Today's guest is Lenka Nagle. Lenka is Faculty Head of the Mathematics, Numeracy and Computing department at Kingussie High School, as well as being a good friend and my son's maths teacher.
Some people hate the idea of a small community where everyone knows everyone - and I wasn't sure how I'd feel. But I've found a real comfort in this.
Especially in knowing that there are teachers seeing my kids day in day out who know them, and know me, and our situation, so pick up on any changes or concerns.
This has been invaluable over the past year when there's been some really tricky moments that I've worried have impacted the kids. Having Lenka has been a huge comfort.
From knowing her personally, I know how much she genuinely cares about the kids she teaches and wants the best for them. I've seen this in action.
In this chat I loved hearing about where this community altruism comes from and we cover:
how she ended up in Kincraig after her dad moved from Czechslovakia
her childhood growing up locally and going to Kincraig's local school Alvie
How she's lived all over the world but always missed home
How and why she's raising aspirations of our local kids
Her success creating two teams that won a national competition for girls about investment banking
Her dedication to being a mum
How she deals with stress
Hope you enjoy meeting Lenka. Do say hello to her if you ever bump into her in Kincraig.
And if you have any other suggestions of characters in Kincraig to interview on this podcast, please email me on suzy@bigjuicycreative.co.uk
Kincraig Cares podcast is being made on a shoe string out of love, so is very grateful for free resources which make this possible, like the intro and out music which is called 'Holiday Ukulele' by MaxKoMusic, promoted by www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ and part of the Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)