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China, Hangzhou
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1) COBIS membership and Patron's Accreditation — The school's website states that Wycombe Abbey School Hangzhou is a member of the Council of British International Schools (COBIS) and has achieved COBIS Patron's Accreditation; this is a school-level external quality recognition used by British-style international schools to indicate adherence to COBIS standards.
2) Cambridge International and Pearson Edexcel (IGCSE / A‑Level) — The site reports that pupils sit Cambridge International and Pearson Edexcel IGCSE and A‑Level examinations; this indicates the school delivers courses that lead to those widely recognised UK examination qualifications and works with those awarding bodies.
3) Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE) — The school lists the Duke of Edinburgh's Award among its extracurricular opportunities; the DofE is an internationally recognised youth development programme that schools run under licence or partnership with the award body.
4) Trinity Certified Young Performers (Trinity College performance certification offered in summer programme) — The summer-school programme page lists a "Trinity Certified Young Performers" course, indicating the school runs a recognised performing-arts certification pathway associated with Trinity College London qualifications.
5) Chinese internet registration (ICP) — The site footer shows the school's ICP filing number (浙ICP备2021034985号), which is the required internet content provider registration for Chinese websites (a legal/administrative registration rather than an educational accreditation).
Based only on information published on the school's website, there are no separate, clearly listed school-level "awards" in the past five years apart from the COBIS Patron's Accreditation (which the site presents as an accreditation/recognition). The website does record several student-level awards (for example, COBIS Student Achievement Awards and Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards), but those were awarded to individual pupils rather than to the school and so are not included here per your request.
If you would like, I can (a) extract the exact web pages and dates where COBIS Patron's Accreditation and the other items are mentioned, or (b) search outside the school website for additional external recognitions and inspection reports (if any).
Wycombe Abbey School Hangzhou (WASHZ) opened in 2021 and is located in Daicun town, Xiaoshan District, beside Xiannu (Fairy) Lake with hills to the rear. The campus footprint is given on the school site as about 33 acres with a built area of roughly 84,000 sqm; the school plans for a full roll of around 1,500 pupils and boarding space for up to 960 students. WASHZ offers a blended programme that draws on the Chinese National Curriculum together with British-stage programmes (including EYFS, IGCSE and A‑Level) and describes itself as a bilingual environment with strong English immersion. The school highlights extracurricular pathways such as the Duke of Edinburgh Award, Model United Nations, robotics and arts programmes as regular out‑of‑class opportunities. The school website lists admissions contact details for enquiries; the site does not publish tuition figures or an explicit statement about a daily school bus service.
