Phil Hubert visited Zhanjiang from UK again during August, September and October, his third visit over the past three years, to help local schools and to encourage them to use his immersive and activity based style in their English language teaching.
Phil is an emeritus teacher of Modern Foreign Languages, still very much involved with projects and teaching at Calthorpe Academy in Birmingham, a Ski instructor for schools, especially special needs schools, visiting France, and a keen hockey player.
Phil's visits to China started in 2010 following two 12 month visits to the UK by Lily Ye who was Chinese Language Assistant at Calthorpe School (now Calthorpe Academy) and pursuaded Phil to travel to Zhanjiang to help #20 Middle School and then #4 Middle School, (both exceptional and innovative schools led by Mr Jianping Chen their Head Teacher)
Lily, a teacher at #20 Middle School, is travelling back to Birmingham this February and this time taking her family to meet her many friends and colleagues in the UK - she is a great ambassador for England and new teaching methods in China.
We hope to see Phil next year - expecting that he qualifies for a place in the England over 65's hockey team but still finds time to visit us again and wish Lily and her family every success on her visit to the UK
