Educated at Durham University, Kathryn joined us last year from a Scottish boarding school where she was Housemistress to 65 girls for 7 years prior to arriving here. She is a qualified French teacher and has taught languages to students aged eight to eighteen years old for the past fourteen years. A keen netballer, Kathryn also coaches netball at our school to both the Secondary and Junior girls; taking the girls off to matches and tournaments around Shanghai at the weekends.
Salam was born in Germany and due to her parents' heritage was raised bilingually with both German and Arabic being her native languages. During her university studies in Duisburg, Germany, she visited England for the first time to gain work experience and immerse herself in the language as part of her degree. She met her now husband Kevin whilst there and decided to move to England after completion of her university studies. She settled down in England, started a family with Kevin and became proud mum to Anders. She has been teaching German, French and some Geography for the past eleven years at schools in England and at her last position she has also led the Languages department.