A school in Chelsea was paid a very special visit when the ‘world’s best teacher’ came to speak to pupils and teachers.

Nancie Atwell popped into Hampshire School in Manresa Road on November 11 to give tips and advice and share her knowledge.

In March this year she was announced the winner of the Varkey Foundation (US)$1 million Global Teacher Prize, widely referred to as the Noble Prize for teaching, and given her award by President Bill Clinton.

She donated the prize money to the school she founded, the Center for Teaching and Learning, in Maine.

Addressing the independent co-education preparatory day school for girls and boys aged three to 13 years, Nancie said: “If I had influence beyond my dreams, I’d direct the educational decision-makers of the world to pay attention to literacy scholarship, focus on comprehension, and bring children’s literature from the periphery of reading instruction to the foreground: to put wonderful stories front and centre.”