Nicole Liu - Our Team

Cara is from mainland China and Mandarin is her first language. She has a genuine passion for teaching Chinese, after she obtained her degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Tianjin University of Science and Technology, she continued to study at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and received her Master’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. This was followed by a PGDE in ECE from The Education University of Hong Kong.

Cara has been teaching Chinese for seven years and helps students to customize their Mandarin studies in both motive and method. Cara really enjoys teaching and taking care of children. Helping them to achieve their own milestones is one of her personal motivations. She is also able to encourage and guide her students to explore their daily life and cultivate positive values during their learning opportunities and interaction with peers and adults, which she believes is essential for children's development.

Cara likes sports, arts and music, playing drums and learning different instruments is one of her passions, and she goes to the gym everyday!

David grew up with a deep love for the outdoors, and it was this early connection to nature that first drew him toward learning and teaching. He attained his degree in Outdoor Education in Australia, where he discovered that the richest lessons often happen outside the four walls of a classroom — through reflection, challenge, and shared experiences.

For many years, David guided school groups through outdoor and adventure programmes--- ranging from rock climbing, kayaking, and skiing to camping and survival skills--- that helped students build confidence, take healthy risks, and connect physical experience to personal growth.

Drawing on this outdoor experience he brings a practical, reflective, and inclusive approach to teaching, aiming to help students connect and reinforce what they learn in class to the wider world around them.

Bringing his outdoor knowledge indoors to teach, David worked as a Teaching Assistant to gain hands-on classroom experience across multiple grade levels and subject areas. Now eager to expand his experience, he joined Bloom KKCA Academy to undertake and complete his PGCE training.

David is a firm believer in inclusive, curiosity-driven classrooms, where mistakes are welcomed as part of growth, so that every child has the space to develop a lifelong love of learning.

Phong grew up in Portland Oregon, the beautiful Pacific Northwest of the USA. As Vietnamese immigrants, his family of 8 was put in public housing in the early 80s with other immigrants from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. They found comfort in this community where everyone had the same struggles, uncertainty, and dreams of a better life while also bringing a diversity of traditions, foods, and language into this strange, scary, new, and exciting environment. Phong’s parents emphasized the importance of education and allowed them the independence to learn, not by choice but by necessity as they worked hard to provide for the family. This autonomy allowed Phong to thrive as he was constantly outside playing with his friends, exploring the neighborhood, and soon finding school enriching as it helps him answer so many of his curiosities of the world.

Phong earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon before embarking on a six-month backpacking journey across Western and Eastern Europe. This life-changing adventure shaped his worldview and deepened his appreciation for cultural and social differences, the very things that make people and communities so unique and beautiful.

Phong has always had a great passion for sports, especially basketball, so he started Tsunami Basketball in Portland Oregon. It is a program for Asian American youths to build confidence through sports as they learn fundamental skills, discipline, compete, and most importantly have fun during this process. After 12 successfully joyous years helping hundreds of kids achieve their goals, his wife’s job brought his family with three kids to Hong Kong. He brings his love for teaching kids here, with energy, joy, laughter, compassion, and kindness. After being a teaching assistant at another school in Hong Kong for four years, he’s now here at Bloom KKCA Academy, excited to make a positive impact and bring greater joy and energy to help them learn and thrive!