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Kilgraston’s Mrs Saunders is retiring

Kilgraston’s Mrs Saunders is retiring


Mrs Saunders is retiring

It is with great sadness for us that Mrs Saunders has decided to retire after 26 years at Kilgraston. For all of us who have worked with her in either capacity as pupil or colleague, we all share this truly privileged position to have known her and witnessed the everyday acts that make her an astonishing educator and person.

She subverts all notions of the tired retiree needing to be put out to pasture. The perfect example of this was right at the end of last academic year when the teaching staff were exhausted from rounds of internal assessments yet Mrs Saunders was the epitome of creative power leading the entire school to transform glass square into an art installation that expressed our concerns about the climate emergency.

We will remember everything Mrs Saunders has said. All of it brilliant.

We will remember everything she did. All of it equally brilliant too.

But more than anything, we will remember how she made us feel.

Ms Hall, Kilgraston’s Head of English and friend of Mrs Saunders

A longer length version of this will appear in the next Cor Unum, our annual school magazine. which will be published later this year. Sign up to our mailing list here.

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