National recognition for Boundstone head teacher

The head of Lancing's Boundstone Community College is among four hea teachers up for The Royal Air Force Award for Head Teacher of the Year in a secondary school in the South East finals of the 2008 Teaching Awards.

Thirty-four finalists '“ head teachers, teachers, teaching assistants, governors and schools, will gather tonight (Tuesday, June 10) at Canterbury Cathedral to hear who has won an award.

Mr Evea will retire at the end of this term after 20 years as a head teacher in West Sussex, with six of those spent at Boundstone.

He was selected to take over Boundstone after it was put into special measures by Ofsted inspectors after a series of failings.

He has turned the school around and is now backing it to be turned in an academy next year.

The Teaching Awards were founded by Lord Puttnam CBE in 1998 to focus on inspired professionals who make the positive achievements of pupils possible.

Winners from the South East and across Britain will gather in London on October 19 for a UK ceremony televised by the BBC.

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