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Delivering a world-class, innovative curriculum for success

By Neil Hopkin | 00:01 UTC+8 August 29, 2017 | Print Edition

The British International School Shanghai was founded in Puxi in 2004, and over that time it has grown to become a well-established and highly successful learning community serving over 1,500 students and families. August is an exciting time, as vacation development programs are completed, examination results are published and the new school year begins. This year is particularly exciting as we open our new MIT-inspired centers to deliver an unrivaled STEAM curriculum for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.

We are particularly proud of our students, whose progress and achievements are the best testimony to our highly qualified and inspirational staff.

Our school has a long history of academic excellence and those results are important measures of our success, alongside the many other leadership and entrepreneurial skills that our school nurtures. We are therefore very ambitious for our students and once again they have produced outstanding results.

The graduating class of 2017 achieved an average Diploma score of over 34 points, compared with a global average of 30 points. One of our students scored the rare perfect score of 45 out of 45. A total of 18 percent of the cohort achieved marks of 40 points or better — more than treble the global average of 5 percent.

Our students have secured places at prestigious universities worldwide, such as: Cambridge University, King’s College London, UCL, UCLA, University of Texas Austin, Manchester University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, among many others. We are equally pleased with our fantastic iGCSE results, with 53 percent of papers graded A-A*, compared to UK 23 percent.

However we are most proud of our students for the hard work and dedication shown in pursuing their studies. These qualities of persistence, resilience and discipline, which contributed so significantly to the excellent grades that they have achieved, will serve them well in their academic futures.

Our collaborations with the world-renowned Juilliard performing arts center, in New York, alongside our unique collaboration with the world’s leading university for science and technology, MIT creates an unrivalled atmosphere in the British International School, Shanghai, where each student can explore their creativity, stretch their imagination and apply their understanding. We aim to produce students that will, quite simply, change the world.

So, we look forward this year to welcoming new students and returning scholars, whilst continuing to deliver on our mission to help every member of our school community be the very best that they can be. This is evident in our learning approach, where all members of our community are encouraged to “Be Ambitious.” It is this ambitious approach to learning which delivers a world-class, innovative curriculum that focuses on developing the thinking skills central to fostering life long, successful learners.

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