CEO & Principal
Andrew is founder and Principal of Sutherland Education. The Sutherland’s have provided educational guardianship services for over 50 years. Alongside his senior roles in schools of Deputy Head, Senior Master, and Senior Housemaster i/c boarding, Andrew has worked continuously in guardianship since his Mother founded the UK’s first guardianship association in 1965 (the Kith and Kind Association).
He pioneered the current guardianship sector by starting Sutherland Education in 1990. His commitment to the safeguarding, wellbeing, personal development and academic success of all his students, spurred him to initiate the foundation of AEGIS, bringing together a group of co-founders which led to its launch in the House of Lords in 1997. He has wide experience in education both in the UK and overseas at a senior management level and has been invited to give seminars and appear as a guest speaker both in the UK and as far afield as China.
He is currently the Chair of Governors at Claremont Fan Court School in Esher (950 pupils from 3 to 18 years) For his roles and work
Staverton Court, Staverton, Cheltenham, GL51 0UX, Gloucestershire
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Phone: +44 (0)203 808 3800
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“I have always been passionate about looking after, and presenting good leadership to, young people. We should leave the world in a better place than we found it and the most effective way to achieve this is through education”
Andrew’s choice of quote:
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela
Head of Music/ English Teacher/ Scout Master: Kai Chung Secondary School, Bintangor, Sarawak, Malaysia (VSO)
History Teacher: Kingsdale Comprehensive School, London (inner city state school)
Senior housemaster, history and sports master: Millfield School, Somerset (independent school)
Senior housemaster, English teacher: Campion School, Athens, Greece
Deputy head, senior housemaster, English/sport: Claremont Fan Court School (independent boarding school)
English teacher: Hackney Down school, London (inner city state school)
Founder and CEO: Sutherland Education (established 1990)
Originator & co-founder, Hon. Sec. AEGIS (Assoc for the Education and Guardianship of International students)
Co-principal and co-founder: London International Study Centre (proprietorial 6th form college)
Co-director and co-founder: Sutherland Day Nursery (Proprietorial: for 70 children – OFSTED Outstanding)
Chair of Governors: Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, Surrey (Independent School)
Hobbies: Andrew achieved high representative levels in various activities: in sport (rugby, squash and athletics); in music (violin); in sea kayaking (1st circumnavigation expedition of the Faroe Islands): in sailing (Yacht Master Offshore)
Interests: Philosophy and religion; global economics and politics
“I have always been passionate about looking after, and presenting good leadership to, young people. We should leave the world in a better place than we found it and the most effective way to achieve this is through education”
Andrew’s choice of quote:
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela
Head of Music/ English Teacher/ Scout Master: Kai Chung Secondary School, Bintangor, Sarawak, Malaysia (VSO)
History Teacher: Kingsdale Comprehensive School, London (inner city state school)
Senior housemaster, history and sports master: Millfield School, Somerset (independent school)
Senior housemaster, English teacher: Campion School, Athens, Greece
Deputy head, senior housemaster, English/sport: Claremont Fan Court School (independent boarding school)
English teacher: Hackney Down school, London (inner city state school)
Founder and CEO: Sutherland Education (established 1990)
Originator & co-founder, Hon. Sec. AEGIS (Assoc for the Education and Guardianship of International students)
Co-principal and co-founder: London International Study Centre (proprietorial 6th form college)
Co-director and co-founder: Sutherland Day Nursery (Proprietorial: for 70 children – OFSTED Outstanding)
Chair of Governors: Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, Surrey (Independent School)
Hobbies: Andrew achieved high representative levels in various activities: in sport (rugby, squash and athletics); in music (violin); in sea kayaking (1st circumnavigation expedition of the Faroe Islands): in sailing (Yacht Master Offshore)
Interests: Philosophy and religion; global economics and politics
Guardianship Manager
Wioletta joined Sutherland Education in 2012. She is the first point of contact for our students and, from the very beginning, is careful to ensure they feel at home with their guardian. Wioletta is highly committed to supporting our guardian homestays and enabling everyone – our students, parents, guardians and schools – to work together effectively and harmoniously.
Wioletta is an experienced welfare officer, and HR personnel manager and has had experience working in psychological guidance and counselling for people with learning difficulties. She has a BA degree in Prevention and Resocialization and a Master’s (MA) degree in Education Management and Administration. After several years’ experience as an Educational Coordinator in Poland, she moved to the UK to take up student welfare and human resources, working for many years with English language schools in London before joining our team.
