Birralee International School Trondheim

Staff 2009-2010

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.

Office Administrator

speaks:
English
Norwegian
Netherlandic
(German)

admin@birralee.no

Mrs Laila Bogue

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 Rosemary Talbot

Mrs Talbot has been with our school since the beginning in 1974, when she was responsible for setting up the Infant Department. She has been a teacher in our Infant Department for over 30 years. She also held the post of Deputy Head for 28 years. Her main interests lie in the teaching of early reading and writing. She has a Teaching Degree from the University of London. Mrs. Talbot is also a member of the ECIS Accreditation team, in which she evaluates and accredits schools in Europe and the Middle East.

Class Teacher Year 1t

speaks:
English
Norwegian

Mrs Linda Sund

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 sixth year at Birralee.

Class Teacher Year 1s

speaks:
English
Norwegian

L.Sund@birralee.no

Ms Hege Solbakken

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

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 third year at Birralee

Class Teacher Year 4

speaks:
English
Norwegian

a.utstrand@birralee.no

Ms Emily Coates

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. For the past two years she worked as a teacher in Cologne, Germany.

Class Teacher Year 5

speaks:
English

e.coates@birralee.no

Mrs Petrouschka Murphy

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 6

speaks:
English
French
Norwegian
(Japanese)

p.murphy@birralee.no

Mrs Elin Hitchman

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

Mrs Paulette Andersen

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

Ms Natalia González

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.

Class Teacher Year 9

speaks:
English
Spanish

n.gonzalez@birralee.no

Mr Morten Oddvik

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 10/11

speaks:
English
Norwegian
Italian
German

m.oddvik@birralee.no

Mrs Robin Morehouse

Mrs. Morehouse received her Bachelor of Health Education from the University of Arizona and her Master's of Education from the University of Texas in Austin.

Gym, Home economics and Science Teacher in the Middle School

speaks:
English

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

Mrs Mari-Ana Jones

speaks:
English

vice.principal
@birralee.no

Mrs Laura Braun

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.

Maths Teacher

speaks:
English
Norwegian

l.braun@birralee.no

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

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

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
(Biswahili)

ict@birralee.no

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

Mr Edward Goulding

Mr Goulding was born and raised in the UK and spent one year working in Australia. Mr. Goulding is also teaching English Conversation Courses with the Folkeuniversitet in Trondheim.

Classroom Assistant
Playclub Assistant

speaks:
English
(Norwegian)

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)

Ms Tanya Heywood

Ms Haywood has a bachelor of Arts in Drama. Before joining Birralee in 2006 she worked at the Canadian International School in Singapore. Ms Heywoord also has a Cambridge CELTA certificate in Teaching English as a second language.

Classroom Assistant

speaks:
English
Norwegian

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

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)

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