Anna Hassan

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Dame Anna Patricia Lucy Hassan, DBE (née Fusco; born 1946, Northern Ireland) is a British educator. She is Consultant Head at Daubeney Primary School, and a former Executive Head of Millfields Community School (Hilsea Street, Hackney, London).

1963: Trains at Coloma College, West Wickham, Kent (a Catholic teacher training school)
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

Hassan was credited with turning the Millfields Community School, one of London's worst-performing schools, around academically, although it took a dozen years.^[1]

Anna Patricia Lucy Fusco was born and raised in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland, by Italian parents,^[2] 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 Najad Hassan, a British Pakistani Muslim, and has been since 1971; they have one son, Zishan Najad (born 1972, London).^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, Hassan received an honorary fellowship from the University of Gloucestershire.^[3] The following year, in 2006, for her service to education, Hassan was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.^[4]

• Profile, checkcompany.co.uk
• Hackney Council Website profile
• The Society of Education Consultants Profile.
• "How To Make a Difference" website
• Conference of the Association of Education & Library Boards (2009) analysis of Millfields School (cache version)