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What kind of school is Zhangjiagang Liangfeng International School?

Zhangjiagang Liangfeng International School is a vibrant, high-quality private bilingual school, certified by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), which provides a 15-year bilingual education from kindergarten to senior high school. Leaning on the strength of a century-old prestigious school, Jiangsu Liangfeng Senior Middle School, Zhangjiagang Liangfeng International School inherits the high-quality Liangfeng brand of education, keeps abreast with international development, continuously explores, grows and expands, provides all-round, innovative and international fundamental education for Chinese families, and explores the integrated innovative model in a bilingual environment. On the basis of implementing high-level national courses, introducing international standard English courses and subject courses, integrating the advantages of Chinese and Western education, and cultivating physical and mental health, academic excellence, elegant temperament, national roots, and a global perspective from a university perspective and an international perspective. The elite talents, to create Chinese internationals and international Chinese.

What kind of students are suitable forZhangjiagang Liangfeng International School? What are the admission requirements?

As an international bilingual school, we hope to meet students who love learning, are full of curiosity, love to ask questions, have good study habits, and have basic self-directed learning and inquiry skills. Both parents have a strong sense of responsibility for their children's education, strong family values, and a clearer expectation for short-term learning performance and long-term learning ability development. Families with relatively clear expectations can adapt to the pace of bilingual teaching.

Regardless of household registration, healthy children who meet the school age can apply to our school.

How is the school's faculty?

The school has strong teachers. There are currently 106 faculty members in the school, including 52 Chinese teachers and 22 foreign teachers. Teachers of kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, and high school are openly recruited by the school. Most Chinese teachers are graduates from 985 or 211 universities, or have overseas study backgrounds, and 50% have more than five years of teaching experience. Among them, there are many academic leaders in Suzhou, Zhangjiagang City's subject leaders, Zhangjiagang City's teaching experts, and the proportion of backbone teachers is as high as 50%. The foreign teachers are strictly selected. They all hold professional teacher qualification certificates and enjoy a good reputation. They have more than 2 years of teaching experience. They come from a country where English is a native language, have a bachelor degree or above, and have rich IB and international teaching experience.

What is the source of students in the school?

At present, there are more than 400 students in the school, from 8 countries around the world, the quality of students is excellent, and the style of study is pure.

What are the characteristics of the school curriculum?

1. Based on the national curriculum, consolidate subject teaching.

2. Cultivate students' bilingual language ability, namely Chinese and English.

3. Take English characteristics as the starting point to cultivate students' excellent communication skills and literary appreciation.

4. Introduce international curriculum elements into the framework of extended courses and inquiry-based courses.

We provide a language environment where both Chinese and English coexist. Chinese English teachers emphasize students' mastery of vocabulary and grammar; while foreign teachers cultivate students' special skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Sound, physical, beauty, and inquiry courses are taught by Chinese teachers alone or bilingually taught by Chinese and foreign teachers to infiltrate Chinese and English classroom language and professional vocabulary.

We encourage students to participate in activities and project learning organized by Chinese and foreign inter-ministerial organizations, expand their learning areas, exchange cultures in different places, and exercise their interpersonal and social communication skills.

What quality activities does the school hold?

The school organizes a variety of quality activities, including a series of activities, such as sports festivals, art festivals, New Year carnivals, Christmas bazaars, etc., organizes science into campus, museum exhibitions into campus, entrepreneurs into campus and other celebrity lecture hall activities, and provides Model United Nations , Business games, city badminton, basketball games, swimming games and other opportunities, to provide greater space for the growth of children.

The school has rich courses and many activities. How to ensure academic excellence?

The school always firmly believes that letting children fall in love with the school, inspiring children's inner learning motivation, and developing children's non-intellectual factors is an important guarantee for academic excellence. Abundant courses and colorful activities are themselves part of the academic work. As long as they are planned and organized properly, they will not affect academic performance, but will greatly promote and improve academic performance.

At the same time, the school adheres to small-class teaching, with about 20 students in each class. Each student has a high share of resources. Personalized tutoring and personalized learning have become the norm. The school’s teachers are very strong, the teaching level is high, and the professionalism is strong. .

How is the student's academic burden?

The school upholds advanced educational concepts, and strives to achieve the unity of quality education and excellent advancement, from hard learning to joyful learning. Through arranging rich courses, a large number of activities and sufficient time for self-government, students can combine work with rest and feel happy. The school has strict control over homework and does not increase academic performance by increasing the burden on students and parents.

What are the accommodation conditions of the school? What grade can I live in?

The school provides a dormitory for two students. All dormitory washrooms are separated from the dormitory, separated from dry and wet. Equipped with a dormitory teacher who will be on duty and management in the dormitory every night. The school kindergarten and elementary school do not provide accommodation; middle and high schools provide accommodation.

How does Zhangjiagang Liangfeng International School reflect China's basic education disciplines in its teaching?

From kindergarten to high school, we pay great attention to domestic basic education. The kindergarten follows the development guidelines for children aged 3-6 and offers courses in five major areas. The curriculum of elementary and junior high schools is based on the Chinese national curriculum, taking into account the advantages of Chinese and Western education and integrating resources. High schools offer Chinese language and literature courses to cultivate students' Chinese language and cultural literacy.

