Senior Leadership Team
We are proud to introduce our team of teachers and leaders who are themselves life-long learners. Our teachers constantly explore and develop their skills as education professionals in order to help Bialik students develop to their full potential.
- Amanda Castelan-Starr
- Michaela Strang
- Rick McLeod
- Karen Friede
- Daphne Gaddie
- Jeremy Stowe-Lindner
- Gary Velleman
- Dan Sztrajt
- David Simmelmann
Jeremy Stowe-Lindner
Principal
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Jeremy leads the operational and strategic direction of the College, ensuring the Bialik students are high-achieving, nurtured, well-rounded and communally responsible.
Gary Velleman
Vice Principal, Head of Senior School
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Gary is responsible for the running of all aspects of the Senior School in addition to deputising for Principal, major project management and whole school logistical opportunities surrounding staffing and timetabling.
Dan Sztrajt
Assistant Principal, Pastoral Care & Head of Middle School
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Dan is responsible for pastoral care throughout the College overseeing Student Services, health & wellbeing programing, psychology and counselling provisions. As Head of Middle School, Dan is responsible for the proper conduct, management and development of the Middle School. This role supports the College Principal in leading, managing and developing the College’s educational philosophy and strategic vision.
David Simmelmann
Director of Business
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David is responsible for providing strategic advice and management of the school’s finances, property, facilities and security as well as overseeing the school’s risk management.
Daphne Gaddie
Head of the Early Learning Centre (ELC)
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Daphne is responsible for the leadership of the ELC. She oversees all aspects of the educational program, manages staff, supervises the running of the day to day operation, and liaises with families.
Rick McLeod
Activities Manager
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Rick oversees the administration of non-academic operations across all schools. This includes the school’s calendar, excursions and incursions, camps, co-curricular programs, The Shuk and management of the Gringlas Sports Centre, to name a few.
Karen Friede
Head of the Primary School
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Karen is Head of the Primary School and has a passion for nurturing curiosity and open-mindedness in all, while fostering intellectual rigour in an inclusive and flexible environment.
Michaela Strang
Assistant Principal & Director of Learning
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Michaela leads and manages the development, implementation and evaluation of the schools’ curriculum, its assessment and quality control and the professional development of staff, to enable its successful implementation. Michaela is in charge of the Cultures of Thinking pedagogy by making thinking visible and fostering a thinking disposition in our students.
Amanda Castelan-Starr
Assistant Principal & Director of Jewish Life