Wellingtonian takes over Napier Boy's High

Matthew Bertram has been appointed as the new Napier Boys' High School headmaster.

A Wellington school principal has been appointed to replace retiring Napier Boys' High School headmaster Ross Brown from the beginning of next year.

He is Scots College senior school principal Matthew Bertram.

His appointment to replace retiring principal Ross Brown was announced yesterday by NBHS board chairman Gordon Harris.

A graduate with diplomas in forestry from Canterbury University and teaching at Massey University College of Education, and a BA from Victoria University, Mr Bertram began his classroom career at Wanganui High School in 1998, and soon became assistant head of social science and a dean.

From 2001-2003, he was head of social science at Westlake Boys' High School, on Auckland's North Shore, before being appointed deputy principal at Mt Albert Grammar, in Auckland, with responsibility for senior boys' pastoral and academic progress.

He began at Scots College in 2007 as director of boarding and was promoted first to the position of deputy principal and then, in 2103, principal of the senior school.

Mr Bertram and wife Katherine have four children, and the new headmaster is a keen tramper and skier.

He has been involved in a range of sports as a coach or manager in all the schools with which he has been associated, including chairing the Scots College rugby club.

Mr Brown has been headmaster at Napier BHS for 18 years, and leaves the school at the end of this term with wife Anne, also a teacher at the school.