| Name |
Qualifications |
Position/Subject |
Career History |
|
Ms Fiona Curtis
|
B.ED (Honours), Geography from Oxford Brookes University, UK |
Head of Year Five
Year Five B Teacher
|
Ms Curtis taught in Years 3 and 4 as a Class Teacher and PE Coordinator at Holy Trinity School, UK from 1996 to 1999. She was then supply teaching in Australia from 2000 to 2001.
Ms Curtis was a Year 3 and 4 Teacher and PE Coordinator at Parkfield Primary School, UK from 2001 to 2002, before she joined Queenswell Junior School as a Year 4 and Teacher, Head of Year and PE Coordinator from 2002 to 2005.
From 2005 – 2006 she was the School Sports Coordinator for Barnet South, before joining JPS in 2006. |
|
Mr John Stapley
|
BSc (Hons) Geography from University of Derby,
PGCE, Luton, UK
|
Year Five A Teacher
|
Originally from Preston in the North West of England and after studying in Liverpool, Derby and Luton Mr Stapley began his teaching career in 1996 at a Junior School in Stevenage, England before moving to Dubai in 2000.
This is the second time Mr Stapley has joined JPS, having originally taught here from 2000-2007, in a variety of teaching positions including class teacher and Head of Year 4, as well as a specialist PE teacher. |
| Ms Leia Bremmer
|
BA (Honours) Primary QTS, University of Liverpool |
Year Five D Teacher
|
Ms Bremmer joined JPS in January 2009 and is currently teaching in Year 5.
Before joining JPS, Ms Bremmer taught in two different primary schools over the last 4 years in the UK, teaching years 2, 4 and 5. She is especially experienced in the use of ICT and assessment. |
| Mr Alexio Plymen
|
BA (Honours) Spanish and Music, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
PGCE, South Bank University, London, UK. |
Year Five C Teacher |
Mr Plymen began teaching at St. Mary’s Primary School, Swanley in 2006. He joined JPS in 2008 as a Music teacher, before becoming a Year 5 teacher in 2009.
Mr Plymen looks forward to another successful year in Year 5. |
|
Ms Juliette Smith
|
BSc (Honours) and PGCE, Exeter University |
Year Five E Teacher
Head of KS2 Maths
|
Ms Smith taught for two years at South Farnham School in Surrey. During her time there Ms Smith taught both Year 3 and Year 4 and was very involved in music, running both the school choir and orchestra.
Ms Smith joined JPS in 2007. |
|
Ms Gemma Birchall
|
BA (Hons) Geography, University of Liverpool
Cert Education , University of Hull
|
Year Five F Teacher |
Ms Birchall has been employed at Strand Community School in Lincolnshire, where she has been taking a year 6 class. She has experience of all year groups in Key Stage two.
Interests – sports, netball and the Scouting movement. |
|
Mrs Dawn El Masri
|
BA (Hons) in History at Swansea University
TEFL qualification at Anglo school, London, UK
Primary Certificate of Education at Oxford Brookes University in the U.K.
|
Head of Year Six
Year Six F Teacher
|
Mrs El Masri has taught for 10 years in Oxfordshire, mainly in Year 6, but also in Years 2,4, 5 and 7.
She started her career in an International school in Saudi Arabia where she taught all grades as a teacher before becoming the Arabic Culture teacher.
Her area of specialism is Literacy which she has co-ordinated for 6 years both in primary and secondary schools. Dawn has also co-ordinated Numeracy, History, Geography, MFL and The Arts, as well as being Lead Teacher for G&T. |
| Mrs Shelina Meghji
|
Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Secondary Level, Religious Studies, University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK
BA (Honours) Theology & Religious Studies with Education, University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK |
Year Six E Teacher
|
Mrs Meghji taught in the UK for four years prior to holding a position of supply teacher in JPS, teaching across all year groups.
Mrs Meghji joins JPS on a full time basis in September 2009.
|
| Ms Lisa-Marie Gwilliam
|
BA (ED) Art and Primary Education specialising in Ceramics, Textiles and Mathematics, Exeter University, UK |
Year Six B Teacher
|
From 2003-2007, Ms Gwilliam taught Year 3 and was the Head of Year 3 in the Kuwait English School.
From 2007, Ms Gwilliam taught Year 5 in the Kuwait English School and held the position of Coordinator of Art in Years 3-6. |
| Mr Neil Corrigan |
BA Joint Hons History and Physical Education/Sports Science, Newman University College, Birmingham
P.G.C.E, Newman University College, Birmingham
|
Year Six A Teacher
|
After university Mr Corrigan worked as a Year 6 teacher at Trinity, Church of England Primary School, Wolverhampton. Next, he spent seven years at Saint Vincent’s Catholic Primary School, Birmingham, where he was Numeracy Co-ordinator and phase Leader 7-11.
His first international post was at Al Khor International School, Qatar as a class teacher and has been there for the last two years. |
|
Mr James Oakden
|
BA (Hons) Computer Programming and Music |
Year Six D Teacher
Systems Data Leader |
This is Mr Oakden’s seventh year of teaching and his forth in Dubai. He has previously taught Years 2, 5 and 6. His subject specialities are ICT and music.
Prior to teaching, Mr Oakden was a Computer Programmer for nearly ten years. |
| Mr Jonathan Abel |
BA Hons English Literature/Language, University of Birmingham, UK
Certificate of Education – Kingston University, UK
|
Year Six C Teacher |
After university Mr Abel worked in a secondary school in Camberley, Surrey. Since then, he has been teaching a Year 5/6 class at Bisley Primary School, Surrey, where he was also the school’s Sport Co-ordinator.
He enjoys playing and watching most sports, with football being a particular passion. He also enjoys reading novels and is widely travelled. |
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