Ronald Stones OBE
Director of Schools
Ronald Stones OBE
Ronald hails from Britain, but has been resident in South-East Asia for thirty years. His entire career has been spent in education. He led three of the region’s prestigious international schools – Tanglin Trust School, British International School Jakarta and British School Manila.
He also spearheaded the development of a new paradigm in education which changed the distribution of prosperity in the developing world. Ronald has been awarded several honorary positions, including Fellowship of RSA and recognition by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II for services to education.
Eugene Low
Principal
Eugene Low
Eugene is an experienced international educator who had held various school leadership and academic leadership positions in both Singapore and overseas schools. In his various roles, Eugene had been directly involved in school administration and operations, student pastoral care, professional development of teachers, mentorship and appraisal of educators, curriculum development, implementation and review, and preparing school communities for external accreditation.
For the last 15 years, Eugene actively represents Fieldwork Education and the International Baccalaureate (IB) Asia Pacific region in providing school consultancy, accreditation and teacher training services for schools in the Asia Pacific region – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, China (including Macau and Hong Kong), Australia and New Zealand.
After 22 years, Eugene remains passionate about children’s education and believes that the focus of education should be on developing future-ready, internationally-mindedness, culturally-sensitive, environmentally-conscious and self-aware learners who can positively impact the world we live in. His future-focused educational philosophy, called Cre8tors-in-Action©️truly represents what he believes to be important in a child’s development.
As an active adult trainer, Eugene enjoys challenging adult learners to examine their own mindsets and biases, understand their own strengths and challenges, to reflect on, extend and innovate on their own practices, and to build sustainable practices for impacting quality learning.
In his free time, Eugene enjoys spending time with his two young sons, sketching and dooling, building LEGO sets, food, singing, swimming, gardening, walks in nature, movies, cars, furniture, design and architecture. He is fluent in Chinese and hopes to learn Japanese in the near future
Academic Faculty
Angelia Pelawi
Class / Language Teacher (AEL)
Angelia Pelawi
Angelia has been working in education field for last 12 years. She most recently worked at a large international school in Singapore and was also a regular teacher at the holiday camp programmes run by the school.
Angelia is highly experienced in supporting young English language learners to thrive in international schools. Her training include a Master’s degree in education from Concordia University, U.S. and she is licensed as an elementary teacher. Angelia truly believes children are unique and active learners that need a safe and loving environment to develop. As an educator, Angelia strive to create a happy and meaningful learning experience for the students.
As a mother of two school-age children, she also values the importance of work-life balance.
Iris Low
Class Teacher
Iris Low
Iris Low is passionate about children’s education and their development of character and confidence. She believes that every child is unique and that the education experiences of a child will cast a lasting impact in their later years and therefore, requires careful attention.
Iris has a PGDE qualification, specialising in Early Childhood. In the last 6 years she was based in Hong Kong, and had the privilege to work as a class teacher with multilingual learners and in schools with different philosophies, curriculums, learning environments and cultures. Through her teaching, she aspires to instil in learners independent thinking, imagination, and building good character traits that will benefit them into the future.
Iris believes in living a well-balanced life. She derives great satisfaction by committing her time to social projects where she can help build others up and help them grow their unique identities. Travelling and creative cooking are how Iris recharges and finds inspiration.
Kenneth Gimpayan
Class / Language Teacher (AEL)
Kenneth Gimpayan
Kenneth has always believed in the magic of language and has made a career out teaching English and other languages since 2007. After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in English, he has worked in schools in the Philippines and Vietnam, teaching a wide range of learners from children to adults.
In Singapore, Kenneth has trained many Early Childhood educators in areas such as Writing and Presentation Skills. He obtained his Teaching License in the Philippines in 2016 and currently, he is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Language and Literacy.
When not teaching, he enjoys doing various things such as reading about philosophy and writing poetry. Such activities are reflected in one of his haikus: One day, wondering. Did God make beautiful things? Or beautiful minds?
