Our Leadership Team
Principal's Welcome
Welcome from
Peter J. Derby-Crook MBE
Garden International School is an inclusive and diverse school with over 70 years of experience in delivering a world class education to the local and international communities in KL. Our aim is to partner with families to support each child to flourish. We offer outstanding holistic learning for students from 65 different nationalities and a wide range of academic backgrounds and abilities. We consistently achieve some of the finest academic results in the region and we are most proud of our ‘value-added’ results which reflect outstanding progress across all age ranges.
At GIS we are all learners and this is the foundation of our success. Our whole-school learning culture is centred around outstanding teachers doing outstanding work with our students both in and outside the classroom. This work is continually developed through our collective commitment to ongoing professional learning for all members of our community. As well as supporting our students to achieve success in all areas of school life, we offer our parents weekly workshops covering a wide range of topics and other exciting learning opportunities throughout each academic year.
Our extensive CCA programme, one of the largest in the region, coupled with our focus on service learning, camps and trips ensures that every GIS student has plentiful opportunities to flourish outside of the classroom. Our CCA programme offers both breadth and depth in sports, music and the creative and performing arts whilst also providing a multitude of other enrichment opportunities to cater for all interests and passions. We are also committed to our local and global community and we believe we have a responsibility to support sustainability and help those less privileged through genuine, sustainable service opportunities. Through community initiated and student-led action projects in both Primary and Secondary, with regular school charity events, our whole community strives to make a difference to those in need.
At GIS, we believe in the concept of well-being and building a sense of belonging: we understand that children will not fully flourish unless they are happy, supported and build social and emotional skills that will serve them now and into their futures. At GIS success is more than just good grades, though a focus on knowing each child, supporting them to build relationships and find connection with others, we are aiming to prepare students for life beyond school. Our care coupled with outstanding teaching and academic mentoring at GIS ensures every child has the opportunity to flourish.
Welcome to our very special GIS community; we would love to show you around.
(GIS Principal)
Whole School Strategic Team
Whole School Strategic Team
Meet our Leadership Team
Peter J. Derby-Crook MBE
Principal
MEd, BEd (Hons), Cert. Ed (UK)
Amy Ward
Head Of Secondary
MA, BSc (Hons), PGCE, NPQH (UK)
Nicola Nelson
Head Of Primary and Early Years
BA(Hons), PGCE, NPQH (UK)
Adam Shaw
Director Of Professional Learning
MSc, BA (Hons), PGCE (UK)
Ted McGrath
Director of Enrichment
BEd (Hons) (UK)
Robbie Davies
Director of Inclusion and Global Citizenship
BA (Hons), PGCE (UK)
Daniel Plant
Deputy Head Of Secondary
MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCE (UK)
Caroline Ellis
Deputy Head Of Secondary
BSc (Hons), PGCE (UK)
Etienne Visser
Deputy Head of Primary
MA (US), BEd (Hons), BA, PGCE (SA)
Kelly Hersey
Deputy Head Of Primary
MA (Ed), BA (Hons), PGCE (UK)
Board Members
Board of Governors
Garden International School Board of Governors has the overall responsibility of advising, managing and monitoring the activities of our school in accordance with the Education Act 1996 and the Companies Act. The responsibilities of the Board include approving major changes to the curriculum which affect the nature of what is taught in the school, ensuring the quality of teaching and learning in the school meets the expectations of the Mission and Purpose statement and to set and adopt a long-term developmental plan for the school.
- Our board members' are as follow:
- Tan Sri Dato' Alimuddin Bin Mohd Dom
Chairman - Mr. BK Gan
- Ms. Angelina Tee
- Mr. Andy Low Chin Seng
- Ms. Audrey Ang Li Ping
- Mr. Peter J. Derby-Crook MBE
Principal, Garden International School