SINGING tutor Judith Briscall is showing her pupils that even teachers never stop learning.

Just as her private pupils' latest exam results were coming through, Judith got her own results, to add more sets of letters to her name.

Judith, 40, of Skipton Road, Trawden, studied part-time for a year at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, on a professional development course for instrumental and singing teachers and gained the Teaching Certificate of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

As she already has a BA (Hons) in music, the new certificate makes her eligible for a Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music, pending successful completion of a qualifying exam.

Judith also entered a separate exam - a professional-level diploma in singing performance, accompanied by Burnley pianist Joanna Porter - to become a Licentiate of Trinity College, London.

Judith, married with a daughter, said: "It was hard work fitting everything in, but it was worthwhile professionally and for my own satisfaction."

A teacher at Nelson and Colne College and at Giggleswick School, Judith is well known in the amateur theatre and appears with Burnley Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Pendle Opera and Colne Operatic Society.

Her pupils' results from the Associated Board's exams were: Janet Garrod (grade 8 merit); Ella Kirkpatrick (grade 7 pass); Kathryn Turnham (grade 7 pass); Gemma McCaigue (grade 5 distinction); Rebekah Lawson (grade 5 merit); Abigail Calland (grade 1, merit).

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