Leadership Team

Jamie McNamara began his teaching career as a primary school teacher in Wandsworth in South London. Shortly after qualifying as a teacher, Jamie was recognised for his ability to teach English effectively and for his ability to use different behaviour management strategies for the benefit of the children in his classes. As such, Jamie became a leading literacy teacher in Wandsworth and supported teachers from other schools in South London develop their ability to teach English. After 3 years teaching at a school recognised as outstanding by Ofsted, Jamie decided to challenge himself and move to a local school that had been identified as failing. During his time at the school leading English, levels of Reading and Writing in the school improved and the school was moved out of special measures by Ofsted. 

Jamie has spent the last 9 years of his career teaching internationally at Dulwich College Beijing and Dulwich College Seoul. During his 6 years in Seoul, Jamie’s curriculum team received wide spread recognition in the UK for their innovative use of assessment to support learning. His team also won an international school award for the innovative development of their mathematics curriculum. 

Jamie has a Master’s Degree in Advanced Educational Practice from the Institute of Education in London and is passionate about using educational research to improve the outcome of students. 

Sun Chunxia holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Language Studies from the Southwest University. She has over 10 years in early childhood education, which has led to a deep understanding of Montessori philosophy, positive discipline, early childhood development and ESL teaching methodologies. She respects and believes that each child is exceptional and unique.

Claire Fletcher studied Psychology at the University of Glasgow before completing her PGCE in Education and, currently, her MA in Educational Leadership and Management at the University of Bath. Teaching in the UK, Claire gained valuable experience in a variety of different leadership positions. She then moved to Qatar for the opening of King’s College Doha. Here, Claire was appointed as Head of English, Head of Year and Head of House, responsible for leading large teams in curriculum and pastoral matters. Having attended an independent boarding school herself, Claire enjoys being a part of HD Qingdao’s exciting new journey. She has a passion for Quality First Teaching, developing life-long learners and building positive partnerships with parents. Outside of the classroom, Claire enjoys the performing arts and international travel. 

Li Hongxia is a famous special-grade teacher and a practical instructor of “Master Pilot Project”, an education project initiated by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.

Having been teaching for 30 years, she made a change in the traditional teaching method by incorporating her own creation of “Integrated Teaching Method”. This teaching method integrates teaching resources and reshapes teaching processes, thus greatly improves the depth and width of Chinese lessons.

What’s more, under the premise of respecting the development of talents, she created the “Happiness Classroom” curriculum system. Her monograph "Creating a Happy Classroom" was published by the Educational Science Press and then quickly became a best seller.

Her teaching innovations and educational concepts were reported by many national and provincial media, such as "People's Education", "China Education News", "China Teacher's Daily", "Contemporary Educator", "Primary School Chinese Teacher", "Shandong Education", "Teacher Monthly", "Chinese Teacher" and so on.

Li Hongxia advocates that educators should stay humble and view education in the perspective of children. In this way, children will not be "enslaved" and "restricted" by rules. What she hopes for is to start a school that is earnest for education.