Miss Hancock

We are continuing to raise funds for both St Thomas More and Holy Family. This is so we can keep everything up to date for the children with their books and get a new Reading Area at Holy Family. We have already raised a fantastic amount!

We appreciate everything and every single donation that has been given.

Grief can indeed be a lonely experience but as a family we are supporting each other by sharing our love and memories of Sarah and will continue to do so. What has become apparent is Sarah’s deep passion for reading and literature – not just for her own pleasure but her belief in the importance of embedding this love of reading and broadening the mind using literature in the very young.

Many people have asked us how we would like Sarah to be remembered and of course anyone who knew her would comment on her kindness, her warmth, her willingness to help everyone and of course her positive outlook on life even when sometimes it can serve you lemons. We would like to celebrate her life and keep her spirit and her zest for teaching and learning very much alive.

Sarah taught for 22 years at St Thomas More and was an integral part of a very successful team, we would like her dedication, her positivity and her passion for empowering the children she taught to be remembered in a way she would love, so we plan to do this in two ways. The first being that St Thomas More School is kindly going to name the new Reading Hut after Miss Hancock – ‘Hancock’s Hangout’.

Our Family set up a just giving page for donations through the school, the donations was used to buy reading books (which was all stamped with Sarah’s signature) and we also re done the garden next to the ‘Hancock’s Hangout’ where children can also read.

We brightened up the prayer garden, this garden had a special place in Sarah’s heart, an area she had developed in the past. Donations were used for a plaque that will be placed on her favourite tree-the Magnolia tree in the prayer garden, we also used monies on new fencing, and new stones to be decorated by the children; an activity Sarah had already begun.

Lastly we would love to thank everyone for their kindness, support and love through this challenging time, we are sure the school and church community would agree that what is planned is a perfect way to keep Sarah’s memory alive at St Thomas More and Holy Family: schools that became more than a job, the children, parents and staff became her extended family.

Thank you

The Hancock Family