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Miss Sara Burns
Mrs Dorothy Gillies Mrs Gillies joined St Peter’s Modern Languages Department last September, and has since become a valued member of the teaching community at the School.
Miss Burns joined us in September 2013 as the Drama Technician and the school is very lucky to have somebody with as much experience as her! Miss Burns grew up in Yorkshire but has worked all over the world. After school she went straight into working as lighting designer for York Theatre Royal and then became Chief Electrician for the RSC, going on to become a professional member of the Association of Lighting Designers, a terrific achievement. Since then Miss Burns has worked with people such as Lee Evans and Michael McIntyre. Miss Burns has a daughter, Mia, who often appears as another friendly face in the drama studio. You can often tell when Miss Burns is working in the studio, as you can hear her and Mia merrily singing along to the soundtrack to Disney’s Frozen. So far Miss Burns has been very involved with the school productions. In the first term she came with the Fourth and Fifth Form to the Carriageworks Theatre in Leeds to do the lighting and sound for the production of As You Like It as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival. It was obvious that she felt at home in a professional theatre! Then, closer to home, Miss Burns did a fantastic job in leading the technical side of this year’s whole-school production, Alice. This was the first St Peter’s School production to feature a roaming spotlight, a spinning poker table and hand-sewn oyster puppets. The show was a tremendous success thanks to Mrs Burns! Peter Gray (V)
Having grown up in Glasgow where she went to school and university, Mrs Gillies gained an Arts degree, also spending time studying in Germany and France. This allowed her to study History and Italian alongside German and French, which she describes as a ‘brilliant’ and ‘varied’ opportunity. During university Mrs Gillies worked as a tour guide, a job which took her all over Europe and which she ‘thoroughly enjoyed’. Ever since then she has taught languages at nursery, primary and senior school levels. She was also Housemistress at Bradfield College, an experience ‘quite different’ to working at the Rise, being a boys’ school. Outside teaching, Mrs Gillies enjoys singing and is a member of the St Peter’s Choral Society. She also loves skiing, swimming and walking. One of her favourite pastimes is cinema, and she names her favourite film as Chariots of Fire. Mrs Gillies was attracted to St Peter’s after moving to York with her husband, (Classics teacher Mr Gillies), and daughter. So far, her impression of St Peter’s is of an ‘absolutely wonderful school’ with friendly staff and pupils. We wish Mrs Gillies a warm welcome to St Peter’s. Lucy Schofield (UVI)
Mrs Sharon Hogg Mrs Hogg is the latest addition to the Careers Department and is no stranger to different careers herself. She started out as a secretary, training at The Yorkshire Ladies’ Secretarial College, and after working successfully for a number of years in this field she moved to Archbishop
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