Kasia Grisdale

Head of English and Drama

I started my career in education long before I even graduated, first working as a Research Assistant at the University of Plymouth in the UK, where I had my first publications in the areas of Values Education, Humanities and English Literature, then conducting research into the concepts of European Education and European Identity at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

My teaching started career in 1999, from teaching English as a Foreign Language and Business English to adults. Subsequently I worked for the British School of Warsaw, where I taught English as a First Language, English Literature and Drama for five years. During this time, having attended a number of Drama workshops run by longstanding Drama practitioners from Poland and the UK, I developed a passion for Drama and pursued my interests in it by going back to the UK to qualify in this new subject. Most recently I have been working in an international school in Thailand as Head of English and Drama.

As an English and Drama teacher, naturally I feel passionately about literature and the theatre. As a kinesthetic learner, however, I am very keen on sports of all kind from walking, to hiking, to abseiling, to swimming, to kayaking, to squash and tennis, but above all yoga, which I have been practising for 8 years. I have also been known to dance Sports Rock & Roll, sketch drawings of friends and family and play bridge.