Teaching Staff

Sarah Rogers BA (Hons) with Cert. of Education B. Philosophy MA in Education

Sarah has been teaching in primary schools for over 20 years and teaches the Diploma and MQSCS courses and oversees all other courses. She has extensive experience of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and The British National Curriculum, teaching both in the UK and overseas. Sarah has worked with teaching assistants both as a partnership in the classroom and in her role as Deputy Head.  Sarah has lead extensive in-service courses both to teachers and teaching assistants in different schools and nurseries and is lead tutor for early years courses.

Clare Napper B.Ed

Clare has been teaching in primary schools for over 15 years. She has been a class teacher working in both in Key Stage One and Key Stage Two. More recently she has been teaching in the area of Special Educational Needs/ Learning Support. In her role she has worked across the Foundation Stage, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two, leading a small team of specialist teaching assistants, working with primary class teachers to support different learning needs in the classroom. Clare teaches on the Level 1 and Level 2 courses.

Karen Burns B.Ed (Hons)

Karen has been a specialist teacher for physical education, working across the primary and early years. Her initial degree was gained in Scotland and Karen worked as a peripatetic PE teacher across 12 primary schools in the Lothian region. She has also spent some of her career as a primary class teacher, working both in the UK and overseas in different settings. Karen has recently been responsible for writing an early years PE programme to cover children’s developing physical needs. She has an interest in special needs and how physical development can support other areas of a child’s holistic development. 

Clair Watson B.Ed (Hons)

Clair has taught in many settings, from running a nursery in Kenya to working in primary schools in the UAE and has worked extensively with local education providers, as an Early Years advisor, to help to train their teachers to provide a more interactive curriculum. She has led INSET on a range of courses both here in the UAE and overseas, with her particular interests being in planning and assessment. Clair is a qualified First Aid trainer, a PADI trainer and swimming teacher, a Montessori teacher and has also done trained in TEFL course.

Anna Mitchell BA (Hons) PGCE Educational Kinesiology

Anna Mitchell is a qualified teacher and has had 20 years experience of teaching music in the classroom to all age ranges (foundation stage to ‘A’ level). She has taught in both primary and secondary schools in the UK and in international schools abroad. Her most recent position has been as Head of Music in one of the outstanding primary schools in Dubai. She is committed to the ethos of “music for all” and through her teaching her main focus is to foster an enthusiasm for music that will stay with pupils for life.

Whilst teaching music she discovered the Brain Gym® Programme. She pursued her studies in this area and is now a certified Educational Kinesiologist, Brain Gym Instructor and a professional member of the Educational Kinesiology Foundation.

Amanda Savory B.Ed.

Amanda has had extensive experience of running both Early Years and Primary departments in the UK and overseas. She has a wealth of knowledge in all areas of the curriculum with a special interest in working with Teaching Assistants and developing their professional standards. Amanda has worked all over the Gulf training Teaching Assistants on a variety of courses such as Supporting the Numeracy strategy, Supporting the Literacy Strategy, How Children learn, effective displays.