Head Of School
Our award winning Principal Mrs Elaine Gyechie is a creative and innovative early years specialist, who spent years designing the ultimate early years setting to best nurture, stimulate and develop young children.
A majority of this time was spent working hands on in one of London’s leading nursery chains to gain a first hand insight into what a quality child care establishment should consist of.
Having arrived in Ghana in 2016 from the United Kingdom, she committed to her vision of bringing a child focused Early Years Setting with excellent standards and values to Ghana.
From the lay out, facilities, safety measures, learning zones and most importantly the exceptional team of staff, Petits Scholars delivers quality early years education to a unique standard.
Elaine has taken her experience and vision and presented the new standard in early years education.
Elaine is a mother to 4 wonderful children who thrive under the care of Petits Scholars International. She has a profound love for children, and a passion for personal development and standards of excellence.
Her wealth of experience comes from raising her own children and 15 years working in both the health and social care, and education sectors in the UK. Elaine is an English BA honours graduate, holds a PTTLS teaching qualification, is a qualified personal development coach and an Early year’s foundation stage specialist. Her working history ranges from being a training consultant within various care homes, schools, nurseries and hospitals to Training Director for a chain of Residential care homes in the UK.
The high standards and rigorous conditions which have to be met, working under the UK’s Ofsted and Care standards agencies has given her the attention to detail and compliance knowledge to set up an environment which is safe, secure, and fulfilling to the needs of it’s children.
Her ability to train and coach a team of staff to deliver excellent care and teaching standards at Petits Scholars International, is what makes the setting the perfect home for children to thrive in.
Elaine is hands on with the day to day running of Petits Scholars International and makes it a point to form a bond with every family she meets to create a lasting partnership in the development of their children.
Elaine maintains partnerships in the UK where she is frequently updating her skills and keeping abreast with the developments in the Early years foundation stage curriculum and the Ofsted regulations. Petits Scholars International follows the UK’s EYFS and Cambridge International curriculums and practices the Ofsted rules and regulations.
Teaching Staff
Mr Bruce Baiden
Area of expertise: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and Physical Education.
Our Dynamic Infant School teacher Mr Bruce has over 5 years teaching experience. His passion, enthusiasm and creative lessons get the children excited to learn and explore typically difficult subjects.
Fun fact: Creative and good with his hands, can build and create many things from house hold recyclable materials.
“Encouraging minds to think, hands to create and hearts to love” ~ Bruce Baiden.
Miss Gifty Mensah
Areas of Expertise: Literacy, History and Geography.
Miss Gifty is our Infant School Teacher with over 7 years teaching experience. She is calm, patient and very loving with our children, engaging them in activities that bring out their creativity. Her focus is to encourage our children to be creative writers and avid readers.
Fun fact: Miss Gifty is highly artistic and can make stunning creations out of materials you least expected.
“With love and passion, one can impact generations” ~ Gifty Mensah
Mrs Patience Abangbila
Area of expertise: First steps, feeding, settling and early development.
Miss Pat is a vibrant, warm and loving member of our team caring for our children in the Tiny division of our Early Years setting. A natural child whisperer, Miss Pat is able to comfort, care for and develop our little one’s fine and gross motor skills with her soft and gentle approach.
Fun fact: Miss Pat has a unique talent of creating rhyming rap songs as a fun learning tool for her students.
“We care, we share and we shape our children’s futures” ~ Patience Abangbila
Renelvie Rostelie Mavoungou Mankou
Miss Genevieve Mensah
Area of Expertise: Phonics, Writing and Numeracy.
Miss Gennie, our buoyant Reception Class Teacher has over 10 years teaching experience in Early Years Education. Her passion for and expertise in Phonics enables our children to read with ease. At the end of the Reception year, our children are able to write and read their own graduation speeches confidently to an audience.
Fun fact: Miss Gennie is incredibly creative and is the brain behind all our beautifully designed backdrops for nativity and graduation ceremonies.
“Little minds are great explorers and adventurers” ~ Genevieve Mensah
Mrs Monica Jelimo Busienei
Area of expertise: Early numeracy skills, promoting independence, and potty training.
Miss Monica has 7 years teaching experience in Early Years Education and is the Room Leader of our Tweenie Class. She is warm, caring, flexible and patient towards our children. Her patience and flexibility give room for our children to explore their independence while she lovingly supports their learning.
Fun fact: Miss Monica originates from the beautiful country Kenya, and her teaching experience was gained in Dubai.
“What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow” ~ Monica J. Busienei
Mrs Sarah Apronti
Areas of Expertise: Phonics and Numeracy.
Our talented Preschool teacher, Miss Sarah has over 10 years teaching experience in Early Years Education, and holds a masters degree in Psychology. She is calm and very patient with our children, yet instills impeccable moral values into our little ones. She has a unique way of ensuring that our children are disciplined and well-mannered.
Fun fact: Miss Sarah has a beautiful singing voice and is an excellent MC. You can often find her on the microphone hosting many of our events here at Petits Scholars.
“It takes a big heart to help shape little minds”~ Sarah Apronti
Mr Micheal Antonio
Areas of Expertise: Music
