My friend Katy Barrett, who has died of cancer aged 54, was an inspirational teacher at the Gateway school in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and latterly at the High March school in Beaconsfield. She pursued everything she did in life with relentless vigour.
She would work late into the night to perfect her lesson plans, so that each child was catered for. In the cards her pupils made for her when she was unwell, one had written that she was looking forward to Mrs Barrett returning so that she could finish reading them Street Child; another that whenever she worked on a bar graph she remembered Mrs Barrett’s help.
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