Christopher Grocock
Teacher of Classics, Bedales Senior
BA London (Royal Holloway College), PhD London (Bedford College)
What makes a good teacher at Bedales?
Enthusiasm and a quizzical approach.
What are you trying to encourage and instil in your pupils?
Curiosity and an interest in/concern for the world they live in.
Apart from your teaching role, what else do you get involved with at the school?
Cricket in summer, classics society.
In your opinion, what makes Bedales special?
Its caring nature, the sense of it being a large family.
What is your best memory of Bedales?
Bedales' first participation in the Greek & Latin Reading competition.
Who or what inspires you?
The sense of fulfilment when I see ‘pennies drop’.
Tell us something not a lot of people know about you.
I play the mandolin, very quietly; and I like taking choral evensong in our parish church; I am an ‘Independent Scholar’.
