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Jane Matthews

This collection of documents has been filed by Jane Matthews, Senior Mistress of Oakham School. They related to H.M.C. Co-Educational Group Meetings of Senior Mistresses, resources for staff and pupils regarding wellbeing, maternity leave, health, and various correspondence. The collection spreads over a few years from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Jane Matthews

A letter from Janet Pickering

A letter from Janet D. Pickering, Senior Mistress of the King's School, enclosing the minutes of the H.M.C. Co-Educational Group Senior Mistresses Meeting held on 14 November 1995 at The King's School, Canterbury.

Janet Pickering

Headmasters

  • HEA
  • Subfonds
  • 1818 - 2023

Stretching back to the headmastership of Dr. Doncaster, this collection comprehensively covers the correspondence, publications, photographs and other ephemera of the headmasters of Oakham School up to the present day. For many of the headmasters, correspondence and rolls calls are a significant theme in their series.

This collection also contains an excellent record of speeches and sermons given by G. Talbot Griffiths and John Buchanan.

The final series on reports covers the headmaster's, deputy headmaster's and registers writings on the state of the school, including topics such as building and estate development, admissions, the curriculum, examination results, and Old Oakhamians.

Oakham School

A letter from Graham Smallbone

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to T.M. Reay, Mrs Wheway, Roger Blackmore and the Housekeepers, containing the minutes of a meeting regarding OSEL, conferences and support to house staff. Two pages A and B.

Graham Smallbone

OSEL correspondence

  • AB-AB/26-AB/26/13
  • Sub-File
  • 1983 - 1986
  • Part of Anna Bentley

A collection of letters relating to OSEL courses, Activity Holidays and events in the 1980s.

Oakham School

A letter from Alan Grieve to Roger Blackmore

  • AB-AB/26-AB/26/13-AB/26/13/52
  • Item
  • 03/10/1983
  • Part of Anna Bentley

A letter from Alan Grieve to Roger Blackmore regarding the minutes of OSEL meetings and raising two points on Activity Holidays and Computing courses. Two pages A and B.

Alan Grieve

A letter from Gail Hayward

A letter from Gail Hayward, Senior Mistress of Bromsgrove School, enclosing the minutes of the Senior Mistresses' Regional Meeting. Contents of the minutes include Staff in Sport, Staffing and Manning in Boarding House, and Attracting Women into Senior Position in Co-Educational Schools. Six pages numbered A to F.

Gail Hayward

A letter from Elizabeth Cairncross

A letter from Elizabeth Cairncross, Senior Mistress of Christ's Hospital, to Jane Matthews regarding two items on the agenda for the Meeting at Lincoln College and enclosing the minutes of the H.M.C. Co-Educational Schools' Senior Mistresses Meeting held at Oakham School on 10 November 1988 and a list of the Senior Mistresses who attended the meeting. Three pages numbered A to C.

Elizabeth Cairncross

Oliver Richard Sylvester Bull

This series focusses on the headmastership of Oliver Richard Sylvester Bull (1977-1984) and contains items relating to the life at School in the 1970s and 1980s, its staff and pupils. One of the files relates to Michael Stevens as Acting Headmaster for two terms in 1985.

Oakham School

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