MAGGIE EYRE
Employer: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Age: 55
Time in job: Six years
Salary: £20,000
As a learning mentor at Cale Green Primary School, Maggie Eyre's aim is to enable children to "feel happy, relaxed and confident, and to grow as individuals".
While teachers are responsible for a child's academic learning, Eyre's job is about helping them to develop their emotional intelligence, as well as "forming a genuine partnership between home and school".
In her first few years, the focus was almost exclusively on the children but she now puts a lot of energy into working with parents, too. For example, she is about to start a cookery club for parents and their children, to spread the word about healthy eating.
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