Our Team
Our staff of teachers are the foundation of our success as a language school. We operate a multi-disciplinary team structure, so students may be taught by multiple teachers over the course.
Our teachers know the value of working together so we meet regularly to go over lesson ideas, course structure and the needs of our students.
Because of the broad range of skills our teachers have, we can offer language tuition as well as support for school subjects like maths, Physics and Chemistry.
Native speaking and business specialist
Charles
Hodson
Charlie is originally from the UK and as well as lives with this family in Ivars d'Urgell.
He enjoys working with students to improve their spoken and written English and helping them achieve their language goals.
Charlie moved from the UK to live in Spain in 2016. He is a professional writer and also runs a company doing digital marketing.
When he's not working, Charlie enjoys visiting as many parts of Catalunya as possible and improving his Catalan.
Native primary and practical English specialist
Nik
Harte
Nik initially joined Green Valley Language School for two weeks in the Summer of 2021 to help with our Summer Camp in the Val de Boi. However, he fell in love with Catalunya and decided he wanted to spend more time here, so he joined our staff on a longer-term basis.
Nik's background is in International Human Resources, focusing on both recruitment and training with a lot of experience in designing and delivering work based training and workshops.
Like Charlie, Nik enjoys getting to know Catalunya (with a particular emphasis on food and drink) and is open to any offers of help with his Catalan language learning. He is a huge rugby fan and has played for lots of teams around the world.
Todder and primary organiser
Aida
Atero Vallverdú
Aida is 21 years old. From a young age, she played with dolls and sat them in a chair and taught them, and as she got older it became clearer and clearer that her perfect profession was teaching!
She likes to convey her happiness, joy and energy to the children and likes it when she sees them learning every day on their own, and she adds just a bit to their skills.
In her free time, she likes to play sports, hang out with her friends and have a good time with her family.
Primary team
Sandra
Mas
Sandra has been with the team for over 6 years. She joined us after returning from living in Scotland.
Sandra teaches both with the primary school team and also teaches and coordinates private lessons.
Her hobbies include photography, which she also does professionally.
Secondary team
Jordi
Mendoza
Jordi is from Barcelona, but he didn't like how stressful it was. He now prefers staying away during the week and going back there just for the weekends.
He enjoys teaching what he knows and seeing that his students level up. He is able to teach Maths, Chemistry, Physics, and more, as well as English.
Jordi has done many different jobs during his life. He has worked as a chemist, which he studied at university, but also as cherry-picker and scuba diving instructor, and more. When he is not working, Jordi loves doing sports. Among his favourites are football, padel, running and diving, which he does when not teaching.
Primary team
Antoinette
Ngeth
Antoinette has a background in accountancy, marketing and trade. She has always been eager to help students and colleagues with English structure, form and marketing translations.
She taught for pleasure in the UK and then decided to gain her teaching qualification and start her teaching career there. Antoinette enjoys tailoring her lessons to the students' needs.
She would love to support, encourage and help students on their learning path to success together.
Founder
Marta
Amenos
Marta began the school eleven years ago in 2012. Since then the school has grown to over 500 students and 12 teachers.
Marta is proud of the quality of the teaching we offer and enjoys finding ways to keep improving the experience of students.
While Marta now heads up the class scheduling, she keeps an active part in the classes that are offered and the pedagogy that is used.
Secondary and
Cambridge coordinator
Cristina
Boros
Cristina started working as an English teacher in 2012 in different academies and institutes, with both teenagers and adults. Speaking English opens doors to new opportunities, cultures and friendships.
Language allows individuals to communicate with other people from all around the world.
In 2014 she graduated in English Studies from the University of Lleida and continued her academic training with the Master's Degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training and Language Teaching, from which she graduated in 2017.
Primary
Coordinator
Pilar
Ricart
Pilar is an enthusiastic practitioner of education and she loves teaching through games.
She considers herself as funny, dedicated and a kind person.
She lived in Ireland for a while. She trained to be an early years teacher and is now studying a master's degree in learning difficulties and language disorders. She's looking forward to meeting your little boys and girls to have fun!
Administration
Anabel
Martin
Anabel runs our finance and administration team.