Wuhan Foreign Language School Meijia Branch is a modern boarding school approved by Wuhan Education Bureau, invested by Smick Group Meijia Real Estate (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. and directly managed by Wuhan Foreign Language School. The school is located in the hinterland of Optics Valley, beside Tangxun Lake, covering an area of 160 mu. Invested 90 million yuan to build 43,000 square meters of first-class school buildings and high-standard sports fields. After the second phase of the project is completed, the school will have a building complex of nearly 70,000 square meters, with a total investment of 65.438+0.5 billion yuan and a total planned enrollment of 3,300 students. At present, the school has a primary school and a junior high school with students 1400. The school has a beautiful environment, advanced equipment, abundant teachers and correct school spirit, and enjoys a good reputation and reputation in Wuhan and Hubei Province.
The US-Canada branch school is the only branch school in Hubei Province, which is organized by Wuhan Foreign Languages School in close cooperation with its partners. The United States and Canada provide school buildings and facilities, and Wuhan Foreign Languages School is responsible for undertaking them. The school takes "foreign language characteristics, paying equal attention to arts and international cooperation" as its school-running policy, "high quality, characteristics and internationalization" as its school-running goal, and "inheriting Chinese culture, integrating western technology and cultivating international talents with Chinese virtues and world vision" as its school-running purpose, laying a comprehensive quality foundation for each student's lifelong sustainable development. The school's philosophy includes the development and innovation of the successful experience of Wuhan foreign schools and the pursuit of educational ideals by Smick Meijia Group.
School leadership
Wuhan Meijia Foreign Language School implements the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the board of directors. The chairman of the school is Ms. Xiao Yongrui, president of Smick Meijia Group, the principal is Yan Huaxing, honorary president of Wuhan Foreign Languages School, and the executive vice president is Huang Min, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and vice president of Wuhan Foreign Languages School.
Xiao Yongrui, a graduate of Pace University in new york, USA, holds a master's degree in business administration. He once worked as an executive in well-known securities companies and banks such as Prudential Bache Securities, Merrill Lynch and Chase Manhattan Bank. He is currently the president of Smick Mega-Canada Group, the chairman of Wuhan Foreign Studies School Mega-Canada Branch, the vice president of Wuhan Overseas Friendship Association and the executive director of Wuhan Taiwanese Business Association.
Honorary president of Wuhan Foreign Languages School, special English teacher, outstanding expert in Wuhan, young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions in Hubei Province, outstanding educator in Hubei Province, enjoying special government allowance from the State Council, and editor-in-chief of Comprehensive English Course, a unified English textbook for foreign languages schools across the country.
Huang Min, deputy secretary and vice president of the Party Committee of Wuhan Foreign Languages School, secretary and vice president of the Party Committee of Wuhan Experimental Foreign Languages School, special math teacher, outstanding expert in Wuhan, national outstanding teacher, the first batch of "Top Ten Teachers' Ethics" in Wuhan, and "Five-year Plan" in Wuhan. "Labor medal winner.
School-running characteristics
Foreign language education and China culture education are two major features of Wuhan Foreign Language School in the United States and Canada. The school emphasizes large-scale classrooms and provides a spacious hardware environment. Small-class education with no more than 40 students in each class ensures that students can get full care and guidance from teachers.
The school adopts English textbooks from foreign language schools all over the country and introduces authoritative new English textbooks from Britain and the United States. According to the principle of small class teaching, there are no more than 20 students in each class, so as to ensure that every student in the classroom speaks and actively participates in learning. The study time of English education is more than ten hours per week, and the school has sufficient English environment inside and outside the class to immerse students in the ocean of English. Reading English classic essays every morning can deepen the spirit of western culture, help students broaden their western horizons and lay a solid foundation for international talents.
Taking advantage of the superior teacher resources, the school has hired many foreign teachers in view of the difficulties of China students in learning foreign languages. Put forward and advocate "comprehensive English teaching method" and "language sense reading teaching method" with listening and speaking method as the main features, and cultivate students' solid basic skills and comprehensive language application ability by creating situations, designing tasks and carrying out activities.
