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BBC News
11-07-2025
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Braunstone head teacher who 'transformed' school steps down
A head teacher who "lives and breathes" a primary school in Braunstone has stepped down after the school achieved its "best ever" SATs said Halil Tamgumus, also known as Mr T, had transformed Braunstone Community Primary School in Leicestershire after taking on the role in head teacher Rebecca Mukiza said Mr Tamgumus had introduced many initiatives including new school values, along with a new pastoral and behavioural team, and also regular Friday afternoon dance sessions with the T said standing up in assembly to announce he was the new head teacher was the "best feeling ever" but that leaving was "bittersweet". He said he was "incredibly proud" to see the school achieve its "best ever" SATs results in his final year at the school. "We work hard to make sure that we develop the whole child at Braunstone, but this has been the culmination of six and a half years of hard work and it's all come together," he school, which is rated Good by Ofsted, surpassed the national average for the first time ever with 82% of pupils achieving an expected grade or above in maths, 80% in reading and 79% in writing. Ms Mukiza said: "The results are amazing and that is his (Mr T's) cohort."You can see the improvements and positivity he has brought to the school in those results."She said Mr T was a huge character who "you would often hear before you see him as he was always singing"."He also started our Friday dance sessions in Covid, which have carried on," she added. "You would often see him dance on the tables. "Mr T's style is inspirational but also fun with clear boundaries for the pupils - he gave every child a voice." 'Transformed' school Lauren Charlton, chair of the advisory board at Braunstone Community Primary School, said the position the school is now in is in "stark contrast" to where it was when Mr T joined."We were not a school of choice, parent-teacher relationships in the community had completely broken down and he's basically made it his life mission to change that," she Charlton added Mr T had created a "really inclusive environment" and "absolutely transformed" the school."He really is about making sure that where you're from really doesn't define your future - you can overcome anything," she Charlton described Mr T as "hardworking and determined" and added working with him can be "crazy" at added: "You're sitting there in a meeting and before you know it there's a boom box going down the corridor and he's up dancing."
BBC News
21-06-2025
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Bhim Kohli death: 'Dad's killing won't drive us from our home'
"Why should we be pushed out? Why should we allow these two children to push us out of where my dad once loved, where we love?"The words of Susan Kohli, whose 80-year-old father Bhim Kohli died after being racially abused and brutally attacked at a park just yards from the family home in Braunstone, Leicestershire.A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl were both found guilty of Mr Kohli's manslaughter and were sentenced earlier this to the BBC, Mrs Kohli admitted she had discussed with her mother the idea of moving away from the area - but questioned why it should be them that has to leave their community. The boy was sentenced to seven years in custody while the girl was given a three-year youth rehabilitation order and made subject to a six-month curfew, which Mrs Kohli said was "unanswerable"."In the last nine months, there has been a lot of talk between me and my mum because the incident happened literally on our doorstep," she said."So whenever you walk out the door, it's a constant reminder of what happened to dad."We've had these discussions about do we stay? Do we go?"The attack on Mr Kohli happened as he walked his dog, Rocky, in Franklin Park on 1 September last year. He died a day later in boy racially abused Mr Kohli before slapping him in the face with a slider shoe, while the girl encouraged the assault and laughed as she filmed it on her can be named because of their ages. Mrs Kohli said her neighbours had been "amazing" and "so supportive" in the difficult months since."And that's where we feel, will we get the same neighbours when you move away?" she said."It's the people that's keeping us there. It's the people and it's the memories."It is just the fact that all of my dad's memories are there."They will always be in our heart." Despite this, Mrs Kohli feels there are questions to be answered in their community following her father's this month it was revealed that Mr Kohli had spoken to police just two weeks before his death after seeing another Asian man being assaulted by two white boys, who threw a large rock at Kohli added: "We need to call out whenever these issues are happening. We need to face it. And if we don't, it is just going to continue."Leicestershire Police said "organisational learning" to improve logging anti-social behaviour had been force added it had undertaken an investigation, reviewed by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which did not identify any "misconduct or missed opportunities which could have prevented Mr Kohli's death".
BBC News
01-06-2025
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Teenage moped rider seriously injured in Braunstone crash
A teenager suffered "life-changing" injuries in a crash in Leicester.A car and a moped collided in Gooding Avenue, Braunstone, at about 13:20 BST on Sunday, said Leicestershire force said it was reported to the force that a moped ridden by two people had crashed with a car pulling off a male rider of the moped suffered serious injuries and has been taken to hospital, while the passenger, also a teenage boy, suffered minor injuries. Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance and Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service also attended the added no arrests have been made.
