Chris Nourse-Grewal

Chris Nourse-Grewal is a lifer. He started his journey into Education at 18 with a B.Ed (Hons) in Primary Education and has continued to teach, lead, and develop schools ever since. From cutting his teeth in a well run primary school in Chelmsford to the challenge of teaching and leading in two inner London Primary school – Chris has seen how schools can thrive or not due to the quality and imagination of school leaders. His first headship was in a Junior school in Southampton – followed by an amalgation of an Infant and Junior into a Primary school in Surrey- whilst opening a new children’s centre and a special needs base. An international opportunity led Chris to be the founding Principal of a new Primary school in Abu Dhabi in the UAE follwed by a brief stint as a Director of Educational Strategy. A return to blighty to run a large Primary school in Dorset was short lived and Chris returned to the UAE to be Principal of an all age British curriculum school which he grew from Year FS to Year 13. His three children attended his school for 9 years. (Not easy on them) As an Executive Principal and trained Inspector Chris then moved into School Improvement and support a group of schools with Teaching and learning, raising expectations and growing a positive school culture amongst other thing. He has jumped into temporay headship to move schools out of trouble managing US curriculum NEASC accreditation at the same time. Laterly Chris is Executive Principal of KBZA school in Abu Dhabi, a pilot school for the UAE government to trial different approaches for public education – a mix of UK rigor and IB learning frameworks are proving very successful. As to has been bringing the children centre approach to the school. Chris enjoys music and can often be found in guitar shops wondering how he could possibly justify to his wife that buying another guitar would be a wise investment!