Teacher Tuesday : Mr Stuart Bromley
This week we spoke to Mr Stuart Bromley, a PE/Swimming teacher who has qualifications across the PE spectrum and recently been extensively involved in Life Guard training through the delivery of the RLSS UK National Pool Lifeguard Qualification. As a young man, he once played UK National Hockey League and was a competitive Judo athlete!
How many years have you been teaching and where have you taught?
In total, I have been teaching for 21 years with 2 years spent in Educational Recruitment. After graduating from Marjons in Plymouth I started at Swanlea School in Whitechapel, London. I left there and did Recruitment for 2 years in Cardiff. Following this, I returned to teaching and moved to Garden International School KL. I left GIS and went back to the UK for a 3 years at Chislehurst & Sidcup Grammar School, Specialist Sports College which is a highly selective Grammar School. However, I missed international living and so returned to KL to work at the Alice Smith School where I was for 10 years. I left there to come to my third Malaysian International School, KIS.
What attracted you to joining KIS?
I have always worked in larger schools and so the opportunity to work in a smaller school and face the challenges that this brings professionally was a draw. As was experiencing life in Kota Kinabalu as many people had told me how wonderful Borneo is and delightful Sabahans are. I have not been disappointed!
What is your favourite sport to teach and why?
I enjoy teaching all sports. I have the most experience with Swimming, Field Hockey and Football but I have enjoyed teaching Cricket the most in England’s green and pleasant lands.
In your opinion, how does Sport / PE help develop life skills to nurture global citizens?
PE & Sport develop hidden or soft skills that are so important in all fields of work and adult life. Things such as teamwork, perseverance and goal setting. The challenge will be omnipresent in students’ adult life and there are few fields to truely test and develop these. No business, individual global citizen or group can be successful without possessing such skills.
Tell us a little known fact about you.
I won a bronze medal at the British National age group Judo Championships and played National League Hockey.
If you could meet a famous sports personality, who would you like to meet and why?
There are many sportsmen I’d like to meet and Jim Thorpe would be high up considering the achievements he made. Read about him here. However, I would like to choose to meet a sport’s administrator to see what he now makes of the movement he created; Baron Pierre De Coubertin and the modern Olympic Games.
