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Schools offer welcome to new year

August 28, 2013, Wednesday | Print Edition

Shanghai Community International School (SCIS) welcomes back over 2,500 students from over 63 nationalities this 18th year in our school’s history. SCIS celebrates the positive community experience in completing its self-study and evaluation that has led to another successful full term, 6-year WASC re-accreditation.  The WASC report highlighted SCIS’s commitment to excellence, but also recognized our greatest accomplishment, which is a commitment to a nurturing and caring environment that focuses individualized attention on our students and parents. 

Summer also brought forth another stellar year for college admissions and IB results. All SCIS students take IB coursework and the Class of 2013 averaged 20 percent above the worldwide IB average. Students were accepted with scholarships to top academic, art, and music colleges including Oxford, Emory, University of Melbourne, SCAD, and Berklee College of Music. Our approach is simple: We provide opportunities that are just right.

Jeff Stubbs is superintendent of Shanghai Community International School.

For all of us, students and teachers alike, the new school year is a path not traveled yet. In one year’s time it will be gone, a memory, and what of it will we remember?

For students it is the one opportunity you will have to be a member of G1 or G7 or G12. For teachers, it is the one opportunity that we will have to influence, guide, support, challenge and learn with our students in this particular context.

Our wish for students is that you seize the opportunity in whatever grade you are to make this academic year your best so far. Take all opportunities offered to learn new things, to learn in different ways, to cooperate with your teachers and other students. But remember also that a fully developed human being is not someone who knows a great deal, but someone who knows a great deal and who has also developed a personality and character which contributes constructively to their grade, class, learning group and school community. In June 2014 we hope you can say that you gave it your all.

    Zhang Hong and Martin Donnellan are co-principals of Hongqiao campus of Shanghai United International School.

This year is WISS’s eighth anniversary and we are bigger and better than ever, with new sports, arts and robotics facilities to help fire the imaginations of our young people. As an all-IB school, we pride ourselves on diversity: students from 45 countries and hosting programs in 11 different languages. Our sporting Tigers are back with a roar as we field more teams than ever before, and are poised for a year of success. There is so much to add to our academic achievements to keep inspiring and challenging our students – the Premier League Stoke City Football Club, international award winning music, our choir performing at Disneyland, service work in Cambodia, Borneo, and Kenya, as well as helping others every week in our local community.

Tom Kline is director of Western International School of Shanghai.

Our school was founded in 2004 and as we enter our 10th year we have a vibrant and highly successful community serving 1,450 students and families. August is exciting. Development programs are completed, examination results published and the school year begins.

Our new secondary building opened in 2011 and refurbishment of the primary building has created state-of-the-art learning environments.

We are proud of our students, who are the best testimony to the success of our highly qualified and inspirational staff. Academic results are important measures of our success. We have high aspirations and students have again produced outstanding results. The average score of IB Academy graduates was 35.5 out of 45 (worldwide average 29) and they have secured places at prestigious universities such as Oxford and Notre Dame.

Kevin Foyle is principal of British International School Shanghai, Puxi campus.

Seeing the ever-changing Shanghai skyline, we marvel at how men and women use their talents to create such beautiful landmarks. A sketch on paper becomes reality as individuals collaborate to make the vision a reality. New school years are like that too, a blank canvas filled with the wonder of what will be.

Sixteen years ago, a dream became a reality when Concordia International School Shanghai opened its doors. Concordia has grown from the 22 students and 17 faculty to over 1,225 students in preschool through grade 12, served by 150-plus faculty on a fantastic campus in Jinqiao. Within a supportive community that inspires personal excellence, our students experience an unsurpassed, holistic education both inside and outside the classroom. We are blessed to teach graduates who attend the world’s best colleges and who continue on to make significant contributions across the globe.

Each year at this time, I am humbled to watch the energy on campus as we prepare to open our doors. It’s time to color this year’s blank canvas with passionate experiences.

On behalf of my fellow YCIS superintendents and YCIS Shanghai co-principals, we would like to wish all students, families, teachers and staff an exciting and successful year ahead. As the oldest, private international school in Shanghai, YCIS is very familiar with the emotions international families experience as they begin a new school year, many of them for the first time in China. We look forward to providing another year of excellent international education, something that we believe begins with what is inside the child, and that leads to the nurturing of a bilingual, multicultural, and global-minded individual, for all of our students.

Nanci Shaw is superintendent of YCIS Shanghai Secondary and YCIS Beijing.

 

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