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Carol Cliff wins the Outstanding Teaching Award.
AFTER more than 30 years' service at a city school, Carol Cliff will retire this year.
The dedicated teacher from Jack Hunt School in Ledbury Road, Peterborough saw winning the Outstanding Teacher Award as the perfect retirement gift.
Watch all the winners - Education Awards 2007: Honouring the heroes and superstars of city's schoolsCarol (59) has excelled as a PE teacher as well as being head of year and looking after the pastoral needs of thousands of
Peterborough citizens who have passed through the school.
Carol from Oundle said: "I think I am ready to retire now - I have bullied everyone into working hard now.
"I will miss all of the children and the staff.
"I wouldn't stay in teaching for 30 years if I didn't love it as much as I do."
The dedicated teacher who truly has the needs and interests of her pupils at heart is loved and respected by past and present pupils, fellow staff and parents.
Carol has also supported some of the most vulnerable children in her work with child protection.
Tristan Revell from Gunthorpe Primary School and Aileen Doherty from The Phoenix Special School were highly commended in the judges' comments.
The full article contains 205 words and appears in Peterborough ET newspaper.
