This site accompanies Bertuna’s Children: The History of Education in a Suffolk Village written by Sue Spiller and published by Arena Books on 17th January 2017.
Bertuna’s Children celebrates the history of education in Great Barton and these pages include supplementary information which for one reason or another was not included in the book.
Sue Spiller is a retired head teacher. During her 34-year teaching career, she worked in Suffolk in secondary, middle and primary schools and as an advisory teacher, and was the head teacher of Great Barton (CEVC) Primary School for 14 years. Throughout her varied career, she taught a wide range of subjects at all levels developing a broad knowledge and understanding of the British education system.
Since her retirement, she has developed a keen interest in family and local history. She and her husband spent the first 15 years of retirement in a nineteenth-century farmhouse in south-west France. They moved back to Suffolk in 2019 as a consequence of the Brexit vote, and live in Ixworth. Sue has written local history books on The Pykkerell in Ixworth, Ixworth WI, entitled Talk and Teas, and on public libraries in West Suffolk and Bury St Edmunds called From Whispering to Wellbeing, due to be published in December 2025. Sue has two children and three grandchildren.
BERTUNA'S CHILDREN 