Crewkerne blogger Victoria Welton took to her site, vevivos.com, to pay tribute to Mr Carter...

YESTERDAY I heard that the head teacher at (my daughter) Grace’s former school had died.

He was a lovely man who leaves behind a wife and four children and I am guessing he was around my age or a bit younger.

Apparently he had suffered a heart attack on the school premises after school hours and the ambulance crew couldn’t revive him.

Grace had her first swimming lesson after school and when we came past the school on our way home at around 6.30pm, I saw an ambulance at St Bartholomews with its lights flashing.

I asked Grace if they had after school activities and we discussed that maybe one of the footballers had injured themselves.

Nothing more serious than that.

Many of the children at Grace’s current school had attended St Bartholomews and in their assembly their head teacher told them the sad news.

There were tears from many of the children and they all had fond memories to share.

Grace had tears in her eyes and we had a really good cud- dle before her bedtime.

I had a huge amount of respect for who he was and how he ran the school.

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He was such a personable man who used to stand at the school gates both in the morning and afternoon and greet all the children by name.

I was always so impressed that he had taken the time to get to know every single one.

Whenever either Ross or I contacted him via email, he was always very efficient at getting back to us and answering our questions.

He had time for people.

He would always get involved in dressing up for themed days and regularly made balloon animals as a gift for children who had done well as well as making them at the school fetes.

He used to arrange lots of great surprises for the kids.

The first Christmas Grace was at the school, he had arranged for Father Christmas to arrive by helicopter.

It was a really impressive feat.

He took great delight in getting involved in the photo booth I ran for the Leavers Party last year and, when Grace left, I knew that he would be one of the members of staff that we would miss.

The school was understandably closed. I really feel for all the children who knew him.

He was one of the good ‘uns, and will be sadly missed.