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Hiba Academy Nantong teaches a compulsory "Wellbeing" (幸福课) subject for every pupil, placing student happiness alongside academic progress. The wellbeing curriculum is described as experience-led, using lessons, workshops and discussions to promote social, personal and emotional development and to build resilience, empathy, self‑awareness and independence. The school states these lessons create regular opportunities for pupils to feel supported, included and challenged. The site also notes that lessons and weekly check‑ins are part of the wellbeing approach used across the Wellington/Hiba family of schools.
A Wellington/Hiba group news item on the school site states the group makes use of special educational needs officers, in‑house counsellors and links with external educational psychologists. The school's public pages do not set out a detailed list of the specific types of learning difficulties or disabilities it can support. Hiba Academy Nantong presents itself as a bilingual 3–18 international school rather than a specialist SEN institution. For individual SEN queries the admissions/contact pages invite families to make a direct enquiry so the school can discuss a child's needs.
Hiba Academy Nantong operates a bilingual immersion model and describes phase‑appropriate English provision (including tailored English courses in the senior phase) and bilingual lessons across activities and camps. The site notes teachers use flexible, supportive approaches so pupils unfamiliar with bilingual instruction can integrate. However, the school does not publish a named EAL/ESL programme or a detailed EAL policy on its public website. The admissions pages invite families to contact the school for case‑specific information about language support.
The school states wellbeing is a core subject and part of its curriculum, with materials and approaches drawn from the Wellington group's wellbeing programme to teach skills such as resilience, emotional stability and positive strategies. A school news article on the site says the group employs in‑house counsellors, guidance and welfare staff and maintains links to external mental health counsellors and educational psychologists for additional support. The site also describes regular check‑ins and wellbeing assessments as part of monitoring pupil welfare. For individual support arrangements the school asks families to contact admissions so staff can discuss needs directly.
The school's Student Safety & Protection page states that pupil safety and welfare are a priority and that the school maintains child protection and campus security policies and procedures. It specifies that all staff receive annual child protection training, review and sign the staff code of conduct each year, and that applicants undergo rigorous background checks following international recruitment recommendations. The page frames these measures as the foundation for safeguarding across the Hiba/Wellington community and provides admissions contact details for enquiries.
Hiba Academy Nantong (also called Huili School Nantong) is a bilingual school on an 80,000 m² campus in the Su‑Xi‑Tong Science & Technology Industrial Park. The school offers an Hiba Early Years programme (merging EYFS and the Chinese curriculum), followed by a 12‑year pathway covering Primary, Junior High and Senior High. The website states a campus capacity of 2,000 pupils and purpose‑built boarding houses for up to 800 boarders; the school describes a co‑teaching model in Chinese and English and a compulsory wellbeing subject in the curriculum. The site also lists a teacher–student ratio (1:5) and daily school bus provision. Where the website does not give a current enrolment figure it reports the campus design capacity instead.
