SAPIENTIA IN HUMILITATAE
Wisdom in Humility
Mission
To provide Monaco families with a family-owned British curriculum school and an intimate nurturing community that motivates students to become grounded, passionate and aspirational learners. We want our students to enjoy each precious year of childhood as they grow into adults.
Core Values
Integrity and Responsibility for Oneself
Respect and Generosity towards Others
Courage and Curiosity in Life
Ethos
The British School of Monaco’s ethos recognises that our values, along with the manner in which we interact with each other and the world, are as important as academic attainment. We create an environment and a developmental process to help young people evolve into confident risk takers, who recognise that valuing themselves and others is essential to being successful world citizens.
We provide our students with the opportunity to learn beyond the superficial rote learning, leading to a depth of understanding that supports retention of concepts and leads to greater understanding and engagement.
We provide an enriching and stimulating learning environment where academic success is coupled with strong moral purpose and respect for others. We recognise that mental and physical health are of prime importance to a successful and fulfilling human life.
Our Approach
The British School of Monaco approach to learning synthesises traditional, well-honed principles and best practice with groundbreaking pedagogical approaches. Built into the curriculum delivery is an understanding of how children learn and factors affecting their neurological development. This is underpinned by a recognition that the 21st century child is required to be an reflective, resilient and adaptive individual who continually strives to understand more about how they learn, and to learn more deeply, thereby maximising their broader growth and development.
The British School of Monaco is a safe and creative environment where students are supported, stimulated and challenged. We celebrate our students’ success and help them to overcome challenges with courage, resilience and curiosity. The British School of Monaco recognises that the ability to endure and overcome sustained challenges is an essential part of the path to success and helps develop character and spirit.
The British School of Monaco’s healthy and vibrant community and culture is fundamentally important to the life of the school. We recognise and value the partnership with our parents as much as the relationship with our students. We involve parents in their children’s learning and engage them in many classroom and school activities, such as curriculum workshops, assemblies, committees, after-school events, sports and home learning.
Our Team
Alan Stevens
Principal
Alan is an experienced school leader, having become Headmaster of Barnard Castle School in England in 2010 where he led major capital investment and building programmes and in 2017 he was asked to lead the recently established Marlborough College campus in Malaysia, where he oversaw the school’s growth to 1,000 pupils and established the young school’s place as a leading British international institution. Under his leadership, Marlborough was awarded numerous international plaudits and was named the TES International School of the Year. His time at Marlborough College Malaysia included steering the school through the myriad challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and advising the Malaysian government on behalf of the international schools sector, for which he received an Outstanding Leadership Award from the Kingsley Strategic Institute for Asia Pacific.
Alan studied History at Queen’s University in the United Kingdom where he gained a First Class Honours degree. He completed teaching and leadership qualifications, including an MA in Educational Management and Leadership and he has undertaken a period of research in private and state schools in the USA as an associate of Yale University. He is an experienced school inspector, a former Director of the British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce and Chair of its the 3-18 Education Committee. He regularly publishes and contributes to conferences on education and leadership.
Kirsten McMullan
Deputy principal of the Individual Programme
Kirsten McMullan has been working in international and state schools across Europe since 2007, and has also taught Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. Working across a range of contexts, and taking part in adventurous residential trips, helped Kirsten realise the importance of balance and connection to nature for learning and well-being. In order to help facilitate young people’s opportunities to explore the outdoors, she trained as a Duke of Edinburgh Assessor, Lowland Leader and Paddlesport Instructor. Kirsten is also a keen linguist, has a PhD in Czech Studies and was awarded the prestigious Suzanne Roth translation prize in 2021.
ASLAN Alp
Maths Teacher
Qualification : M.Sc, B.Sc., Q.T.S.
BEASLEY Jacques
Maths and Physics Teacher
Qualification : B.Sc.
DAO LENA Elisabeth
French Teacher
Qualification : M.A.
DUNLOP Roderick
Head of Teaching and Learning / English and History Teacher
Qualification : M.A., P.G.C.E.
HABES Ekaterini
Science Teacher / SENCO
Qualification : B.Sc., P.G.C.E., Q.T.S.
JOHNSON-MOTTAIS Joshua
Science Teacher
Qualification : B.Sc., P.G.C.E., Q.T.S.
KANE Mairin Ann
Head of English / English Teacher
Qualification : M.A, B.A., Q.T.S.
KAVIANI Dariush
Maths and Physics Teacher
Qualification : Ph.D., M.Sc
LIM Raymond
Academic Coordinator / Maths and Science Teacher
Qualification : B.A.
MARCEAUX Sophie
Head of Modern Foreign Languages / French Teacher
Qualification : B.A., P.G.C.E., DipHE
PHELPS Rob
English and Humanities Teacher
Qualification : M.A., M.A., B.A.
MCMULLAN Kirsten
Deputy Principal / English Teacher
Qualification : Ph.D., M.A., P.G.D.E.
PIGGOT Andrew
English Teacher
Qualification : M.A, B.A., Celta, PgDip
POLKINGHORN Robert
PE Teacher
Qualification : UEFA A
POWYS Andrew
Economics and Business Studies Teacher
Qualification : MBA, M.A., P.G.C.E.
