Our Community

We have a diverse community of pupils, parents and staff supporting the School and its students in many ways. We seek to help our wider communities to which we have social and moral responsibilities. This happens through charitable giving and through the community activities we support. Community involvement in school life makes for a closer partnership in the realisation of our common aims.

Our Students

Our Staff

Our Governors

Our Alumni

Our Staff

​Great teachers make a difference to children's lives. They make them feel secure and happy at school, they inspire them to learn, and our teachers get involved in all sorts of events and activities. BISC teachers are educated to a high standard; most specialists hold higher degrees or are members of professional institutes. All have professional teaching qualifications and are screened for safeguarding purposes.

Whole School Senior Leadership Team

Daniel Dorran

Principal
​ 

Mr Dorran holds a Degree in Chemistry and a Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College Dublin, as well as an MSC in Educational Leadership from Leicester University.
​He has been at BISC for 18 years, having previously taught in Brazil.

​Mona El Fawal

Business Manager

Dr Alia El Mahdi

 Head of Arabic and Middle Eastern programME

Dr. Alia holds a Ph.D. as a 
Professor of Economics, in the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at
Cairo University.
She leads our Egypt and Middle East Programme across the school.

Frances Baxter

ACTING Head of Senior School

Ms Baxter holds a Batchelor's degree in Geography and a PGCE from the University of Nottingham. Before arriving at BISC, she taught in Malaysia, Peru and the UK.

Eileen Fisher

HEAD OF JUNIOR SCHOOL

Ms Fisher holds an English Degree from Chichester University. Before joining BISC, she was the Founding Head at Craigclowan Xi'an School in China, and the Head of Prep at Ipswich High School in the UK.

Margaret Cashman

HEAD OF FOUNDATION STAGE

Ms Cashman holds a  degree and PGCE from the University of Roehampton, and a Master's Degree in Early Years Education. She has taught at BISC for 15 years, and has also worked in London and the UAE.

Dr. Timothy Lynch

Deputy​ HEAD OF JUNIOR SCHOOL

Dr. Lynch holds two Bachelor degrees, two Master degrees and is a Doctor of Education. He has taught in Australia, England, Qatar and Brunei, with his teaching and expertise acknowledged by Monash University, University of Plymouth, Universiti of Brunei Darussalam, UK Civil Service, British Forces and UNESCO.

Kathryn Nutbeem

Deputy Head
(WHOLE SCHOOL)
​Teaching & Professional Development

Ms Nutbeem holds a degree in English Literature from Queen Mary Westfield College, University of London, and a PGCE from Canterbury Christchurch University. She has taught at BISC for seven years, having previously worked in the UK.

Navida Bukhari

Assistant HEAD OF JUNIOR
Pastoral

Ms Bukhari holds a degree in Biomedical Science, and has taught at BISC for 9 years since arriving from the UK.

Emma Paget

Assistant HEAD OF JUNIOR
Teaching & Learning

Ms Paget holds a degree in Business Studies from The Open University, with a PGCE and a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Bath.
​She has taught at BISC for the last 10 years.

Sarah Fuschillo

Assistant Head of Senior
​LEARNING & ACADEMIC

Ms Fuschillo holds a degree in Biological Sciences from Portsmouth University and a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Leicester. She has taught at BISC for 12 years.

Kari Ellis

Assistant HEAD OF SeNIOR
PASTORAL

Ms Ellis holds two Batchelor degrees and a Master's Degree from New York State University. She has previously taught in Poland, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Turkey, Bahrain, Malaysia and Trinidad.

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Junior School Leadership Team

Name	​Position
Eileen Fisher	Head of Junior School
Timothy Lynch	Deputy Head of Junior School
Navida Bukhari	Assistant Head - Pastoral
Emma Paget	Assistant Head - Teaching & Learning
Kay Faraz	Key Stage 1 Coordinator (Years 1-2) and Head of Year 2
Ali Issa	​Key Stage 2 Coordinator (Years 3-6) and Head of Year 3

Junior School Heads of House

Name	Position
Helen Foley	Head of House Air
Jane Godfrey	Head of House Earth
Akif Yaqub	Head of House Fire
Anne Tiernan	Head of House Water

Foundation Stage and Junior School Teaching Staff

Name
FS1	o
Margaret Cashman	Head of Foundation Stage
Lauren Fellows	Foundation Stage Coordinator ​head of Year FS2
Ryah Younis Carol Bracey	Head of Year FS1 Foundation Stage Teacher
FS2	0
Jane Godfrey	Class Teacher
Lorraine Stevens	Class Teacher
Hayley Starrs	Class Teacher
Year 1	0
Racha Elanani	Head of Year 1
Niamh McNamara	Class Teacher
Amanda Harvey	Class Teacher
Year 2	0
Kay Faraz	Head of Year 2
Lydia Sinnerton-Carter	​Class Teacher
Jenny Minnow	Class Teacher
Keith Bailey	Class Teacher
Year 3	0
Ali Issa	Head of Year 3
Sinead Kelly	​Class Teacher
Shaunna McKenna	Class Teacher
Lisa Dooijeweerd	Class Teacher
Year 4	0
Abigail Thatcher	Head of Year 4
Andrew Williams	Class Teacher
Harvey Ellerby	Class Teacher
Year 5	0
Gary Scholes	Head of Year 5
Mimi Jhugroo	Class Teacher
James Gilkison	Class Teacher
Yann O'Connell	Class Teacher
Year 6	0
Sara Farag	Head of Year 6
Justin Banton-Smith	Class Teacher
Callum Watt	Class Teacher
Katie Miah	Class Teacher

