PROFILE

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Name: Chris Buck

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Position: Business Teacher

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One Minute Interview

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Who would be your ideal classroom ‘guest speaker’ or ‘visitor’ to inspire students (you can include historical characters if you want)?

 

From my love of football and Newcastle United I would certainly have liked to invite Sir Bobby Robson when he was alive, he would be an excellent speaker for discussing leadership and motivation skills. (a topic we cover and discuss a lot in business) An inspiration of how he became a fantastic footballer (before my time) but made the step up to management especially with England in Italia 1990 and showed great resilience and determination after receiving negative reports from the press, later being successful with Newcastle as well as a host of other well known successful clubs and also managing some well known and high profile characters.

 

From your childhood what was your favourite game (playground or board-game) and why?

 

Football was always my favoured sport, however when the football was banned in the school playground I used to like playing Bulldog, I was never the quickest of runners so usually ended up on the side who had to catch people however, I used to enjoy the focus of having half the school running from one side of the yard to the other trying not to be caught out. It was quite chaotic but an interesting game. From a board game point of view I did like Monopoly and found the buying and selling of properties and making money quite exciting.

 

During the lockdown what have you been doing to stay active?

 

I have completed a few gardening tasks around the house to stay active including digging out a row of hedges, painting the back gate and shed.I have also been going on daily walks and playing football with my kids at the local field.

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