Roedean School’s office bearer induction, held at the school’s first assembly this year, served as a special platform for introducing the 114-year-old school’s second male headmaster, Murray Thomas.
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Thomas was born in Joburg but studied and matriculated at Kearsney College in KwaZulu-Natal. He studied at Rhodes University and completed his teaching qualification at St Andrew’s College in Grahamstown. He also completed a post-graduate masters degree in comparative and international education at the University of Oxford in England.
He has worked in Britain, Taiwan, Netherlands and South Africa. He has been a history examiner for the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme and has represented the Council of International Schools as an accreditation team member, visiting schools in the British Virgin Islands and Italy.
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Upon returning to South Africa in 2007, he served as deputy principal of Lebone II College of the Royal Bafokeng in Phokeng North West Province and, most recently, as head of St Peter’s College in Sandton. He was the regional coordinator of the Global Teachers Institute and assisted with the Axis Education Summit hosted by the Wits governance and education schools.
Having taught for 23 years across a range of schools, he said he looks forward to a long and happy association with Roedean and the community.
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