Our Staff
Vacancies
All to start in September 2008:
Principal Teacher required for 1 September next at Raheen Wood Steiner National School, a newly recognised Primary School implementing the Primary Curriculum through the Steiner Model of Education. The School has a proposed enrolment up to 87 pupils. Staff will include a Principal and two to three mainstream Class Teachers. Applications with curriculum vitae, a copy of qualifications and details of experience and referees to reach the Chairperson, Terry Twomey, Drummod, Bodyke, Broadford, Co. Clare, no later than 16th May 2008.
Primary Teachers (2/3 posts) required for 1 September next at Raheen Wood Steiner National School, a newly recognised Primary School implementing the Primary Curriculum through the Steiner Model of Education. Applications with curriculum vitae, a copy of qualifications and details of experience and referees to reach the Chairperson, Terry Twomey, Drummod, Bodyke, Broadford, Co. Clare, no later than 23rd May 2008.
Eurythmy Teacher for a 10 month contract (12 lessons per week; closing date 30th May 2008)
Applicants
need to be trained teachers who can demonstrate enthusiasm for and
commitment to the values and practice of Steiner Education. Ideally
they will have had a full Steiner Waldorf Education Training.
For further details and application form please contact Raheen Wood
School office, Raheen Road, Tuamgraney, Co. Clare, Ireland
Tel. 00353-61-921494 or email info@raheenwood.org
At Raheen Wood School there is an active partnership between teachers, parents and staff. The teachers are professionally and personally qualified to live up to the responsibility of meeting children's developmental and educational needs. The teachers consider themselves part of the learning community whose purpose it is to provide a high quality Steiner-based education for children in East Clare.
Kindergarten teachers work with children from 4 years to 7 years of age and this work is aimed at meeting the specific developmental needs of the child in this first seven years of life.
Class teachers will remain with their classes from Class 1 through to Class 7 when possible. The integrated curriculum and the educational approach is directed towards the developmental needs of the child between seven years and fourteen years of age.
Alan
Dickey takes
a combined Class 1/2 this year.
A native of County Antrim, Alan has a degree in English and French from
St Andrews University and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from
Queens University, Belfast. He taught for ten years in English
comprehensive schools, also teaching children with moderate learning
difficulties, before completing the Foundation year in Steiner
education at Raheen Wood, and taking his first class in 1999. That
class having graduated to secondary level in 2005, Alan took a
sabbatical year then came back to teach Class 1 last
year.
Gavin
Ferris
teaches Class 3 this year, having kindly offered to provide long term
sickness cover for Nell Smyth, whom we wish all the best for a speedy
recovery. Gavin returned to Ireland after completing a degree in
Waldorf Education at the University of Plymouth. Over the past 15 years
Gavin has worked in a number of educational settings catering for the
needs of a variety of differents groups and has worked as an actor,
community artist and drama therapist in both Ireland and the U.K.
Tatiana
Sibilia is our
Class 4 teacher. After gaining a teaching qualification in Italy,
Tatiana helped to set up an Ecological Education Initiative in a
community set in the remote Italian mountains. After much travelling,
she found herself in West Cork, where she worked in community drama
projects. Developing her story-telling expertise she ran workshops and
worked in National Schools before discovering “The Little
School”, as it was then called. She worked as Class 1/2
Teacher
there before joining Raheen Wood in 2004.
Sarah
Ford Elliott is
our
Class 5 teacher. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
University, with a B. A. in Theology, she completed her Post Graduate
Certificate in Education, and went on to teach in a large state
secondary school in Swindon. After a short spell as a computer
analyst/programmer, she has been a full-time mother to her four
(Steiner educated) children. Sarah completed the London
Waldorf Teacher Training Seminar and taught at the pioneering Raphael
Steiner School in Suffolk before joining Raheen Wood in 2003.
Paul Mahoney teaches
Class 6 this year. Paul taught a class at the school some years ago,
and trained as a Class Teacher at Emerson College, England. In his
spare time Paul is a keen musician, having been a professional drummer
before taking up his teaching career.
Marguerite
Devane has taught in the Kindergarten (An
Grianán group) since September 2001. She graduated from St.
Patrick's Training College, Dublin with a B. Ed. degree in 1987. In
1986 she took the Kindergarten Training Course at Wynstones
(Gloucestershire, England). She has experience in both National Schools
and Waldorf Schools.
Lucy Cox is the
Kindergarten
Teacher for the Cois Coille group. Lucy studied arts, textiles and
ceramics and drama at college. Her educational qualifications include a
Montessori AMI diploma (London), she has completed the three-year
Steiner Kindergarten teacher training course at Raheen Wood, and she
has many years' experience working with young children, having
co-founded four kindergartens in West Cork and run several after-school
and daycare projects.
Jonathan Angus
teaches Movement Lessons and Learning Support. After training at the
Rudolf Steiner College in California, Jonathan taught for six years in
Minnesota before becoming a Class Teacher at Raheen Wood for five
years. He is also co-director of the Steiner teacher training
programmes, based here in East Clare.
Mary-Jo Kennedy
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Lisa Bedford is our
handwork teacher.
She studied Textiles at Salisbury
Art College in the UK, and has many years' experience in handwork and
craft work as a parent of four children who have studied (and continue
to!) at Raheen Wood. Lisa spent a year as a full-time assistant to
Monica Hannaford, who recently retired.
Emma Small joins us this year as our specialist music teacher.
Ellen Baggs is our School Manager/Administrator.
Jim Benham is our Caretaker and Maintenance Manager.
Delma Howitt is our Finance Manager.
Bridget Kevill and Grace Burton run our After-School Care facility.