Our People

Gabby Brennan

Gabby Brennan

Head of School

If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.

- Rudolf Steiner

Sonya Mordaunt

Primary School Learning Co-Ordinator

Sonya Mordaunt

Toshi Komatsu

Waldorf education is not a pedagogical system but an art - the art of awakening what is actually there within the human being.

- Rudolf Steiner

Early Childhood Steiner Education Leader

Toshi Komatsu

畏敬の念を持って受け入れ
Receive the children in reverence
愛を持って育て
Educate them in love
自由へと解き放つ
Send them forth in freedom

- Rudolf Steiner

Early Childhood staff

Kelli Lavelle – Playgroup Leader

Oriel Da Silva - Playgroup Leader and Kindergarten Trainee

Tanya Carmody – Gnarri Kindergarten Teacher

Leanne Freestone – Gnarri Kindergarten Assistant

Toshi Komatsu – Jerringup Kindergarten Teacher

Jenny Bradshaw – Jerringup Kindergarten Assistant

Lisa Anderson – Prep Teacher

Lisa Hunwick – Prep Assistant

Primary School teachers

Amy Murphy – Class 1 Teacher

Cassandra Thieme – Class 1 Assistant

Elle Hopton - Class 2 Teacher

Lisa Bianchi– Class 3 Teacher

Julia Dean – Class 4 Teacher

Amy Ingles – Class 5 Teacher

Rachel Bowen – Class 6 Teacher

Hand holding sprig of lavender

Specialists

Louise Brown – Cello Tutor

Mickey O’Donnell - Violin Tutor

Lucy O’Grady – Singing

Katey McRae – Craft Teacher

Yasushi Hayashi – Japanese Teacher

Lee Eastgate– Library

Mary Rose Coleman – Farming

Kelli Lavelle – Gardening

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Student Wellbeing

Adele Calvert

Adele Calvert

Early Childhood Education Leader

Oliver Fabinyi

Ollie Fabinyi

Wellbeing Support and Team Leader

Sam Brock

Academic Support and Compliance

Early Childhood Student Support

Jenny Bradshaw - Jerringup Kinder Assistant

Leanne Freestone - Gnarri Kinder Assistant

Oriel Da Silva - Trainee Kinder Assistant

Lisa Hunwick - Prep Assistant

Primary School Student Support

Cassandra Thieme - Class 1 Assistant

Maureen Cromer - Class 2 Aide

Lee Eastgate- Class 3 Aide

Odette Downey-Boogaard - Class 4/5 Aide

Emily Galang

Emily Galang

Business Manager

Administration Staff

Leanne Mirams – Enrolments and Admin Manager

Kelli Lavelle - Playgroup and Kindergarten Enrolment Coordinator

Mandy Toohey – Administration Assistant

Sarah Olliff – Operations Manager

Peter Shanhun – Cleaning and Maintenance

The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

- Rudolf Steiner

Casey Tutungi

Casey Tutungi 

School Council Chair 

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

- Rudolf Steiner

Council Members

Mark Kilinski  – Treasurer

Vanessa Como - Member

Jennifer Ma - Member