Set up English Day and carry out colorful extracurricular activities such as English Corner. In the English corner, teachers are not only teachers, but also seniors, communicating with students and learning interactively. Colorful extracurricular activities make up for the limitations of classroom teaching in oral listening training, improve students' interest in learning and applying English, and enhance their English expression ability and English thinking ability. The students in the US-Canada branch have standardized English pronunciation, authentic intonation, solid basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing, and strong comprehensive language ability. English education in American and Canadian campuses has been highly praised by authoritative organizations and parents.
China's cultural education is the main way for schools to cultivate students' adults, which emphasizes educating people first and cultivating themselves first. Set up a reading class of Chinese cultural classics, read aloud every morning, lay a solid foundation of Chinese, establish a correct outlook on life and enhance humanistic cultivation.
With patriotism education as the core, "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame" are injected. According to the psychological characteristics of primary and secondary school students, the traditional Chinese virtues are endowed with new connotation of the times and reflect the new value of national vitality. The school strives to realize the harmony and complementarity of school education, family education and social education through various forms such as theme class meetings, theme home visits and theme activities. Through individual counseling for students, help students start from life and small things, and let them master the self-education method of lifelong cultivation.
prominent teacher
Wuhan American-Canadian Foreign Language School has a strong faculty. The educational concept put forward by the school has attracted a large number of outstanding teachers with educational ideals, noble ethics and rich teaching experience to teach in the US-Canada branch. In order to improve the teaching quality in an all-round way, Wuhan Foreign Language School of the United States and Canada has recruited a group of senior teachers, academic leaders above the municipal level and provincial key teachers with high salaries for the whole country. There are 1 16 teachers in the school, including 22 senior teachers, and special-grade teachers and senior teachers account for more than 20% of the total number of teachers. A group of outstanding young and middle-aged teachers stand out and have made great achievements in provincial and municipal quality class competitions. Many teachers have made outstanding achievements in teaching and scientific research and have great influence in the whole province, such as Dong Zunxiang, a special English teacher, Yan Ping, a special Chinese teacher, and Wu Changquan, a special math teacher.
Excellent teachers, in various disciplines, scientific research projects, teaching and research papers and high-quality class competitions in provinces, municipalities and districts, have frequently won various honors, titles and awards in the administrative departments of education:
Song of the city's academic leaders;
Zhang Xue, who teaches the municipal open class of Chinese and mental health in primary schools in Wuhan, won the first, second and third prizes at the national, provincial and municipal levels, and won the outstanding young teachers at the municipal level;
Ruan Jin won the title of "the best class teacher" in Wuhan and the first prize of national thesis;
Pang Weifang was rated as an outstanding young teacher in Wuhan;
Qi Lina won the title of excellent class teacher at the municipal level in 2006;
Wang Zhigang was awarded the title of excellent class teacher at the municipal level in 2007;
Chen Feng was awarded the excellent class teacher at the district level;
Liu Jing won the second prize of Wuhan Excellent Course.
International standard hardware facilities
The school is divided into study area, sports area and living area, including dormitory, auditorium, library, restaurant, indoor sports center, art center, music center and dance center, providing students with first-class teaching quality and standardized logistics life service. The dynamic teaching environment designed according to North American hardware standards conveys elegant and dignified scholar connotation everywhere and becomes a school, home and paradise for students. The school's teaching facilities and equipment are designed according to first-class standards. Physics, chemistry and biology laboratories are equipped according to the standards of middle schools. The unique super-large experimental platform of American middle schools gives each student a space to explore independently. The school is also equipped with a multimedia language laboratory, a computer room and a number of multimedia projection systems. The campus computer network connects every classroom and office. The school library, independent piano room, fitness room and various characteristic art classrooms make students' extracurricular life colorful.
Synchronize enrollment with foreign schools to cultivate high-quality students.
According to the relevant documents of the Ministry of Education and the spirit of close cooperation in running schools, the American-Canadian Branch of Wuhan Foreign Languages School and the primary school of Wuhan Experimental Foreign Languages School adopt the methods of "qualification registration, comprehensive interview and planned admission", and the enrollment of the two departments is carried out simultaneously, that is, synchronous registration, synchronous interview and synchronous publicity. The junior middle school of our school also joined hands with the junior middle school of Wuhan Experimental Foreign Language School to recruit junior high school freshmen, unified enrollment, unified registration, unified examination, preferential admission and unified ranking.
