Pat Sidebotham is the mother of three children. Once a secretary to a Christian organisation in New Zealand, she later worked as the supervisor of the after-school care at a private school in Christchurch. Pat then had the joy of working with children for 23 years at another private school.
Tom Sidebotham is a mathematician and has been a maths teacher in Britain and New Zealand all his working life. He is a published author of The A to Z of Mathematics: A Basic Guide which was published by Wiley in New York. Also, he has published numerous maths textbooks for New Zealand schools with ESA in Auckland.