Dame Anna Patricia Lucy Hassan, DBE (née Fusco; born 1946,

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) is a British educator. She is Consultant Head at Daubeney Primary School, and a former Executive Head of Millfields Community School (Hilsea Street,

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Teaching career

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

Hassan was credited with turning the Millfields Community School, one of London's worst-performing schools, around academically, although it took a dozen years.

Biography

Anna Patricia Lucy Fusco was born and raised in Banbridge, County Down,

, by Italian parents, 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

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Muslim, and has been since 1971; they have one son, Zishan Najad (born 1972,

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Honours

In 2005, Hassan received an honorary fellowship from the

University of Gloucestershire , mottoeng = In Spirit and Truth , established = , type = Public , endowment = £2.4 m (2015) , chancellor = Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie , vice_chancellor ...

. The following year, in 2006, for her service to education, Hassan was created a

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.''London Gazette'' issue# 57855, published 31 December 2005; pg. 7
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External links

Profile
checkcompany.co.uk
The Society of Education Consultants Profile."How To Make a Difference" websiteConference of the Association of Education & Library Boards (2009) analysis of Millfields School (cache version)

References

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