Mrs Taylor

Undoubtedly the "mother" of the school. Mrs. Taylor's generosity was showcased to the full in 2002 when she allowed Mrs Kennedy to go and live with her after she broke up from her husband.

Probably the most influential member of the BRGS staff. It is often thought that the key to promotion within BRGS lies with a good rapport with Mrs. Taylor, with Mrs Kennedy and Mr Haycocks being prime examples. Despite the friendly exterior, Lynda T has fought out and won more battles than most Year 7s have had hot dinners, and is showing no sign of giving up just yet.

No teacher in the entire school could be quite as nice as Mrs. Taylor. She used to keep a tin of biscuits in her room - the current whereabouts of which are unknown. She also used to be the local drug dealer of Paracetamol, but now that the school has sent out the forms, the nurse is in charge of them and Mrs. Taylor is out of the job.

In the assembly for her final day, 17th December 2010, Mr Morris described her as "the most hard-working colleague I've ever worked with in 28 years". She received not one, but two standing ovations on two separate days from Lower School, culminating in her crying profusely on her last day.

Uniform

Also keeps a few spare ties for anyone who didn't have their own for some strange misguided reason, apparantly the Head of Years should also have them, but most, don't, more often than not, neither does Mrs Taylor, but there should be a new batch on its way, by snail-mail, but she plans to implement a way to transfer ties and the notoriously long "Granny Skirts" (her words) by e-mail as soon as Mr. Morris is granted planning permission for a particle accelerator and synthesiser - the next project after the New Sixth form room.

Her Roles in School

As well as being Queen of Lower School, a helping hand to all staff and students and a listening ear to anyone's prolems, she still manages to organise and run many an assembly, with an assembly a day calendar. She was also responsible for writing the Staff Nativity, ensuring that the annual eleven plus for Year 6s is run correctly and above board, organising the Buddy System for new Year 7s and, along with Mrs Kennedy, visiting the primary schools of prospective students. Of course, she also managed to find time to teach English Literature at A-Level.

Retirement?

Mrs Taylor has now, sadly, left. However, she's not showing signs of slowing down her workload just because she's retired after thirty+ years at BRGS! She's taking up a part time post teaching at the University of Manchester, as well as coming back into BRGS until the end of the year to teach her Sixth Form classes before leaving BRGS officially when the Sixth Form leave in May 2011.