To ensure the unified teaching quality and conform to the educational concept. For the entrance qualification requirements, not only the scores of subjects other than languages are strictly checked, but also one of the key assessment items for students' conduct. The average annual admission rate of the entrance examination in the US-Canada campus is about 15%.
Excellent teaching results
American and Canadian branch schools regard the quality of education as their life, pay close attention to teaching practice, deepen teaching reform and continuously improve the quality of education. This year's third year of high school, the first graduating class got full marks (commonly known as the champion of the senior high school entrance examination) 2 people; 1 1% students were admitted to Wuhan foreign schools, and 62% students were admitted to provincial key middle schools, with a one-time pass rate of 100%.
Students at school have won many honors in various disciplines competitions at all levels;
Primary school: More than 200 students won the gold, silver and bronze prizes in the National Dandelion English Competition, and 29 students won the first, second and third prizes in the final of the 12th National Primary and Secondary School Painting and Calligraphy Competition. The Latin dance team won the first prize in the children's group of the Central City Sports Dance Open in one fell swoop; In the 2007 Hubei Art Talent Competition, five students won the first prize in the musical instrument group, four students won the first, second and third prizes in the vocal music group, three students won the third prize in the recitation group and three students won the first, second and third prizes in the dance group.
Junior high school: In Hubei Division of the National Youth Bilingual Competition in 2006, there were 3 first prizes, 6 second prizes and 34 third prizes, among which 1 won the silver prize and 2 bronze prizes in the national finals.
In 2007, 1 won the gold medal in the third Chutian English Competition. In the national English proficiency competition for primary and secondary schools, there are 3 first prizes, 4 second prizes and 3 third prizes. In the final of the first "History and Society" competition in Hubei Province, 7 students won the first prize, 1 1 students won the second prize and 3 students won the third prize. In the "Information Technology Innovation and Practice Activities" in 2007, three students won the first prize, the second prize and the third prize in the national finals. In 2007, there were 2 first prizes, 2 second prizes 1 name, 3 third prizes, 2 second prizes 1 name and 5 third prizes in the art group. In the 2006-2007 school year, there were 1 advanced class collective and 1 outstanding students at the municipal level in our school.
In the 24th Chu Cai International Composition Competition in 2008, 1 1 students in our school achieved excellent results, including 1 first prize, 6 second prizes and 4 third prizes. In 2008 CCTV2008 National Hope Star English Speech Competition in Hubei Division, 1 person won the first prize at the municipal level, and 1 person won the first prize at the district level. 1 won the bronze prize in the "First National Innovative Practice Activity of Bilingual Learning for Teenagers (English-Chinese)" middle school group A competition. In the "Wuhan Innovation Quality Practice Activity", the "One Hundred Years Later, Trouble Still Remains —— A Class One Investigation Report on" White Pollution "in the City (1) and the regular Class Two Investigation Report on Rubber Dam Changes in Gucheng County (4) won the first prize and the second prize respectively. In the 2007-2008 school year, there were 1 class at the municipal level, 1 class at the municipal level, 1 class at the district level, 3 outstanding students at the district level, 3 outstanding student cadres at the district level, 1 student league branch at the district level and 4 outstanding student league members at the district level.
development prospect
Wuhan Foreign Language School, the United States and Canada, is about to usher in a period of rapid development. According to the school development plan, in 2-3 years, the number of primary school students will reach 65,438 +0.500, and the number of junior high school students will reach 900. Next year, the school will create a high school and introduce the American ACT international high school curriculum. The scale of running a high school will reach 500 students and the international department will have 400 students.
The teaching goal of senior high school is to lay a solid foundation for domestic and international senior high school education for students who are about to study abroad, complete the personality freeze education in adolescence, and provide preparatory education for studying in foreign universities before studying abroad.
With the economic development and internationalization in the Mainland, as an important city in the Mainland, more and more overseas people have moved to the Optical Valley in the Mainland to serve the motherland. The school plans to set up an international department directly in line with European and American education in three years to meet the educational needs of international students in Optics Valley.
The US-Canada branch will become a national first-class private school with high quality, characteristics and internationalization, integrating primary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools and international schools.