a sport

MR JOHN Narey, 36, who starts new job as headmaster of Wellsway Comprehensive School after Easter is a keen sportsman.

Mr Narey, who succeeds Mr Stanley Jarvis, is at present headmaster of Duddeston Manor Comprehensive School, Birmingham.

Last season he played cricket for Aston University in the Birminham League and also enjoys football and a game of golf.

Married with three children, aged six, four and two, Mr Narey taught in France for a year and after taking an honours degree in modern languages, taught at a boys' grammar school in Middlesborough.  He then moved to Duddeston Manor School, a school of roughly the same size as Wellsway.  Mr Narey was successively head of the middle school and senior master before being appointed head.

He has already made one of two visits to the Keynsham area house-hunting and said this week, "I am looking forward to coming to Wellsway and will be in Keynsham frequently during the coming term on school business and house-hunting."

Mr Jarvis, 60, is retiring after a long career in education.  He became the head of the old grammar school at Keynsham seven years ago and two years later took over the secondary school next door, later becoming head of the merged schools following the introduction of comprehensive education.

Bath Chronicle
Spring 1974

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