Dinner -Speaker was Leanne Stewart - intro by Grant S.is Fellowship - Another & Andy L.
Thu, Mar 10th 2016 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Leanne Stewart Head teacher D.P.S.
Duns Rotary were please to welcome Mrs Leanne Stewart,
Headteacher of Duns Primary School, as their guest speaker at their
regular weekly meeting last Thursday. In a very entertaining and
interesting talk, Mrs Stewart shared some of her own story as a teacher,
starting with her first post at Burdiehouse Primary School in Edinburgh
through to her present job in Duns. The years of experience of working
with many children in a variety of schools has helped change her early
expectation that she could change the world in a 30 year career to a
more settled understanding of the importance for all of us to work away
at our own little bit, contributing to a better world.
She
reflected on the Curriculum for Excellence and the good results it is
producing despite some criticism, and talked with enthusiasm of the move
into the new primary school being created in the old High School
building at the cost of £9 million. The work is planned to be completed
by March 2017 and will provide more roomy accommodation for the 360
pupils and nursery. Some other use will have to be found for the
various buckets which catch the leaks in the existing building.
Mrs
Stewart has a clear passion for education, and is more enthusiastic
about after school clubs and activities than she is about homework.
Academic achievement is important, but on its own it cannot guarantee
success in life. She loves her job, working with a fantastic staff team
and a school full of wonderful children. She received a very warm vote
of thanks from the members.
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