Sam Jones, the new Academic Assistant Head for the Upper Secondary School, has been working at Wuxi Dipont School of Arts and Science since its foundation in 2018. Mr. Jones has been Head of Mathematics at DSAS for the past three years, and has also held other positions including Head of Bowen House, Pastoral Coordinator (G9-12) and ICC Academic Coordinator. Mr. Jones has been teaching in China since 2011, spending two years as Head of Mathematics at our partner school, Nanjing Foreign Language School, before joining DSAS.

Mr. Jones has a first-class honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Liverpool, as well as a PGCE and Masters in Education (Distinction) from the University of Sunderland. Mr. Jones has settled well into life in Wuxi, where he enjoys cycling around the scenic routes by the Taihu wetlands on weekends.

Mr. Jones holds a strong passion for Mathematics, and believes that Mathematics should not be kept to the classroom but is best enjoyed when brought to life! He has been central to the organization of several school events, including the annual Pi Day House activities, Maths project weeks in both the International and Bilingual schools, as well as the Mathematician of the Month awards for every grade level. Furthermore, Mr. Jones enjoys encouraging students to enter international Mathematics competitions, and as such the school runs the University of Waterloo contests and AMC events every year, and take 2 teams to Suzhou every February to enter the Asian High School Team Maths competition. In his new role as the Academic Assistant Head for Upper Secondary, Mr. Jones intends on working with other departments to promote similar events across multiple subject areas.

Time: Nov.26 1:30-3:00 PM
Location: International Lecture Hall
Target Audience: G1-G9 Parents
Language: English with Chinese Translation