The people behind every lesson
Our teachers are native Mandarin speakers who complete our own training before they teach. Many also bring something extra into the classroom, from drama and theatre to film and music, which is a big part of why our lessons feel like adventures rather than drills.
What every MANDO SCHOOL teacher has
- An Enhanced DBS check
- Safeguarding training
- First aid training
- Training in our story-led approach for nurseries and primary schools
Meet the team
Fangruyi Jiang
Fangruyi has a background in Childhood Studies and Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Her lessons are patient and creative, built around stories, games and movement, and outside the classroom she plays the guzheng, a traditional Chinese instrument.
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Boyi Jiang
For Boyi, Mandarin is roots and identity, and sharing it with children is a way of bringing that heritage to life. Boyi sums up the teaching style in three words: creative, energetic and patient.
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Hadiah Salah
Hadiah's lessons are full of movement, stories and songs, so learning feels like an adventure. Her favourite moment is seeing a child light up when they use a new word for the first time.
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Yi Gou
Yi has an academic background in film and plans lessons the way a director shapes a story. Classes are immersive and multisensory, so children are drawn right into the language.
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Sunny Liu
Sunny is a theatre-maker and drama educator with a BA in Applied Theatre from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is an Associate Researcher. She has taught children from nursery to high school, using drama to make language learning fun.
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Qu Lin (Lynn)
Lynn has more than 16 years of experience in teaching and language services, and a Master's in TESOL from the University of Brighton. She has taught Mandarin to children and adults in community and mainstream schools across the UK.
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Fang Xie
Fang is from northeast China and has lived in London for more than 25 years. She has worked with children for 20 years and taught Mandarin for 12, with children of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.
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Stephanie Xiang
Stephanie began teaching Mandarin to share her language and culture with her own child. For her, a language is a living expression of culture and history, not just vocabulary and grammar.
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Ssu-Yu
Ssu-Yu grew up in Taiwan and learned many characters early from subtitled TV. That experience shapes the teaching: linking sounds with pictures to help new words stick, with a patient and approachable style.
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Hui Chen
Hui is from Jiangxi Province and studied law, contemporary culture and creative practice. She loves movement and is learning Cantonese, Norwegian, Italian and Japanese, and she teaches Mandarin to give children the same sense of a bigger world.
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