Staverton Court, Staverton, Cheltenham, GL51 0UX, Gloucestershire
contact@sutherland-education.com
Mobile: +44 (0)7774 646 886
Phone: +44 (0)203 808 3800
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I believe that social changes are encouraged by our own examples and education should create learning environments here young people are supported in linking their personal life experiences with a collective social and political reality, and where opportunities are created for initiating changes in the world… My choice of quote:“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Carees advisor
Peter, another member of the Sutherland clan, is an expert careers advisor who will consult on many of our Weekend workshop programmes. Peter has a wealth of classroom experience and with his legal background he can challenge young minds as much as he can motivate.
He is now fully retired but busy with four grandchildren and also still takes a keen interest in the development of Sutherland Education.
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Peter Sutherland (MA Oxon. PGCE) read Modern Languages at Oxford University. He then became a solicitor with a leading City firm before turning to teaching.
He has a PGCE from York University and was a boarding housemaster at Oswestry School. He taught for over 30 years at Whitgift School holding a number of posts including Head of Department and Senior Master. After retirement he worked part time as a careers adviser for Cambridge Occupational Analysts, visiting well over 30 schools throughout England and helping hundreds of young people with career and subject choices. For several years he took tours to France and Germany for Riviera Travel Ltd.
Peter Sutherland (MA Oxon. PGCE) read Modern Languages at Oxford University. He then became a solicitor with a leading City firm before turning to teaching.
He has a PGCE from York University and was a boarding housemaster at Oswestry School. He taught for over 30 years at Whitgift School holding a number of posts including Head of Department and Senior Master. After retirement he worked part time as a careers adviser for Cambridge Occupational Analysts, visiting well over 30 schools throughout England and helping hundreds of young people with career and subject choices. For several years he took tours to France and Germany for Riviera Travel Ltd.
Finance Manager
Anne is a highly skilled Finance Manager with considerable experience working in accounts and administration in local government. She joined Sutherland Education in 2013. After proving to be highly successful academically in her education in Sri Lanka, she went on to gain a Chartered Accountant qualification with specialisms in Financial Management, Business, Maths and Statistics.
Her love of working to achieve the wellbeing of young students means the thread of our ethos runs through the management of finance. Devoted to looking after her family, her main interest is reading.
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Anne’s choice of quote:“Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Roy T. Bennett
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Homestay guardians
Lorna has had over 20 years working with young people in a large secondary school serving as both School Counsellor and Wellbeing Officer. She is well trained in safeguarding and has an OCN qualification in counselling.
Lorna has been hosting international students for over ten years and has been a key guardian with Sutherland Education for over four years. She is always available, as our homestay guardian advisor and a key guardian, to provide advice to homestay guardians, and students alike. Her great strengths lie in areas such as restorative justice and being peacemaker, diplomat, empathiser and guide. Lorna loves walking, travelling, reading, artwork, gardening and socialising – and, of course, her family (married for 30 years), and two cocker spaniels and three cats! Her daughter is currently studying for a PHD at Cambridge University.
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“I love working with young people, helping them to feel safe and secure. “
Lorna’s choice of quote:“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I love working with young people, helping them to feel safe and secure. “
Lorna’s choice of quote:“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
Key guardian
With a degree in International Business, Spanish & French, experience in tutoring at A-level, English language teaching in France, hosting international students since 2016, and being a mother of five as well as a course coordinator with the Family Development Foundation (familydevelopment.org.uk), Nathalie proves the saying, if you want something doing, ask a busy person.
She has all the experience to make right decisions and provide good guidance to families and students and adds a special dynamic to our team. She has completed 2 Safeguarding courses.
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“As a mother of 5 young sons, and married for 10 years, I know just how important it is to parents that their children feel comfortable, safe and happy when away from home. We open our doors to international students in the hope of offering a welcoming and caring home to any child who needs one, giving them a place they can truly feel is a home away from home. As a result of hosting we now have many new friends dotted around the world who we hope to see again someday, and a couple who we have already met in their home-countries! It is these desires and experience that drive my role as a Key Guardian, helping to make sure the recruitment and allocation of families goes as well and as smoothly as possible., and is right for each student. As a large family, our days are busy and exciting days. Between the children’s activities, we like to plan adventures and trips exploring new places as well as our favourite spots such as the beach, paddle boat trips up the river, and country walks. In my spare time I enjoy photography, art, singing and playing the flute as well as seeing family and friends. Our latest adventure was a 5 week road-trip through France. Nathalie’s quotes:“Do small things with great love” – Mother Teresa
“The happiest people do not have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have” – anonymous
“Do small things with great love” – Mother Teresa
“The happiest people do not have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have” – anonymous
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Ann Doyle has been involved with Sutherland Education guardianship since 2004. Her introduction was through being a Governor at Bromsgrove School, as well as two local primary schools. She served as a District Councillor for 21 years and has been Chairman of Council. Ann was also a Company Director for a number of years.
