Annemount School A GSG School

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Head teacher

Since 1993, Geraldine Maidment BA MontDip. Educated at Northwood College, St Mary’s Grammar School, and South Hampstead High School, Mrs Maidment followed a degree in German and art history from University College, London, with a stint at Sotheby’s. Here, she realised she preferred people to objects. ‘I’d taught children as a teenager, and loved the interaction. I realised that it was a vocation.’ Started her career at Bassett House, then, when her own two daughters were tiny, launched Hilltop Nursery in a local church hall. In 1993, she bought Annemount, winning out against considerable competition. (‘Mine wasn’t the highest offer, but they felt I would continue the style of the school.’) A two-year stint in the US with her late husband, an academic at the Open University, allowed her to take a masters...