When I was headteacher of Blurton high school, Stoke-on-Trent, Tim Brighouse kindly agreed to award prizes at our annual ceremony; I had known him since my days as a young teacher at Bicester school, Oxfordshire, in the 1980s.
The evening took twice as long as normal because Tim insisted on talking to each prizewinner. One Year Seven boy came on to the stage at around 7.30pm for the history award and reappeared after nine for a sports prize. “Not just good at history then,” he said as he presented the boy’s award; a remarkable and well-loved man, and a huge loss to the world of education.
Robert Powell
