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 Education Leader

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 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

Adele Calvert– Gnarri Kindergarten Teacher

Leanne Freestone – Gnarri Kindergarten Assistant

Toshi Komatsu – Jerringup Kindergarten Teacher

Aiucha Fonseca Almeida – Jerringup Kindergarten Assistant

Lisa Anderson – Prep Teacher

Kathleen (Kat) Abella – Prep Assistant

Primary School teachers

Rachel Bowen – Class 1 Teacher

Amy Murphy - Class 2 Teacher

Elle Hopton – Class 3 Teacher

Lisa Bianchi – Class 4 Teacher

Julia Dean – Class 5 Teacher

Bettina Atwill – Class 6 Teacher

Hand holding sprig of lavender

Specialists

Louise Brown – Cello Tutor

Ben Ackerley - Violin Tutor

Lucy O’Grady – Singing

Katey McRae – Craft Teacher

Yasushi Hayashi – Japanese Teacher

Lee Eastgate– Library

Mary Rose Coleman – Farming

Kelli Lavelle – Gardening

Cello line drawing

Student Wellbeing

Adele Calvert

Early Childhood Student Support

Aiucha Fonseca Almeida - Jerringup Kinder Assistant

Leanne Freestone - Gnarri Kinder Assistant

Oriel Da Silva - Trainee Kinder Assistant

Kathleen (Kat) - Prep Assistant

Early Childhood Education Leader

Lauren Hickey

Student Support Team Leader
Student Wellbeing Coordinator

Tim Goodwin

Primary School Student Support

Cassandra Thieme - Class 1 Assistant

Emily Clark - Class 2 Assistant

Eve Mordern - Class 3 Assistant

Maureen Cromer - Classes 4 and 5 Assistant

Odette Downey-Boogaard - Class 6 Assistant

Academic Support Teacher

Emily Galang

Administration Staff

Leanne Mirams – Enrolments and Admin Manager

Kelli Lavelle - Playgroup and Kindergarten Enrolment Coordinator

Mandy Toohey – Administration Assistant /Accounts

Sarah Olliff – Operations Manager

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

- Rudolf Steiner

Emily Galang

Business Manager

Casey Tutungi

Casey Tutungi 

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

School Council Chair

Council Members

Matthew Duran  – Treasurer

Vanessa Como - Secretary (Acting)

Jennifer Ma - Member