5 Things About Me

1. I am a National Leader of Education

2. I LOVE the children at Primrose Hill

3. I like going on holidays

4. I can play the piano

5. I like Madonna

5 Things About Me:

1 – 3. I love to read, write and listen to Music

4. I enjoy playing badminton

5. I like jogging in the park

5 Things About Me:

1. I love Maths
2. I’m half Welsh
3. Bruce Springsteen is my favourite person
4. I enjoy going to the cinema
5. I like taking photos

5 Things About Me:

1. My mother’s father was a Spanish refugee, a pianist exiled by Franco after the Spanish Civil War.
2. My father’s father was a nomadic cattle hurdler who settled in Gambia, one of the smallest countries in Africa, where my family still live.
3. My mother’s love of Kora music brought her to the Gambia, where she met my father (I recommend the Kora album New Ancient Strings by Toumani Diabaté if you are interested in hearing this beautiful instrument played by a virtuoso).
4. In case you didn’t guess already, I am interested in genealogy and journeys.
5. I also love music, reading, days out with my 2 daughters, evenings in with my husband, and all things Primrose Hill School.

Designated Lead for Safeguarding / Looked After Children & Responsibility for Prevent Duty

5 Things About Me:

1. My dad was Spanish.

2. I adore dogs and have two, Roxy and Lulu.

3. I think I have the best job in the world because of the fabulous children and staff at Primrose Hill School!
4. I love reading a good thriller (preferably while lazing on a sunny beach).
5. I always wished I had learnt to dance the Argentinian Tango.

5 Things About Me:

1. I have been working at PH for 11 years & I love working with the children, staff & parents
2. I can speak Arabic
3. I love travelling, especially to hot places
4. I play basketball
5. I was born in Nigeria, grew up in Australia, am Lebanese and have a French name!

5 Things About Me:

1. I think blood oranges are the greatest food on the planet.
2.  like all things tropical. Electric blue and pineapples make me particularly happy.
3. I studied art at university and I’m happiest when covered in paint.
4. Before teaching, I worked on photo shoots and fashion shows… I think children are way more fun to work with than models.
5. I found maths so hard when I was in school that it used to make me cry… but now it’s my favourite subject to teach!

5 Things About Me

1. I love travelling and I’ve travelled to 18 different countries! The most obscure being Vanuatu, where I first discovered a love for teaching.

2. I’m an astangi, this means I practice astanga yoga 5 times a week, bright and early in the morning before starting work. If I’ve not been to yoga in the morning, you might find that I’m less balanced than usual.

3. I love literature, but my favourite genre is poetry. If I could teach every lesson through poetry I would.

4. I also love maths! I find it incredibly fun and enabling. It’s something we use everyday, sometimes without even knowing it.

5. I’ve got a large family, 5 siblings in total which includes my twin sister, no we’re not identical. However,I do have a younger sister that people say looks very much like me, she’s also a primary school teacher in Camden!

5 Things About Me:

1. I love reading…a lot! My favourite story is Matilda.

2. Justin Timberlake once touched my hand. Best day ever.

3. I could eat my Grandmother’s Yorkshire Puddings and gravy everyday.

4. I can’t drive.

5. Mireille and I have been on lots of holidays together. She is the best travel buddy.

5 Things About Me:

1. I love my job, and feel very lucky to be part of the wonderful team at Primrose Hill.

2. I grew up on a farm in the Forest of Dean and I’m very proud to be a farmer’s daughter.

3. I am very scared of fish, especially carp.

4. I love cats. I have two have two at home called Milk and Karen (my class helped me name them).

5. A long time ago, I was a climbing and kayaking instructor.

5 Things About Me:

1: I have taken flying lessons and been parachuting despite my fear of heights, both were amazing fun.

2: I am the youngest in my family. My sister is a nurse and my two brothers are also teachers (I started the trend).

3: I enjoy keeping an eye on emerging technologies and breakthroughs in science, people can be so clever!

4: Although I miss all that I left behind in Australia, working at Primrose with the children and team is worth it.

5: I try everyday

5 Things About Me:

1 I live for cheese. Any kind – squidgy, hard, mild or stinky. I just love it!
2 I once did a loop-the-loop in a tiny aircraft – and then had to fly the plane myself! Thankfully, we all survived…
3 I’ve lived in Camden all my life (except for a few years in Scotland and Russia)
4 My dream travel destination is anywhere with plenty of jungles and beaches to explore.
5 My favourite books are the Harry Potter series. I grew up with Harry, Ron and Hermione and am still utterly transported every time I pick up a copy.