Senior School Leadership Team

Name	Position
Frances Baxter​​	​​​Acting Head of Senior School
Kathryn Nutbeem	​Deputy Head Teaching & Professional Development
​Sarah Fuschillo	​Assistant Head Learning & Academic Intervention
​Kari Ellis	​Assistant Head Pastoral
Edward Baxter	Director of Sixth Form and IB Coordinator​​​
Zeeshan Raza	​​Director of Careers and Higher Education

Senior School Heads of Year

Name	Position
Francesca Turner	Head of Year 7
Darcy Walker	Head of Year 8
Colin Tabram	Head of Year 9
Kathrine Ellicott	Head of Year 10
Gordon Holder	Head of Year 11
Mariam Ayad Noha Gaafar	Head of Year - Sixth Form ​​Assistant Director of Sixth Form - Pastoral

Senior School Teaching Staff

Name​	Position
Arabic	​
Riman Nimer	Director of Arabic
AbdelAzim Hamza ​Mohamed El Desoki Mohamed Sobhy	Teacher of Arabic ​Teacher of Egyptian History ​Teacher of Egyptian History
Mohamed Elgharabawy	Teacher of Arabic
Seoudi Darwish	Assistant Head of Arabic Department
Mohamed Ramadan Christine Yanni ​Heba Eltouny	Teacher of Arabic Teacher of Arabic ​Teacher of Arabic
Art	​
Janie Wheeler	Head of Art
Emma Fravigar	Teacher of Art
Lara Adly	Teacher of Art
​Business & Economics	​
Khadak Gurung	Head of Business & Economics
Colin Tabram	Teacher of Business & Economics
Deepa Shahi	Teacher of Business & Economics
Wasif Khan	Teacher of Business & Economics
Zeeshan Raza	Teacher of Business & Economics
Mariam Ayad	Teacher of Business & Economics
Computing	​
Rashed Miah	Head of Computing Department
Ahmad Roomee	Teacher of Computing
Drama	​
Jo-anne Richardson	Head of Drama
Kathrine Ellicott	Teacher of Drama
​Jo Eyres	Teacher of Drama
English	​
Sarah Estebanez Caroline Smith ​Caitlin Quinn	Head of English Assistant Head of English ​Assistant Head of English
Kathryn Nutbeem	Teacher of English
Anne Tiernan	Teacher of English
Hannah Tweedly	Teacher of English
Emma Taylor	Teacher of English
Noha Gaafar	Teacher of English
Jaine Dutton	Teacher of English
Trudy Jenkinson	​Teacher of English
Geography	​
Mark Stimpson	Head of Geography
Edward Baxter	Teacher of Geography
Frances Baxter	Teacher of Geography
Ryan Carter	Teacher of Geography
​Effie Pollatos	Teacher of Geography​
History	​
Huw Bradbury	Head of History
​Francesca Turner	Teacher of History
​Kari Ellis ​James Rogers	​Teacher of History ​​Teacher of History​
Mathematics	​
​Kathryn Pelham	Head of Mathematics​​
​Hafiz Hamid	​Teacher of Mathematics
​​Matthew Soulby	Assistant Head of Mathematics
​​Tariq Tariq	Teacher of Mathematics
Felicity Katsaitis	Teacher of Mathematics
Isabelle Dalzell	Teacher of Mathematics
​Melanie Pallister	Teacher of Mathematics
Iain Pearson	Teacher of Mathematics​
​​Modern Foreign Languages	​
​​Candice Jouffrai	​​Head of Modern Foreign Languages
​Dounia Sabil	Teacher of Foreign Modern Languages
Alice Diamond	Spanish Coordinator
​​​Mickaella Abelli	​Teacher of Foreign Modern Languages
Elena Gonzales Reyes	Teacher of Foreign Modern Languages
Lily McConnell Jonathan Gresse	​Teacher of Foreign Modern Languages ​Teacher of Foreign Modern Languages​​​
Music	​
Julie Clarke	Head of Music​​
Shaun Bracey	​Teacher of Music​
​​Physical Education	​
​Obi Arabi	​Director of Sports
Tia McNicol	Head of Physical Education (SS)​​​
​​Helen Foley	​Head of Physical Education (JS)
​Akif Yaqub	​​Teacher of Physical Education
​Chris Roberts	​​Teacher of Physical Education
​​Darcy Walker	​Teacher of Physical Education
Gordon Holder	​Teacher of Physical Education ​
​Tia McNicol ​Kieran Walsh	Teacher of Physical Education ​Teacher of Physical Education​
Science	​
​​Matthew Bowen	​​​Head of Science
Jacqueline Byers	​Teacher of Science
​​Dan Dorran	​​Teacher of Science
Denis Kuszynski	​Teacher of Science
​John Henry Sagun	​Second in Science Department
​​Matthew Kizintas	Assistant Head of Science
Roxanne Christer-Thomas	Teacher of Science
Rana El Tohamy	Teacher of Science
​Sarah Elrify	Teacher of Science
Sarah Fuschillo	Teacher of Science
​​Psychology	​
Karima Marei	Teacher of Psychology

Margaret Cashman	Head of Foundation Stage
Lauren Fellows	Foundation Stage Coordinator