As part of our 3-year strategic plan to integrate learning technologies to enhance student learning, this summer we invested a great deal of time and resources upgrading our IT network, hardware and software. Our teachers are learning innovative strategies and skills to utilise the latest technologies in the classroom. But why do we focus so much attention on technology?

Initiated in 2004 by the U.S. bureau of educational and cultural affairs, The English Access Microscholarship Program (Access) supports non-elite teenagers by offering after-school activities aiming at teaching English language skills and American culture to increase their educational and career opportunities. Alice Xu, the BCIS elementary school visual arts teaching assistant, has been involved in Access for three years. This summer, Alice, who used to work with migrant children, moved onto teaching blind teenagers. She joined with sixty students from Beijing School for the Blind for a summer camp at the National Convention Center of China Disabled Federation, Beijing.

Congratulations are due to the BCIS Class of 2010.  These students achieved some excellent results in their IB diploma exams. The cohort averaged 32.6 points overall, which is above the world average of 27. Two students – the twins, Seu Lin Choi and Seo Young Choi – achieved 42 and 41 points (out of 45) respectively.

Three other students – Kevin Ja, Jae Hee Jang and Chiao Yu Tuan – achieved 36, 37 and 38 points each. These results, and the diploma points average, show a high level of academic achievement within the cohort, as well as successes in non-academic areas, including Community Service.

Please kindly note that a change has been made to the school calendar. The school's leadership has been concerned that there are too many disruptions in the first quarter of the school year and that these will have a negative impact on student learning. For this reason the Mid Autumn Festival holiday has been reduced from 3 days to 1, Wednesday September 22nd, and therefore September 23rd and 24th will be regular school days. The two days holiday for students has been moved to February 17th and 18th 2011, and those two days will be used by teachers for professional development purposes. We apologize for this late change to the calendar and for the inconvenience this will cause. However we are sure you will agree that the change will have a positive effect on student learning, and we are grateful to the BCIS teachers for giving up two days holiday in order to engage in professional training. The updated calendar is available on this website (http://www.bcis.cn/en/news-a-events/upcoming-events/month.calendar/2010/08/
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Dear Parents,

A hearty welcome to the 2010/11 School Year! We are looking forward to an exciting and inspiring year for all.  And to start things off, we invite you to our Orientation Morning on Saturday, 14 August from 10:30 am to 12:00 noon. 

Orientation Morning gives students and parents the opportunity to meet their homeroom teachers, to ask questions about bus service, to load credits onto Eurest lunch card and to have a look about the school before the first day of school. Orientation morning is very informal; no presentations will be given at this time.