Juris Zarins, former headteacher of Avenue Middle School, who has died
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Famous for his jaw-dropping school assemblies, passionate advocate for education and much-loved Norwich headteacher Juris Zarins made an impact on all who knew him.
To Juris, known as Juri to friends and family, teaching wasn’t just a job, it was his life’s work: his pride in his school, his staff, his pupils and their education shone from him and inspired generations.
Juris Zarins, devoted husband, father and headteacher at Avenue Middle School for 20 years, died on Friday March 19 aged 72.
He had, according to all accounts, tackled his cancer diagnosis with the same upbeat positivity and resolve he had showcased throughout his life.
Tributes to N Norfolk teacher and lay minister Tributes have been paid to lay minister Sue Ling, a retired teacher and musician from Mundesley, who has died aged 83.
Mrs Ling, then Miss Boagey, was born and brought up in London and spent war years as an evacuee in Newent, Gloucestershire. She played the piano and violin in orchestras and competitions, even travelling to the Netherlands to perform. She attended Clapham County School for Girls, where she was a prefect, captain of games and captained tennis, rounders, and hockey teams. When she was 18, she moved to Norfolk to train as a music specials teacher at Keswick Hall College, and her first job was at Aylsham High School in 1957. In her early twenties she played the fiddle for the Kemps Men of Norwich Morris dancing group and took part in amateur dramatics in North Walsham.
Sue Ling in her Girl Guiding uniform.
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In 1961 she married Keith Ling, an agricultural engineer, and they had many happy years together until Keith died in 2004. The couple lived in Stalham briefly and then North Walsham, and Mrs Ling moved to Mundesley in 2009.
Mrs Ling s first job was at Aylsham High School in 1957 and she went on to teach at Manor Road and Millfield Road schools in North Walsham, including a period when Jane and their son, Matthew, were pupils there.
Throughout her life she demonstrated her dedication to both her professional life and her family and friends.