Abbotsford School principal Enid Grant will retire this month, ending a 46-year career in education - 25 years of which have been as principal at Abbotsford.
She will be replaced by Halfway Bush School principal Stephanie Madden, who will take up the position in term 1 next year.
The board of trustees at Halfway Bush School has appointed Winnie Cornelissen as the school's new principal. She is now deputy principal at Mornington Primary School, but will finish there this month.
Outram School principal Gregory Carroll is leaving education temporarily due to illness, but expects to return soon.
He has been a teacher for 22 years and a principal for 17 years, the past five at Outram.
However, he has decided to leave his position at Outram while he recovers. He will be replaced by Pleasant Point School principal Jeremy Marshall in term 1 next year.
Concord School principal Margaret Hillerby will also retire at the end of this year, ending a 42-year career in education.
For the past seven years, she has been principal of Concord School, and despite her retirement from full-time education, she will continue as a consultant with the Positive Psychology of Education Project in Dunedin schools.
She also plans to pursue other interests, such as becoming a Scenar therapist - a complementary therapy which helps with pain relief.
She will be replaced by Concord School's deputy principal Steve Turnbull. He has been teaching for 11 years, and said this would be his first principal role.
St Mary's School (Dunedin) has appointed Richard Duffy (St Joseph's Cathedral School deputy principal) as its new principal. He replaces acting principal Stephen Hopkins at the start of term 1 next year.
Brockville School principal Ben Sincock has been appointed principal of Caversham, College Street and Calton Hill Schools which will be merged for term 1 next year.
Mr Sincock said his replacement at Brockville had not been decided by the board of trustees yet, but believed a decision would be made by the end of this week.
