ONE of the Bishop of Hereford Bluecoat School's top teaching assistants met Prime Minister Tony Blair this week alongside a handful of other higher-level teaching assistants from around the country.

Daphne Moczulski is one of four higher-level teaching assistants at the school.

Daphne has enjoyed the training so much that she has continued training on-the-job at Bishops as a maths teacher through the graduate training programme and will take up her post as maths teacher in September.

Herefordshire Council was asked to nominate names of suitable people to represent the success of the scheme, and much to Daphne's surprise, she received an invitation to 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister.