b'STAFF NEWSMeet Our New StaffAlison WickhamGemma LuscombeKallan MaloneCurriculum Leader for MFL Teacher of Design & TechnologyTeacher of PEand Art Hola and bonjour! I am delightedAfter completing three years at to have joined South DartmoorI first gained an appreciation of SouthPlymouth Marjon University studying Community College as CurriculumDartmoors ethics, values and beliefsSport Development, I undertook Leader for Modern Foreignduring a university training placementmy first teacher training placement Languages. I completed my languagesat the college. Therefore, I amhere at South Dartmoor Community degree at the University of Bath andthrilled to start my career within theCollege. After this, I spent a year also studied in Paris and Malaga. Icreative arts faculty teaching Designgaining experience and working in & Technology and Art.a number of different institutions then travelled around South Americabefore I was able to secure a position before later training to teach inI studied Fine Art at Plymouthto return to South Dartmoor on a Bath. I began my teaching careerfull-time, permanent basis!at a secondary school in SwindonUniversity. My working life before teaching was somewhat different;During my time at university, I had and, most recently, I was Head ofI had a ten-year career in the carethe privilege to work in America Modern Foreign Languages in asector, working with disabled,at a summer camp. This was an large secondary school in Southvulnerable, and very poorly adults,opportunity to work in a different Oxfordshire. I am really excited toboth young and old. My role wascountry and gain insightful knowledge have made the move back to Southnever the same at any location,about teaching/coaching and was Devon and so happy that my twoworking in nursing and residentialone of the main reasons I wanted to venture into teaching.little boys get to grow up where Ihomes, hospices, respite centres and did. I love spending time with family,visiting clients at home, each day wasMy hobbies revolve around sport and travelling, cooking dishes from arounda new challenge. Although my daysthe sporting world. Just over a year the world, reading (most recentlywere busy, I would always find timeago, I began playing Rugby again after Violeta by Isabel Allende which I amfor my real passion, painting. Mostlya two-and-a-half-year absence due to recommending to everyone who willI would work on commissions ofinjury and Covid. During the holidays listen!) and walking. seascapes, floral and pet portraits. II like to travel to new places and have exhibited in Exeter, Exmouthexplore the surroundings, as well as and Plymouth with other localvisiting family who are mainly based Artists, who I am sure would bein Scotland. As any sporting fan does, excited to collaborate in futureI enjoy attending games and try to school projects. I am really excited toget to events as often as I am able to. pass on my passion for Art and FoodI am also very much open to trying Technology to all who enterout sports which are new to me, my classroom.whether it be during PE lessons or outside of school.24 01364 652230 South Dartmoor Community College'