Teachers

Brooke Kapa IGCSE English Literature and IGCSE English Language About Me Tēnā koe! He uri ahau nō Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Maniapoto me Te Arawa. I have just under 19 years of experience in Education, with my last roles being Assistant Principal at Kelston Girls College to Head of Bilingual Units and Head of English. […]

Allan Robertson IGCSE, AS  and A Level Chemistry About Me Allan gained his MSc from Waikato University and commenced teaching in 1979. He taught for 42 years, including 7 years at UK independent schools, 6 years at ACG schools and 20 years at King’s College, Auckland. He marked Combined Schools and NZEST Scholarship Chemistry examinations. […]

Michael Riley IGCSE, AS & A Level Mathematics About Me Mr. Riley holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. At the age of 14 he decided that he wanted to be a maths teacher, inspired by his own maths teacher and the fact that he loved maths. Teaching for nearly […]

Luiz Garcia IGCSE & A Level Physics About Me Mr. Garcia is a Physicist, with a degree from State University of Londrina. His journey teaching began seven years ago in Brazil, tutoring students while working with applied nuclear physics. Now based in New Zealand, he teaches physics to students pursuing the Cambridge diploma, maintaining high […]

Gordon Whittleston IGCSE， AS and A Level Biology About Me Dr Gordon Whittleston, BSc, PhD, QTS, has 40+ years experience of teaching GCSE, AS and A2 UK Biology syllabuses – including 4 years as a Chinese International School Headmaster. He also has 30+ years experience of 1:1 or small group tutorial support. His student destinations […]

Ronel Barlow IGCSE English Language & IGCSE English Literature About Me Alex Birchall has a BA (Hons) First Class in Sociology and is an experienced teacher of English Language and Literature in both the CIE and IB systems. His classes consistently obtain top results in these examinations. He has been teaching for six years, with […]

Allan Blackman​ AS and A Level Chemistry About Me Professor Allan Blackman has been teaching chemistry at tertiary level for 34 years, at both the University of Otago and Auckland University of Technology. He is the lead author on the largest-selling first year chemistry textbook in Australasia (Chemistry, by Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino, and Wille) […]

Omar Gardner AS and A Level Physics About Me Omar earned a First-Class Honours MSci in Natural Sciences (Astrophysics) from UCL before completing his teacher training and MA in Education through the Teach First program in the UK. After a brief time at PwC, he quickly realized his true passion lay in teaching. He returned […]

Steve Walker IGCSE， AS and A Level English Literature and English Language About Me With over 34 years’ teaching experience, for 24 of those Steve was Head of English at King’s College. He holds an MA in English Literature from Cambridge University and, prior to teaching, enjoyed a successful business career. After leaving King’s, Steve […]