Charmaine Pountney

Charmaine Grace Pountney is a New Zealand educator.

Biography
Pountney attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School in Auckland from 1955 to 1959; in her final year, she was head girl and dux. After finishing high school, she trained as a secondary school teacher.

In 1978, Pountney was appointed headmistress of Auckland Girls' Grammar School, a position she held for 10 years. She then became head of the teachers' college in Hamilton, then founding principal of the School of Education at the University of Waikato.

In 1992, Pountney moved to the Āwhitu Peninsula, where she established an organic farm and orchard, and established the Āwhitu Peninsula Landcare Group. In 2000, she published her autobiography.

Awards and recognition
In 1993, Pountney received the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. In the 2002 Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education.

Publications

 * Pountney C. G. (2000). Learning our living: a teaching autobiography. Cape Catley.
 * Crombie W. Poulson L. & Pountney C. G. (199?). The tension between language and English language in national curricula: a critical study.
 * Pountney C. G. Brame G. & New Zealand. (1977). You and your language. School Publications Branch Dept. of Education.