It has been a tumultuous week at Cranbrook following the resignation of headmaster Nicholas Sampson. The volatility might not be over yet.
It looked like 2024 would be a good year for Cranbrook School headmaster Nicholas Sampson. The civil war that had erupted between its former powerful governing board almost two years ago had been fought and won. A new girls’ uniform had been designed ahead of a transition to co-education in 2026, and the Bellevue Hill school’s new water polo pool was the envy of the eastern suburbs.
Late on Friday morning, students were called into an assembly where Michele Marquet – the head of the junior school and a Cranbrook veteran of 26 years who had been appointed acting headmistress – addressed the students. At 3pm on Friday, two security guards were stationed at the school gates while a media pack waited outside, with teachers shepherding boys into waiting buses and cars.Parents, mostly behind the wheels of large black SUVs, declined to speak to the media, with one mother saying they had been asked not to.
A previous push by Cranbrook parent and billionaire Scott Farquhar in 2021 to have the school enrol girls in 2023, with an offer to fund 40 scholarships for girls, ultimately failed.
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