Castle Hill headteacher Gill Robinson returns from fact-finding trip to China
Nov 16 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Gill – who paid her personal costs while in China – gave a talk at the university about higher ability secondary children from Castle Hill who have been involved in a dramatisation of the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights.
She was also extremely impressed with the music and drama provision at the schools she visited and enjoyed several performances by deaf and blind children.
The trip also included visits to places of cultural interest, including the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City and Olympic Village.
Gill said she hoped a teacher and support assistant from Castle Hill would visit China next year.
The Examiner revealed on Friday that Mrs Robinson’s daughter, Lottie Taylor, scooped a major regional award.
The 21-year-old clinched the Unsung Hero award at the Yorkshire Young Achievers in Leeds.
The same award was won posthumously last year by campaigning Huddersfield Examiner reporter Adrian Sudbury, who died from leukaemia in August 2008.
He spent his final months pushing the Government to introduce bone marrow donor awareness in all schools and colleges.
Lottie played a major role in setting up and running after-school care services for youngsters in Leeds while she was studying at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Mrs Robinson said Lottie had shown great determination and tenacity to do so much work while studying.
“It involved a lot of work and she had some major obstacles to overcome,’’ said Mrs Robinson. “But I think the fact that she had done voluntary work at Castle Hill had stood her in good stead and she has also been the personal assistant for a couple of children here.
“I think that gave her the drive to set up such a wonderful service in a disadvantaged area of Leeds.’’
Lottie set up of the Kids@Heart after-school clubs project at two schools. She recruited and trained 35 volunteers, organising them into a weekly rota to provide clubs four days a week.
Lottie has now taken up her first teaching post and moved to Reading, but the clubs she set up continue.
