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My career path was decided from a very early age, since after my first day at school I announced I wanted to be a teacher – and I never changed my mind. In due course, I passed the 11+ and went to a Girls’ Grammar School, where mathematics was always my favourite subject. I had my first impromptu teaching experience in those days with my fellow classmates. Like many others, we had a very poor maths teacher and consequently, I was often called upon for help to explain the latest homework! I still look at 2010 and think “What a tidy number”!
Sadness struck for me at age 13, when my mum died. To an extent, Time is a healer, but I still miss her so much now and wish she could have seen me grow up. She would have been so proud that I was the first in the family to go to university. At 18, I was off to Leeds University for 4 years, where I studied maths and then did my PGCE by which I hoped to be able to teach well my difficult subject of choice.