Nominated Date - 26-02-2026
Nominee Name - Emma Eden
Nominee Service - Head Of School
Nomination Details
Emma has been our guardian angel!
She isn't just the head of school, a teacher, she is without doubt the most amazing, kind hearted, genuinely caring individual I have ever come across. She has held my family together.
On a Friday in June 2025 my precious fit and healthy little girl suffered a seizure at school on the playground in front of parents and students.
This was to be the beginning of hell for my family, our lives have been forever ripped apart. But there was Emma.
She phoned checking on my girl, going above and beyond calling over the weekend also to check she was ok, filling out health and safety assessments and care plans over that first weekend, to ensure our girl was safe and could return to school rather that being isolated at home, Emma also granted authorised leave on the Monday following the seizure due to the hottest day of the year she acknowledged my little girls health and risks.
My little girl, is the most precious thing on earth, (along with her brothers) was diagnosed with epilepsy and chiari malformation.
This has been utterly life changing.
I have been petrified to let her out of my site, stopped sleeping and gone into practical mode. Although I am running myself in the ground doing it, I will never stop.
Emma has been a shoulder to cry on, literally, there has been so many tears. She has even responded to emails at 10pm at night when I needed urgent information for ambulance and lives crews attending my daughters seizures. she checks in daily at school and my daughters safety, her health, Emma has made her number one priority from what I witness.
Without Emma's support my daughter wouldn't be attending school as I wouldn't be able to cope with someone else being responsible for her and knowing they are doing what Maddy needs.
I trust Emma, with my daughter's care as much as I trust my husband.
I know she is safe. My girl had already has been granted an EHCP, with the support of Mrs Louth of Coningsby St Michaels primary school.
I genuinely fear the day my daughter leaves this school to move onto further education, because I will not have the safety net of Emma.
Whilst Coningsby St Michael's have all been incredible with my child, it is Emma who I feel is above and beyond, she doesn't clock off and even outside of school hours, she has been there for us. She is an incredible woman with a truly beautiful heart.
Thankyou Emma!