Toby Dean - VP Wellbeing Upper School The VP Wellbeing at the Upper School is a new position. What exactly will be your role and what are your responsibilities? My role will be to enhance all aspects of student wellbeing throughout the Upper school, by developing a comprehensive wellbeing programme, raising whole-school wellbeing outcomes, and ensuring the promotion and provision of a high-quality physical and emotional learning environment with high expectations for health and wellbeing. I want all our students to feel safe and be encouraged, and have the opportunity to flourish. 
 How do you hope to impact the development of ISF into the future? For me the most important role schools have to play is to develop the social and emotional skills, character, knowledge and behaviours of children to enable them to build resilience and to flourish for the rest of their lives. What drew you to a career in education and how long have you been teaching? I intially wanted to be a sports journalist and then after university as sports psychologist however accidentally fell into education and have loved every minute of the last 16 years. Long may it continue.
Kelly-Jo Dean - VP Wellbeing Junior School This year I am excited to embark on the brand new role of Vice Principal of Student Wellbeing. The PYP Programme at the Junior School already has a big emphasis on developing the whole child, and in my new role I shall be finding ways to enhance what the school already does to support the emotional, social and physical development of every child. Wellbeing encompasses many things and my role will work closely alongside the VP of learning, as meaningful learning and accomplishment are important elements in ensuring all children


flourish at ISF. When I was at school I was never taught how to deal with emotions, how to work in a group and find ways to overcome conflict, how to show resilience in the face of challenge or how to maintain a healthy mind and body. I therefore feel like we are privileged to be at a school that is placing emphasis on teaching these important life skills.