The Tutors

Lu is our Spanish teacher, admission and ISEND key person, DDSL and Health & Safety Lead.

She has been working for the past 15 years with children and families all around Europe.
Her passion for child development led her to
pursue a Master's in Psychology and earn a BA degree in Education. With experience at Brighton Waldorf School as the Senco, iSEND support teacher, and Early Years Teacher, Lu holds diplomas in Steiner Waldorf Early Education and School Health Practitioner. Fluent in Spanish, Italian, and English, Lu is dedicated to teaching, particularly in language acquisition and
personalised support.

I am a qualified teacher with a PGCE specialising in drama with seven years of experience following a thirty year career in the arts. I have a degree in art history and have taught across the humanities in state schools, at the Brighton Waldorf School and for three years in an international school. I am an AQA GCSE examiner. 

At Green Oak I am guardian and tutor for Ash (12-14).

My classroom is collaborative and inclusive; I teach through inspiration, engaging students with enthusiasm and humour, communicating understanding through demonstration and self-directed learning. I treat my students with respect and integrity and this pays off in their trust in me.

I value extra-curricular activities as a means of broadening students’ knowledge and understanding, utilising other disciplines e.g. art, music, history, and world cultures, to inform and strengthen my teaching practice.

Together with fellow teacher Caitlin Easterby we are co-director/lead artists of international arts group Red Earth and have created performances in Europe, Japan, Java and Mongolia. Our interdisciplinary method of working has inspired our teaching and our enthusiasm for integrated education.

Caitlin is an advocate for integrative, regenerative education where students are inspired to make connections across traditionally divided subjects, engaging directly with their learning through practical experience. Caitlin has been involved in Waldorf, Home and Environmental education for over 20 years. From 2017-24 she taught Middle and Upper school Drama at The Brighton Waldorf School inspiring students to devise original productions through their own research and creative practice. She is currently a GCSE AQA examiner.

Caitlin is also a multi disciplinary artist/educator and Co director of Red Earth Environmental Arts, who for the past 25 years have developed collaborative projects bringing artists, ecologists, archaeologists, geologists, historians and local communities together to create participatory events, sculpture installations and performances in the landscape. www.redearth.co.uk

Caitlin has a first class honours degree in English and Cultural Community Studies from Sussex University where she taught the CCE Art and Environment course. She is passionate about taking academic research, teaching, writing, making and her love of folk song out into the fields and forests where her heart lies. She’s thrilled to be teaching in Stanmer again where unique opportunities to learn outdoors allow young people to reconnect with nature and the living world essential for their wellbeing and growth aswell as their knowledge and understanding.

Has experience working within mainstream, Waldorf schools, and outdoor education including Forest school and Reggio Emilia. He has a masters in early years education, and a keen interest in music, cooking, anthropology, science and nature.

He also has experience working with SEN children.

Richard has worked in education for over  thirty years. He taught Maths and Music in the 1990s before training as a Steiner Waldorf teacher and first joined the Brighton Steiner school as a class teacher in 2002.  Since then he has worked both as teacher and advisor in Waldorf schools across the UK, including thirteen years teaching within Brighton.

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Maddy is our Art & Craft Tutor and DSL.

She has Lived in Brighton for 40 yrs, worked at the Brighton Waldorf School for 25 yrs. She has taught clay modelling, handwork and for the last 15 yrs GCSE Art, was the Deputy Safeguarding Lead and upper school chair and has been involved in the pastoral care of many teenagers.

She has a BA degree in Ceramics.
Passionate about learning through creating and observation & helping young people achieve this.