RATHDOWN SCHOOL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Events Committee
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- Member of the Events Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Events Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Events Committee
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- Head of School
- Secretary
- Transition Year / Senior Cycle / Fifth Year / Sixth Year
Mr Cox is the Head of School and Senior School Principal.
Alan was appointed in 2024.
He undertook his secondary schooling in St Andrew's College before progressing to Trinity College Dublin where he graduated with a B.A. in Economics and subsequently a H.Dip in Education. He later completed a Masters degree in Educational Leadership and Management.
Alan commenced his teaching career in his alma mater before moving to St Columba's College where he taught Economics and Maths and served as a boarding housemaster for eleven years. During his time there, he was very involved in sports coaching, including Rugby, Cricket and most notably in Athletics, where for many years he served as Team Manager of the Leinster and Irish Schools teams and several other Irish Junior teams. He was also involved with choirs and directed a number of school plays.
In 2004, Alan accepted the role of Principal of East Glendalough School in Wicklow Town and was very engaged in the development of the School. He met his wife, Jennie, here and they now have a family of five children. In 2014, Alan took up the role of the first Principal of the newly formed Temple Carrig School in Greystones and has spent the last ten years building this school, quite literally from the ground up!
Alan is thrilled to have been appointed to Rathdown School. He is impressed by its heritage and reputation for academic excellence, but is also ambitious to drive the School forwards in terms of exciting new building projects, introducing new Leaving Certificate subjects and Junior Cycle short courses into the curriculum and bringing his experience in sports and the arts to expand the School's already extensive extra-curricular programme even further.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Junior School Principal
- Learning Support / Homework & Assessment
Mr Dix is Principal of Rathdown Junior School
Dermot was appointed in 2018.
Dermot brings a wealth of experience with him to Rathdown School having held the position of Headmaster of Headfort School, Kells, Co. Meath since 2003.
Dermot's school years were spent in independent education, first as a student of Headfort, and later in St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham. He holds a Bachelor of History from Trinity College, Dublin and a Masters of History from Pembroke College, Cambridge. Dermot has published a number of academic contributions in the field of history, notably the history of the British Empire in America, India and Ireland.
Prior to commencing his work at Headfort, Dermot spent 16 years in New York teaching History. This included several years at The Dalton School in Manhattan, which is routinely ranked among the top private high schools in the United States. Dermot has been dedicated to the field of education for over 30 years - 15 of which as Headmaster. Dermot is married to Chandana Mathur, who lectures in Anthropology at Maynooth University. The couple has one son, Conall.
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- Chairman
- Chairman, Board of Management )
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- Governor
- Chairman, Board of Governors )
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- Chairman, Junior School Advisory Committee )