5 Things About Me:

1. I always wanted to be a famous actress… and still haven’t given up hope.
2. My favourite food is lasagne (but only if it has crispy cheese on top!) and tiramisu. Yum!
3. I love hot, sunny holidays.
4. When I was little my dream was to be a bridesmaid… I even made my own dress in the hope someone would let me be one!
5. I’m allergic to horses, ponies and donkeys. This may be a problem if I ever do become a famous actress and need to ride a horse but is not so much of a problem whilst I’m still a teacher in Primrose Hill!

5 Things About Me:

1. I love Maths
2. I’m half Welsh
3. Bruce Springsteen is my favourite person
4. I enjoy going to the cinema
5. I like taking photos

5 things about me:

1. I am from a very small town in New Zealand called Whakaoriori. It is a beautiful place, located right beside the Tararua Ranges.

2. One of my favourite hobbies is Reading!! One of my favourite books (I have so many!) is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.

3. My goal is to travel to 30 different countries by the time I reach the age of 30!

4. On one of my many adventures, I went on a hot air balloon ride over Cappadocia in Turkey.

5. My favourite animal is a giraffe! Have you seen them run??

5 Things About Me

1. Before I was married my name was Maria Pretty
2. I used to be a fashion designer before I became a teacher
3. I have a chocolate brown Cocker Spaniel called Milly
4. When I was travelling In Australia I made a music video and did a bungee jump
5. I like cooking for friends and family

The five things about me:

1. I love reading and drawing
2. I was born in Brazil
3. I have lived in Camden since I was six
4. I love love love coffee
5. I am allergic to pineapple

5 Things About Me:

1. I was born in Southwark and on the front of my house was a big plaque, which marked where the Shakespeare’ s Globe Theatre had stood.

It is now on the rebuilt theatre, on Bankside.

2. When I was 4 and a half, I went to Richard Cobden School  I have always lived in Camden.  I get to see many of the children I have taught in the past.  The oldest ones are about 38 years old now. And taller…

3. Some of my favourite things are travelling, history, geography, reading and dogs. I applied to work at our school because we often passed it on the way to walk our dogs in the Park. I always wanted to work in a Victorian building! I can’t wait for the Canal Classroom!

4 I applied to work at our school because we often passed it on the way to walk our dogs in the Park.​Primrose Hill School has been “home” for 28 years. I have only been teaching for 38 years. (I was supposed to be a vet…)

5. Sadly, I don’t eat sweets.

5 things about me

1) I love roller coasters!

2) I speak fluent Arabic.

3) I love the sea and swimming.

4) I enjoy baking.

5) I would love to sky dive someday.

5 Things About Me:

1. Before becoming a teacher I was a real life Indiana Jones, I’ve worked on archeological sites all around the world.

2. I once went cage diving with great white sharks, went skydiving and did the world’s highest bungee jump all in the same week!

3. I think teaching runs in my blood as both my parents were teachers.

4. I competed in both national and international Taekwondo competitions while at university.

5. If I could have a super power it would be teleportation- I love visiting new places but I’m not a big fan of the travelling part.​

5 Things About Me:

1. My mum and dad came to England from India in 1961. I have two brothers and two sisters.

2. I love reading especially history books. My mum was a teacher but it was my dad who taught me how to read using newspaper reports about Don Revie’ s infamous Leeds United team.

3. I play the guitar badly. I was once in an infamous Midlands band called the Gotham City Rebels. Somehow, we got to support some great bands despite being musically inept.

4. When I’m not teaching, I love to sculpt. As well as meeting some brilliant sculpture teachers, I was incredibly luck to meet my wife Lucy on a sculpture course at the City Lit.

5. I would love to be able to sail, dance the tango and play flamenco guitar – not all at once!

5 Things About Me

1. I have lived in Paris and love the French language and culture, especially food!

2. I have been a Leicester City football fanatic since the age of seven and never imagined that I would see us win the Premier League.

3. I collect brooches and can normally be found wearing a different one each day.

4. I am a member of London Zoo and frequently spend my weekends visiting my animal friends, particularly the sloths and tapirs.

5. Reading a book is my favourite way to spend a day.

5 Things About Me:

1. I have a Schnauzer called Fritz who is awesome.
2. I love my bike and have cycled over 20,000 miles on it in the last 3 years.
3. My favourite book is The BFG – my teacher first read it to me when I was in Year three.
4. I’m going to learn to ski.
5. I think there’s nothing better than being in the great outdoors. Outside is free.

