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Lower Primary Staff

  • Valentina Buzeta
    Year 2 Teacher

    Valentina has over 20 years of teaching experience, with 10 years working in Key Stage One and Two. Born and brought up in London, she studied teaching at Oxford Brookes before working in an Oxford primary school for six years. She has worked in international schools in Moscow and St. Petersburg, before deciding to move to Warsaw to be closer to some of her family (the other half of her family are rather further away in Chile!).

    She has extensive experience of teaching learners of English, having worked with the British Council as a children's specialist and has come to enjoy learning languages herself, although she has only just started with Polish.

    Valentina is joining us in 2022 as a Year 2 teacher, a year group she considers one of her favourites.

  • Justyna Cardenas
    Year 2 Teaching Assistant

    Justyna graduated with a degree in English Philology.  She started teaching English in different Polish elementary schools. After two years she  left to San Francisco where she worked in childcare. After meeting her now-husband, she moved to Mexico where she worked as a kindergarten teacher.  Through a job opportunity for her husband, she  moved to Japan where her both kids were born.  She lived in Japan for over 10 years.

    From 2019-2021 she  lived in New Zealand.

    In her free time Justyna  enjoys cooking and running.

  • Marta Wasilewska
    Year 3 Support Teacher

    Marta graduated from Warsaw University and has a Masters Degree in Early  Education Studies. Since joining BSW in October 2015 she had been teaching Polish lessons across the school from Reception to Year 4. During this period Marta had taken various trainings and workshops for teachers to develop her skills in delivering the best education. This year she has taken a position of support teacher in Year 3 and she is really pleased to help children every day in their learning journey. 

  • Zuzanna Boguta
    Year 3 Teaching Assistant

    Zuzanna has been working with children for over 14 years. She has a BA in Education and Early Childhood Studies from Roehampton University, Masters degree in Primary and Early Years Education with Speech Therapy and a postgraduate diploma in Educational Leadership and Management from the Academy of Special Education. To broaden her educational experience she also took part in a Reggio Emilia course in Italy. At the moment, Zuzanna is finishing a postgraduate course in Child and Adolescent Psychology. 

    Before joining BSW she taught in various Nurseries in Warsaw, including Montessori inclusive preschool and various bilingual preschools. Zuzanna joined BSW in 2015 and has taught across EYFS, in Pre-nursery, Nursery, Reception and Year 1. Last January she joined Lower Primary as a Support Teacher in Year 3. 

    Teaching is Zuzanna’s passion and she firmly believes that every child is unique and special, and deserves a chance to thrive in an environment that supports their strengths and talents and gives them opportunities to develop at their own pace.

  • Keith Gosling
    Year 3 Teacher

    Keith started his teaching career in Japan as an English Teacher, having relished the experience he decided to study his PGCE Primary at the University of Leeds. Following this, Keith has thoroughly enjoyed  teaching positions in England, Egypt, Vietnam and most recently Taiwan. In this time, he taught students ranging from Year 2 to Year 6. During the last 11 years he has been a whole school ICT coordinator and recently EYFS / KS1 Digital Lead. Keith firmly believes that children have to enjoy their learning so that they will learn!

    Keith likes reading, his favourite author is Terry Pratchett. He also enjoys sport, specifically hockey, football and hiking.

    This will be Keith’s first year at BSW and he will be a Year 3 class teacher and the whole school Technology Lead.

  • Jo Rogers
    Year 4 Teacher / Middle Primary Coordinator

    Jo has been teaching throughout Key Stage One and Two for the past 14 years. After obtaining her teaching degree, she spent 4 years teaching in a multicultural school in England. Whilst Joanne loved her job, she decided that she wanted to try teaching internationally - it was one of the best decisions she has ever made!

    Jo’s first international placement was in a British International School in Seoul, South Korea as a class teacher and Head of Year 4. For the past 4 years she has been living in Warsaw and teaching and coordinating Primary Maths in a large British school. Here at BSW, she is a Year 4 class teacher, Phase Leader for Middle Primary and Maths Lead for the lower school (Rec-Y4).

  • Julia Kotynia
    Year 4 Teacher

    Julia studied BA (Hons) Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. Originally from Poland, she has spent most of her life in the United Kingdom. She has taught in Kent, England for 3 years before making the decision to teach internationally in her home country. Having worked in a multicultural school, she has worked extensively with children whose first language is not English and undertaken additional training in this field. In her free time she enjoys singing and exercising.

  • Anna Fałtyn
    Year 2 Support Teacher

    Miss Anna Fałtyn has a degree in English Philology from State Vocational College in Zamość and studied Business Management at Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg in Hasselt - Belgium. As she loves to work with children she studied Special Needs Education at Special Needs Education Academy in Warsaw. In her free time she enjoys literature

  • Renata Gut
    Year 4 Support Teacher

    Renata holds a Bachelor’s  degree from Warsaw University with a major in English Language Teaching and a Masters in Faculty of Modern Languages also from Warsaw University. She lived in London for 11 years. During that time she was involved in various projects concerning children's education and care. In her free time she likes to read and also enjoys travelling and finding out about foreign cultures.