Written by: Damien Hehir, Mary Yu and Kian Ji
We regret to inform you that Ms. Amy Yang, our Head of Secondary Chinese, will leave YCIS Pudong at the end of this academic year to move to Hong Kong with her family. Ms. Yang joined YCIS Pudong in 2005 and has taken on various roles, such as Primary Chinese Co-Teacher, Secondary Chinese Teacher, Secondary Chinese as an Additional Language Group Leader, Chinese Coordinator, and most recently as the Head of Secondary Chinese. Whilst we will be sorry to see Ms. Yang leave, we are deeply grateful for her immense contributions over the past 16 years here at Pudong. She has made significant contributions to the Secondary Leadership Team, the Chinese programme, the positive learning culture at Century Park Campus and our Alumni. We greatly appreciate her strong work ethic and dedication We will definitely miss Ms. Yang and we wish her and her family the very best in their future endeavors, both professionally and personally.
We also would like to take this opportunity to announce that Ms. Teresa Tu will become the new Head of Secondary Chinese effective August 1, 2021. Ms. Tu joined our Secondary programme in 2007 as a Chinese teacher and was promoted to Chinese as an Additional Language Group Leader in 2010. She has experienced teaching various levels from Lower to Upper Secondary, and she is an IBDP Mandarin AB Initio Examiner. Years of experience teaching the IGCSE and IBDP courses will no doubt help Ms. Tu further develop the Secondary Chinese Language and Studies curriculum. Ms. Tu will also work closely with Ms. Jane Xie and Mr. Dusten Kent, the Secondary Vice Principals, and the other school leaders to support our students in continually achieving more success. We congratulate Ms. Tu on her appointment and wish her well.