Teaching Staff

We are proud of the depth, range and expertise of our academic staff. With such a highly regarded reputation for excellence and experience, we have no trouble attracting the best teachers to work at St. Clare's. We employ over 45 permanent staff plus a large number of specialists in languages, sport, music and cultural classes. Teachers are selected for their academic qualifications and expertise, successful teaching experience and ability to relate to our international student community. Many of our staff are IB examiners and IB Teacher Workshop leaders.
Course Management
Vice Principal Pastoral - Susan Tawse BSc (Edinburgh) PGCE
Assistant Principal Pastoral - Tessa Ely
Vice Principal Academic - Cormack Kirby BA (Leeds) PGCE MEd (Bristol)
Assistant Principal Academic - Darrell Ross
Member of staff Subject
Skaiste Aleksandraviciute MSt (Oxon) Lithuanian
Rigmor Batsvik Cand. Mag. Adjunkt (Bergen)
BA (Oxford Brookes)
Norwegian
Nisha Bauluck BSc (Sussex) PGCE (Sussex) Mathematics
Turan Baysal BA (Selcuk) Turkish
Suso Blanco Licenciado CAP Postgrado Literatura Comparada (Santiago de Compostela) Spanish
Olga Borymchuk DPhil (Oxon) PGCE (Open University) Ukranian
Vicky Bullard MA PGCE (Oxon) English Language
Alice Caldock BA (Strathclyde) PGCE (Strathclyde)
QTS
English B
David Chaplin BA (Carmarthen) TOK
Ludmilla Checkley Diplom Mod Lang (Pyatigorsk) Russian
Clifford Culbert BSc (Kingston) PGCE (Oxford
Brookes)
Physics
Ricardo Da Silva Esteves PGCE (Cambridge)
Maitrise LEA
Spanish and French
Ismailj Dauti BSc (Kosovo) Albanian
Matthew Dolan BSc PGCE (Bath) Chemistry and TOK
Jing Ping Fan MSc (Leeds Metropolitan) BA (Central
China Normal University) PGCE (London)
Chinese
Angelica Galea Post Graduate Diploma (Royal
College of Music)
Cello
Ian Gill BSc (Bristol) PGCE (Lancaster) Chemistry
Christos Halkiopoulos MSc (London) Psychology
Roni Hameiri-Bowen BA PGCE (Tel Aviv) MBA
(Open University UK)
Economics; Business and Management
Julia Hammett MA (Dundee) PGCE DTEFLA English
Keiko Harada BA MA (Osaka) MA (Kent) MA (SOAS) Japanese
David Harris BSc MEd (Bristol) PGCE (Manchester) Mathematics
Gye Sang Jeon MA (Buchon, Korea) MPhil (Oxon)
BA
(Seoul, Korea)
Korean
Sarah Jinks BSc (Warwick) PGCE (Oxon) Biology; Chemistry
Nadia Jones MSc (Romania) Mathematics
Marzena Kochanska BA (Leeds) PGCE TESOL
(London)
Director of English Language
Julia Koch-Cullum MA (Frankfurt am Main) PGCE
(Oxon)
German
Marina Kujic BA(Sarajevo) PGCE (Strathclyde) MSc (Paisley) Serbian
Monika Kulikowska MA (Olsztyn, Poland) Mathematics
Kicki Lurcock BA (Abo Akademi) MA (Oxford
Brookes)
English / Swedish
Stephen Marshall BSc PGCE (Newcastle) Geography; Environmental Systems and Societies
Melanie Martindale BA (John Moores Liverpool)
MA (London) PGCE (London)
Geography; Environmental Systems and Societies
Alina Nachescu BA (University Timisoara, Romania) Romanian
Jana McNab BA (Czech Republic) PGDip (Anglia
Ruskin University)
Czech
Carola Percival BA PGCE (Reading) German
Teodora Petranova MA (Sofia) Bulgarian TOK
Marilou Polymeropoulou DPhil (Oxon) MA (Athens)
MA (London) BA (Athens)
TOK
John Rolfe MA PGCE (London) Visual Art TOK
Denise Saunderson MEd (Bristol) BSc (Southampton) Head of Physics
Paul Sinclair MA (St Andrews) MA (Washington) US university education adviser
Victoria Staveley BA (Newfoundland) TOK
Susan Tawse BSc (Edinburgh) PGCE Mathematics
Jennifer Taylor Italian MA (University of Turin) Italian
Lisbeth Asp Tickell MA (Aalborg University) Danish
Ulf-Wedig van der Osten MA (Hohenheim)
PGCE (London)
Economics and Business
Jos Vos MA (Kent) BA (Oxon) BA (Leuven) Dutch TOK
Jadwiga Wanelik Magister Filologii (Krakow) Polish
Victoria Watson BA (London) Maitrise (Avignon)
LTCL Dip TEFL/TESOL PGCE (Canterbury)
English
Mark Watts BA (Liverpool) PGCE (Warwick) Economics; Business and Management
Jennifer Wirth MA (Phoenix) BA (Minnesota) Mathematics TOK
John Woodings PGCE (Canterbury) BA (Sheffield) English
Christine Yeomans BA (Pontificia Universidad Catolica
De Chile) Advanced Certificate in Educational
Management (Leicester) MA (London)
History
Andrew Young BA PGCE (London) History
David Zakarian PGDip (Hellenic Republic Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Greek
Activities Staff
Head of Activities - Kevin Hennessy BA HDipEd HDip Heritage Management (Cork) MEd (Oxford Brookes)
CAS Coordinator - Rebecca Pyrah BA PGCE (Leeds Metropolitan)
Activities Teacher - Vicky Hahn-Hennessy BA (Wales) TESOL