Anna Hassan


Dame Anna Patricia Lucy Hassan, DBE is a British educator. She is Consultant Head at Daubeney Primary School, and a former Executive Head of Millfields Community School.

Teaching career

1963: Trains at Coloma College, West Wickham, Kent

1967: Starts teaching at St Joseph's Primary School in Southwark, London

1979: Works in schools throughout Hackney after taking a break to raise her son

1983: Appointed deputy head at Grasmere School, Hackney; later named headteacher

1993: Invited to take charge of Millfields

2009: Retires from Millfields and takes up consultancy

Millfields

Hassan was credited with turning the Millfields Community School, one of London's worst-performing schools, around academically, although it took a dozen years.

Biography

Anna Patricia Lucy Fusco was born and raised in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, by Italian parents, where she initially went into the family business managing a small chain of ice-cream parlours, then soon after took up her calling as a teacher. A Roman Catholic, she is married to Nevzat Hassan, a Turkish Cypriot Muslim, and has been since 1971; they have one son, Dogan Nevzat.

Honours

In 2005, Hassan received an honorary fellowship from the University of Gloucestershire. The following year, in 2006, for her service to education, Hassan was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.