SCHOOL REGISTRAR

Violet Marie Prestwick

 

Violet Marie Prestwick
Born:   December 25, Bristol, UK
Age:   48

 

Miss Violet Prestwick – a spinster, aged 48 – is a teacher and administrator. She has for a number of years occupied the post of Registrar and teacher of Geography in the Truro Cathedral School for Girls, which institution has recently engaged a new head teacher of exceedingly progressive bent. Since Miss Prestwick’s view of the the universe inclines toward crisp efficiency and a rather eccentric sort of common sense, the two ladies have not coexisted easily.

Indeed, a recent incident – involving a naughty junior girl – has caused the head teacher to take the drastic step of requesting that her subordinate resign.

The erstwhile Registrar is only too happy to leave behind the ‘new regime’ but she is sad to be leaving Truro. She was educated – and has spent all of her adult life – in Cornwall’s principal city, and has many connections there. In addition to serving as current chairwoman of the TCSOGA (*), she is the principal rehearsal accompanist for the Truro City Light Opera Society, and she is the recording secretary for the Cornwall Chapter of the R.N.L.I. Ladies’ Guild. These organisations may be hard-pressed to replace her administrative talents, for despite the impression of absent-mindedness which she sometimes leaves in her wake, those talents are quite prodigious.

Possessed of an indomitable optimism, she is confident that a *very* exciting world awaits her… beyond the Channel.

In appearance, she stands 160 cm tall (5’3″) and weighs 54 kg (120 pounds or 8.6 stones), with fair hair and blue eyes. Health is excellent, although the medication which has been prescribed for OCD is seldom if ever taken.

Education: She is herself a graduate of the Truro Cathedral School. After a gap year in which she studied at first hand biodiversity in New Zealand, she continued at Truro University where she was awarded a BSc in Geography.

 

Miss Prestwick posesses a lively spirit of inquiry which extends to topics far beyond those in which she was formally trained. But she knows also that in addition to being a place of learning and growth, a school is a place of order and discipline. Thus, she is passionate about correct record-keeping and utter propriety in all matters bureaucratic.

She knows, through her lengthy experience in teaching and mentoring adolescent girls, that their variety is infinite. In the schoolroom she strives to maintain at all times an encouraging demeanor. The enthusiastic pupil will likely be rewarded with smiles and verbal encouragement. Those less so, or whose spirit of inquiry has been misdirected, will be equally encouraged with the palm of her hand. The goal is to produce girls who – in addition to being successful takers of tests – will prove to be successful independent learners.

(*) Truro Cathedral School Old Girls’ Association