The annual BWYA May Fair was held last Saturday (25th May), in the stunning summer sunshine. Along with the weather, the whole event had a very warm family feeling, with teachers, students and parents all taking the opportunity to sell handicrafts, home-made food and drinks, and even showing off their talents on the stage! As […]
Knocking at the Door of the Future
“Who knows how strong you might be and given that strength and commitment, imagine what you could achieve.” As the younger years finish off this term’s work, and look forward to the summer break and joining the next grade in September, last Friday our DP2 students, their parents, and the teaching faculty, all celebrated our […]
BWYA’s Future Business Leaders
Three BWYA students will soon be going to America, representing BWYA at the Future Business Leaders of America World Finals, having placed second out of the hundreds of entrants at the Chinese FBLA National Finals. We recently caught up with Leah Park, Wendy Fan, and Jessica Xu to learn about their experience so far! About […]
Excellence-Awards and Super-Science
Recently, our Grade 6-8 students celebrated their Term 2 Awards Ceremony. Having worked very hard over this previous MYP term, it was fantastic to celebrate everything achieved, both academically and in personal development. In total, 82 honorary awards were given to students who scored all 5s, 6s, and 7s on their report cards, and 16 […]
First Place Footballers
This weekend, both our boys and girls U19 football teams were out representing BWYA at the ISAC final tournaments. The girls played in Tianjin and proudly represented our community gaining new valuable experiences during the competition. The boys played at BCIS and won the first place trophy! Big thanks goes to coaches Mr. Sam Rajesh and […]
Perfect Prose at the Lupine Prize
With the help of an army of ‘Minion’ volunteers, the annual BWYA Lupine Prize ceremony was held last Friday, 12th May. As David Haysom, Head of the High School English Department shared, ‘Now in its fifth year, the Lupine Prize continues to go from strength to strength. The quality of writing from our school community […]
ACAMIS Service Learning Grant
For two years in a row, BWYA students have won the prestigious ACAMIS Service Learning Grant. This year, from amongst the many applicants BWYA DP1 students, Candy Li and Bella Dong, stood out for their leadership, innovation, and contributions to the community, with their Migrant Children Foundation proposal. The Service Learning Grant recognises students who have designed […]
Reaping the Personal Project Fruits
This Tuesday afternoon, 26th February, the BWYA secondary school celebrated the culmination of all of our Grade 10 students’ hard work on their personal projects (PP) at the Personal Project Exhibition. The IB Middle Years Programme focuses on ‘learning how to learn’ through the development of communication, collaboration, organization, self-management, research, and many many more skills, […]
Student Council Fundraiser for Shanxi–Gansu Education
Student Council Fundraiser for Shanxi–Gansu Education The Student Council started off the year of the pig by donating 1,200 RMB to support the Roundabout Shanxi – Gansu Education project. 1,200 RMB was raised through the Student Council’s fourth activity this year – Christmas Sales. Christmas Sales was inspired by the Student Council’s new theme for […]
Happy Christmas!
On behalf of all the staff at BWYA, we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! We’re very excited to see what 2019 has in store – we hope you are too… Just a quick reminder about January term dates: Primary school will resume term on Tuesday 8th January […]