Dr Tessa Grigg

PhD, Dip Tch (Primary) Dip Tch (ECE)

Tessa has a wide range of experience within the Early Childhood Education field. She has taught in a Primary School, supervised a Pre-school with specialist work in the sensory motor area, worked as a Child and Family Therapist, taught adult students in the area of teaching and child development and has owned and operated a GymbaROO centre for 9 years. Tessa is the “Tessa” in Tessarose Productions, a business that has produced music for children for over 30 years.

Currently Tessa is a certified Rhythmic Movement Training Practitioner and runs a Kinesiology clinic for children and adults. Having completed a PhD focused on children’s Primitive Reflexes, Tessa is working part-time as a lecturer at the College of Education, Health and Human Development, University of Canterbury (NZ) and is the Research and Education Manager for GymbaROO-KindyROO in Australia. It keep herself in touch with today's children she still teaches a morning of pre-school music classes each week.