Dara Murphy
Senior Administration
Dara is from Auckland, New Zealand. She has lived in Brazil and Chile. She speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish.
She has a degree in Educational Philosophy and is also a qualified ESOL teacher.
She is passionate about Brazilian music and enjoys playing Maracatu and Samba.
Dara is likely to be the first person you see as you walk into school as she also works at the front desk.
Jeanne Northwood
Homestay Manager
Jeanne was born in New Zealand and lived in Fiji for 5 years when young. She has adult son in Auckland University, enjoys the outdoors, animals, reading for knowledge, crystals, and Holistic Health. As a mother and a homestay parent Jeanne is perfectly qualified to be our Homestay manager.
Marion Schoen
Special Programmes Manager
Marion is from Bavaria in Germany. She has lived in New Zealand for many years. Marion is a keen horse rider and she loves to travel all over. In addition she manages the student apartments. Marion also does a great job looking after our German speaking students.
Norie Yamazaki
Administration
Norie is originally from Japan. She has been dancing Street jazz for many years and likes playing the piano. She has been to many countries but came back to New Zealand to live because she loved it. Norie also looks after our Japanese students.
Jennifer Han
Administration
Jennifer is originally from Korea. She has lived in New Zealand for many years.
She has background in Hospitaliy (working at The Grand Hyatt Hotel as a concierge of the Executive floor) in Korea .
She has worked in education (Language Schools and an Education Agency) and as a freelance interpreter since she moved to New Zealand.
She has lots of experience in looking after students and helping them to obtain their study goals in New...