Five Things About Me

1. I love to read! I studied English at university and I love nothing more than getting stuck into a good book at the weekend.

2. I would eat chocolate all day every day if I could.

3. I absolutely adore dogs. I can’t wait to have one of my own!

4. My favourite place to be is the beach. I would love to live beside the sea one day.

5. I was born in Camden but haven’t lived here since I was little. I grew up in the countryside but I love living in London again.

5 Things about me
1. I’ve got freckles
2. I love swimming
3. My favourite food is noodles
4. I have two lovely girls
5. I can speak Spanish

5 Things About Me:

1. Summer – I love hot weather and long lazy days on a beach

2. I love family get togethers, especially with my children

3. I love a good movie – recent favourites The Revenant and The Dressmaker

4. A passion for food – eating not cooking!

5. A love on dancing

5 Things About Me:

1. My favourite artist is Frida Khalo. David Bowie and Kate Bush also inspired me artistically.

2. I enjoyed reading Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton and CS Lewis Books.

3. Growing up, I loved spending time with my 4 Germans Shepherd Dogs:  Woody, Dougal, Bruno and Lassie!

4. Whilst a Art School I did an exchange to Barcelona for 3 months. I ended up staying for a year. It is still my favourite city.

5.  I’m a huge fan of the Muppet Show, especially Miss Piggy….”Moi!”

5 Things About Me:

1. I love cooking. Korean food is my favourite to eat and cook, especially Kimchi

2. I love making craft things – sewing, crochet, patchwork, scrapbooking, cardmaking, calligraphy and adult colouring books.  This makes me happy and relaxed.

3. I absolutely love babies.  There is nothing better than a cuddly little one to make my day!

4. I love travelling

5. I love music and thriller movies.

5 Things About Me:

1. I was born in Croydon, Surrey

2.My childhood dream was to be a teacher

3. My first job was a shorthand typist to surveyors.

4. I have three grown-up boys, one daughter and four grandchildren

5. I am fun and inspiring.

5 Things About Me

1. I always thought I would be either a football player or a PE teacher.
2. I love my trainers collection
3. I went to the World Cup in Brazil for one month
4. I used to attend primrose hill as a child
5. I’m really scared of heights.

5 Things About Me:

1. I always wanted to be a famous actress… and still haven’t given up hope.
2. My favourite food is lasagne (but only if it has crispy cheese on top!) and tiramisu. Yum!
3. I love hot, sunny holidays.
4. When I was little my dream was to be a bridesmaid… I even made my own dress in the hope someone would let me be one!
5. I’m allergic to horses, ponies and donkeys. This may be a problem if I ever do become a famous actress and need to ride a horse but is not so much of a problem whilst I’m still a teacher in Primrose Hill!

5 Things About Me:

1. I started work as a Learning Mentor

2. My daughter came to the school – she’s now a secondary teacher!

3. I like a grand get together with friends and family – great conversation, witty banker and a good vintage essential!

4. I can’t live without music – soul, classical, funk, jazz etc

5. The two R’s – reading and radio!

5 Things About Me:

1. Music has always been a part of my life since I was in Primary School!

2. I am interested in getting children hooked on music from an early age

3. I enjoy seeing children being creative with music and them express their ideas

4. You may find me sailing in Norfolk when I’m not playing music

5…..or walking back home in the fields of Lincolnshire

5 Things About Me:

1. I believe passionately in Picasso’s statement that ‘every child is an artist’.
2. I am excited to be part of such a vibrant artistic community at Primrose Hill.
3. I enjoy seeing on a daily basis how art promotes creative thinking, builds confidence and can be an emotional outlet for children.
4. As a born and bred Londoner, I feel lucky that we have such an amazing array of art to see and experience – often for free. At Primrose Hill it is all on our doorstep.
5. My mission is to inspire and help shape young minds in the most positive and creative way that I can.

5 things About Me:
1. I absolutely love tennis!
2. I love trying all kinds of food from around the world
3. I enjoy going on holiday
4. I wish I could go skiing more often (have only been once and loved it)
5. I am a very big fan of all animals. My top three favourites are dolphins, polar bears and crocodiles.

5 Things About Me:

1) I love spending time with my gorgeous grandchildren.
2) Holidays abroad are a must!
3) I can shop, shop, shop till I drop.
4) Socialising with friends is always FUN
5) I am a workaholic to fund my shopping habit/ addiction.

