China, Hangzhou
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The school teaches in English and Chinese and uses Hangzhou resources to enhance students' Chinese language proficiency and understanding of traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. The campus is a mini-campus designed to align with top boarding school facilities worldwide and is housed in two custom-built halls on the Greentown Yuhua School campus, the partner school.
The school offers a Core, Individual and Elective Sports Programme.
The school provides a Whole School Choir, individual music lessons and music ensembles as part of its music programme.
Hangzhou is treated as a cultural classroom, with opportunities for community service and supervised leisure activities in the city.
CIS Hangzhou is a one-year, residential Year 10 programme launched in 2013 and run by Chinese International School (CIS). The programme is taught in English and Chinese (Mandarin) and is delivered as a tailored CIS Year 10 curriculum (CIS-developed/Bespoke) that emphasises experiential, interdisciplinary and project-based learning using Hangzhou and the surrounding region as a classroom. The mini-campus is housed on the Greentown Yuhua School (GYS) campus and includes residential facilities for up to 144 students, with rooms of up to four students and house structures for pastoral care. The programme timetable runs six days a week and includes a Core, Individual and Elective sports programme and an established music programme (whole-school choir, peripatetic lessons and ensembles). CIS describes substantial opportunities for community service and city-based learning as part of the Hangzhou experience.