She has three adult sons who boarded at independent schools and Ann is all too familiar with how challenging attending boarding school in a different country might be for international students. Ann has six grandchildren.
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In her many years with SE Ann has had more than 20 children from all over the country attending different independent schools; some of them from 13 years old through to their graduation. Many still keep in touch with Ann through email and Facebook
I strongly believe that guardianship is more important than ever in this world of enormous economic and technological advances. It is vital that young people, living many miles away from their parents, always have someone close by to turn to outside of school, for assistance whether personal or otherwise. Anne’s choice of quotes:“Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today” – Benjamin Franklin
“Change the world by being yourself” – Amy Poehler
“Every moment is a fresh beginning” – T.S Eliot
In her many years with SE Ann has had more than 20 children from all over the country attending different independent schools; some of them from 13 years old through to their graduation. Many still keep in touch with Ann through email and Facebook
I strongly believe that guardianship is more important than ever in this world of enormous economic and technological advances. It is vital that young people, living many miles away from their parents, always have someone close by to turn to outside of school, for assistance whether personal or otherwise.Anne’s choice of quotes:“Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today” – Benjamin Franklin
“Change the world by being yourself” – Amy Poehler
“Every moment is a fresh beginning” – T.S Eliot
BSc Business Management
Rika entered Sutherland Education guardianship in 1992 aged 15. Having attended schools in Japan and New Zealand, she started her education in the UK at City of London Freemen’s School in Surrey where she completed GCSEs and A-levels. After finishing A-levels, she went to King’s College, University of London where she obtained her first degree in Business Management.
Before giving up professional roles to raise a family, she worked in UK government for the Department of International Trade and the equivalent Japanese government organisation. She also worked on the Japanese equity desk of an American investment bank to enhance links between Japanese companies and overseas investors.
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She has two teenage children – a daughter and a son. She is a Japanese language tutor at Whitgift School. Previously, she has also worked as an assistant teacher at pre-prep and primary school levels.
Fully instructed in the safeguarding of children, she has experience in working with children with special needs and adapting to their individual circumstances. She also has a certificate in piano teaching from the Piano Teachers’ Course. She is, in every way, a very special member of our team, bringing her unique experience to the role.
She has two teenage children – a daughter and a son. She is a Japanese language tutor at Whitgift School. Previously, she has also worked as an assistant teacher at pre-prep and primary school levels.
Fully instructed in the safeguarding of children, she has experience in working with children with special needs and adapting to their individual circumstances. She also has a certificate in piano teaching from the Piano Teachers’ Course. She is, in every way, a very special member of our team, bringing her unique experience to the role.
Key Guardians
Karen’s career began in the voluntary sector, providing support to travellers who suffered crimes whilst using transport networks across the country. She moved on to provide direct emotional support and practical help for victims of a range of serious crimes in central London. She also ran a service at Crown court for victims and witnesses attending giving evidence. Her work concluded with a role involving setting up support services at Coroners courts across the country.
She began training as a Gestalt Counsellor, eventually establishing a private practice several years ago. She also began working as a part-time Exam Invigilator at several London universities. She currently continues working with clients, as well as her invigilation duties at a private girls school in Surrey.
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She is a mother of three – with two sons who previously graduated University, and a daughter who is currently beginning her second year at Cambridge university.
Her hobbies include – travel, photography, contemporary African art and gardening.
She is a mother of three – with two sons who previously graduated University, and a daughter who is currently beginning her second year at Cambridge university.
Her hobbies include – travel, photography, contemporary African art and gardening.
Key Guardians
Jenny’s experience with boarding school students started as a child where she was brought up within a large school due to her parents ‘profession’.