1. I am a father of three and my eldest daughter will be a doctor soon

2. I was an ex Merchant Marine Officer and travelled over 50 countries

3. I can speak in five different languages and always happy to help

4. Loves travelling, eating and play chasing game with the children and DIY

5. I have worked at this school for over twelve years and didn’t even realised how fast the time has passed!

5 Things About Me:

1. I believe “I can’t” doesn’t exist.

2. Every child is unique and has the right to learn.

3. I believe children learn best if they feel happy and safe whether it’s emotionally, physically or socially.

4. Children need to be taught to their needs so that they can feel capable and successful.

5. Every child should develop love and respect for themselves, others and their environment.

5 Things About Me

1. I am hate free, love added smart and smiley person

2. I enjoy taking some time daily for self-reflection.

3. I am active, organised and motivated to keep making positive changes in my life.

4. I am trilingual and love reading books about international relations.

5. I love teaching children and learning from children

Five things about me:

1. I grew up in a very small village close to Madrid.

2. Wherever my family is that´s my home.

3. Best moment in life, “siesta”  time on summer holidays.

4. I love cooking and even more eating.

5. Sunday roast just as good as “paella del domingo”.

5 Things About Me

1.      I come from Poland but I have lived in London since 2005.

2.      I have a son called Stefan 🙂

3.      I love going on holidays and exploring the world!

4.      Taking photos is my hobby.

5.      I like all types of fruits and veg.

5 Things About Me:

1. I love travelling around and learning about new cultures.

2. Music is a very important part of my life.

3. I value honesty above almost every other virtue.

4. I am fascinated by forensic science.

5. I am a Human Rights fighter and I never give up.

5 Things About Me:

1. I am passionate about teaching and children’s wellbeing.

2. It gives me a great pleasure being (working)in a school with children that are eager to learn and achieve more.

3. I think that teaching is a journey where I keep always learning and building on what I already know.

4. I connect with children and feel a great sense of accomplishment in helping them achieve and enjoy their time in school.
5. I believe that working with children is enlightening,interesting and challenging as well.

5 Things About Me

1. I have three beautiful daughters

2. I love drama and music

3.  I enjoy traveling

4.  Celine Dion is my idol

5.  My favorite treat is chocolate

5 Things About Me:

1. I believe that Honesty is the BEST policy
2. I’ve got Serbian surname and it means bug face (face of a bug)
3. Philippines are the most awesome people I’ve met in London
4. I love Old & Classic cars
5. I love Cheese.

Five things about me

1 love spending time with family and friends

2 I am “Made in Taiwan”

3 love food

4 love traveling

5 Enjoy walking through the woods

5 Things About Me:

1 Mother of two big boys Fisnik and Altin

2 I love reading books, my favourite author is Ismail Kadare an Albanian writer

3 I am a qualified nurse in Kosovo

4 Summer is my favourite season

5 I love Adele

5 Things About Me:

1. I come from Kosovo where I was a qualified Biology Teacher

2. I love listening to music and enjoy eating good food

3. Helping others makes me happy

4. I like new challenges

5. I love my family and my life

5 Things About Me:

1. I enjoy travelling

2. I love music and dancing

3. I speak Turkish

4. I love good food

5. I have a dog named Tigger

5 Things About Me:

I adore cats – I share my home with three of the funniest cats ever:  Booboo, Charlie & Bear

2. I am a vegetarian; would love to be a vegan but I can’t say no to cheese!

3. My favourite band is Muse.  They totally rock!

4. I love walking. I walk everywhere. It totally relaxes my mind.

5. My favourite author and illustrator is Shaun Tan – Tales from Outer Suburbia.

5 Things About Me:

1. My favourite author is Simon Kernick

2. I love to dance

3. I can speak 3 languages

4. I love to drive especially through Europe

5. You can never have too many handbags!

Five Things About Me

1) I speak fluent Romanian.
2) I love blues music and I am totally obsessed with Joe Bonamassa.
3) I have a cat who thinks it’s a dog – loves playing fetch and chases her tail.
4) I like doing DIY, the drill is my favourite tool and I find painting and decorating relaxing.
5) I have Zipped a 1 km zip wire across Whistler Mountain (Canada) at a height of 600 feet and a max speed of 100km/h!

