New English teacher Ms. Suzanne Sweeney will be teaching two freshman sections of academic and one of honors.

Moving to a different state, starting a new job, and getting married are major life events that are part of this year for new ninth grade English Teacher Ms. Suzanne Sweeney. According to her, “a lot of good things are happening in like 30 days.”

After spending five years teaching at Morristown-Beard School in Morristown, New Jersey teaching grades six, seven, eight, 11, and 12, Sweeney is excited to come to Malvern, where her fiancé attended, to continue her career in education.

At her former school Sweeney taught a multitude of classes for her different grade levels. “Sixth to eighth grade was photography and Photoshop. Seventh and eighth grade was a writing course that they had to take that just strictly focused on different genres of writing,” she said. “And the junior and senior class was a marketing, advertising, and communications collective.”

She hopes that she can use the skills she picked up and used to teach classes such as photography or photoshop and apply them to a variety of opportunities at Malvern.

“I definitely hope to bring my photography and Photoshop skills and help out in any classes,” she said. “Marketing, advertising, and communications I think is huge because a lot of students are deciding to major in that subject.”

As a teacher, Sweeney thinks that one of the most important things for her to do is constantly continue to learn and hopes that the Malvern community allows her to pursue this goal of hers.

“I really just hope to meet as many different students as I can and obviously all the faculty and just learn from them, listen to them, see what styles of teaching they bring to their classroom… It will hopefully help me develop my lesson plans,” Sweeney said.

While the environment of an all-boys school may be unfamiliar due to Morristown-Beard being co-educational, the experience excites her. She thinks that “a different type of learning has been going on in the classroom.”

She hopes to get involved as much as possible particularly through the avenue of Malvern’s sports programs. “I would love to start coaching sports. My specialties are swimming and lacrosse. I was a division one lacrosse goalie… I’m coming off of coaching for a top New Jersey club program for the last eight years,” Sweeney said.

Sweeney also coached two swimming teams, one for boys and the other for girls, at Morristown-Beard and wants to carry on coaching as part of Malvern’s swim team.

“I’m really just looking to dive in,” she said. “I was really close with the students at my old school, so I’m really hoping that I make those relationships here.”