Maggie Sproule has taught for 18 years, in schools in Singapore and the UK, both in state and independent settings. She is currently Principal Teacher of Chinese and the Head of Swire Chinese Language Centre, Edinburgh,where she has established Chinese as a mainstay of the school’s offer to pupils. As Head of Swire Chinese Language Centre, she has turned what began as a determination to give pupils access to her own first language in the most effective way possible into one of the most successful social and cultural integration projects in Edinburgh. She is bilingual and gets by in a few more. She is currently learning Korean – justification or excuse for her binge watching K-dramas! Maggie is, besides a teacher, a creator of teaching and learning resources, a keen hillwalker and a makan enthusiast.