Trevor Averre-Beeson

Trevor Averre-Beeson (born c. 1961) is a British schoolteacher who in 1996 became the youngest secondary Headteacher in the UK, at the age of 35, when he was appointed Head of Mayfield School, Redbridge, London, a post he held for 7 years.
Education
Averre-Beeson attended Sunbury Grammar School. He obtained a BSc degree in economics at Bradford and a DipEd at Leeds.
Career
A decade earlier, and within a few years of qualifying, Trevor Averre-Beeson had attained a head of year position at the Boswells Comprehensive School, quickly progressing to become the Head of the School's Six form College in 1988. He moved to Islington Green School in 2002. Islington Green had a troubled past. It was the school Tony Blair refused to send his children to despite his public commitment to comprehensive education. It controversially failed its Ofsted inspection in 1997 with many saying the decision was a political one; to excuse the Blair's decision to choose another school.It was also the school that provided students to sing, controversially, on Pink Floyd's album The Wall - adding their voices to the infamous chorus 'We don't need no education'.
Visionary and Transformational
Nine months after Averre-Beeson joined the school it passed its inspection and the Registered Inspector described him as "Visionary and Transformational" - communicating his effective vision to parents, teachers and students alike.
In 2004 Tony Blair’s former speech writer Peter Hyman joined the school and wrote his book One out of ten, comparing Averre-Beeson's leadership style favourably with Blair. Hyman and Averre-Beeson worked together to start the process of Islington Green becoming an Academy in 2008. The decision for the school to become an Academy was instigated by Trevor Averre-Beeson to improve the resources available to the school. Some including the NUT thought there were political considerations. They protested that becoming an Academy meant handing over the power of the school governors to the private city investors. The decision to become an Academy was unsuccessfully resisted.
In 2007 Averre-Beeson was appointed Executive Head of Salisbury School in North London by the private firm Edison Schools, to effect his brand of transformation on the second poorest school in London.
Soon along with his team, he had reduced 200 exclusions to zero, doubled the key exam indicator and set the ground work to successfully pass its OFSTED inspection 5 terms after joining the school. Meanwhile the school had been refurbished in his trademark purple and changed its name to Turin Grove.
The school's results improved including English and Maths and in 2009 it had a successful Ofsted inspection. The school later become an Academy and improved its results to 41.5% 5 A*-C inc E&M in 2011
2009 Onwards
The company has expanded since 2009 from two employees to over four hundred. The work of Lilac Sky is entirely based on the Lilac sky strategy developed over the twenty years of Trevor's leadership career.
In December 2014 Trevor's first book was published by GW publishing.
The Book
This book, by Trevor Averre-Beeson tells the story of Trevor’s time at Islington Green School at the height of New Labour. Former Super Head tells his story of a school’s transformation, from failing to outstanding.

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