School plans garden to honour teacher killed in crash (From Echo)

Sarah Lee from the Eastwood School died in Suffolk

2:00pm Monday 14th December 2009 in News By Emma Thomas

TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular teacher who died in a car crash.

Sarah Lee, 24, was killed after a crash involving her blue Ford Focus and a white Audi.

Miss Lee taught art at the Eastwood School until last term. The school is planning to plant a memorial garden in her honour.

Headteacher David Wilson said: “She was very, very popular. She will always be remembered here. She was a wonderful girl, bubbly and friendly.”

Miss Lee, who lived in Colchester, died on the B1080 Manningtree Road, in near Brantham, in Suffolk, on Saturday.

The Audi driver, Matthew Anderson, 24, from Holbrook, Suffolk, was also killed in the crash.

Miss Lee had also taught at Westcliff High school for Girls and St Christopher’s school as a trainee, but spent most of her time teaching at Eastwood.

More recently, she had taken a teaching job at the private Royal Hospital School, at Holbrook, Suffolk.

The school is dedicating a garden next to the art room within the school grounds to Miss Lee. It will feature pupils’ art work and a plaque.

Mr Wilson added: “It is a little garden between the canteen and the art room and it is going to be the Sarah Lee Art Garden.

“The garden is very suitably placed, so I spoke to the governors and suggested it would be nice.”