Staff Profiles

Ravi is from Penang, Malaysia and joined SCIPS in 1994. Prior to this, he was attached to local schools when he started his teaching in 1983. He obtained his teaching credential from Ipoh Teachers Training College, Perak. He has vast experience teaching children from the age 6 to 12.

He specialised in teaching Bahasa Malaysia before taking on the responsibility to teach Maths for Year 2 and 3 in 2004. Currently he teaches Bahasa Malaysia from Year 1 to 6 and supports Maths for Year 5 and 4.

Janet is from Malaysia and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from University Sains Malaysia (USM). Upon completion of her studies, she taught Music and Mandarin in Penang. In 2011, Janet completed her Master of Arts (Pedagogy and Performance) at USM. During her studies, she worked as a piano Instructor. She has been teaching the piano for seven years and she is also a classically-trained pianist.

Janet started teaching at St. Christopher’s in September 2015 as a Mandarin teacher.

Sittra was born, raised and educated in Penang. She has been teaching English, Maths and Malay Language to children ages 6 to 9 years old in private schools for the past 20 years. In her early years she took a two year course to get her teaching certificate and later received her Primary Combination teaching diploma from London Montessori. She has also completed her TESOL to enhance her skills as she loves educating and nurturing young talents. She has attended many workshops on education to further improve her teaching skills.

Sittra was appointed as EAL teacher for KS1 and has served for 5 years in St. Christopher’s International Primary School, Penang.

Andreas is from Austria, and received a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature and a second Master’s in German with a focus on German as a foreign language from the University of Vienna. He worked for eight years at the American International School of Vienna and taught native and non-native students.

This is Andreas’ second teaching opportunity abroad after teaching at the University of Oulu (Finland). When not teaching, he enjoys running, reading, and being outdoors.

Jonathan is from the United Kingdom and has a Bachelors degree in English Literature/Language and Theology from The University of Birmingham. After a year spent travelling in Canada, America and Mexico, Jonathan started working in a special needs secondary school as a teaching assistant. 2 years later, Jonathan completed his Post Graduate Certificate in Education specialising in Literacy. Following that, Jonathan worked in Surrey as a teacher of a Year 5/6 mixed class for 2 years, where he was also the school sports coordinator. After 2 years working as a Year 6 teacher in Dubai, where he met the future Mrs Abel, Jonathan settled in Penang.

Jonathan is married to Kirsty, who is a former teacher at SCIPS, and they have three daughters, named Tamara, Kerenza and Morwenna.
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Sarah Doran is originally from Anglesey in North Wales were she spent most of her time in the pool training with the City of Bangor Swim squad. She was a dedicated swimmer and has represented her club, her county and her country in this discipline. She also went on to play water polo and was talent spotted for the British Olympic team.

Sarah completed a Degree in Sport Science and Physical Education at Bangor University before moving out to Penang and joining the PE Department at St Christopher’s.