David Scoins  is the Centre Principal at Nanjing Foreign Language School, having transferred from Xi'an in 2008. David has taught for 25 years in public schools, specialising in maths, more maths, computing and sport. He was a housemaster for ten years, has been a sixth form tutor for more than twenty, a resident boarding tutor and has been both head of computing and director of activities. He is a qualified mountain leader and a competitive runner (still). He gives weekly assemblies and uses his experience outside teaching to help find university courses for students. He is consulted on Oxbridge applications, has written syllabus for MEI Maths, has been a quantity surveyor, a management consultant and specialist in computing applications in the construction industry, a job which included writing and publishing books. His website includes personal observations of Chinese experiences, guidance on University application and quite a lot of maths.

John Bell is a very experienced Physics teacher and former high school principal in Wales and Botswana who is here with his wife, Sue.  John taught most recently at Durham School and formerly elsewhere in England and in Zimbabwe. He has worked as an examiner and moderator for Cambridge International Examinations, Edexcel, OCR and AQA. John has a great enthusiasm for computing and technology that has supported staff and students in Gaoxin. He has established a weekly class in computer applications. John is an expert coach of rowing and despite his advanced years takes his exercise seriously still. He is a keen musician and hopes to establish a student and staff orchestra. 

Peter Snow started teaching in 1975 and has taught mathematics at several prestigious British independent schools. He made a career change in 1995 when he setup his own computer software company which evolved into serving a niche market for numerical algorithms used in derivatives trading by financial institutions. In 2007 he returned to teaching after answering a Dipont advertisement for mathematics teachers in China. He arrived in Chengdu just in time to experience a magnitude 8 earthquake, and then had the even greater shock of being placed in charge of the Chengdu Centre when it moved to a new host school in 2008. In his spare time he likes dabbling with computer software, jogging and has had a lifetime interest in sailing and everything nautical.