TWO Crosland Moor headteachers have returned to run the schools where they spent their childhood years.

Tina Blackaby and Bernice Boryslawskyj attended Crosland Moor Infant School and Crosland Moor Junior School together during the 1960s.

Now, Mrs Blackaby is headteacher at Crosland Moor Junior School and Mrs Boryslawskyj is headteacher of Dryclough Infant School, which replaced Crosland Moor Infant School and Moorcroft Infant School several years ago.

Mrs Boryslawskyj joined the school in September.

Before that, she had been headteacher at Bradley Infant and Nursery School for three years and Slaithwaite C of E Infant and Junior School for seven years.

She has worked in Kirklees all of her teaching career and did several stints at Dryclough Infant School before becoming a headteacher.

Mrs Blackaby joined Crosland Moor Junior School three years ago. She had previously been headteacher at Newsome Junior School for five years.

Before that, she taught at schools in Surrey, Reading, Berkshire and Australia.

Crosland Moor Junior School and Dryclough Infant School share a site on Dryclough Road.

The two headteachers say being friends makes the close relationship between the schools work even better.

Mrs Boryslawskyj said: "It's nice to be working together, back where we started. To have both of us back here is quite unusual."

Both headteachers say the schools have changed dramatically since they were pupils.

Mrs Boryslawskyj said: "Dryclough Infant School was amalgamated from two schools so half of it is a new building. It is quite different."

Mrs Blackaby said: "It's very different now but I feel I have come back to my roots.

"We get our fruit for the tuck shop from the greengrocer's where I had my first Saturday job.

"I was really excited about having the headteacher's office when I started here. It's great."