Anna Hassan
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Dame Anna Patricia Lucy Hassan, DBE (née Fusco; born 1946, Northern Ireland) is a British educator. She is Consultant Head at Daubeney Primary School, and a former Executive Head of Millfields Community School (Hilsea Street, Hackney, London).
Teaching career
[edit]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
[edit]Hassan was credited with turning the Millfields Community School, one of London's worst-performing schools, around academically, although it took a dozen years.[1]
Biography
[edit]Anna Patricia Lucy Fusco was born and raised in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, by Italian parents,[2] 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 Najad Hassan, a British Pakistani Muslim, and has been since 1971; they have one son, Zishan Najad (born 1972, London).[citation needed]
Honours
[edit]In 2005, Hassan received an honorary fellowship from the University of Gloucestershire.[3] The following year, in 2006, for her service to education, Hassan was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[4]
External links
[edit]- Profile, checkcompany.co.uk
- Hackney Council Website profile
- The Society of Education Consultants Profile.
- "How To Make a Difference" website
- Conference of the Association of Education & Library Boards (2009) analysis of Millfields School (cache version)
References
[edit]- ^ Kenny, Ursula (16 July 2006). "Something to shout about". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
- ^ Profile, BanbridgeLeader.co.uk, published 17 July 2007.
- ^ University of Gloucestershire, Honorary Doctorates and Fellows Archived July 21, 2012, at archive.today, glos.ac.uk; accessed 16 June 2016.
- ^ London Gazette issue# 57855, published 31 December 2005; pg. 7
- 1946 births
- Heads of schools in England
- British people of Italian descent
- People from Northern Ireland of Italian descent
- Educators from Northern Ireland
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Living people
- People from Hackney Central
- People from Banbridge
- Women educators from Northern Ireland
- 20th-century educators from Northern Ireland
- 21st-century educators from Northern Ireland
- 20th-century women educators from Northern Ireland
- 21st-century women educators from Northern Ireland