Kunshan Development Zone International School school profile

Kunshan Economic Development Zone International School is a 12-year modern boarding school founded by Kunshan Economic Development Zone. The school was built in 1996, covering an area of 120727 square meters, with a total construction area of 46000 square meters. There is a domestic department in Qingyang Campus and an international department in Zhonghua Garden Campus. The total number of students is more than 3,500, and there are more than 400 faculty members, including more than 270 full-time teachers.

Since 18, the school has always adhered to the principle of "love", paid attention to the healthy development of students, and adhered to the school purpose of "all for children, all for children, all for children". The teachers and students of the whole school strive to create an educational environment that students like and parents feel at ease, and strive to form the characteristics of bilingual teaching, information technology teaching, science and technology education and mental health education. A large number of students with innovative consciousness and practical ability, not only civilized accomplishment, but also solid cultural basic knowledge, as well as good manners and learning motivation, have moved from here to universities at home and abroad and from Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone to success.

The school has successively won the honors of "Kunshan Civilized Unit", "Suzhou Moral Education Demonstration School", "Suzhou Bilingual Demonstration School", "Suzhou Cultural Characteristic School", "Jiangsu Experimental Primary School" and "Jiangsu Demonstration Junior High School". It has gradually become a famous school in Kunshan, Suzhou and even southern Jiangsu.

20 12 with the continuous development of social economy in kunshan, convenient and high-quality education has been further provided for the children of employees of foreign-funded enterprises and private enterprises in the development zone and students in surrounding areas. China Garden Campus has been upgraded from the original International School International Department to an independent school. The new school uses the name of the school when it was founded, that is, Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone International School. The new schools include kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools. This is a 12-year modern private school. The school covers an area of 53,280 square meters, with a total construction area of 2711square meter. The school's teaching, sports and living quarters are relatively independent with complete facilities. There are a library, a computer room, a dance room, a music classroom, a physical and chemical laboratory, a gymnasium and a 400-meter standard round plastic track and field, and standard tennis courts, volleyball courts and gymnastics facilities are all available. Many classrooms are equipped with air conditioners, drinking fountains and electronic whiteboards. The school canteen can hold 2000 people. Each room in the three student apartments is equipped with air conditioning, high-grade beds, tables and cabinets. It creates ideal conditions for students' study, activities and life.

20 12, on the basis of summing up the previous experience in running a school, according to the characteristics of the new school, the school adjusted its school objectives, curriculum, enrollment orientation and business strategy.

Kunshan is an open and modern industrial and commercial city, which has gathered a large number of foreign experts and business managers. At the same time, hundreds of thousands or even millions of entrepreneurs and workers have come to Kunshan from all over the country. Each of them is a member of Kunshan people, and their children are the future and hope of Kunshan. How to correctly position the school-running goal of Kunshan Development Zone International School, the school board assessed the situation, gathered the wisdom of teachers, students and parents of the school, and determined the general goal of running a school that meets the requirements of modernization, suits the future talent demand of Kunshan and the actual situation of the school, that is, the school aims at cultivating modern people with China feelings and international vision, advocates science, takes promoting humanities, developing individuality and creating Excellence as the core concepts, and cultivates new people of the times with ideals and beliefs, moral principles, civilized cultivation and great demeanor; Committed to education with soul, responsible education and credible education, so that every student can get the fullest development.

According to this school goal, the school has made a careful design on the curriculum. Courses are divided into three categories: national courses, American English courses and school textbooks. National curriculum refers to the subject curriculum stipulated by the state. American English course is suitable for English textbooks in American schools. Domestic classes offer American oral English courses, which are taught by foreign teachers, while international classes and English classes offer oral communication, grammar, reading and writing. American English course is the most advantageous characteristic course in our school. It is different from ordinary bilingual schools. It is not simply learning English, but combining English learning with knowledge learning, so that students can really learn to use English correctly and skillfully in many knowledge fields in daily life. Science, society and other courses in international classes and English classes all use the original American textbooks, and foreign teachers teach in English. This is very similar to the method of mother tongue teaching, which allows students to improve their English naturally in the process of acquiring knowledge. For students with poor English foundation, the school has specially equipped teachers from China for full-time counseling. School curriculum is a school-based curriculum freely chosen by students according to their own preferences. Students can further develop their own specialties and stimulate their potential learning ability through school courses.

Since 20 12, the school has made a new orientation in the enrollment strategy, that is, accepting Chinese and foreign students at the same time, giving consideration to written examinations and interviews, and attaching importance to knowledge and morality. The basic educational ideas of the school are: paying equal attention to both Chinese and English, bilingual courses and consulting education; Exquisite small class, individual counseling, suitable sex education; Inspired creation, democratic macro, international perspective; Studying at home, studying abroad, diversified development.

In terms of business strategy, Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone International School pays attention to the life, ecology and career of all teachers and students, implements "humanistic education" in an all-round way, and makes every effort to build a six-park school of "ecological campus, humanistic campus, civilized campus, scholarly campus, safe campus and digital campus", so as to make the international school a place that all teachers and students yearn for.

The school facilities strive to be first-class and become an ideal school, home, garden and paradise for students. The school pays attention to the all-round development of students' morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

First, the school actively promotes the educational development strategy of "all staff, high quality, individualization and internationalization", pursues the purpose of all staff becoming talents, all staff taking postgraduate entrance examinations and high quality postgraduate entrance examinations, and realizes the unity of promotion and high quality.

Second, schools often organize students to participate in extracurricular activities.

First, according to the different types of activities offered by the school training center, students can choose their own projects to participate;

Second, the school attaches importance to the development of students' art and sports, and has established football teams, track and field teams, soft softball teams, dance teams and chorus teams.

Third, the school attaches importance to students' extracurricular reading, and each department has set up bookshelves at different levels, with many kinds of books. The school holds a reading festival every year, which provides conditions for students to love reading and read well.

Third, the school implements high-quality education and teaching services to lay a solid foundation for students' success. First, pay attention to personalized small class teaching. The school insists that students come in one, design one and develop one. Implement three major measures to ensure that every student can succeed.

First, adhere to the whole process of small class teaching, with about 35 students in each class. Under the same circumstances, students can get teachers' double care and face-to-face personalized service.

Initiative two, insist on offering personalized courses by classification. Excellent students implement "basic course+expanding course+excellent course"; Secondary school students implement "basic course+expansion course+interest course"; Students with learning difficulties implement "basic courses+compensation teaching courses+interest courses".

Third, adhere to the implementation of personalized learning counseling. The tutorial system is implemented for underachievers and outstanding students, and the whole process of counseling is implemented to make ordinary students become excellent and outstanding students become excellent.

In the three years since 20 12, the scale of international schools in kunshan economic and technological development zone has been expanding, with more than 200 students 1200, more than 20 teachers 120 and more than 20 foreign teachers, and the teaching quality has been steadily improved. More than 20% junior high school students took the Suzhou senior high school entrance examination, and their scores reached or exceeded Kunshan four-star junior high school. The number of high school students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan entering domestic ordinary universities is 1.000%, of which 20% enter domestic first-class universities, such as Nanda, Fudan and Shanghai Jiaotong University. 50% students successfully entered universities in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

Teachers and students of Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone International School keep in mind the motto of "Suntech, Diligence, erudition and perseverance", and greet a better tomorrow with a more pioneering and innovative working state.