5 Things About Me

1.  I love to discover new places and meet new people.

2.  Piri Piri chicken.

3.  Working with the children at Primrose Hill.

4.  History.

5.  My family and our dog Angel.

5 Things About Me:

1. I have two daughters – Lily (9) and Ruby (4)

2. I love spending time with friends and family

3. I enjoy reading and listening to music

4. I love travelling

5. I have worked at Primrose Hill for 6 years

5 Things About Me:

1. I have worked at Primrose Hill for 6 Years

2. I enjoy going to the cinema – most recent film ‘How to be Single’

3. I love family holidays abroad and in Kent

4. I like going to restaurants and eating good food!

5. I like socialising with friends, dancing and having fun!

5 Things About Me:

1 Enjoying a relaxing holiday
2 Watching football, favourite team is Arsenal
3 Spending time with family and friends
4 Watching movies, a favourite of mine is Forest Gump

5 Treating myself to a well earned take-away, Chinese is my favourite

5 Things About Me:

1.I love to travel and explore new places.
2. One of my favourite pastimes is hiking in the countryside.
3. I enjoy watching sunsets.
4. I like practising yoga.
5. I love living in Camden and working with the children at Primrose Hill.

Five Things About Me:

1. I love family events which I tend to organise. I Always like to complete anything I start – no matter how hard it may be.

2. I enjoy music and love dancing.

3. I like to be around positive, happy people and having a good laugh….(it makes me happy).

4. I love visiting places of interest & travelling.

5. Once I put a cup of tea on my bed without looking….thinking it was my mobile phone……(messy!)

5 Things About Me:

1) My Family is my world

2) I believed that with hard work and dedication everything is possible.

3) Hotel California is my all time favourite song but I am a Madonna Fan.

4) I like Turkish food.

5) I think that the staff and children in Primrose Hill School are awesome.

5 Things About Me:

1. I was a finalist in the All England Tap dance championships at our very own Cecil Sharpe House ( many many moons ago! I was about 12! )

2. I Was born in Spain but have an American passport! Try and work that one out!

3.  I once performed with Lulu and Ernie Wise in the West End!

4. I have a burning desire to take up Argentine Tango!

5. My very favourite place to be is by the Great British Seaside!

5 Things About Me:

1. I love walking, swimming and reading

2. I love working at Primrose Hill because it is fulfilling

3.  I’m thinking about getting a new dog!

4. Every year I enjoy going on School Journey

5. I enjoy going out with my friends

5 Things About Me:

1. I am interested in Science and Ancient History

2. I prefer Summer even though I like skiing

3. I like to dance

4. I love travelling and taking pictures

5. I enjoy spending time with my family

5 Things About Me:

1. I am Italian and I come from a fascinating island!

2. I love Archeology

3. I used to be a tourist guide on a prehistoric site.

4. I was a folk dancer.

5. I love cooking home cooked food with my two daughters.

5 Things About Me:

• I love meeting new people, making friends and having a great laugh!
• My new hobbies include sewing and dress making! Although I love anything to do with IT!
• I’m very time efficient! Have to be organised!
• Working with children is a blessing! You learn so much with them!
• I wish I was a little bit taller! Y6’s are taller than me!

5 Things About Me:

1. I originate from a beautiful island in the Caribbean Sea

2. Smiles and warm greetings are a natural way of life

3. I bring that same ethos into Primrose Hill Primary School

4. I love fitness especially zumba and swimming

5. I enjoy extending my knowledge through studying

1. I am Portuguese but was born and bred in London.

2. Going on holiday is my favorite thing to do.

3. I wish i could dance but my two left feet don’t allow me to.

4. I am very hard working.

5. Sunny days are my favorite kind.

5 Things About Me:

1. I studied International Marketing at University but realised working with children was my passion.

2.  Music is a big influence in my everyday life.

3. My favourite subject in school was HISTORY .

4. I Love travelling and learning about people, cultures and respecting everyone differences.

5. I strongly believe that we all should be treated equally.

5 Things About Me:

1 – I love smiling.
2 -I love supporting children’s learning.
3 -I enjoy reading

4 -I am a very happy Brazilian!!

5 – I can speak 4 languages.

5 Things About Me

1.) I am a very hard working person
2.) I am very organised
3.) I am caring
4.) I am experienced with children
5.) I am trust worthy

5 Things About Me:

1. I am Kosovan and I can speak 3 languages

2. I am a Qualified Physicist and I love science

3. I love traveling with my family

4. Enjoy eating sea food

5.  I can’t ride a bike

5 Things About Me:

1) I love spending time with my gorgeous grandchildren.
2) Holidays abroad are a must!
3) I can shop, shop, shop till I drop.
4) Socialising with friends is always FUN
5) I am a workaholic to fund my shopping habit/ addiction.

5 things about me!

