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Academy PTY (Ltd)
Welcome to Buckihgham Academy!
Catherine Bauthier, PRINCIPAL, B. Prim. Ed Hons from the University of the Witwatersrand. SACE Registration: 11147633. She has 36 years of teaching experience, 10 of them in teacher training and 13 as principal of schools.
Kind and approachable, yet her discipline is superb. She is renowned for her experience in Mathematics Methodology, and wrote a thesis on the development of mathematical thinking. Trilingual, teaching is her passion - she loves people, painting, singing, playing the guitar and gardening. Her motto: There are no problems only solutions.
Busisiwe Taumang, VICE PRINCIPAL, PGCE UNISA,SACE: P12473833 She is a certified brain practitioner. Busi has invested not only her career into the academy, but also the future of her children. She enriches the curriculum with brain profiling - facilitating every child to become a whole brain thinker. She is also experienced in Career guidance. Her classroom is her happy place, and her no nonsense, get on with it approach allows for good uncomplicated discipline.
Louise Bauthier-Pienaar SACE Registration: P12473849 Having studied through CIE, and achieved distinctive results - Louise is an experienced Cambridge teacher of Languages, Mathematics and Art and Design. She is a real role model, loves each learner unconditionally - and her dedication shines through. Parents build up great relationships with her and are reluctant to move away from her perception, , her professionalism and her due diligence.
A lover of literature and linguistics, she lights a spark of the love of reading and it is amazing to see her children grow to enjoy books - including Shakespeare and the classics .