Anna Hassan

Dame Anna Hassan, DBE, is a British educator. She is Consultant Head at Daubeney Primary School and a former Executive Head of Millfields Community School (Hilsea Street, Hackney, London).

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

Born to Italian parents, Anna Patricia Lucy Fusco was born and raised in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, 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 Nevzat Hassan, a Turkish Cypriot Muslim, and has been since 1971; they have one son, Dogan Nevzat (born 1972, London).

Honours

In 2005, Anna Hassan received an honorary fellowship from the University of Gloucestershire.
In 2006, for her service to education, Anna Hassan was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

External links

• Hackney Council Website profile
• The Society of Education Consultants Profile.
• "How To Make a Difference" website
• Conference of the Association of Education & Library Boards (2009) analysis of Millfields School (cache version)