1. I studied Photography at University and absolutely loved it!
2. My family is from Kosova
3. I would love to travel to South America and get a real sense of culture!
4. You can also find me listening to music (can’t seem to get enough of it)
5. I love working with children and I am looking to get my teaching degree by 2020!

5 Things About Me:

1. I’ve lived near the school for nearly 30 years.

2. I like all kinds of flying machines and I’m a qualified pilot

3. Japanese food is my favourite

4. Most of my weekends are spent in Sheffield

5. I am a passionate photographer

5 Things About Me

1. I am a National Leader of Education

2. I LOVE the children at Primrose Hill

3. I like going on holidays

4. I can play the piano

5. I like Madonna

Five things about me

1) I’m proud mum of five beautiful children four girls and one boy.

2) I enjoy cooking specially for family gathering.

3) I love meeting new people.

4) I can’t swimm but would love to learn one day

5)I love coming to primrose hill school it feels like one big family.

5 things about me:

1.  I grew up in Derbyshire and Devon, but have lived in Camden since I finished university, 12 years ago.

2.  I have two lovely children:  a little boy and a little girl.  They – and my wife – keep me smiling.

3.  I love the sea.  Swimming in it, looking at it, listening to it.

4.  I’m an avid traveller.  Of the places I’ve been to, India is my favourite.  Egypt is the place I’d most like to visit. I’ve always wanted to drive all the way across Africa in a Land Rover…

5.  If I can’t travel, I love to read.  Usually to be transported to different places or different times.

5 Things About Me

1 – I have three kids and one stepson, all of whom are lovely. My youngest is at Primrose Hill.

2 – I enjoy woodwork and, amongst other things, have made picture frames, toy boxes and shelves.

3 – I love Northumberland and we go there nearly every summer on holiday.

4 – I did a Maths degree and PhD and have worked as an engineer ever since.

5 – I enjoy cooking and am trying to make the perfect biryani.

Five things about me.

1) I’m an American, born in Phoenix lived in New York City.

2) In another life, if talent was measured by interest, I would be a poet.

3) I bought a one-way ticket to London nearly four years ago and fell in love with my life again; I believe in taking risks.

4) I love brains! I recently earned my doctorate in educational neuroscience.

5) My favorite movie is Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan

5 Things About Me:

1. My favourite author is Simon Kernick

2. I love to dance

3. I can speak 3 languages

4. I love to drive especially through Europe

5. You can never have too many handbags!

5 Things About Me:

1.     I was born and raised in Sheffield but have lived in London for six years now

2.     Science was my favourite subject at school – I studied Chemistry at university

3.     Music was a big part of my life growing up and I can play the piano and cello

4.     I have Jamaican and Gambian roots on my mother’s side of the family

5.     I love cycling

Five Things About Me

1. I have three gorgeous children and a very lovely husband. We live in Camden which we love, but when we get a free weekend we run away to the country to be by the sea.
2. Travelling is my passion, I love going everywhere and anywhere, and now travelling as a family is even more brilliant.
3. I used to play county level tennis and when I was thirteen I beat Jo Durie.
4. I can play the William Tell overture on my teeth.
5. My motto in life is to keep my glass half full and always smile, and the world will smile with you.

5 Things About Me:

1. I am the mother of boy-girl twins.

2. Writing is my passion and I’m a published author.

3. Growing up, in Australia and then England, I was sent to almost every kind of school under the sun (and then rain).

4. I’ve always worked for human rights, so I love that Primrose Hill cares about teaching them to kids.

5, I’m the governor responsible for special educational needs and disabilities. I also chair the Curriculum & Pupil Welfare Committee.

5 Things About Me:

1. My mother’s father was a Spanish refugee, a pianist exiled by Franco after the Spanish Civil War.
2. My father’s father was a nomadic cattle hurdler who settled in Gambia, one of the smallest countries in Africa, where my family still live.
3. My mother’s love of Kora music brought her to the Gambia, where she met my father (I recommend the Kora album New Ancient Strings by Toumani Diabaté if you are interested in hearing this beautiful instrument played by a virtuoso).
4. In case you didn’t guess already, I am interested in genealogy and journeys.
5. I also love music, reading, days out with my 2 daughters, evenings in with my husband, and all things Primrose Hill School.

5 Things About Me:

1 – I love all things Italian – I even lived there for a few years.

2 – I cycle everywhere.

3 -I love films: The Hobbit, Harry Potter, Madagascar and Despicable Me series are all current favourites.

4 -I’m a community researcher: I like finding out what people think.

5 -I have travelled all over the world.