On October 27th, Ding Fei, Deputy Mayor of Haikou City, and his delegation visited the Yingya St. Peter's School, a subsidiary of Hainan Shengfeng Group, to carry out low-carbon campus research and guidance work. Cai Haoran, Chairman of Hainan Shengfeng Education Group, Ren Daxing, Director, Chen Gang, General Principal of Yingya St. Peter's School, and Xi Jin, Operation Principal, received them throughout the process. The office of the Chairman of Hainan Shengfeng Group and relevant leaders of the school accompanied and received them throughout the process.
Our school leaders introduce the school's overview
Ding Fei and his delegation listened to Chairman Cai Haoran's report on the basic overview, educational conditions, faculty allocation, class allocation, and student resources of the school. They also visited the modern teaching environment of the school and learned about the supporting facilities and equipment. As an important field of public energy conservation and green buildings, the school's campus architecture design mainly promotes low-carbon energy conservation, and the corridor design follows the principles of aerodynamics, which can reduce energy consumption by about 80%.
When Ding Fei and his party visited the school's distinctive functional spaces, they asked, "What are the teaching characteristics of Yingya St. Peter's School?" President Chen Gang introduced, "Designer Follows Learning is the main theme of Yingya St. Peter's School's space design, combining curriculum, space, and technology to create a teaching space that truly stimulates students' learning potential." The school simultaneously introduces the concept of low-carbon energy conservation and environmental protection into the classroom and beyond. In addition to environmental education in science and natural courses, the school also offers sustainable development and environmental protection courses, providing students with opportunities to understand and recognize local and global environmental issues, and promoting sustainable development practices.
During the tour, Deputy Mayor Ding Fei had a brief and interesting conversation with the faculty and students. At Yingya St. Peter's School, Teachers and students from over a dozen different countries and domestic regions, jointly creating a diverse community environment. Regardless of age or nationality, all members of the Yingya St. Peter's School community uphold the four core values of excellence, innovation, integrity, and social responsibility, which shape the excellent character that the school education must instill in students.
By combining the construction of low-carbon campuses with the national "dual carbon" goal strategy and fully promoting the construction of campus ecological civilization, Yingya St. Peter's School laid the foundation for low-carbon campuses at the beginning of its overall planning. Through scientific planning and intelligent operation and maintenance, it promotes the use of renewable energy, water resources, carbon-offsetting activities, a low-carbon curriculum system, low-carbon transportation system construction, energy management, and smart campus construction. By exploring seven major construction and implementation paths such as carbon offsetting mechanisms, schools will use digital technology to record the low-carbon behavior trajectory of teachers and students in their daily lives, encourage and guide teachers and students to practice green and low-carbon lifestyles, cultivate a sense of responsibility and accomplishment in the cause of low-carbon, and thereby reduce carbon emissions in daily teaching and learning life, hoping to create a truly green and low-carbon school.
At the end of the inspection, Deputy Mayor Ding Fei praised the teaching and construction work of the school, and pointed out that as a new ecological international school with diverse channels, Yingya St. Peter's School has taken root in Hainan with rich characteristic educational resources, providing education services for the children of foreign and returning talents who come to work and live in Hainan, and attracting more high-end talents for Haikou City and even Hainan Province.