Staff 2010-2011

 

Mrs Trude Farstad


Mrs Farstad has lived and worked in education in England, USA, France and The Netherlands. She has a teaching degree from Norway and has been at Birralee since 1990. Together with Mrs Talbot and Mrs Buller she held many courses for Norwegian teachers about teaching English to young children.

Principal

speaks:
English
Norwegian
French
(German)
(Spanish)

principal@birralee.no

Mrs Mari-Ana Jones

Mrs Jones has a Bachelor in History from the University of York, Great Britain, and a teaching degree from the University of Exeter. Before joining Birralee in the summer of 2007, she was a teacher and the Head of the History department of a Middle School in Britain.


Vice Principal


speaks:

English



vice.principal
@birralee.no


 

Mr Wilco Vanderkaaden

 


Mr Vanderkaaden joined Birralee in 2003. He has since then worked as a classroom assistant and playclub leader. Before moving to Norway he worked for ABN AMRO Bank in the Netherlands and India. Mr Vanderkaaden has a Master in Social History from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has a teaching qualification from NTNU, Trondheim.

Office Administrator


speaks:
English
Norwegian
Netherlandic
(German)

admin@birralee.no

 
 
Mrs Laila Bogue
 
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Mrs Bogue started her Teacher Training in Norway and finished her studies in Washington, USA. Her specialties are in Advanced Teaching Strategies, Literacy K- 12, and teaching children with mild disabilities.

Class Teacher Reception Class



speaks:

English
Norwegian



L.Bogue@birralee.no

Mrs Kelly Borsick

 


Mrs Borsick has a Master of Science in Education from the University of Michigan.

More information to follow.

Class Teacher Year 1b

speaks:
English
(Norwegian)

 
Mrs Linda Sund
 
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Mrs Sund has lived in Norway and in the United States, where she was a junior football trainer. She obtained her Teaching Degree from Høgskolen in Nord-Trøndelag. She has been involved in several big theatre productions with and for children. This is Mrs Sund's seventh year at Birralee.

Class Teacher Year 1s


speaks:

English
Norwegian



L.Sund@birralee.no

Ms Hege Solbakken

 

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Ms Solbakken finished her Master of Education in New York. She has experience as an elemtary school classroom assistant and teacher in the United States. This is Ms Solbakken's second year at Birralee.


Class Teacher Year 2



speaks:

English
Norwegian



h.solbakken@birralee.no

Mr Stefan Baumann

 


Mr Baumann has experience from Primary Schools in Germany and Norway. This is Mr Baumann's second year at Birralee.


Class Teacher Year 3



speaks:
English
Norwegian
German


s.baumann@birralee.no

Ms Anne Utstrand

 

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Ms Utstrand was born and raised in Norway but has spent 3 years living in the United States while she worked on her Bachelor Degree in Education from the University of North Dakota. This is Ms Utstrand's fourth year at Birralee

Class Teacher Year 4



speaks:
English
Norwegian



a.utstrand@birralee.no

Mrs Petrouschka Murphy

 

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Mrs. Murphy is from Montreal, Canada and has been teaching since 1994. Before joining us at Birralee in 2004 she worked at the International School in Bergen. Prior to coming to Norway her love for travel brought her to Japan, France and Bolivia where she worked as a teacher.

Class Teacher Year 5


speaks:

English
French
Norwegian
(Japanese)

p.murphy@birralee.no

Ms Emily Coates

 

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Miss Coates was born in England and trained as a teacher for 4 years at Lancaster University with a specialism in English Language and Literature. Before joining Birralee in 2008 she worked as a teacher in Cologne, Germany.


Class Teacher Year 6


speaks
:
English


e.coates@birralee.no

Mrs Paulette Andersen

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Mrs Andersen has a Bachelor of Arts from John Hopkins University in the USA and a Master of Science from the University of Bergen. She has teaching degree from NTNU. Mrs Andersen is an experienced teacher at the Primary and Middle School level.

Class Teacher Year 7


speaks:

English
Norwegian


p.andersen@birralee.no


Mrs Elin Hitchman
 
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Mrs Hitchman has a Bachelor in Language and Literature from NTNU in Trondheim, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and a partial MA in Education from the University of Winchester in England. She has taught in England, Norway and also at the British Section of an International School in Belgium. 

Class Teacher Year 8

speaks:
English
Norwegian
(French)
(German)


e.hitchman@birralee.no

 

 

Mr Pedro Santos de Mesquita

 





Mr Santos was born in Portugal and has lived in the UK for 10 years. He has his teaching degree from Portsmouth in the UK.


Class Teacher Year 9


speaks:

English
(Norwegian)


p.santos@birralee.no

Mrs Abigail Stacey

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Mrs Stacey has a Bachelor in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from Oxford Brooke's University. She has teaching experience from both the United States and Great Britain.

