Our Teachers and Staff

Born in Val-d’Oise and raised partly in Normandy, I have from a very early age started to learn English. Growing up, I have learnt other languages over the years and I can now speak Norwegian (which I also teach), Spanish and a wee bit of Italian.
I see language learning as a video game: striving to reach new levels and honing tools and skills, enabling ourselves to unlock new worlds and new friends!

I’m an onsite French teacher for the Summer Camp and I teach online for the rest of the year. I’ve taught students from 8 to 67 and I love how each age group is a different challenge and pushes me to never run out of creative ideas.
I’ve worked in the European School in the Hague in the Netherlands with Years 7 and then in a secondary school in Spain, from Year 8 to 13. I have also opened an Instagram account aimed at French learners!
No matter who my students are, I believe that lessons should never be dull the more active we are, the more effectively we learn. Therefore, I love using games as much as I can in my lessons.

I love travelling so much, I didn’t actually intend to pursue a teaching career, I wanted to become an air hostess or a pilot but in the end, I couldn’t be happier with my choice! I’m fond of psychology, books, animals, nature, games, drawing, esoterism etc. Overall, I’m a curious and open person and I enjoy meeting new people!

My name is Angélique and I’m very happy to be part of the Morzine team this summer, as a French teacher. Before coming here, I lived for several years in Spain where I worked in a French school. I also worked in Paris, teaching students from all over the world. I love teaching, seeing students progress and having fun during lessons. My aim is for everyone to feel at ease in class, so that progress can be made in a joyful and good-humored way :)

I love the mountains, and I’m really looking forward to discovering Morzine and the surrounding area (and swimming in the lakes, of course)! I’m also an avid reader and traveler. I also love learning new languages, and one of my goals is to learn a fourth.

With a degree in French as a foreign language and linguistics, I’ve enjoyed teaching for the last twenty years. In particular, I have taught in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in Brussels.
Each class is a unique experience and an opportunity to meet people from all over the world, from all walks of life. I particularly enjoy teaching in group settings as it adds a dimension of conviviality and exchange of knowledge that you do not tend to get elsewhere.
Then it’s up to each person to make French their own in their own way, with their own accent and their own words.

Poulo is a committed and motivated teacher who loves passing on her expertise. She has been living in Thonon for 2 years with her family. She’s a very enthusiastic teacher who will inspire her pupils to learn French in a fun and inclusive way.

A psychologist with 15 years of experience in education management, I adore helping people see their potential with new skills and the satisfaction they get from learning.

My first love is cycling. It’s my mental reset after a day at the office, and after finishing the étape du tour in Morzine in 2016 I decided there was no better place to do that than here in the mountains.

I moved to Morzine in 2020, at first bringing my UK job as a Business Improvement Director in a private apprenticeship training provider before branching out and trying a few different things and then finally finding a happy place at Gallico and Alpine French School.

I’m looking forward to the adventure that will be this year’s summer camp, which is already promising to be the biggest one yet and has lots of families returning for their second time so it will be great to help them continue their learning journey.

Hey! I’m Susie, a French native speaker.
I am a teacher for children aged 5 to 8. With a degree in languages and a BAFA certificate, teaching and animation are two of my great passions! Mixing the two and turning classrooms into spaces for learning and play is my great joy!
In addition to these passions, I love meeting new people, traveling, climbing, music, and a million other things! Above all, I love life. I look forward to meeting you!

Camille

My name is Camille and I’m 25. After studying languages at university in Rennes, I was tempted by the idea of working as an assistant in the Spanish Basque Country, in a small village called Durango just outside Bilbao. I taught French in a language school and a lycée. There I had the opportunity to teach all kinds of people, pensioners, children, teenagers, and at all levels.
After this experience, I decided to do a master’s degree in language sciences to teach French as a foreign language in Nantes. During this course, I had the opportunity to do a placement at the AMI association, which aims to integrate foreigners into French society. It was a very human placement, which made me realise how difficult it is to arrive in a new country and how important it is to master the language.
I was then lucky enough to do a second placement, in Colombia, at the National Pedagogical University of Bogota. Here, I had the chance to teach French to language students. My time abroad in such a beautiful country was such a change of scenery and so culturally rich that it was one of the best years of my life.

As far as my hobbies are concerned, I’m a keen hiker, climber and cyclist, and I try my hand at a variety of sports and life experiences.

I’m not new to Morzine, as after a summer and a winter season at the Robinson bar, I’m now joining the team at The Alpine French School. I can’t wait to meet you and share our cultures!

A language professional, offering a wealth of experience in language teaching and translation.