Serena Yeoh
Class / Specialist Teacher (PSPE)
Serena Yeoh
Serena started her teaching career as a primary school teacher since 2008 after graduating from National Institute of Education, Singapore where she majored in Physical Education and English. Her teaching careers also included teaching at the Polytechnic with the School of Sports Health and Leisure as well as an adjunct lecturer with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
As an ex national athlete, Serena is also a rugby coach since 1998 where she coached rugby to kids age ranging from 7years old across to tertiary and adult level. As a trainer for World Rugby since 2010, she has travelled to different parts of Asia delivering coaching/ strength and conditioning courses and educator courses.
She strongly believes that through Sports and Physical Education, it nurtures and develops creativity, confidence and self- exploration in a child holistically.
Serena holds a Master of Science (Exercise Science and Sports Studies). Currently, she is pursuing a postgraduate certificate in Play therapy with Academy of Play and Child Psychotherapy. In her free time, she enjoys swimming and keeping fit in the gym whilst at the same time, reading, cooking and oil painting for its therapeutic benefits.
Yuki Kudo
Japanese Language Teacher
Emi Morishige
Yuki has since been in Singapore for 12 years and is now a Singapore PR. Yuki is an experienced and qualified primary school educator for 18 years prior to coming to Singapore. During that time, she has taught all subjects to Japanese students from Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary to High school.
Yuki is very adaptable, catering to the needs of individual students and utilising different approaches when necessary. She sincerely believes that a student can derive self-fulfilment through the learning of Japanese language if the learning environment is pitched holistically to every unique individual.
Yuki helps organising events for the Japanese community in Singapore. She enjoys cooking and gardening, and loves to visit nature parks to look at floras and faunas with her children.
Chen Lih Jiun
Language Teacher (Mandarin)
Chen Lih Jiun
Lih Jiun is an experienced educator with 6 years of Mandarin teaching experience in Singapore and Malaysia. She has also obtained the Certificate for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of other languages (CTCSOL), a certificate recognised globally for teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
Lih Jiun has a very strong drive for excellence and is very passionate in her teaching. She believes that education must be balanced and consistent. As a teacher she often motivates her students to extend their own personnel limits.
In her free time, she enjoys practicing Chinese calligraphy, reading, swimming, and cycling. She is proficient in Mandarin, English, as well as Malay.
Slone Lim
Specialist Teacher (Art)
Slone Lim
Slone started Thearthaus Studio in 2013 as the Director cum Senior Art Instructor. He coordinates all the art programs, trains the teachers at the studio, and teaches and monitors the development of the students.
He is deeply passionate about implementing a quality art education that not only delivers Art knowledge and skills, but also promotes international-mindedness through awareness and understanding of cultural art, as well as develop important personal character.
Slone believes that an Art education is an integral part of education for all students and not just those who are talented in Art. He has since successfully brought his art programs to many kindergartens. Since its inception, Thearthaus Studio has trained over one thousand students from over 30 countries. Each year, many Thearthaus students are successfully accepted into SOTA and Art colleges/universities around the world.
Amblin Lee
Specialist Teacher (Art)
Daphne Tan
Amblin is an experienced Art teacher who has obtained the Certificate in Western Art and Chinese Calligraphy from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
Amblin has great passion in teaching children and believes that every child is unique and gifted in their own way. In her opinion, Art is everywhere and it is a form of expression. She wishes to impart positive energy and a love of art and artistic culture to children. Amblin’s calligraphy work was selected as part of the 80th Anniversary Exhibition of NAFA in 2018. In 2020, she won the calligraphy merit award in NAFA Chinese Art Competition 2020. Some of her paintings have been featured in private collections.
In her free time, she enjoys experimenting with various art forms and mediums. She is currently under the mentorship programs of two renowned pioneer artists.
Charis Leo
Specialist Teacher (Music)
Charis Leo
Charis possesses a very personable and pleasant personality and is likeable by all who know her. Beyond such traits, she is dependable and faithful to her friends and family. A big heart, helpful and generous attitude is shown towards others.
Charis is hardworking and is fully committed to the tasks given to her. She gives her best to her work, demonstrates creativity and seeks to plan her lessons with new ideas. Charis is a conscientious teacher and has received many positive comments from her colleagues and students. Charis was a Trainer at the Yamaha Music School and Kinderland Singapore. In addition, she has taught in Pei Chun Public Primary School (IT Music), Nafa Kindergarten and the Tom Lee Music School in Hong Kong.
