A popular deputy head is leaving Monmouth at the end of the summer term for a new appointment in one of Norfolk's top schools.

Senior Deputy Head Academic at the Haberdashers’ Monmouth School, Emma Arrand, has been appointed as the new head of Wymondham College, the largest state boarding school in the country.

She will take on her new role in September 2025 after having been with the school for 16 years.

She began at Monmouth in 2009 as an English teacher, then after 4 years of housemaster at the school’s Severn House she became full time Head of English in 2018.

In 2023, she was made Deputy Head Academic having taught at the school for 13 years.

The school’s website said that Ms Arrand had been an English teacher across the key stages, in both the independent and state sector, for 18 years and achieved Fellowship of the Chartered College of Teachers in 2022.

Of her new appointment, Ms Arrand said : "From my first visit to Wymondham College, I was hugely impressed by the warm, positive and industrious atmosphere.

"It is an outstanding school with a wonderful ethos and I am delighted that I will become part of the college community from September."

The two senior schools merged recently to form one single co-ed school on the campus of the former Monmouth School for Boys.