My friend and former colleague Robert Buckley, who has died aged 64, was a physicist and headteacher who won the Institute of Physics teacher award in 1991. He found his further calling in the Anglican priesthood.
Robert's career as a teacher was marked by his enthusiasm for his subject, his determination to give young people the widest possible opportunities and his abilities as a team leader. Within 12 years, he went from being a newly qualified teacher to a deputy head, a post that he held in three schools in Cambridgeshire, Nottingham and Humberside. In 1986, he became head of Twyford Church of England high school. As one of his deputy heads, I saw at first hand that much of the school's successful development was due not only to Robert's vision but to his commitment to effective teamwork and administration.
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