In the elementary and junior department of our school, we will expand, extend and supplement the curriculum and teaching materials prescribed by the state, and deconstruct and reorganize various learning materials with the learning standards of each subject as the goal, such as science and other subjects. It is presented in the form of bilingual learning materials, with the relevant requirements of national and international high school courses as the training and learning objectives, and is implemented in stages and levels in the elementary and beginner stages. The vertical connection of various subjects and courses each year is the focus of teaching and research. Through curriculum design, the assessment is accurate to every unit and every class hour, and this connection will produce good learning effects.

How does Zhangjiagang Liangfeng International School help students apply for foreign universities?

When we are in the tenth grade, we will offer guidance courses to help students understand the requirements for applying to different universities, covering students' academic guidance and suggestions, standardized test recommendations, and family guidance services. At the same time, the school will also hold regular parent meetings to communicate with parents the expectations of their children in a timely manner. Our school has excellent educational resources in the United Kingdom and the United States. The group has regular exchanges with some school districts in the United States and the United States. These optimized resources will play an important role in students' advancement.

What is the unique educational method of Zhangjiagang Liangfeng International School and its advantages compared with other schools?

Our school insists on small classes and bilingual teaching. Teachers can pay attention to the growth of each student, Chinese-foreign cooperative teaching, and immersive training of students' Chinese-English bilingual ability and multicultural understanding.

Our school pays attention to "holistic education", cultivates students' comprehensive literacy, and enables students to actively respond to the ever-changing society.

Teachers in our school always respect students and do not label students based on their performance. They believe that each student has its own shining points, and teachers will focus on exploring each student's potential.

What are the rich interest courses of Zhangjiagang Liangfeng International School? Does it only focus on students' academic performance?

Our school offers extension courses such as swimming, picture book reading, CCA, etc., all of which start with students’ interests, attach importance to the organic connection of various learning fields, and promote students to form a reasonable cognitive structure.

At the same time, we put special emphasis on cultivating students’ behavioral habits. Kindergartens and elementary schools have established foster education, corridor walking etiquette, and volume control etiquette.

In addition to academic studies, the cultivation of students' personal qualities and interests is also very important, so that students should know how to live while studying.

When is the best time to start an international course?

1 Transfer to primary school

It varies from person to person and from family to family. If the family is very clear about the child’s future study direction and training goals, the child is also prepared in all aspects and can be considered when the child is younger. If it is not particularly clear, you can focus on cultivating abilities in some core disciplines and prepare for future transfers. Many families choose to switch from public to private bilingualism in the third and fourth grades of elementary school, and spend two to three years to prepare for entering middle school in terms of language and learning methods.

2 Xiaoshengchu

Many families choose to transition between 5 and 6 years. At this time, students develop basic learning habits and transition into a new system and new school will be more natural. There are also a small number of families who find that their children are not adapted to schools within the system after entering junior high school and choose to transfer to schools outside the system. These families and children need to spend extra time and sustained energy to make up for the lack of foundation in certain subjects. Take a long time to adapt to the problem of transforming learning methods.

3 Initial rise

At this stage, students are required to have a very good learning foundation, have a strong learning motivation, and be clear about their future study goals, and allocate the limited three-year study time to daily study, standardized examinations and other preparation activities for admission. Make every effort to achieve goals in every aspect. If the learning motivation is not strong, the learning habits are not good, and the learning foundation is still very lacking, the lack of one of the three will have a great impact on the result of the final overseas study. Because academic performance cannot come by surprise in the end, whether it is a university entrance exam at home or abroad, never expect to become a talent without hard work. The probability of learning without hard work is extremely low. Only perseverance can achieve the goal.

What are the differences between A level/IB/AP in international courses?

These three international programs can help different students enter overseas universities. High school students already have strong learning abilities, and should choose the high school project that can best use their strengths according to their academic abilities, interests, and future direction of study. IBDP is a pre-university program of the International Baccalaureate, which is recognized globally and favored by university admissions officers. A-level is a British high school curriculum, which provides another way to success for some students with advantageous projects. However, if they only study and test a few subjects, they may be lacking in ability and cannot adapt to studying at university. Life, therefore, A-level students need to be balanced in the cultivation of other soft powers in high school. As a pre-university course, AP is not low in difficulty and can be icing on the cake for students going to the United States. However, in addition to AP subject study and examinations, other high school subject courses need to be well designed and matched for individual students.

How to choose an international course suitable for children?

There is no best education in the world, only education that is more suitable for children, or education that parents choose for their children.

On the issue of education, the most important thing is how to achieve the essence of education and the purpose of education, how to train children to be able to think independently, have a sense of responsibility, have a professional and versatile person, have fun in life, and be able to enjoy life freely Of a real and complete person.

International courses are not good or bad, only suitable or not. When choosing a course, parents and students should fully understand the setting and evaluation methods of the international course, as well as the strength of the school that offers this course.

No matter what curriculum system the child accepts, choose the right one, and then stick to it, you will gain something.

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