She has carried on the passion to help each child achieve their goals and to believe in themselves through many jobs; teaching EFL (English as a foreign language) and gaining an MA in this field, through the role of local co-ordinator for a large guardian agency for seven years, running summer schools and short stay groups with a vast range of students from different nationalities and backgrounds, and sourcing host families who care and treat each child as if their own.
Staverton Court, Staverton, Cheltenham, GL51 0UX, Gloucestershire
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With three daughters of her own, she looks forward to taking on the role of key guardian for SE especially with such an emphasis on ‘every child matters’ being more important than ever.
With three daughters of her own, she looks forward to taking on the role of key guardian for SE especially with such an emphasis on ‘every child matters’ being more important than ever.
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Jeanette has enjoyed a varied career in music and the arts, beginning with a degree in Music from Royal Holloway, University of London. This led to a number of roles in arts management and public relations within prestigious arts organisations, both in the UK and Australia, including MCA Music Ltd, Westminster Abbey, Hyperion Records, ABC Classic FM, BBC Radio 3, and Sydney Opera House.
She worked as a freelance violinist for many years in London, and following the birth of her daughter, worked in Australia as a piano teacher. Back in the UK, as homemaker, Jeanette has continued life as a musician and pursued a career as a fine artist. She is currently a Committee Member and Trustee for her daughter’s independent school Parents’ Association…Over the years she has helped organise and run many of the events held during the school calendar and has enjoyed the aspect of meeting, working with and befriending many parents, staff, and students she perhaps wouldn’t have otherwise met.
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Jeanette’s interest in education and dedication to working with young people has been evident throughout her career. In the Music Department of Westminster Abbey, she worked very closely alongside the Westminster Abbey Choir School, and as a violinist she performed many concerts with the Young Persons Concert Foundation, a charity dedicated to bringing music into the lives of young people.
Her piano teaching career in Tasmania began with The Music Tree, an organisation dedicated to encouraging music from an early age, and this led to her working as a visiting piano teacher for a number of schools in Northern Tasmania, giving lessons from her own studio, and presenting concerts in local venues for her students to perform in.
Jeanette thoroughly enjoys working with the team at Sutherland Education, helping young international students to feel happy, safe and nurtured during their time in the UK.
“When I was approached to join Sutherland Education it felt like an opportunity to combine all my previous work experience in educational roles with my enthusiasm for meeting new people. Having attended boarding school myself, I feel particularly empathetic to the challenges of living away from home at a young age, both towards the students, and as mother myself – an innate sense of care and consideration for their parents also.”
Jeanette’s choice of quotes
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion” – 14th Dalai Lama
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable” – Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeanette’s interest in education and dedication to working with young people has been evident throughout her career. In the Music Department of Westminster Abbey, she worked very closely alongside the Westminster Abbey Choir School, and as a violinist she performed many concerts with the Young Persons Concert Foundation, a charity dedicated to bringing music into the lives of young people.
Her piano teaching career in Tasmania began with The Music Tree, an organisation dedicated to encouraging music from an early age, and this led to her working as a visiting piano teacher for a number of schools in Northern Tasmania, giving lessons from her own studio, and presenting concerts in local venues for her students to perform in.
Jeanette thoroughly enjoys working with the team at Sutherland Education, helping young international students to feel happy, safe and nurtured during their time in the UK.
“When I was approached to join Sutherland Education it felt like an opportunity to combine all my previous work experience in educational roles with my enthusiasm for meeting new people. Having attended boarding school myself, I feel particularly empathetic to the challenges of living away from home at a young age, both towards the students, and as mother myself – an innate sense of care and consideration for their parents also.”
Jeanette’s choice of quotes
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion” – 14th Dalai Lama
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable” – Ludwig van Beethoven
Homestay guardians
Born into a long line of educators, Maria’s life has been entwined with schools from the very beginning- and being in a school setting is still where she feels most at home. A Durham graduate, English teacher, CELTA qualified, and having experienced boarding school life from almost every angle, Maria is the ideal port of call for anyone navigating the independent boarding system. With three children of her own, Maria is a nurturing and supportive presence who is always ready to help and problem solve, and always with a smile. Outside of work, I am most likely to be found ferrying my children and their friends to their various clubs and activities before turning to the pool for a swim myself. My first hand experience of all things boarding has furnished me with a solid understanding of a student’s experience from (even before) the moment they arrive in the UK, and the huge significance of the guardian role within this journey.
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier’” – Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier’” – Mother Teresa
