Leadership Team

Lisamarie Hughes
Senior Principal

BEd – Early Childhood Education; DPL – Leadership; CACHE Dip – Childcare and Education; NVQ 3 – Occupational Health & Safety

EtonHouse Education Group Singapore
May 2005 – Present date

Lisa is an educator from Wales, U.K. She started her education journey 22 years ago working with children aged birth – 3 yrs in a Nursery School in the U.K. During this time, Lisa used a play based curriculum and teaching approach to provide rich and meaningful experiences for the children in her care. Looking for a new challenge, Lisa and her husband Mark moved to EtonHouse Singapore to continue their education careers in 2005 and she remains dedicated to EtonHouse as we fast forward 20 years! Lisa continued her studies in Singapore to enhance her knowledge and skills. She began as a teacher but soon moved up to take the position of Vice Principal at EtonHouse Outram. She thoroughly enjoyed this role which allowed her to advocate best practice and ensure quality learning within a caring environment for children. 

In January 2011, Lisa moved on to support our new EtonHouse International Pre-School at 718 Mountbatten Road (now known as Nature Pre-School) as the Vice Principal. Her leadership role allowed her to continue to promote quality learning environments and experiences for families under her care. Lisa then took her expertise and strong understanding of the EtonHouse culture and curriculum to EtonHouse Claymore as Principal in August 2012, ensuring that children, parents and educators build a sense of ‘belonging’ to the EtonHouse family. EtonHouse Claymore grew tremendously with a strong enrolment, quality programme and diverse International Community. After 10 years in Asia, Lisa moved back to the U.K in 2015 for one year to welcome her son into the world and operate from the U.K as an educational consultant with EtonHouse. This involved recruitment, strategic management projects and mentoring opportunities with fellow Principals. 

Lisa then brought her experience and invaluable knowledge of the EtonHouse context back to Singapore in 2016 as she joined our beautiful campus on Sentosa 10 years ago to help drive quality and memorable learning adventures for pre-school and primary students in her care. Lisa’s legacy with EtonHouse earned her a promotion to Senior Principal. Lisa enjoys collaborating on wider projects within our Educational Group and mentoring fellow leaders as part of this portfolio. She embraces a collaborative leadership approach and is driven to produce quality standards for stakeholders with her favourite motto being “Let’s make the ordinary, extraordinary!” Lisa continues to be inspired by the teaching and learning approach to education in Reggio Emilia and thoroughly enjoys exploring what this looks like within various contexts. She delivers professional development for educators and parent workshops.

After 10 years at EtonHouse Sentosa, with a proven track record for maintaining quality programmes and smooth operations, Lisa has returned to our beautiful EtonHouse Nature Pre-School, full of potential that Lisa was a part of during its early foundation. Lisa feels EtonHouse Nature is a perfect sanctuary for Early Childhood with lush sprawling gardens and enticing learning studios woven across campus. Lisa looks forward to providing innovative high standards and nurturing a thriving community as part of her vision with her latest appointment.

 Lisa has embarked on a personal and professional journey with Mindfulness. She views her career as a lifelong learning process and thrives on trending educational practices & research. She has a personal interest in education and values open communication as a tool to build trusting and respectful relationships with others.  

In her free time, she loves to spend time at East Coast Park with her family, travel across South East Asia and enjoy the incredible outdoors as much as possible!

Xue Yi
Centre Manager / Coordinator

Masters Degree Early Childhood; Bachelor Degree in Early Childhood Education; Diploma in Early Childhood Education

Xue Yi is bilingual in English and Mandarin. She is level 3 leader certified and has been engaged in the education sector since 2012. Xue Yi joins us as a driven leader educator, holding awards for outstanding curriculum implementation. Xue Yi has experience with roles that allow her to blend curriculum and campus operations together. Her current role with senior responsibilities alongside the campus head of Pre-School requires her to plan and lead school wide projects, support and manage SOP’s and licensing administration along with mentoring and supporting teachers as they embark on their class journey each year to implement the curriculum.

Xue Yi views leadership as a mutual and respectful exchange with all stakeholders, also seeing herself as a lifelong learner who values perspectives. Xue Yi highly values collaboration and sees this as a culture that can be nurtured in Pre-School.

Xue Yi believes relationships are the cornerstone of all successful interaction and is driven to build a strong rapport with everyone on campus. Xue Yi has a demonstrated background working alongside children, teachers and children and seeks roles where learning is child focused and decisions are driven for children’s best interests.

Xue Yi describes children as ‘brave and capable learners who thrive with the right support and understanding’. Xue Yi is excited about our Reggio inspired approach and sees this as “a way of living” as we look at their best practices and consider this for Singapore and EtonHouse.

Xue Yi works well under pressure and believes her organisational skills and communication style paves the way for offering high service standards. 

We look forward to welcoming Xue Yi to EtonHouse Nature. Xue Yi will work alongside our Senior Principal Ms Lisa, ensuring well rounded campus support. 

Kelly Foo
Core Teacher
Senior Early Years Teacher

Kelly has been a teacher with EtonHouse Sentosa for 9 years. She has a Bachelor Degree in Early Years Education and a Diploma in Early Childhood Education. 

Kelly has enjoyed a very successful career teaching Nursery classes with EtonHouse. She complements the programmes via her International teaching experience at EtonHouse Malaysia and her play based inquiry approach teaching chapter at Hampton Pre-School in Singapore. Across her 13 year teaching career so far, Kelly has worked across the spectrum of early years with children from 18 months to 6 year olds. 

Kelly is trilingual with English, Mandarin and Malay language as part of her repertoire. Kelly is considered a lead role model on campus with regards to Reggio inspired teaching practices and Environments as she continues to bring new ideas to add value to our hands-on inquiry programme for pre-school learners.

Kelly was nominated in the last school year to represent our EtonHouse Sentosa campus for the Reggio Emilia study trip in Italy. Kelly was a valuable member of this delegation, visiting Reggio Emilia schools and attending conferences across a one week period. 

Kelly supports workshops for teachers and parents in relation to Reggio inspired teaching and sensory play. Kelly also mentors fellow colleagues with regards to early learning classroom design and teaching and learning immersive experiences as our Senior Nursery Years Teacher.

Kelly views herself as an educator who helps to scaffold children’s learning in the early years. She feels that each child should be respected as a unique individual who is full of potential. Kelly strongly believes we have a duty and responsibility to provide children with positive learning experiences that allows them to build a love for school life and learning. She is a teacher researcher and thoroughly enjoys studying effective teaching pedagogies that will enhance each child’s development.

Kelly places priority on respectful interactions with children and close communication and partnership with families. She feels close communication with parents ensures every child is well supported and celebrated in this special window of childhood.  

Kelly is very excited to meet her class learners who she often fondly refers to as ‘friends!’ 

Kelly also enjoys baking, travelling and volunteering as activities of interest in her free time.