Kathy with her team of trainers degree holders with either a dip-in ed or ESL and much experience in schools as full-time teachers, relief teachers and trainers for enrichment or remedial work in EL.
All courses are tailored to the needs of the schools whether, government schools with students taking the GCE ‘O’ Level examinations or independent schools with their Integrated Programmes.
An Arts graduate from National University of Singapore (under the PSC Teaching Bursary) and with a Dip-in-Ed from the Institute of Education, Kathy, was Senior Subject Teacher (Geography) in Katong Convent (1983 – 1988) and Head of Department (Humanities) in Katong Convent (1989). She took a year-long no-pay leave and was posted to Anderson Secondary School (1991-1995).
Thereafter, she free-lanced until she set up the company, Reaching Beyond (Consultants in English Language – remedial, enrichment, oral communication, creative writing, language camps, presentation and project work), in October 1998. It was to cater to the growing demand for well-run EL programmes for foreign students/ scholars.
