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Camden News - by RICHARD OSLEY
Published: 12 June 2008

Year 8 boys, new headmaster Robbie Cathcart and music teacher Daniel Barrow playing the drums

Incoming head drums up a storm as school goes festive

HE came, he saw, he played the drums – the incoming headteacher of William Ellis School in Parliament Hill made his first public appearance at a garden fete on Saturday afternoon.
Robbie Cathcart, who will take over at the boys’ school in Highgate Road later this year, turned up at the fun-filled summer fundraiser.
One of his top priorities when he gets behind his desk at the school will be to turn around its finances, which were recently £500,000 in the red.
The stresses and strains of that challenge were forgotten – for an afternoon at least – as students, teachers and parents enjoyed the sunshine and the usual mix of face-painting and cake stalls.
As a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Mr Cathcart, a highly regarded headteacher who joins from a school in Redbridge, north-east London, is no stranger to musical instruments – although his CV says he specialised in piano and viola, rather than percussion.

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