Anna Hassan

Dame Anna Hassan, DBE, is a British educator. She is Consultant Head at Daubeney Primary School[1] and a former Executive Head of Millfields Community School (Hilsea Street, Hackney, London).

Teaching career

1963: Trains at Coloma College, West Wickham, Kent (a Catholic teacher training school).
1967: Starts teaching at St Joseph's Primary School in Southwark, London.
1979: Works in schools throughout Hackney after taking a break to raise her son.
1983: Appointed deputy head at Grasmere School, Hackney; later named headteacher.
1993: Invited to take charge of Millfields.
2009: Retires from Millfields and takes up consultancy.

Millfields

Hassan was credited with turning the Millfields Community School, one of London's worst-performing schools, around academically, although it took a dozen years.[2]

Biography

Born to Italian parents, Anna Patricia Lucy Fusco was born and raised in Banbridge, County Down,[3] Northern Ireland, where she initially went into the family business managing a small chain of ice-cream parlours, then soon after took up her calling as a teacher. A Roman Catholic, she is married to Nevzat Hassan, a Turkish Cypriot Muslim, and has been since 1971; they have one son, Dogan Nevzat (born 1972, London).

Honours

In 2005, Anna Hassan received an honorary fellowship from the University of Gloucestershire.[4]
In 2006, for her service to education, Anna Hassan was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[5]

External links

References

  1. ↑ Daubeney Primary School website
  2. ↑ Kenny, Ursula (16 July 2006). "Something to shout about". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  3. ↑ Banbridge Leader, published 17 July 2007;
  4. ↑ http://resources.glos.ac.uk/council/honorary.cfm University of Gloucestershire, Honorary Doctorates and Fellows
  5. ↑ London Gazette issue# 57855, published 31 December 2005; pg. 7
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