Video: Headteacher swaps Bretton for Nigeria
A LONG-SERVING Bretton headteacher is preparing for her new role more than 3,000 miles away.
A LONG-SERVING Bretton headteacher is preparing for her new role more than 3,000 miles away.Twenty years ago Andrea Togher took up the post as a supply teacher at Sacred Heart Primary School in Tollgate, Bretton, Peterborough and five years into the job was promoted as headteacher.
Now, the mother-of-two from Peterborough has decided to follow her dreams of teaching young people around the world and will embark on a once in a lifetime trip to Nigeria in July.
There she will spend two years teaching young students how to become primary school teachers in a little village called Oro.
Andrea said: "It is just something that I have wanted to do since I was little. I have always known one day I would do it and now that my two sons have grown up and are at university, it is the perfect time to up and leave.a
"I am very excited although a little nervous as it will change my life and I will miss everyone at the school.
"At Sacred Heart we have a few families that were born in Nigeria, so they have been helping me with the local language, Hausa.
"I have been selling off all of my belongings to help fund-raise for the Voluntary Service Overseas which is funding my trip.
"I am not sure what the future will bring after that. I am keeping an open mind."
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