Sarah Kerr-Dineen

Educated at Steyning Grammar School, West Sussex, Sarah Kerr-Dineen went on to gain an MA in English at Trinity College, Cambridge and to pursue graduate study at Christ Church, Oxford.

Her teaching career spans over thirty years. Early in her career she taught for the Open University in the South West and Oxford, and then spent thirteen years in the English department at St Edward’s Oxford, where she was also a boarding housemistress and ultimately Director of Studies before moving to be Warden of Forest School, London. She has been Head of Oundle School since 2015, and is currently a Governor at four prep schools. She chairs HMC’s Pastoral and Safeguarding Committee and sits on the advisory board for the Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation, the UK’s largest bursary charity which helps disadvantaged and vulnerable children from across the UK to access fully funded bursaries at leading schools.