Rebecca has lived in the UAE for seven years. She comes from a small town in South Yorkshire, England.

Rebecca started her teaching career in 2013 after graduating from Sheffield Hallam University with a BA (Hons) in Early Years Education. She has held leadership posts in the Early Years for the past four years and fully appreciates, values and understands the learning journey young children are embarking upon.

Early Childhood Education is Rebecca's passion and she considers it a privilege to be involved in a child’s first experiences of school. As an Early Years Specialist she believes that positive relationships sit at the core of a successful and joyful learning experience.

Rebecca creates a child centered learning environment, developing the whole child to feel safe and confident, to explore and take risks. She encourages creativity and inquiry-based learning to support children to become innovators and problem solvers. She aims to set each and every child up for a lifetime of learning, and build a foundation, from which your child can grow and succeed.

Outside of school Rebecca is very family orientated, she enjoys outdoor activities, travel and messy play with her husband and son. Together with the Early Years team, Rebecca looks forward to working closely with BWA students and families on this exciting journey together.

Maria is a fully qualified learning facilitator with a bachelor’s degree from North London University, Masters Degree from the University of Huddersfield, and a PGCE from the University of Nottingham.

Her personal aim is to continue to be an inspirational change facilitator who uses her initiative to make any environment a learning environment, recognising teachable moments and using these instinctively. Her personal inspirational quote is “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” — B.B. King

Carolyn Siklos is a trilingual IB educator, workshop leader and examiner originally from Germany. She grew up bilingually with English and German nationality and learnt French as a teenager, later studying in Paris as part of her English, French and Psychology degree from Durham University. After completing teacher training at Oxford University, she worked in London before finding her passion, teaching the International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma Programme in Dubai!  

After fifteen years of working in IB schools, leading a language acquisition department, coordinating the Middle Years Programme and providing IB professional development, Carolyn has most recently contributed to curriculum development as part of the Middle Years Programme Enhancement Project run by the International Baccalaureate.