Suzie joined London Park Schools as Principal in April 2023. Previously Head of Putney High School, GDST, one of London’s top day schools, Suzie brings 25 years of experience as an education leader to LPS. Before moving into education, S
Suzie had a successful rowing career, including coxing the British Olympic VIII at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the Cambridge University ‘Goldie’ boat in the 1997 and 1998 Boat Races.
With a degree in Economics from Durham, Suzie has a PGCE in Mathematics from Cambridge, a Diploma in Computing from Oxford, and a MA in Education from Bath. She is currently undertaking a part-time MBA. Her teaching career spans single sex, co-educational, day and boarding schools including Shiplake College, Kingston Grammar School and Putney High School, GDST, where she was Director of Sixth Form and Deputy Head Academic before becoming Headmistress in 2014. In 2023 she was appointed as a Governor of the Pointers School in South East London.
Suzie’s rich life experience informs her dynamic, forward-thinking attitude to what an outstanding education can be and is an independent schools’ inspector and school governor. She encourages students to be both innovative and intrepid in their learning in an approach she calls ‘modern scholarship’ which is about making learning challenging, fun and relevant, exploring everything from entrepreneurship and oracy to design thinking and AI.