My teaching career started with pursuing my passion for travel 13 years ago. I taught English in Spain and Japan before deciding to train as a secondary school history teacher in my hometown, London.

My name is Renu Rattan and I’m from the UK. I have been living in Aotearoa for nearly three years. My teaching career started with pursuing my passion for travel 13 years ago. I taught English in Spain and Japan before deciding to train as a secondary school history teacher in my hometown, London.

I have always asked myself, in an age where information is so readily available, "how do we prepare students for the future in a world where their jobs don’t yet exist?"

I believe that the answer lies in instilling resilience, adaptability and inspiring the passion to learn in our students, which has become the core of my teaching practice here at OJC.