Class Teacher Year 10


speaks:

English
Norwegian
Italian
German

m.stacey@birralee.no

   

Mr Morten Oddvik

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Mr Oddvik has a Bachelor in Languages and Literature from the University of Tromsø and a Teaching Degree from NTNU. Mr Oddvik took part of his studies in Maryland, USA and he has worked as a teacher in Japan and Italy.

Class Teacher Year 11


speaks:

English
Norwegian
Italian
German

m.oddvik@birralee.no

Mrs Jean Steen

 


Mrs Steen has travelled widely and has lived and taught in France, Australia, Fiji and Mozambique. She has been associated with Birralee for many years and has been back permanently since 1992. She particularly enjoys poetry and creative writing.

Support Teacher


speaks:

English
Norwegian
Swedish
(French)
(Portugese)

Mrs Inger Loe
 



Mrs Loe has a Bachelor in Music from HINT in Nord-Trøndelag and a teaching degree from NTNU. Before returning to Trondheim, Mrs Loe was the English and Music teacher at a Montessori school.

Music Teacher, School Choir Conductor
Norwegian Language Teacher

speaks:

English
Norwegian



i.loe@birralee.no
Mr Alistair Sunde


Mr. Sunde was born and raised in Kenya. He has a Master of Science in Marine Engineering from NTH. He obtained his teaching degree at NTNU Trondheim.


Maths, Science, Design and Technoglogy,
Computer Teacher


speaks:
English
Norwegian
(Kiswahili)



a.sunde@birralee.no

Mrs Laura Braun

 

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Mrs Braun has a Bachelor Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison
and a partial masters in Deaf Education from Western Maryland College.  She has been teaching since 1996.  Her specialties are Math, Science, and Computer Science. Mrs. Braun is fluent in Amercian Sign Language.

Mrs Braun is on a one-year leave.



speaks:
English
Norwegian






Mrs Synne Agersborg

 





Mrs Agersborg has lived both in Norway and the United States. She has a teaching degree from HINT Levanger and has been working with us since 2000 teaching Norwegian.


Norwegian Language Teacher




speaks:

English
Norwegian


s.agersborg
@birralee.no

Mrs Anne Pernille Flatås




Mrs Flatås has her teaching degree from Hist. This is Mrs Flåtas fourth year at Birralee.



Music & Norwegian Langue Teacher in the Primary School.

speaks:
English
Norwegian



a.flatas@birralee.no

Ms Natalia González

 

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Ms González has lived in London for eleven years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and worked at an International School in Spain before moving to Trondheim.


Spanish Language Teacher


speaks:

English
Spanish

n.gonzalez@birralee.no

 

 

 
Mrs Katie Kulseng
 



More information to follow.




Art Teacher


speaks:

English
(Norwegian)

Ms Kirsti Hassel

 

 

More information to follow.

Norwegian Language Teacher


speaks:

English
Norwegian


Ms Therese Ulvan
 



More information to follow.




Music Teacher

speaks:

English
Norwegian

Mrs Marit Hartberg

 

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More information to follow.

 

Norwegian Language Teacher


speaks:

English
Spanish

m.hartberg@birralee.no

Ms Emily Wall
 



Ms Wall comes from New Zealand and has an honours degree in English literature. Prior to working at Birralee she worked as a librarian for a community library in New Zealand.


Classroom Assistant

speaks:

English
Mrs Robin Conway
 



Mrs. Conway was born in the United States and has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Mexico, USA.  She has traveled widely and has worked with people from many countries.

Classroom Assistant

speaks:

English
Norwegian
Mrs Margaret Colton
 
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Mrs Colton worked for many years in the British social services with children and young people with social, emotional or behaviour challenges. She has also worked in learning support and served as a school governor.

Special Needs Assistant

speaks:
English
(Norwegian)
 
Mrs Katja Bärwald
 



Ms Bärwald has many years of experience in international education. Before joining us at Birralee in 2005, she worked as an assistant teacher in Great Britain.

Classroom Assistant
Early Morning Club Assistant


speaks:

English
Norwegian
German

Mrs Amanda Fayant
 



Mrs Fayant is from Canada. She has a Bachelor of
Fine Arts from the University of Regina in Saskatchewan.




Classroom Assistant

speaks:

English
(Norwegian)
 
Mrs Silke Leisman
 



More information to follow.



speaks:

English
German

 
Ms Piascik Wioletta
 



More information to follow.


speaks:

English
Norwegian

 
Ms Irene Marquez
 



More information to follow.



speaks:

English
Spanish
Norwegian

 
Ms Staci Amdahl
 



More information to follow.


speaks:

English
Norwegian

 
Mrs Jean Readhead
 



More information to follow.



speaks:

English

 

 

 

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