Headmistress profile

  

MRS CYNTHIA HALL is a former President of the Girls’ Schools Association and comes to Wycombe Abbey from her previous post as Head of The School of St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon. Mrs Hall sits on the Board of the Qualification and Curriculum Authority and on the Independent and State School Partnerships Forum which reports to the Schools Minister. Her current school plays a central role in furthering cross-sector work in Oxfordshire through the Oxfordshire Independent and State Schools Partnership of which she is a trustee. She is also Co-Chair of the GSA/HMC Universities Sub-Committee.

Mrs Hall previously taught English in independent girls’ schools. She read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, where she co-edited ISIS the student magazine. She is a Fellow of the RSA and a Governor of Portsmouth Grammar School. Her interests are ballet, opera, riding, swimming, and walking in the countryside. She is married with two children aged 19 and 22.