My name is Yvonne Skucha and I was born in Somerset in 1956, the eldest of two children. I moved to Newcastle-under-Lyme in the early 1960s and have lived in Sandbach, Cheshire for the last twenty five years.
I spent my early years education at Hassall Street Primary school, a typical Victorian school building in Newcastle and in spite of promises about a new “state of the art” school being built to replace it, it still exists in its original building! I spent my secondary education at Clayton Hall Grammar School for girls and loved every moment of it, followed by another two years in the Sixth Form there. During that time I decided that teaching was the career I wished to pursue and joined Madeley College of Further Education to study for my teaching Certificate, followed by an extra year of study at Keele University to raise my qualifications to degree standard.
In my thirty two years teaching career I have taught in three Staffordshire High Schools and the last nineteen years have been spent at Maryhill High School. My chosen subject is English, although I have taught several other subjects during this time. I came to Maryhill High School as a SENCO and had the massive challenge of creating a whole school ethos for the teaching of students with identified SEN, in what was then an extremely traditional school. Six years ago I joined the Senior Leadership team as an Assistant Headteacher and from September 2010 have been fortunate to have become the Deputy Headteacher.
I feel extremely blessed to have a career which I love and where I believe we can bring about positive change and working with young people with their natural energy and optimism is in its self, a source of great satisfaction.
My passion outside of school apart from my immediate family and three grandchildren is my love of animals. I have two Jack Russell terriers who rule me completely and a horse which keeps me both fit and financially poor!