Charis is especially good with young students as she has many years of experience working with children. Her joyful disposition and expressive nature makes her lessons interactive and engaging.
Daphne Tan
Specialist Teacher (Technology)
Daphne Tan
Daphne graduated from NTU Singapore with a Bachelors in Business. Calling on personal experiences and co-founding her 2nd start-up, Code Gakko), and as the President of the Overseas Singapore Group Youth Leadership team, she is a keen advocate for social mobility and for youths to be global-minded, resilient, and enterprising.
Daphne has worked with students from pre-school to university levels and is known for her interactive style. She enjoys getting students to think critically about the purpose of their activity, believing strongly that one should nurture students to develop a capacity for algorithmic thinking and problem-solving skills as these skills are universally valued. With an abundance attitude, she’s tenacious in the pursuit of knowledge; always pursuing excitement in the form of bold experiments.
Desmond Kwan
Head of Marketing & Business Development
Desmond Kwan
Desmond has worked in the education sector for the past 4 years. His experience includes managing operational aspects of the school, leading the marketing team and overseeing expansion in the region.
Desmond had worked in the hospitality sector for 8 years prior to joining education, and he remains passionate towards meeting different people and getting to learn about different cultures. His previous experience in leading youth camps and inspiring youths to excel can come in handy in this school community.
Desmond loves to travel the world to see new places and try new food. In his free time, he loves to attempt to recreate dishes he has tried in restaurants around the world.
Sharon Khoo
Operations & Administrative Assistant Manager
Sharon Khoo
Sharon comes from Malaysia. In 2007 she moved to Shanghai where she lived for 9 years and worked at the ELFA Preschool Shanghai (part of the Crestar Education Group). She later moved to Singapore to work with Kinderland. She has been a part of The Grange since its conception stage.
Sharon is a passionate person who loves her colleagues and children dearly. She believes that maintaining a good rapport with others is very important in a working environment and that every child is unique in his/her own special way.
During the weekends, Sharon teaches Catechism class to youths conducts the church choir. She loves singing, playing the piano and going to the theatre. During her free time, she usually goes for a walk and occasionally plays badminton.
Melanie Rappa
Admissions & Administrative Executive
Melanie Rappa
After graduating from hotel school, Melanie worked in the hotel industry for 16 years in various positions from Operations to Convention Services to managing the Catering department. Her experience involved extensive customer service, management and communications.
The next 16 years was dedicated to raising her 3 sons. During that time, Melanie and her family lived overseas for five years in Sydney and Shanghai because of her husband’s job posting.
Having completed a certificate of Professional Practice in Phonics in 2018, Melanie is pursuing a second career in education. She enjoys working at The Grange as a learning assistant working with the teachers and students.
Joie Chua
Marketing Coordinator
Joie Chua
Joie is a bubbly and outgoing person who is passionate about meeting new people. She has worked in the advertising and media industry and her experiences include leading a marketing team, and events and social media management.
Joie grew up in a big family surrounded with many children. She enjoys reading and playing with her little nieces and nephews, and is always amazed by how imaginative young minds can be.
An animal lover, Joie has a bird and 2 dogs and used to have pet hamsters, terrapins, red-eyed rats and fishes. In her free time, Joie enjoys bicycle rides with her dogs or assists her partner in photographing owners and their dogs. Joie is a dog whisperer as dogs listen very well to her. She also loves to experiment with food for both human and dogs. Her goal is to be able to go on road trips in Japan with her partner and her dogs.
Alika Ho
Chief Sustainable Garderner
Alika Ho
Alika is the Sustainable Gardener of Crestar Education Group based at The Grange. He cultivates edible plants using natural and regenerative methods and in the process, cultivates the human bean. His aspiration is to manage a biodiverse, regenerative and resilient farm in Singapore.
For the past 2 years, he has been designing, building and managing edible gardens throughout Singapore, with a focus clientele of schools. He enjoys facilitating students’ learning and play in natural outdoor settings, where they can get their hands dirty and be in touch with nature.
At home, Alika hoards seeds or heirloom edibles and takes care of 3 egg laying hens.
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