Hendrik Hugo is a primary school teacher from Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a BEd degree from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, where he served as a member of the Student Representative Council. After he graduated, he obtained a postgraduate diploma in management from Stellenbosch University. For the first five years of his teaching career, Hendrik taught in Cape Town and Somerset West, South Africa. During this time, he discovered his passion for writing and became a script writer for a popular educational children’s programme on South African television called Cool Catz.
In 2010 he started his international teaching career at an international school in Saudi Arabia. There Hendrik taught across Key Stage 2, and he directed nine whole school musicals, including productions of Aladdin, Mulan, The Little Mermaid, Seussical, The Wizard of Oz and The Jungle Book. He was Head of Year 5 for five years and organised and led two international school trips for KS2 pupils – one to New York City and one to Greece. Hendrik is a published author of more than thirteen children’s books, and one of his greatest passions is developing a love for reading amongst his pupils. After twelve years of teaching at a British international school in the Middle East, Hendrik was very excited to join the staff of the Hiba Primary School and the Wellington College family.
He is a keen traveller and has visited over thirty countries, but this is his first time in Mainland China.
