Hackney teacher scoops prestigious Silver Award honour

Honoured: Michelle Fennell

A local teacher has been awarded the prestigious Silver Teaching Award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School.

Michelle Fennell, head of humanities at Clapton Girls’ Academy, received the accolade after being nominated by no less than three of her students.

One of her students described her as an expert historian who “has taught myself and my peers many life skills which are vital for our future endeavours”.

Ms Fennell’s is one of 55 such awards given to “local heroes of education” around the country as part of the Pearson Teaching Awards 2014.

The awards celebrate exceptional teachers and their life-changing impact on their students.

Fennell may well upgrade her accolade in October at the UK final of the Teaching Awards at The Guildhall in central London.