London | New York | Vancouver Island | China
An independent co-educational day school for students with high functioning autism, Asperger's Syndrome, language, communication and social pragmatic difficulties and those associated with specific learning difficulties.
Naj D’Silva
Fri 3rd June 2011
Position:
Middle & Upper School Teacher
Email:
ndsilva@thsl.org.uk
I graduated with a Master’s from the University of Strathclyde, in Scotland, spending my fourth year at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, before returning to complete a PGDE in Physical Education at the University of Edinburgh. My first year as a teacher was spent in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, where I was given the opportunity to develop and run a PE department. The school had a significant number of students with special educational needs (SEN), and I worked alongside the school leaders to implement successful behaviour management strategies.
I later taught at an international school in Nepal, where I helped to develop the curriculum before teaching PE and English in remote village mountain schools in the Kathmandu Valley.
When I returned to the UK, I accepted the post of Head of PE at a school in Surrey. I taught in and ran the department, and also re-designed the PE curriculum to meet the needs of some very challenging pupils.
I am delighted and feel very privileged to be part of such a lovely and motivated team at THSL.
