OUR STAFF
The staff are as follows: Ben Pickles (Upper Primary Teacher & Principal) Ricci Sims (Lower Primary Teacher)
Pha Sokphin (Kindergarten Teacher & School Manager)
Sam Sovat ( Khmer Teacher )
Po Theara (Assistant Teacher)
Pha Sokmoeurn (Receptionist)
Ee Sokchea (Cook)
Pha Sainy (Security & Maintenance) Ben Pickles is a qualified teacher from the United Kingdom and a graduate of Cambridge University. He has taught a number of disciplines and a wide range of abilities and ages in his career, which has included experience in several Asian countries as well as the U.K. He has been in Cambodia almost continuously since 2004. Ricci Sims is an American who holds a Bachelor of Education degree from Franconia College, New Hampshire. He also studied Educational Psychology at University of California,
Berkeley. He taught in Vietnam for six years and China for 12, before coming to Cambodia in 2017. He joined us in January, 2020, after spending two and a half years teaching orphaned children in Kompong Speu and six months at a private school in Preah Vihear Pha Sokphin is a Cambodian and wife of the school’s principal. She learnt to speak English whilst working in Malaysia for four years. During our first year, (2016-17), when we had fewer pupils, she initially assisted the principal and then began to teach the younger children
herself once our numbers started to grow.