Headmaster
Welcome to Cranbrook! We on the staff are very proud of our school and all the boys in it. We gain enormous pleasure from watching the boys develop as they embrace the opportunities that Cranbrook offers. We enjoy getting to know them and their parents, and are impressed with their overwhelming enthusiasm for the School. I hope you will enjoy browsing around our website and will gain some insights into Cranbrook School. Please visit us if you wish. We would be pleased to show you around.
J J S Madin BA(Hons), DipEd, MACE, MIEA, FAIM
Before his appointment in 2001 as Headmaster of Cranbrook School, Mr Jeremy Madin was Headmaster of Christ Church Grammar School, a leading Anglican boys’ school in Perth. He led the school for thirteen years, was elected President of the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia and served on the WA Curriculum Council for some years as Ministerial Representative. From 1983 to 1987 he was Head of Geelong Grammar School’s Timbertop campus, before which he was Boarding Housemaster and Head of the History Department at Canberra Grammar School. He led the New South Wales Headmaster’s Conference team in the National Social Education Materials Project, and was Lecturer in History Curriculum Studies and the Practice of Teaching at the University of Sydney.
Mr Madin edited Independence, the journal of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, and is the author of a number of educational resource kits in history and social sciences as well as of articles and chapters on curriculum development and aspects of educational management. He serves on the Association of Independent Schools (NSW) Industrial Relations Committee, the Independent Schools Teacher Accreditation Authority Board and the Association of Heads of Independent Schools Academic Committee.
Mr Madin makes a strong commitment to educational practice by working with staff teams preparing teaching and learning units in the School’s Dimensions of Learning Project, tailoring teaching activities to individual learning styles, and by teaching history to every boy in Year 7. Not only does he gain great satisfaction from the classroom contact with the boys, but it gives him an opportunity to get to know every boy in the Senior School personally.