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The school gates outside Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds were awash with colour in April 2014. Bouquets of flowers blanketed the street and stretched down toward the nearby church.

A young girl, stopping at the school entrance with her two friends, reached up on her tip-toes to tie a bright pink sign to the gates, love hearts drawn across it.

Nearby, a yellow Prefect badge, a small wooden cross and a laminated class photo lay at the school gates. Each item in tribute to a woman named Ann Maguire. 

The 61-year-old schoolteacher, who taught both Spanish and Religious Education, was known as ‘the mother of the school’. Originally from Wigan in Greater Manchester, Ann arrived at Corpus Christi in 1973 to do her teacher training.

She became the ‘heartbeat’ of the small school in the years which followed and routinely went above and beyond for the children she taught.

Anne had two daughters – Kerry and …