Former Dumfries and Galloway Council employee lands prize at Scottish Education Awards
dailyrecord.co.ukA former home economics teacher landed the lifetime achievement prize at this year’s Scottish Education Awards. Sheelagh Rusby, who has just retired from her post as quality improvement manager at Dumfries and Galloway Council/South West Education Collaborative, received the honour at the ceremony at Glasgow’s DoubleTree by Hilton.
Sheelagh has spent more than 40 years in education and has helped teachers develop their professional skills and improved the way pupils are taught.
And she has also championed community schools, enterprising schools, rural skills and developing a young workforce Sheelagh said: “A good school is one that places children at the heart of it and listens to them, their families and the communities.” She is now volunteering with the charity Better Lives Partnership, which helps young people with autism and those with additional support needs after they leave school.
After four decades in education, she says she’ll miss the pupils and her colleagues, and rates her biggest achievement as having inspired 14 former pupils to become HE teachers.
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