Chris Mattley (He/Him), William Farr CofE School - QSA Role Model of the Year 2022
Chris is the winner of Role Model of the Year for a School or College in the Queer Student Awards 2022. He works at William Farr CE School in Lincolnshire and helps to run the LGBT+ Space for queer students and allies, which also became School or College of the Year in this year’s awards. Chris identifies as a gay man and grew up during the time of Section 28. This had a profound effect on him not only during his education but also the time that he trained to be a teacher. Chris was born in Germany as part of an RAF family and as result he moved around throughout his early years. He studied Geography at Oxford University and returned there after a gap year to complete his PGCE in Secondary Education. In 2015 he was nominated as Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School in the national Pearson Teaching Awards. He was awarded a Silver Award. Chris has worked for Stonewall, helps other schools with LGBT advice and has been featured in the LGBTEd book “Big Gay Adventures in Education.” Chris has taught at William Farr School for 16 years and has helped to run their LGBT+ Space for 9 years. Chris lives with his partner Lee and only came out to his parents in 2021. Despite all the wonderful success of the LGBT+ Space, the shame left by Section 28 is the reason why he waited so long to share his sexuality with his parents. The turmoil of this long wait is forming the basis of a memoir which he is currently penning, when he is not marking books. He has an unhealthy number of Christmas Jumpers which appear every December. The movie Pride changed his life and Chris draws his inspiration from Mark Ashton.
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