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Carla

Carla Pahl – Managing Director

Carla has owned and operated Early Childhood Education centres in Hong Kong for more than 15 years. Originally from Australia, Carla is a qualified paediatric registered nurse, a qualified and experienced midwife (ACM) and holds a Neonatal certificate. Carla has been a certified infant massage instructor with the International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) for 10 years. Carla trained to become a Neuro development therapist in Melbourne Australia in 1997 and has continued to work passionately in this field of Early years motor, sensory development. A mother of four, Carla’s classes are energetic, dynamic and full of excellent parent/carer advice and information. Right from her specialist birth coaching through to newborn babies, pre-walkers, toddlers and kindergarteners Carla’s knowledge has been and continues to be a great resource to Hong Kong parents.

Carla believes in the importance of Early Years foundations to be laid correctly with people who understand and are professionally trained in the area of Early Years foundation teaching they are working in. Carla has a team of professionally qualified and experienced Educators working with her and her affiliation with qualified and registered specialist teachers, has enabled Just Juniors to expand into kindergarten’s, primary schools and specialist leaning programs for children and families struggling with school life.

In her down time, Carla is always singing a tune or playing instruments with toddlers during one of her busy but fun Music Together sessions. Carla became a licensed teacher/director in April 2006 (just 8 weeks before giving birth to her fourth child Scarlett at home in Hong Kong). Carla has written many articles and spoken on many forums as well as being a guest writer for Beijing Parents magazine. Carla hosted a workshop for the World Conference for Early Years educators in Hong Kong last July. Before selling her franchise company in 2001, Carla was the original owner of Toddler Kindy Gymbaroo in Hong Kong, the first to introduce sensory motor classes to the territory.