David Pugh (whose website this is) - a brief biography
I retired from the headship of a 9-13 Middle School in Suffolk in August 2000. After I retired I undertook a number of consultancy/interim management roles for a period of about three years. Since then, this web site has become a compulsive part of my retirement project.
I trained as a music teacher at Bretton Hall in the mid sixties and started my professional life in Morley, Leeds, where I taught for two years. I then taught in Livingstone (Zambia), Slough, Northampton, Devon and lastly in Suffolk.
Extended study resulted in an Advanced Diploma in Educational Studies (Junior Education) from Leicester University, an OU degree in Music and Philosophy and a Master's degree in Creative Arts in Education from Exeter (tutor: Malcolm Ross)
Arranging and composing music has been a central part of my life throughout my career. A hymn tune of mine appears in 'A Time to Sing' (Macmillan's school hymn book) though I doubt anybody sings it now. Through most of my adolescent and adult life I have played a church organ - and conducted Church Choirs. I presently play at St. Philip's and St. Etheldreda (The Hospital Chapel) in Newmarket. I have been interested in early music, play the recorder - all of them my fingers will now fit - and in the 1970's and 80's was a member of the Nene Consort under Dick Coles in Northampton - happy times!
Part of my retirement plan is to assemble my music, original compositions and arrangements, and publish them on the net. An increasing number of these are new, but the school music ones were written for use by children in the classroom. Hard copy is also also available.