11/08/2026
🌍 Hi everyone! I’m Anna — The Traveling Teacher.
Two things have shaped most of my adult life: travel and education.
My own journey has been a little unconventional.
After school I studied tourism and worked in the travel industry. In my early twenties, like many young South Africans at the time, I headed to the UK for seasonal work, travel and adventure. Four years later I came home and took a job on a dairy farm in rural South Africa.
And that’s where something unexpected happened.
I ended up in a classroom.
Five years later, I had completed my teaching qualification — and I discovered that I loved teaching almost as much as I loved exploring the world.
In my early thirties I left South Africa again, this time for a teaching position in the UAE. What was meant to be a 3 year adventure became 13 years of teaching, learning and living internationally, before I eventually returned home after Covid.
Today, I’m building something that brings all of those experiences together.
I am the founder of The Traveling Teacher and co founder of Silvermist Learning Community. A learning space on an organic w**e farm beneath Table Mountain in Cape Town. 🌿
I honestly think it is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
I currently work with a small community of 16 children and 4 facilitators, where learning looks very different from a traditional classroom.
We spend part of our day on the academic foundations children need, but much of our learning happens through real-world projects, practical skills, nature, problem-solving, making, building, growing, exploring and being outside.
And we don't stay on the farm.
We take city school adventures — using Cape Town itself as our classroom.
A museum becomes a history lesson.
A market becomes a mathematics and economics lesson.
A mountain becomes a science classroom.
A problem we encounter can become the beginning of a project.
This is what I’m increasingly passionate about: helping families turn travel into meaningful learning experiences.
Not adding worksheets to a holiday.
But asking:
What could your child discover here that they couldn't discover at home?
I’m looking forward to meeting other families who believe that the world is one of the greatest classrooms we have.
