King’s Welcomes New Deputy Head (Pastoral)

King’s is delighted to welcome our new Deputy Head (Pastoral), Harriet Dyke, who has joined us from Forest School, a large independent day school in Northeast London, where she was a member of the Senior Leadership Team and directly responsible for the academic progress, personal development and safeguarding of pupils in Years 9, 10 and 11.

In joining the King’s community, she is also returning much nearer home; Harriet is a proud Brummie, born and bred, and she’s delighted to be reconnecting with the Midlands.

Harriet comments, “Family is hugely important to me; I’m a proud auntie, sister, daughter and godmother and it is wonderful to be closer to Birmingham, where my family is still based.”

She first taught in Edgbaston at King Edward’s High School for Girls and Elmhurst Ballet School as a French and Spanish teacher, before moving to London in 2015 to work at Forest School, being appointed Head of House in 2016 and Head of Middle School in 2018. From these roles she has extensive experience working with external agencies on safeguarding matters and a passionate interest in young people’s mental health and well-being and all the factors that can have an impact on those.

As Harriet explains, “I believe that school, working in partnership with parents and carers, with pupil voice at the centre of that work, can have a hugely positive impact on every young person’s development. I’m very excited to begin forming such essential working relationships with pupils, their families and colleagues in the coming weeks.”

As a break from her busy working life, she is an avid fiction reader and musical theatre lover.

We’re so pleased that Harriet has joined our Vigornian community, with so much to bring to the King’s Foundation family.

Read about our Foundation safeguarding team at King’s.