Angela Clark, deputy headteacher with 20 years experience at the Padbury Avenue school, has become head of school following the retirement of Denise Crosier.
Filey is a long way from Australia where Mrs Clark was born, but she moved here as a child and attended Scalby secondary school in Scarborough.
She said: “I always spent a lot of time here as a child because grandma was a Filey girl.”
After starting her teaching career in Skipsea, Mrs Clark moved three years later to Filey CE Nursery and Infants School, as it then was, as a Year 1 and 2 teacher. Over two decades she progressed to assistant head and then deputy head.
Mrs Clark said: “This is a wonderful school – the children are so enthusiastic and always keen to learn.
“We’ve always been a creative school and this is something I’m really passionate about – we’ll be introducing a ‘creativity passport’ this year, so children can record their creative experiences.”
Mrs Clark is married to Rob, who runs a garage in the town and has a teenage son, Joe, who is studying A levels at Scarborough Sixth Form College.