{"id":6019,"date":"2019-08-05T13:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T05:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2022-01-17T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T05:15:09","slug":"shahnaz-alkaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/shahnaz-alkaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of East &#038; Early Years: Shahnaz Alkaff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Name:<\/b>\u00a0Shahnaz Alkaff<br \/>\n<b>Role:\u00a0<\/b>Head of Early Years, Head of East Coast Centre, Outside Schools co-ordinator<br \/>\n<b>Qualifications:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BA\u00a0(Hons) in Early Childhood Education from South Australia University<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Early Childhood Education from Froebel Academy<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Science Technology from Singapore Polytechnic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background: <\/b>As Centre Stage&#8217;s very first staff member &#8211; asides from Pete and Ali of course &#8211;\u00a0 Shahnaz joined the team way back in 1999 as an assistant teacher, and really values the school\u2019s learning pedagogy, \u201c<em>I had worked in other schools before but I wanted to get involved in enrichment programmes &#8211; drama and learning through play looked like a lot more fun. I remember coming into Centre Stage thinking..this is a very different way of teaching. There was no restriction in how children were learning.<\/em>\u201d She is passionate about working with kids in a creative environment and leads our Early Years and Outside Schools Programmes. She is also Head of East Coast Centre at Marine Parade, which has grown to over 150 students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun fact about Shahnaz: <\/strong>She was Centre Stage&#8217;s first employee besides Pete &amp; Ali<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/category\/teachers\/\"><em>Check out the rest of the team here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name:\u00a0Shahnaz Alkaff Role:\u00a0Head of Early Years, Head of East Coast Centre, Outside Schools co-ordinator Qualifications: BA\u00a0(Hons) in Early Childhood Education from South Australia University&#8230; &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/shahnaz-alkaff\/\" class=\"moretag\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":22703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15585,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions\/15585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centre-stage.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}