Staff Farewells

Gray

Joanna Gray (nee Tugwell) was an integral part of the PLC Boarding community during her 11 years at the School. With a teaching background, Jo joined the PLC Boarding House in 2011. She was acutely aware of the challenges that boarders and their families faced and placed much of her focus on establishing strong connections with community stakeholders. Throughout her time, Jo was Coordinator to a wide range of year groups from Year 8 through, in her final years, Year 12. Each year group benefitted from her firm, but fair approach and thrived in her care.

She possessed a strong sense of professionalism in her approach to all facets of boarding and took every opportunity to build upon her skills and to stay up to date with all current trends. Above all, Jo felt privileged to be a part of PLC Boarding House and her role in contributing to shaping young women to become strong and independent world citizens. Jo will best be remembered for the dedication she demonstrated each and every day; fostering outstanding relationships through exemplary pastoral care.

Hu

With a background as a Chinese Language Teacher, Anna commenced at PLC in 2009 initially in the role of ILT Curriculum Integration Manager. In September 2010, Anna was appointed to the role of Director of Information and Learning Technologies, for PLC and Scotch, a role which sat on the Senior Leadership Team/ Executive of both Schools and which was responsible for leading the ILT strategy and managing the relevant teams at each School for curriculum integration and technology infrastructure.

During her almost 12 years at PLC and Scotch, Anna made a significant contribution to the delivery of ILT strategy and aligning the technology platforms across both schools, consistent with the PLC and Scotch Memorandum of Understanding, to enable the delivery of cross-campus classes.

Anna is an innovative and strategic leader, and her ability to look at an issue from a different perspective was highly valued by the PLC Senior Leadership Team.

Sandra Otranto

Sandra was born in a tiny village in Portugal, moving to Australia as a small child. She is very close to her family and has never lost sight of the hardships her parents went through to make a better life.

Sandra commenced at PLC in January 2008 in the Finance department, in the role of Accounts Officer. In October 2009, this role changed to Accounts Officer –Collections, and she remained in this role for the balance of her tenure at PLC, a total of just over 14 years.

Her background gave her empathy with the PLC families that she had contact with in the course of her role, a role which she undertook with dedication and sensitivity for those families who found it more difficult than others to give their children a PLC education.

Anyone who visited her office would have seen that she is a keen follower of the Fremantle Dockers, and is in fact quite knowledgeable about the game of AFL. In between raising her son and daughter, Sandra has been working for several years towards a Juris Doctor at Murdoch University.

As a team member she was always willing to accept any task, especially if it meant researching and learning something new. She would always roll up her sleeves with whatever was needed when other team members were overloaded.

Staff Farewells

Rokiyah Bin Swani Indigenous Scholarship Programme Co-ordinator

Emily Brown Theatre Arts Production Assistant

Jason Chiriac Technology Support Officer

Linley Flugge Uniform Shop Assistant

Felicity Gairns Boarding House Assistant

Joanna Gray Boarding House Year Group Co-ordinator

Frances Hannington Boarding House Weekend Co-ordinator

Tehan Harvey Accounts Officer - Payroll and Payables

Krysti Hodges Junior School Teacher

Anna Hu Director or ILT

Charlotte Krause Maths Teacher

Nat Medhurst

Head of Sport

Gabriella Murphy Uniform Shop Assistant

Susie Myers

Education AssistantSpecial Needs Senior School

Sandra Otranto Accounts OfficerCollections

Vivi Phan-Tran People and Culture Co-ordinator

Taylor Rickard ILT Co-ordinator

Michael Rourke

Languages Teacher

Sara Green Drama Teacher

Emily Smrcek HPE Teacher

Bauke Snyman Head of Drama

Clare Thomson Boarding House Year Group Co-ordinator

Amelia Turner Education AssistantJunior School

Kylie Yacopetti Publications, Marketing and Media Co-ordinator

Sadie Yoxall

Boarding House Year Group Co-ordinator

Jade Zimmerman Music Administration Assistant