I am bilingual and dual nationality English-French, having learned French from a young age and continued to gain a degree in European Studies specialising in French. After falling in love with France and the Rhône Alpes region, I decided to stay and have been living in the region ever since. For the last 14 years, I have lived in the Morzine area which is a truly beautiful part of France with mountains, lakes, picturesque towns and also close to Switzerland and only an hour from Geneva airport.

Since living in France, I have owned and managed several businesses and have thus gained a knowledge and insight into the French way of life and administrative system.

I started teaching English when I was at university and continued to do so in Morzine when I moved to the area. I also worked at International House language school in Geneva where I gained a wealth of experience about teaching and managing a language school. However, my heart was in the mountains so I returned to Morzine to expand Lost In Translation which has now become Alpine French School. We are now a team of 7 permanent teachers plus we have extra teachers and ‘animateurs’ who we call on when we need extra hands. We all enjoy meeting and teaching our students, who come both from the local area and further afield. They all fall in love with the beautiful scenery and our conversational, interactive style of teaching with small groups so that it doesn’t feel like being back at school! We encourage our students to speak French as much as possible during their lessons and we strive to make our lessons enjoyable as well as effective, by adapting programmes to suit the needs, level, interests and objectives of each group.

I feel like sharing a little of my background first because like most of us, I think it’s nice to know about people’s backgrounds. I did a degree in English at Rouen University and then fell in love with England, where I lived for 8 years. I qualified as a teacher in the UK and taught French both in Norfolk and near Brighton. I’ve always loved making my lessons as fun as possible (not always an easy task if you see what I mean!) and giving back students their responsibility for learning.

I then put my career on hold and travelled for 7 years. I had all the time in the world to explore human nature and reconnect with dancing. I have now created my way of combining well-being and dance and hold weekly sessions in Thonon.

Working for Alpine French School is an ongoing adventure due to the diversity of students’ backgrounds, expectations and learning abilities. The team is like a small family here and our common point is that we like to have a good laugh! My philosophy is that everybody should be taught in a way which makes them feel comfortable and which visibly enhances their progress as much as their confidence.

A business partner in Alpine French School, I manage our French Summer Camp and International Students, I supervise our teachers and the content of our courses and keep up to date with new teaching ideas to keep our courses current and innovative.

This part of the world makes me feel very privileged and I just love seeing the beauty of our mountains everyday. I have a lovely crazy dog who can’t get enough snow balls to catch and a cute happy cat! I have just started sewing (something I have been willing to do for a long time!) and am enjoying coming to grips with needles and thread.

Aged 14, I was quite nervous to move from rural France to London with my parents. Four years later, fully bilingual, at university in Edinburgh I had discovered a passion for community theatre and teaching drama. Later I realized I could use those skills to teach English as a foreign language and completed my CELTA. A twist of fate took me from Edinburgh to Seville where I taught English for the next six years to students of all ages and picked up Spanish. A chance meeting with an English die-hard snowboarder brought me back to France and the Alps. Despite only ever skied at aged 14, I fully embraced the mountain life. It also made sense to use my teaching skills to teach my mother tongue.

I am passionate about taking students on a learning journey and thrive on intercultural exchanges. I am always keen to improve my teaching skills and try to make my classes fun, enjoyable, motivating and relevant. I try to use different media such as music, short films, and animations and encourage conversations and games for all ages.

In my spare time I love skiing and snowboarding in winter, climbing, cycling and hiking in the summer. It’s great to work for the Alpine French School and combine all these passions with my love for teaching.

My wife and I moved to the Alps in 2002 and with our three daughters we have always enojoyed living in a bilingual environment. My kids are now quite grown up and having helped out in their English classes at school over many years it seemed like a natural progression to start teaching. Language is a brilliant thing to teach and whether it is with children or adults I like the emphasis to be on fun.

Outside of the classroom I love spending time in the mountains – ski touring in the Winter, cyling and swimming in the Summer – we live in a fabulous playground.

Bonjour! I’m Carole, a french native speaker. I am currently living in my hometown in Bordeaux but I enjoy traveling and above all learning about new cultures. I like teaching as much as learning a new language.

After having spent 2 years in London and graduated in English, I decided to challenge myself and learn Spanish living abroad, one year in Spain and then one year in Mexico.

I can also speak a bit of Portuguese.

In France I have taught French to students coming from countries from all over the world and abroad mainly to Spanish speakers. I have had students of all ages, children as well as teenagers and adults. I have learned to teach to group classes as well as one to one techniques. I have been teaching for 5 years now.

What I like the most about teaching is the ability to transmit my language and culture. I really like to work in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere as I think it is the key to making progress. I also love to teach through games.