Tributes after death of popular Doncaster deputy headteacher

Ian Hedley served at Doncaster’s Hungerhill School for many years.

Mr Hedley passed away in June 18 in hospital, an obituary for him said.

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It described him as the ‘beloved husband to the late Gillian and proud father and grandad to his sons Adrian, Richard and Stuart and granddaughter Victoria.’

Mr Hedley was second in command at the Edenthorpe school for several years before his retirement.

The obituary added: “Ian will be sadly missed by his loving family and friends.”

His ashes will be interred in the family grave at St Mary’s, Morpeth, Northumberland.

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The school opened in 1976 as a mixed comprehensive school with 800 pupils and in September 2005, it gained specialist status in Science, Mathematics and Computing before becoming an academy in August 2012.

It now has approximately 1,200 pupils attending, with over 75 teaching staff.