Current PTA Committee

Richard Walker

PTA Chairperson(School Council)

Richard has a son at West Island School and a daughter at Kennedy School. Richard is a professor of public management and policy at the University of Hong Kong in the Department of Sociology and the Kadoorie Institute. Richard and his family have lived in Hong Kong since 1985.

Jackie Simpson

Vice Chair

Jackie has lived in Hong Kong since 1983. Jackie and her husband Chris have 2 children. Sarah attended Island School , went to university in Melbourne and is now living and working in Hong Kong. Peter is in Year 10 at West Island.
I am a UK Registered Nurse and have my own company First Aid Plus, teaching First Aid and CPR to both adults and children. I also work sometimes as the school nurse at West Island. This is my second term on the PTA committee . As a committee member I co-ordinate the Annual School Fair. I have worked with children both younger and older for a number of years and thoroughly enjoy watching them as they grow and develop into young adults.

Sangeeta Uttamchandani

Honorary Treasurer

Sangeeta has 2 sons at West Island School. Sangeeta owns a trading company exporting garments to Europe. Sangeeta has lived in Hong Kong for 35 years and went through ESF education herself!

Betty Chang

Honorary Secretary

Betty was born and bred in Hong Kong. She works in a fast moving consumer product distributor, as the Director of HK Operations. Bettys' eldest son Adrian is a fresh graduate of West Island School and is now in his first year in the University of Exeter. Her younger son Jeremy is now studying in Year 9.

Tim Hancock

Tim has lived and worked as a Solicitor in private practice in Hong Kong since 1980. His daughter Nicola joined West Island School in year 7  direct from Kennedy and is now in his second year at Edinburgh University reading Business Studies and Law. Tims' son Christopher also joined West Island School in year 7 from Kennedy and is now in his final year. Tim has siad, This willl be my last year on the commmittee, as I have run out of children!

Ella Ho

 Ella was born & educated in Hong Kong where she has taught in a local secondary school. Ella has three children, Laptin, Kelly and Sally. Ella has been volunteering at the PTA bookshop and the School Fairs since Laptin joined West Island in Year 7. Ellas' son Laptin is now studying in CUHK while Kelly and Sally are in Year 12 and Year 8 respectively.  

Wendy McCoy

Wendy describes herself as a serial expat, wendy and her family have now been away from Australia/NZ for just over twenty years, Her children have attended four British International schools in Asia 

Prasheena Mahtani

Prasheena was born and brought up in Hong Kong and worked on TVB Pearl as a television presenter and in public relations. Prasheena married and moved away from Hong Kong for 17 years and has just moved back from London with my children - one in Year 11 and one in Year 8.  Prasheena recently completed her MA in Management Studies.

Teacher Representatives of the PTA

Jane Foxcroft

Principal

 I was born in England and graduated from Sheffield University after reading EnglishLiterature.  Coming from a family of teachers (my father was Head of Science at RugbySchool and received an OBE for his service to Education) my ambition was from an early age to contribute personally to education.

 My first teaching role was in a large grammar school in Hertfordshire.  After several years of teaching English and Drama I took a sabbatical year to engage in some professional acting before returning to education.  In 1984 I was appointed as i/c keystage 4 in English at Island School and later become Head of Rutherford; a pastoral post.  I was promoted to Head of English when WestIslandSchool opened in 1991.  During 1998 I had a year in England completing a Masters Degree in Education at OxfordUniversity before returning to WestIslandSchool to be promoted to Deputy Principal in 2000 to lead “Guidance and Achievement” and spearhead the move to IB.  I am married to the Head of Mathematics at IslandSchool.  In my spare time I continue to enjoy the theatre, as well as adventure holidays and take a keen interest in wildlife.

Ian Clayton

Vice Principal

 My name is Ian Clayton and I am a vice principal at the school, teaching mainly history and some French. Before coming to WIS I was the principal of the senior school section of the  British School Manila for 8 years. During my time there I helped establish the senior school, putting in place the GCSE programme and latterly the IB programme. I helped guide the school through OfSTED inspection and IB and CIS accreditation. With me here in Hong Kong are my wife, Joana, and our two sons, Ben aged 5 and Matthew who is just 16 months. I love football and cricket and used to play them both reasonably well until old age and a bad back intervened! I look forward to working with the PTA this year.

 Paul Tough

Vice Principal

 
Louisa Webb

Our PTA Staff

(from left) Liza Pistor, Debbie Davidson, Anne Mason and Yvonne Brown