Steeples

So Steeples is one of a high-performing side, again like her dad on the football pitch, and her mum in the health service.

Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

Eccles has already appointed Steeples an assistant head at Southdale and says: She is certain to be running her own school in due course.

Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

"Something's wrong there," says Steeples, and a forest of hands go up.

Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

Next summer, Steeples and another of her colleagues, Daniel Wood, who joined the staff last year, are getting married.

Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

Grimsby Town supporters erupted when John Steeples wove through the club's opponents in Division Two clashes during the 1980s.

Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

Steeples may have outlived their times as signposts.

Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011

Steeples may have outlived their times as signposts.

Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011

And her long-standing friend Rachael Samson beats even Eccles to be the first to say how richly Steeples deserves the teaching award.

Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

Steeples may have outlived their times as signposts.

Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011

Then there's Julie Day, the teacher who lit the lamp for Steeples at her own primary school in Doncaster and still works in Ed Miliband's town as an adviser.

Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010