Bundoora Pre-School teacher ends 25 year teaching role
After 25 years of educating Bundoora’s youngest minds beloved preschool teacher Ros Doutre has bittersweet feelings about retirement.
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Ros Doutre has spent the past 25 years teaching Bundoora’s youngest minds.
As she prepares for her retirement she says the role remains as much of a privilege today as it was when she started.
Ms Doutre becomes emotional when she considers the fact she will leave Bundoora Pre-School where her “life has been entrenched”.
“I just love this job, I’m going to miss it and the children terribly,” Ms Doutre said.
Bundoora Pre-School teacher Dani Andros said in her time the “adored” teacher had established a program focusing on the needs of three-year-olds as well as running the four-year-old program and being school director.
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Much had changed in the education system over the past 25 years, but the fundamental needs of children remained the same, Ms Doutre said.
“Ultimately children are the same, they learn by playing, they learn by interacting with the people around them,” she said.
She thanked Bundoora parents, some of whom had been her former pupils, for trusting in her to give their children a space where they could enjoy their childhood.
“I’ve really loved doing this for all of these years.”
Ms Andros said Ms Doutre inspired other staff to strive to be better teachers.
“When I first started I told my partner ‘I’ve hit the jackpot, I’m working with the most awe inspiring, amazing teacher’,” she said.
Ms Doutre hoped to spend more time with her Husband Gil, four children and two grandchildren.
A celebration of Ms Doutre’s impact on the preschool was held on November 25.
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