THE position of headteacher of Bohunt School will be advertised again early in December.

School governors are hoping to shortlist applicants being interviewed at the end of January. This will enable the successful applicant to take up their new role immediately after Easter 2009.

The board were unable to find a suitable candidate following the departure of Bohunt School headteacher Alan Taylor-Bennett who took up his new position as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, at the end of August.

The governing body has been actively seeking his replacement, after appointing Pamela Miles as acting head.

When a team from Ofsted carried out a short inspection of the school, earlier this year, it concluded that Bohunt was a "good school, with many outstanding features."

Governors decided that an inspirational outstanding new leader should be able to build on this foundation and take the school to the next level.

According to Dr Raymond J Morton, chairman of the governing body, the initial search produced a number of accomplished leaders with varying backgrounds and skills so far.

But none of them possessed the rare combination of attributes for which the governors were looking.

They consequently took the decision not to appoint at that time, and to recommence the search process, taking advice from recruitment specialists and targeting their advertising and search to get the right individual.

The governors are flexible about the commencement date and are prepared to wait for the right candidate until the beginning of September 2009.

l A handful of pupils from Bohunt School created havoc at Liphook Station, when they left the morning bus on Wednesday November 12, by climbing up on and hanging off the railway bridge which leads across the station.

PCSO Pete Tedder and Bohunt deputy head Stewart Vaughan were called to the incident immediately and dealt with it, without causing too much upheaval for other railway passengers.

Mr Vaughan told The Herald: "There was a low level of boisterousness by some of the pupils, but we managed to sort it out quickly.

"A member of staff went back again the following few mornings to ensure that everything ran smoothly as pupils arrived by bus and train at Liphook Station and PCSO Tedder told us that he was also satisfied with the improvement made."