5 days ago
Teacher who works 'tirelessly' for school community named 'education hero' at awards
The popular winner of the Education Hero of the Year award is Lisa Hemingway, headteacher at St Bridget's C of E Primary School in Cockermouth.
Her nominator said: 'Lisa works tirelessly for the school and the children, she goes above and beyond.
'The school is a small, nurturing environment where the children thrive. Lisa has a box of prizes for the children. When they have achieved something (whether it be good work, trying hard or demonstrating kindness to their classmates) they can go to Lisa's office to choose a prize.
'Lisa supports the Friends of St Bridget's PTA in all of our fundraising efforts. For every fair or event, Lisa bakes boxes and boxes of cakes to donate.
'She spends her evenings carrying out her headteacher work and still has time to support the planning and running of fundraising events like school discos, school fairs, bingo, film nights and even the Brigham 10k.
'If there is a fancy dress event, Lisa is always in full costume and she congratulates the children on their costumes. The children in the school love Lisa and they are kind to each other, they look after each other and they are a joy to be around.
'Lisa puts the children at the centre of everything. When it snowed one year, Lisa contacted all of the parents to inform them that the children should wrap up warm and bring in their sledges because they were going to spend the morning on the school field playing in the snow. Such an important and rare experience for them.
'We are so very lucky to have her as our headteacher.'
Lisa praised her 'wonderful team following the award win
She said: 'I think its amazing, I really didn't think I would win.
'Everybody in education is education heroes, everybody in your school: from your kick to your teaching assistant, secretaries, teachers, everybody is education heroes.'
Lisa said that the children were 'really excited' to hear she had been nominated, she said: 'I think they'll be really proud, they know I'm coming here today and they were excited when they found out.'
