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Vanke Bilingual School (VBS) is a nine‑year private bilingual school established and sponsored by the Shenzhen Vanke Education Development Foundation and operated within Vanke's Meisha education system. The school's public materials indicate it opened in the late 2010s and had been operating for about five to six years by 2023–2024, reflecting an initial start around 2018. VBS was set up with an international small‑class model and school‑based curriculum design under Meisha Education's management. These ownership and founding details are stated in the school's official introduction and news pages.
The school describes an active on‑campus community that mixes curricular and extracurricular life: regular flag‑raising ceremonies, themed E‑Talks and Scientist Day activities, district and regional competitions, and school trips and exchanges are reported in the school news feed. Students self‑organize a large program of clubs — the site reports well over 100 student clubs and annual ‘club recruitment' events — and the school designates weekly time for club activities to encourage cross‑grade participation. Parents, teachers and students are repeatedly noted as partners in events such as career expos, sports days and project presentations that aim to connect classroom learning with broader cultural and community activities.
VBS reports a structured family engagement programme that includes a “Parent Growth Academy” alongside a formal parent‑teacher forum (家长教师会). The Parent Growth Academy runs principal talks, parent meetings, themed salons and joint reading activities; the school's news items also list parent‑oriented events such as tug‑of‑war, the VBS Cup football matches and career expos in which parents are invited to participate. The school frames these activities as part of a ‘home‑school ecology' intended to improve communication and shared decision‑making between families and staff. News coverage and school pages describe parents taking active roles at events and workshops, and the school notes these structures are part of its broader approach to make parents partners in students' academic and extracurricular development.
Vanke Bilingual School (VBS) in Shenzhen is a nine-year (primary + junior middle) private bilingual school run by the Vanke Education Development Foundation and managed under Meisha Education. The school website states it opened in September 2018 and is based at No.80 Huanan Road, Minzhi Sub-district, Longhua District, Shenzhen. VBS describes a blended curriculum: the Chinese national curriculum is taught alongside international-quality courses (ESL, Drama, Science, Art, PE and STEAM elements), delivered through immersive bilingual instruction and project-based learning (PBL). The campus pages and admissions information note small class sizes (primary 24 per class, plus 1 reserved seat for staff children; middle school 32) and facilities that include a heated indoor pool, climbing wall and dedicated STEAM / maker spaces. For fees the school gives 2021 reference figures: primary RMB 58,000 per semester and middle RMB 64,000 per semester (the site says to refer to the current year's admissions brochure for up-to-date rates). All items above are taken from the school website.
