New Year’s Honours List

Congratulations to all the ASCL members who were recognised in the 2009 New Year's Honours List.

Receiving a Knight Batchelor was:

• Robert Edwards, head, Garforth Community College, Leeds

CBEs were awarded to:

• Isabelle Boyd, head, Cardinal Newman High School, Bellshill, North Lanarkshire

• Tarun Kapur, executive head, Ashton-on- Mersey and Broadoak Schools, Trafford

OBEs went to:

• Keith Blackwell, principal, Esher Sixth Form College, Surrey

• Andrew Hutchinson, executive principal, Parkside Federation, Cambridgeshire

• John Lockett, formerly principal, Grosvenor Grammar School, Belfast

• David Newsome, head, Dyffryn Taf Secondary School, Whitland, Carmarthenshire

• Christine Owen, head, Bartley Green School, Birmingham