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Anne joined the Royal School Governing Board in March 2025, after retiring as Head Teacher of Royal School Manchester, Seashell in August 2020.
Anne graduated as a primary school teacher in 1981, and during this time developed a passion for teaching under 5s and children with additional needs, having ran a nursery school for a number of years.
Anne has a sibling who is profoundly deaf and attended the Royal School for the Deaf, Manchester in the 1960’s during his infancy. As a teenager she developed an interest in deaf education.
Anne joined Royal School Manchester in 1995 to fulfil her passion to teach children who were deaf, but also with additional and complex needs, and completed her Teacher of the Deaf Diploma at The University of Manchester a few years later. Her specialist area became teaching children with multi-sensory impairments, and in 2008 she was awarded Special Education Teacher of the Year. Anne remained as a teacher and then Deputy Headteacher until 2015, when she became Headteacher for the school. Under Anne’s leadership, the school was awarded teaching school status and maintained Ofsted Outstanding.
Throughout her career and to the current day, Anne has maintained a passion and commitment to ensuring that children and young people with special educational needs receive the best education possible. It is this unfading passion that has continued in her retirement that has led her to apply to become a Governor.
Anne currently supports elderly relatives and has two grandchildren to keep her busy.