Dynamic new principal for St Christopher s Private School ’ Kidd s Beach ’
St Christopher s Private School
’
in Kidd s Beach is proud to
’
announce the appointment of Jocelyn Brown as principal from January 2021.
Brown has been involved in education for over 20 years. After matriculating from Queenstown Girls High
’
School, she obtained a BSc Joint Honours degree from Rhodes University in Grahamstown. She then went to the UK to work and to travel the world. After teaching at a US summer camp, she decided that she wanted to become a teacher and did her Post Graduate Certificate in Education at Cambridge University in the UK.
She taught at numerous schools in the UK before returning to South Africa. Her portfolio ranges from Head of Humanities to Head of House and Head of Grade.
She has coached numerous sports such as tennis and swimming, taken school expeditions to a variety of countries such as Iceland, Croatia and Borneo and been in charge of a number of cultural activities such as Interact and an Overseas Exchange Programme.
She was a matric exams marker for the Independent Exam Board for a number of years, organised a National
Geography Conference and updated the matric geography syllabus for 2Enable during lockdown.
Although she has taught a variety of subjects such as history and English as a foreign language, her passion lies with physical geography and mapwork.
She has taught the full age range from Grade 5 to Grade 12, including A levels and the International Baccalaureate.
She is also passionate about Thinking Skills and making learning more accessible to students through a range of audio, visual and kinaesthetic teaching techniques.
She has travelled the world and lived in a variety of places but is returning to the Eastern Cape, ready to make a difference in education in our area.
Her vision for St Christopher s Private School is
’ to assist in making it a top, selfsustaining, environmentally friendly school offering a variety of sports.
She would like to see better communication and engagement with the local community so that together we can make a difference in our local children s lives.
Brown has travelled the world and lived in a variety of places but is returning to the Eastern Cape, ready to make a difference in education in oPRINuTErD rDIeSTRaIBUTED