Luyi is a Chinese Canadian who grew up with a bicultural background. She is the University Guidance Counsellor at Wellington. Before moving to Tianjin, Luyi spent over eight years working in Canada – Victoria, Vancouver & Toronto. She first worked as an ESL/EAL teacher in a secondary school in Vancouver and then became an academic counsellor helping the international students with university applications and career planning. There, she had helped many international students to get successful entrances to some of the world top tier universities – UC Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, Stanford, UBC and etc,. With four years of teaching and counselling experiences, she was then hired to work for a famous British academy as an academic director.

Luyi is in charge of Wellington College Tianjin’s United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) and Pentathlon (USAP) courses and leads the teams that participate in the competition. Luyi has been working for the Academy over the past year, where she teaches IELTS and Debating.

Danijela is a passionate, enthusiastic, creative and dynamic Chemistry teacher here at Wellington College. Having taught Chemistry for seventeen years at a high school in Novi Sad, Serbia, Danijela has become an accomplished educator who cares deeply about her students emotional and academic growth and has a passion for supporting them in all forms for their success. Danijela taught for a year at an international (Chinese-American) school in Wuhan, before joining Wellington. Danijela holds a Bachelor’s Degree and Master Degree in Chemistry.

She is dedicated to offer a fun, interesting and meaningful introduction into science, where children have the opportunity to learn through exciting hands on experiments.

Liz Wei is Chinese and has worked for four years at an international school in Qatar, as Physical Education (PE) teacher, and another six years as PE and swim instructor at the Tianjin Rego International School. With more than ten years’ experience in international education she will be a valuable asset here at Wellington, with her knowledge of the English National Curriculum and IB PYP and MYP programmes.

Liz Wei has been with Wellington for many years. In this period, she has proven to be an inspiring and highly skilled PE and swimming instructor. Besides the regular PE swim classes, on Saturdays, Liz teaches three swimming classes in the school's Academy Programme and the badminton course on Thursdays.

Melissa graduated from the University of South Africa, majoring in English and Psychology. She then emigrated to the UK and has been teaching for the last 17 years. She has taught in a number of leading private schools as a classroom teacher in key stage 2, taken on the role of learning support coordinator and Special Educational Needs Coordinator, and has worked for Pearsons as a key stage 2 examiner. She has a passion for drama and sport and enjoyed directing annual Junior School musical productions as well as coaching girls' sports.