Students have paid tribute to a much-missed teacher at a charity football match held in her memory.
Pupils, past and present, from Alec Hunter High School, Braintree, organised the match for English teacher, Annabel Ballantine-Woods who died in October last year of a cancerrelated illness.
Family, pupils, staff and friends were in the crowd yesterday t Braintree Football Club in Cressing Road.
The crowd paid £2 per head and the money raised will go toward Mrs Ballantine-Woods' memorial fund.
They were joined by her husband Steve Woods and 14year-old daughter Zoe.
Mr Woods, 49, who is is a teacher in Harlow, said: "The fact that they have organised this is fantastic.
"It's nice young people can do something like this without being prompted."
Mr Woods added: "What the school has done has been tremendous."
Teacher Lynn Campbell explained ex-year 11 pupils came up with the idea during their presentation evening in November last year.
She said: "I was surprised and quite touched when they suggested it it must be a measure of how much they thought of her."
Mrs Ballantine-Woods, of Atlas Court, Earls Colne, had battled illness for a long period of time before she died age 52.
Published Friday, May 2, 2003
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