IPP (International Primary Program)
Yan Tai Yew Wah nurtures the individual student's good characteristics, like attentiveness, orderliness, thankfulness, resourcefulness, generosity, forgiveness, etc. We provide a safe, caring and disciplined environment, give students the opportunity to be successful, nurture a positive outlook, and facilitate a sound foundation for the overall character development.
- Solid Chinese National Curriculum
We carry out complete China National curriculum with Chinese as the language of instruction, including Chinese, Chinese mathematics, Music, Art, P.E. ICT, &Common Senses. Both local and overseas students’ great achievement in Chinese Curriculum is amazing and it sets the solid foundation for our students to make academics development.
- Shining International Curriculum
Apart from our national curriculum, main elements of International Curriculum are incorporated into our curriculum system. They are English, Science, Math, and social study. All these subjects are taught in English by English native speaking teachers and Chinese-English bilingual teachers together. By international curriculum, we are developing students’ capacity of being bilingual and multi-cultural, and the vision of world citizenship.
Co-teaching for main subjects:to meet the complicated needs from different language level students, we do co-teaching for Chinese, Chinese Mathematics, and all international curricula.
Student-centered teaching: no long lectures, we emphasis on students’ active practice on speaking, reading and acting. No high stress, we emphasis students’ natural development as a whole child.
Learning Centre: for students who have special needs on language learning or culture shock, we provide Chinese Learning Centre and EnglishLearningCenter with individualized teaching to settle down and prepare well for entering regular classes.
·Learning Experience
Integrated Learning, with a focus on how students’ learning in one subject is connected to their learning in another subject.
Team Work Learning, with an emphasis on students learning in interdependent and small group learning activities
Learning by doing, with an emphasis on students doing practical tasks rather than following textbook or teacher developed examples
Real Life Problems, with an emphasis on introducing real life situation to teaching, helping students to know surroundings well, finding more than one type of solution and novel ways to solve them
The Joy of Learning, with a lot of English games, songs and role plays, we desire our students enjoy the learning process and that they develop a positive attitude towards learning becoming life-long learners.
Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting:
Students are assessed and evaluated throughout the school year by on-going observation, homework, along with tests. And report cards are issued twice a year---at the end of each semester. In these reports, teachers give feedback to parents on students’ performance and provide suggestions for bigger improvement. Also, teachers communicate regularly with parents on the progress of each child by the means of Student’ Handbook, monthly program progress report, parent-teacher consultations, phone calls, and emails.
Home-School Partnership:
We believe that education needs to be a partnership between the home and the school and aim at developing good relationships with our parents that will be of benefit to our students. While we provide quality teachers for our students，we also work closely with parents and involve them, where appropriate, in the life of the school.
Strong Foundation for Both Local and International Secondary Education: with solid China National Curriculum and shining International Curriculum, effective eastern and western ways of instruction, students’ capacity of being bilingual and multi-cultural, we set strong foundation for students to chose either local or international secondary education freely. |
