‘Remarkable’ Tim is gone in a flash
AN entire school performed a flash mob dance to pay touching tribute to a headteacher who is leaving after 30 years.
‘Remarkable’ Tim Kendrick has worked at Didsbury Park Primary School for more than three decades after joining in 1983. And so to celebrate his amazing service to the Heaton Mersey school, the staff and pupils organised a dance with a difference.
Video footage shows the moment a group of pupils dance out in front of Tim as he walks down one of the centre’s corridors.
And as the clip continues the gang of twinkletoed youngsters lead the headteacher out onto the school’s fields – where hundreds of children are waiting to perform in honour of the 58-yearold.
The entire school then dance to Take That’s ‘Never Forget’, before the front row of pupils hold up a message telling him how much he will be missed.
Tim said that he couldn’t believe what was happening when the school broke out in the amazing routine.
He said: “I was told that something was going on in the fields and so I started to walk out.
“Before I knew it the children had surrounded me and the music started. I was very shocked.
“I was led outside and that’s when I saw the whole school waiting there.
“It was quite emotional as I was completely unprepared. It was very touching. After so long at the school it felt like the right time to move on but I know I am leaving it in safe hands as all the teachers, parents and pupils really are very special.”
As well as the dance, the pupils also put on a ‘This is your Life’ style tribute to Tim and each class also created a special performance for him.
The pupils spent months rehearsing the routine, finding time to run through the choreographed dance when Tim was out on business or in meetings.
Paying tribute to the ‘truly inspiring headteacher’, the school’s PE coordinator Jenny Cooper said: “Tim is a truly inspirational headteacher and remarkable man.
“We wanted to do something special and memorable to show him how much he means to everyone at Didsbury Road. This was a way of getting everybody involved and showing how much fun we have at our school.”