Charles Bonas |
Charles is possibly the most experienced provider of tutors in London. For nearly twenty years, he has placed tutors for thousands of children, and has worked himself as a tutor for many of the most prominent families in the world. This is partly why Bonas MacFarlane is seen by many families and schools to be the leading tutorial agency in London. Charles is also a highly respected educational consultant and commentator, and is frequently featured in media articles on private education and private tutoring. He is an acknowledged expert on boarding schools, having placed many children from overseas into English boarding schools and advised countless families on their choice of school. He has also helped many students with Oxbridge and Ivy League college applications, and works closely with families to provide bespoke educational strategies for their children. Charles works as an advisor for a number of private and specialist schools. Charles was a scholar of music at Harrow School, then read History at Oriel College, Oxford, before achieving professional qualifications in law and teaching. Charles will be chair of the London Parents Forum. |
Jenny Aviss |
Jenny was the former headmistress of Eaton House School from 1992 -1998. She then became head of Wetherby School 1998 -2008. During her time at Wetherby she additionally fulfilled a Principal's role, through which she initiated and developed Wetherby Prep, Abingdon House and most recently Chepstow House. Jenny will be speaking on the 28th September. |
Tom Dawson |
Tom was educated at Sunningdale, then Eton. Studied Modern European Languages at Edinburgh and then completed his PGCE at Bristol University. He taught French and Spanish at Harrow where he also coached Yearlings cricket and ran the Fives, leading a pair to success in the Public Schools National fives tournament. Tom joined the staff at Sunningdale in 2002 and took over as Headmaster in 2005. Tom will be speaking on the 28th September. |
Dr. Martin Stephen |
Dr Martin Stephen is High Master of St Paul’s, and one of only two men to have held the post of High Master at both St Paul’s and The Manchester Grammar School. He has also been Headmaster of The Perse School, Cambridge, and was Chairman of HMC in 2004. He is the author or editor of 18 books, including four novels in the acclaimed ‘Henry Gresham’ series of historical crime thrillers, and is married to Jenny, Headmistress of South Hampstead High School. Dr. Stephen will be speaking on the 5th October. |
| Mr. Robert Taylor | Robert Taylor is the registrar at Harrow School, one of the leading all boys Public schools in England, it is his responsibility to manage the intake of boys into the school every September. Robert was an English teacher and then housemaster at Wellington College for 11 years. He was Headmaster of Ashdown House, a co-ed boarding prep school in Sussex between 2003-2009. Robert will be speaking on the 5th October. |
Joanna Petty |
Joanna Petty, Director of The Dyslexia Teaching Centre, London's leading specialist teaching centre, is an expert on dyslexia and special educational needs. She has over twenty-five years experience in the field and has masterminded the growth and development of The Dyslexia Teaching Centre over recent years. Founded in 1978, the Kensington based centre currently employs a multi-disciplinary team of specialists from leading educational psychologists to occupational therapists. Joanna assists Bonas MacFarlane in ensuring that all of tutees with special educational needs are appropriately assessed, monitored and receive the highest standard of specialist teaching should they require it. Jo will be speaking on the 12th October. |
Veronica Bidwell |
Veronica is an Educational Psychologist with her own educational psychology consultancy in central London. Veronica has been working in private practice since 1996 and during this time has advised around 2,000 families. From 1998-2001 she was the Consultant Psychologist at Fairley House School (catering for pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties) and between 1988 and 1996 Veronica worked as an Educational Psychologist for two of London's Local Education Authorities. Veronica has extensive experience - personal as well as professional - of all stages of education in both state and independent schools and a degree in Psychology from Bedford College, London University 1979-1982, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the West London Institute of Education (1984) and a Master's degree from University College, London University. Veronica will be speaking on the 12th October. |
Sue Kumbleben |
Sue has been working in the parenting field since 2002. She was trained at The New Learning Centre in Northwest London where she taught until 2004, helping children who had been excluded from school learn strategies that would allow them to return to main stream education. Sue joined The Parent Practice team in 2003. She has done work with The Landmark Forum and has trained under Bonnie Harris, earning a certificate as an “Effective Parenting Educator”. Perhaps her most practical education has come through her own experience as a parent. Sue’s eldest child was very temperamentally challenging at home and was so unhappy at school that he was home-tutored for two years from the age of 7. The strategies that Sue and her husband developed using The Parent Practice skills enabled him to return to full time school. He is now a remarkably confident, gentle, hardworking teenager who was accepted into Westminster for 6th Form. Sue’s other two children, a 15 year old son and 12 year old daughter, have also benefited enormously from the calmer atmosphere at home and from the skills that she is now able to teach them. Sue reports that she loves the changes that have happened in her own life; “I am now more likely to burst out laughing when something goes wrong than blow my top. Much better for everyone.” Sue was born and raised in the U.S. From early days an Anglophile, she financed several trips to Europe by teaching figure skating. After graduating from Williams College, Sue took a law degree from the University of Virginia. In 1992, after two years each at a Wall Street law firm and Remy Martin, she moved to London with her South African husband Paul. While pregnant with their third child, Sue earned a Masters in Voluntary Sector work at the LSE. |
Pessi Elias |
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Dr. Justine Setchell |
Dr Setchell graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1990 and completed her GP training in 1994, becoming a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1995. She was a GP partner in South West London for 8 years before pursuing a portfolio career that allowed her to practice both as a GP, School Medical Officer and Occupational Health Physcian, having gained her Diploma in Occupational Health in 2007. Justine does Corporate work for a variety of companies and is the Occupational Health Physician for John Lewis Oxford Street. Dr Setchell will be speaking on the 19th October. |
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