The King’s Schools: New Campus, New Head, New Challenges
It has been a busy summer and a busy start of the year for the King’s School, with its relocation to a stunning new campus in Prestbury and a new Head, Mr Jason Slack, taking over the reins.
Physicist Mr Slack talks about the unprecedented challenges that come with his appointment as The King’s School’s new Head. “King’s relocating to a brand new £60 million campus and at the same time becoming fully coeducational are historic events in themselves, but now there is the additional challenge of educating our 1200 pupils while managing the Covid pandemic.”
Born into a Yorkshire mining family, Jason was a talented academic and athlete at Batley Grammar School. He went to Durham University to study Physics and then a PGCE. Jason has previously worked in the North West, as Head of Physics and then Head of Science at The Grange in Northwich. After that, Jason, his wife Lindsay and their two daughters moved back to Yorkshire, where he was Deputy Head of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Wakefield. Five years later in 2010, the family moved back to the Midlands as Jason became Head of the innovative, coeducational King Henry VIII School.
Now Jason has joined what he feels is “clearly a highly aspirational school looking very much to the future.” He adds, “That forward thinking drive and ambition is very attractive to me. As can be seen from the new campus, King’s governors and staff have an extremely positive outlook which matches my own philosophy. They want to do the very best they can for every King’s pupil and ensure they have a better education at King’s than they would do anywhere else. That’s the challenge that matters the most.”
