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Yew Wah International Education School Guangzhou opened in 2014 as a campus within the Yew Chung Yew Wah (YCYW) network. The Guangzhou school was established as part of Yew Wah's mainland expansion and draws on the wider YCYW network's history and founding leadership. The YCYW network credits Professor Paul Yip Kwok-wah and Dr Betty Chan Po-king as founders of the Yew Wah series, and the Guangzhou campus operates under that group structure. The school's founding and governance are presented as part of the broader YCYW organisation rather than as an independent single-school company.
The school describes a bilingual, K–12 community that engages in campus activities, cross-school events and city-level initiatives. Recent examples include being named among Guangzhou's first group of “education internationalisation window schools” (announced in 2023) and school-organised career/career-experience events that bring parents and local professionals into the campus programme. The school and the YCYW network also stage cultural and service-oriented events such as the Seeds of Hope concert and network-wide exchanges that involve students, staff and alumni.
The school maintains a visible set of parent-facing resources (for example a parent login/portal and an “Our Parents” section) and runs family-focused programmes through the YCYW network. Parents have been active contributors to events such as the school's Career/Occupational Experience Day, where parent representatives from multiple industries work with students on talks and mock interviews. During periods of remote learning the school documented active collaboration with parents to support online lessons and student routines. The broader network also offers family-oriented policies (for example an internal-transfer loyalty programme) that connect parents across YCYW campuses. These elements indicate a structured avenue for parent involvement, with parents contributing as volunteers, speakers and partners in curriculum-related activities.
Yew Wah International Education School of Guangzhou (YWIES Guangzhou) opened in 2014 and serves local and expatriate students from age 1 up to 18 (K1 to A Level). The school operates a bilingual (Chinese–English) co-teaching model across early years, primary and secondary phases and offers Cambridge IGCSE and A Level pathways in upper secondary. The campus describes a student–teacher ratio of 5:1 and an enrolled population of approximately 550 students. The school is run with a dual (Chinese / Western) leadership team and includes a Careers & University Guidance Office and partnership programmes (for example the Somerset Yew Wah classroom link referenced on the academics pages). Parents should consult admissions or the School Fees page for tuition details; the public site's School Fees page exists but fees tables are not visible in the site HTML rendered here.
