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 […]
Coronavirus and us
Coronavirus and Us The questions in the image are certainly difficult and probing, perhaps you think these are only answerable by experts, but they are precisely the questions our middle school students have been working on during this epidemic. In the past days, some of our students have gotten together into groups to think further […]
Love From BWYA to Wuhan
Love from BWYA Students to Wuhan This poster design has 2 giant Chinese characters: Jia you, which means: stay strong.Finally, in the center of this poster, “Stay strong, Wuhan” was written in red. This indicates the target audience of this design and deliver the message of supporting the people in Wuhan and the medical staff. […]
Debate Spirit at BWYA
On Saturday 7th December, seven international schools’ speech and debate teams gathered at BWYA to speak, perform, and debate against each other. The competition was fierce; each round of performances was stronger and more brilliant than the last. But in the end, BWYA prevailed – our middle school and high school teams both won first […]
21st Century Problem Solvers
Half a century ago, American writer Eldridge Cleaver famously stated, “You either have to be part of the solution, or you’re going to be part of the problem.” So we must ask ourselves, on the international-educational road, facing all the challenges of the future, how are we equipping our children to be solution-finding problem solvers? […]
BWYA’s Scholarship Winners | Bubble Yu: Up, Up and Away
BWYA’s Scholarship Winners Bubble Yu: Up, Up and Away “Climbing, symbolises an upwards force.” Bubble Yu BWYA Special Talent Scholarship Winner Amidst the musical excitement, Bubble Yu, wearing her Beijing-red kit, cheekily pulls a peace sign on the podium. It was August of this year, at ‘The 2nd Youth Games of the People’s Republic of China’ climbing competition. Now in the 10th grade, Bubble […]
Ideas worth spreading with TEDx at BWYA
After the recent TEDx event hosted at our performing arts centre, we had some time to meet up with the four event organisers, Hannah Xu, Natalie Fang, Esther Yang, and Spring Xia – all students in the final year of the DP programme. The event, first organised by Hannah last year, brought together a number of students and staff from international schools around Beijing, as they grappled with the […]
BWYA’s Scholarship Winners | Cherry Yan: Balancing Academia and Interests
BWYA’s Scholarship Winners Cherry Yan: Balancing Academia and Interests In the second part of our new series focusing on the Special Talent Scholarship winners, we had a conversation with DP1 Student, Student Council President, member of countless clubs and recent winner of both Academic and Special Talent Scholarships, Cherry Yan, as we seek to learn […]
BWYA Community’s Generosity
At this year’s May Fair, thanks to all your openness and generosity, an amazing amount of 180,000RMB was raised – 50,000RMB more than last year. This money was passed on to our two long-term charity partners, Roundabout Special Fund, CCAFC, and Chunhui Children’s Foundation. On the 11th and 17th October, our PTA Liaison Officer Ms. Pauline Wong, alongside representatives […]
BWYA’s Scholarship Winners | George Gao: Robotics, Engineering and More
BWYA’s Scholarship Winners George Gao: Robotics, Engineering and More After our recent scholarship award ceremony, we had time to catch up with some of the award winners. In this new series, we will be focusing on the Special Talent Scholarship winners, learning more about what our students have been doing in, as well as outside […]