To promote inter-school cooperation, on October 18th, a management team from Beijing Foreign Language School,BFSU (hereinafter referred to as "BFSU") visited our school for inter-school communication. The chairman of Yingya St. Peter's School, Mr. Cai Haoran, the principal of the school, Mr. Chen Gang, and the foreign principal who also serves as the high school principal, Ms. Catherine Cook, warmly welcomed the BFSU management team.
Under the accompaniment of Principal Chen Gang and other operation and management teams, the BFSU management team toured the campus, dormitories, teaching buildings, canteens, and special function classrooms. Our school's leaders introduced the school's basic situation, educational philosophy, characteristics, teaching management, campus culture construction, foreign teacher development, and teaching and research activities in detail. The tour provided a deep impression on the visitors with its beautiful educational environment, first-class hardware facilities, scientific educational philosophy, humane management, and advanced scientific classroom teaching mode. During the tour, the guests and our school's leaders introduced the situations of their respective schools and conducted extensive discussions on student teaching management, cross-cultural teacher management, boarding management, and campus facilities.
△Campus Tour△
After the campus tour ended, both sides conducted a discussion exchange. Each school has its own characteristics and styles, but they complement each other beautifully. Both sides conducted a friendly and fruitful dialogue to explore the potential for cooperation and exchange in areas such as Sino-Western integrated courses and teacher exchanges.
BFSU Executive Director Lao Yanyan expressed gratitude for our school's warm reception and stated that with an eye towards serving the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port—a major national strategy—BFSU relies on the advantages of Beijing Foreign Studies University to create a new model of cooperative education to assist in the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port. She also hopes to carry out more diversified international educational exchanges with Yingya St. Peter's School to better meet the needs of the people for quality education.
During the exchange meeting, Chairman Cai Haoran expressed gratitude to BFSU for coming to our school for inter-school communication. He hoped that both schools could take this opportunity for friendly exchange to establish closer ties and build an international education resource sharing platform to achieve the co-development and sharing of international schools in Hainan Free Trade Port. This would enable domestic children to enjoy world-class education at affordable prices while creating a high-quality world school with an innovative education environment.
In recent years, with the construction of Hainan as an "International Education Innovation Island," high-quality plans have been made to promote the reform and development of education open up more high quality education resources, allowing students to go to a good school nearby as they grow up step by step. Yingya St. Peter's School hopes to build a diversified international innovative school facing Hainan Free Trade Port and is willing to work with other schools in Haikou to build an international school ecosystem circle to create a more high-quality, diversified, and innovative education environment for children of talents imported into Hainan Free Trade Port. This provides them with better choices for international curricular.
△An overview of the campus environment of Yingya St. Peter's School△
Visitors from the Beijing Foreign Language School,BFSU:
· Lao Yanyan - Executive Director
· Wang Rukun - Secretary of the Party branch and Principal of moral education
· Sun Shaoqing - Principal in charge of foreign language education
· Lao Dandan - Chief Financial Officer
· Lin Xiaoting - Director of the Party Propaganda Office
Our school's reception team:
· Cai Haoran - Chairman of the Board
· Chen Gang - General Principal
· Catherine - Foreign Principal and High School Principal
· Xi Jin - Operating Principal
· Zhou Hongxu - Director of the Office of the Chairman of the Board
· Liu Yadong - Director of Public Relations
· Wu Min - Director of Marketing Department