Oban High School’s headteacher Peter Bain will be replaced in the new term by David Mitchell coming from award-winning Dunoon Grammar School as ’acting head’.
Argyll and Bute Council sent out an email to parents and carers this week telling them that after a ’rigorous recruitment process’, David Mitchell who is headteacher at Dunoon - winner of the world’s best school prize for community collaboration, has now been appointed to the post of acting headteacher at Oban High School and of Tiree 2-18.
"Mr Mitchell will take up post at the start of the new session in August and will remain in post for the duration of Mr Bain’s absence. Mr Mitchell is looking forward to meeting and working with you in the new session," said the email.
Argyll and Bute Council had already told The Oban Times that interviews for an acting head were following a process that was "usual practice" when a headteacher is absent for a period of time.
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