Supply Teacher of the Year

Lynn Hotton
Nominated by UK Teaching, Hertford

Supply teacher Lynn Hotton is in the running to be crowned One in a Million, the title given to the UK’s top temporary, contract or interim worker.

Lynn has won the Supply Teacher of the Year category of the One in a Million Award.

Nominated by the country-wide recruitment specialists UK Teaching from their branch in Radlett, Hertfordshire, for whom she has been registered since January last year, Lynn gave up her full-time career as an RE teacher so she could spend more time on some of the special causes with which she is deeply involved.

At present she is a teacher at Oakhill Secure Training Unit in Milton Keynes teaching young people aged between 12 and 17 serving Detention Training Orders and on remand.

The rest of her time is devoted to working on a voluntary basis for the Bridgebuilder Trust (Milton Keynes) as an RE adviser in secondary schools and also setting up projects for primary schools.

Her work involves her visiting schools in Bethlehem where she has seen at first hand people living in extremely difficult circumstances so has assisted with the setting up of a youth club there and has paid for outings for the children.  She says she is impressed with their maturity, commitment and hope.

Liz Baranov, General Manager of UK Teaching, a subsidiary of European Recruitment Network, said: “Lynn’s interest is to generate ideas for different ways of teaching and learning. It is to get young people to explore, to discover and to express themselves, and to enjoy doing it.  She is an enthusiastic ideas person who lives to be creative and to inspire others to be the same.”

Helen Reynolds, the REC’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, said: “Lynn has chosen to switch to temporary work so that she can fulfil her role as a voluntary worker enabling her to share her undoubted knowledge and creativity with young people in very challenging situations.”