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head teacher

British  

noun

  1. a teacher responsible for running a school

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Ruth Lu-Quee, a former deputy head teacher and founder of My Mummy Teacher, works with parents and schools to support children's development through play-based learning.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

"As a head teacher I was seeing, increasingly, a number of young people coming in with very basic literacy skills - some young people who simply couldn't read," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Grief affected her education, but she remained determined, and eventually she qualified, became a head teacher, and later received an MBE for services to education.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Dr Llinos Jones, head teacher at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin in Carmarthen, said there had been "a substantial amount of change in a relatively short period of time".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Kumu Whitman and our head teacher, Kumu Apo, pull the two of them apart.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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