TRIBUTES have been paid to a teacher who devoted 26 years of her life working with children with special needs.
Jenny Burt, who lost her battle with cancer in the early hours of Tuesday morning, was acting headteacher at Bishopsmill School, Norton, Stockton, where she had worked for 21 years.
Before joining the school, for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, Mrs Burt, had worked with children with special needs at Wrensfield Day Centre, Newtown.
Fred Griffin, a friend and colleague of Mrs Brut and principal residential social worker at the school, said: "A caring and devoted teacher, she had a lively personality. Parents, children and staff were extremely fond of her, she wasn't just a colleague she was a friend to us all as well."
The death of Mrs Burt, 60, is the second blow to hit Bishopsmill School this year. Headteacher Ray Rose died in May.
Pupils past and present and their parents are invited to pay their respects at her funeral tomorrow, at 3.30pm, in St Bede's Chapel, Teesside Crematorium, Middlesbrough.
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