A Survey of The School

The Asia-Pacific Experimental School of Beijing Normal University is located north to Ya Yun Cun (the Asian Game Village), on the eastern side of Litang Road and the south bank of Wenyu River. The school is mainly a boarding school for students from Grade 1 to Grade 9 (from primary level to junior level), enrolling day students. Its administration is under the guidance of Beijing Normal University, and its teaching and education affairs are supervised by the Education Burial Commission of Xicheng District. At present, there are 1500 students and more than 200 staff members in the experimental school. The school covers an area over 80 thousands square meters, total constructional area of the school is over 45 thousands square meters. There are teaching-buildings, laboratories, a science building, a library, an IT centre, a gymnasium, various classrooms for special purposes, and dormitories.

The Educational Philosophy

Being the important base of Beijing Normal University for research and reform in fundamental education, the school adopts the philosophy of “Implementing the Educational Policies of the State Thoroughly, Facing to All Students, Prioritizing the Overall Well-being of Students”, It implements the educational concepts of “Culticating Students, Serving Society, Pursuing Development, and Having the Courage to Make Innovation”. In accordance with these concepts, the school formulates its motto as “Virtue, Erudition, Beauty, Innovation”, and establishes an administrative model as “Research as a Forerunner, Teaching and Education as a Core, Logistic as Guarantee, and Quality Control”.
Under the new situaton, the school will further implement the State’s educational policies and the school’s qualities control policies. It will also follow the scientific laws of education, and provide an overall competence education. With the leadship of Beijing Normal University and the Education Commission of Xicheng District, the school will push forward its innovations in teaching and education. Based on its students and staff, based on promoting the school’s healty and harmonious development, the school will make great effort to be professional in teaching and education, ourstanding in management, large in scale, and influential as a base of fundamental education both in the world and in China.

The Construction of Faculty Team

Taking full advantage of the tremendous human resource and solid educational strength of Beijing Normal University,a number of renown teachers and backbone teachers are gathered in this team, which ensures the quality of teaching. All the teachers in the school hold a bachelor’s, even higher degree. Most of them graduated from famous domestic normal universities, such as Beijing Normal University, the Capital Normal University, the North-east Normal University, and East-China Normal University.

The Features of Education

The English Teaching Characterized by the “Bi-Subjects Interaction”
The Chinese Teaching Characterized by the “Multi-Level Reading”
The Teaching of Science Characterized by Independent Exploration
The Cultivated Education Characterized by “Self-management and Self-discipline”
School-based curriculum, focused on “Life Education”

The Optional Curriculums and Activities Characterized by Abundance and Effectiveness

To improve students’ comprehensive qualities, the school enhances its co-operations with the Teaching Affair’s Office of Beijing Normal University to develop the optional curriculums and activities. Today, the school’s primary section has up to 60 activity-groups, which are involved in arts, PE and science, while the junior section have 10 optional curriculums, which relate to 7 subjects. The excellent students of Beijing Normal University are invited to act as tutors of the school’s optional curriculums and activities.
In addition to giving students a more colourful afer-school life, the optional curriculums help students to build up a spirit of participation and cooperation. These curriculums also provide a platform for students to develop their special interests.

International Exchanges and Communications

In 2003, approved by the Foreign Affairs Office of Beijing Municipal Government, the Educational Commission of Beijing and Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, the school was certified to admit students from overseas. Currently, up to 100 overseas students are studying in this school, they are from all over the world.
The school has established long-term cooperative relations with a number of universities and schools in other countries, as well as co-sponsored summer or winter camps with them.

Accommodation and the Medical Treatment

The dormitory is the home away from home for boarding-school students. Students in this school can enjoy air-conditioning, 24-hour hot water, telephone connection and so on in their rooms. There are professional nutritionists in charge of diets to make sure that the diets can help youngsters’ healthy growth. In addition to setting up a clinic on campus, the school provides professional doctors for medical services on a 24-hour basis and also provides psychological consultancy.

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