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Martin Bayliss

Martin Bayliss

Principal, Holyhead School

Martin is a National Leader in Education and is Principal of Holyhead School in Handsworth, Birmingham. The school has a longstanding reputation for ‘succeeding against the odds’ despite serving one of the most deprived electoral wards in the UK. Under Martin’s leadership Holyhead became one of the country’s first Training Schools in 2002; a Specialist Business and Enterprise College in 2004, a Foundation School in 2006 and an 11-19 school in 2010.  Holyhead converted to an Academy in August 2011 and joined the RSA Family of Academies in September 2014.