Early Years

Sau Wan Gin

Sau Wan Gin

B.Ed, EYPS

Sau Wan graduated from Birmingham City University with degrees in Early Years and Early Childhood Education. She has experience working with children of all ages across the Early Years Foundation Stage and has taught in well resourced and diverse nursery schools in the UK. Sau Wan has also had the opportunity to work alongside multiple agencies in Sure Start children’s centres, supporting, educating and leading play with young children and families in the community. She has taught internationally for a number of years, and prior to moving to BISS Puxi, Sau Wan taught Nursery and Reception classes at our sister school in Beijing, Sanlitun. 

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Therese Faerestrand

Therese is a qualified Early Years teacher from Norway. She has been working at BISS Puxi since 2018 and has thoroughly enjoyed every minute of her time here. In 2008, Therese graduated from Volda University majoring in Early Years Education. Before relocating to China in 2015, she worked as an Early Years teacher in Denmark between 2008 and 2015.

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Rachel Wynne

Rachel Wynne

BEd Primary Education

Rachel has been a classroom teacher for ten years, since qualifying from the University of Gloucestershire with a BEd Degree in Primary Education. She started teaching in a multi-cultural area of Birmingham, where she taught Year 1. After a time teaching in Uganda, she moved to Bristol to teach a Nursery and then, a Pre-Nursery class. The Early Years settings in which she taught in were one Bristol's outstanding schools. 

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Maddison O’Beirne

Whilst studying performing arts in Sheffield, Maddison volunteered to work with young children, delivering drama-based workshops in schools. After graduating, she completed her PGCE at Birmingham University and went on to teach in Key Stage 2, in inner city Birmingham, where she was also Curriculum Leader and responsible for staff training and creating exciting topics. Maddison then taught in Reception at the British School of Beijing, taking part in the Nord Anglia ‘Change Project’ and helping to create a muddy kitchen and green area for the children in EYFS. Maddison then moved to Bangkok in 2017, again teaching in Reception and also as the Phonics Leader. Finally, for the last 2 years, she worked for educational publishers Twinkl, creating blogs and content for parents.

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Francesca Wai

Francesca Wai

BA (Hons)

After studying for four years at Leeds Beckett University, Francesca graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Primary Education, fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming a teacher. Having spent three years teaching in Years 4 and 5, and becoming a PSHE Co-Ordinator, Francesca decided to pursue her ambition of teaching internationally. In 2018, Francesca made the move to Shanghai, where she taught a wonderful class of Reception aged children, in an international pre-school. Here, she developed a passion for working with much younger children and furthered her understanding of the importance of the EYFS.

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Kelly Glover

Kelly Glover

BA, PGCE(i)

Having completed a BA (English) with majors in Psychology and Linguistics, Kelly was originally interested in pursuing a career in research. After voluntary work at BISS Puxi in 2016, however, Kelly fell in love with the idea of teaching. Deciding to make Shanghai her permanent home the same year, she has since worked at the school gaining invaluable experience across EYFS and KS2. Having originally worked as a 1:1 learning support teacher focusing on social and behavioural development, Kelly later focused on academic interventions with children. Being a person who loves change, though, Kelly decided that after two and a half years she was ready for a fresh start: she completed her Postgraduate Certificate in International Education through the University of Nottingham, and transferred to class teacher.

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Alfred Creissen

Alfred Creissen

BA (Hons), PGCE, MA

Alfred has been studying and working in Early Years and Key Stage 1 for the past ten years. Having completed his degree in Early Childhood Education the UK, he took up the post of nursery teacher at NAIS Pudong. After a successful post in Shanghai, he joined the NAE school in Warsaw, Poland, as a nursery teacher and Early Years Coordinator. This role gave Alfred a greater understanding of how children learn through the different stages, whilst allowing him to develop his leadership skills. After his time in Warsaw, Alfred took on the role of reception teacher and High Performance Learning Leader at The British School of Guangzhou. 

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Ryan King

Ryan King

BSc (HON), PGCE

Before venturing to BISS Puxi in the summer of 2019, Ryan had spent the previous ten years in England working predominantly in the Early Years sector across a number of different primary schools, two local authorities, NHS, Sure Start and private childcare providers. In 2019 he decided to challenge himself to apply his experiences and expertise to entirely new cultures and ways of life. 

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