World Book Day – Primary School

World Book Day is back! The students from Upper & Lower Primary got to dress up again as some of their favourite characters from their favourite works of fiction. Take a look at some of the incredible costumes and meet some of the students in the video below!

BWYA Concert – March 2024

This BWYA concert combined three entire concerts all into one, creating an absolutely jam packed music extravaganza! The audience was treated to three times more super talented students than ever before!

The Geological Museum – Grade 2

As part of their ‘Earth, Land, and Water’ theme, Grade 2 went out and visited the incredible Geological Museum of China to learn more about our planet and what it is hiding beneath its surface.

The Light & Sound Museum – Grade 1

On Thursday, Grade 1 ventured out to the incredible Light, Science & Technology Museum in Beijing. They were shown around an amazing collection of light and sound exhibitions which the students were completely mesmorised by, as you can see from the video below.

A Busy Week at the Primary School

A Busy Week at the Primary School Hooray for Reading In keeping with the now long-standing tradition, this Wednesday saw our upper primary students dressed up to the nines as their favourite storybook characters, celebrating the annual Hooray for Reading. Refusing to be outdone, the day after our lower primary school also got in on the act, with reading activities in the afternoon.  As increasing numbers […]

International Day at the Primary School

International Day at the Primary School As an international school, we take very seriously our duty to promote cross-cultural exchanges and learning opportunities. In an era when isolationism appears to be taking hold globally, we want our students to be those who will reach out and themselves be the bridge across the waters of disdain and insensitivity.   As Chinese President Xi […]

BWYA Sports Days

BWYA Sports Days As the summer sun begins to show her face, the annual BWYA sports days have now drawn to an end.  The theme of this year’s sports days was enjoying sports together. All the games were inclusive, and enabled every student to enjoy joining in. Warming up with a dance all the primary school students had […]

Fully Reunited at BWYA

Fully Reunited at BWYA Welcome Back Home! The first week of the new semester has come to an end, with the staggered return of BWYA students having been carried out smoothly. As of September 8th, the entire BWYA wolfpack was back on campus, kicking-off the new year. Despite over half a year of interruptions brought […]

Encouraging Children to Read

Encouraging Children to Read Creating engaged, confident lifelong readers doesn’t just happen in isolation. It takes a school-wide reading culture with strong home-school partnerships to help foster literacy and reading.  —-Emma Smoldon, National Library of New Zealand How do you make a life-long learner? First, one must be a life-long reader. However, the formation of […]

Staying Active at Home

Staying Active at Home Recently,  staying active and healthy has become one of the biggest challenges for  families around the world. At BWYA however, we are very fortunate to  have the input from our professional team of PE teachers. Along with  regular activities,  our students have been given many varied projects to work on, helping […]