Introduction to Changshu International School
Changshu International School (常熟国际学校, website), situated next to the beautiful Kuncheng Lake, received government investment in 2011 and is administrated by Lunhua Education. The school implements internationalized education from Kindergarten to Grade Nine with more than 2000 outstanding students. The school actively works to integrate local and international curriculum standards, optimizing the current curriculum and promoting activity-based innovations. The “In the Air Class” with New Zealand partner schools, “Joint Research Between Teachers and Students” and “STEM Project Research” have become the competitive products of the school, catching people’s eyes and awarding the school the hard-earned reputation it has today.
Since its establishment nine years ago, Changshu International School has been implementing the vision of “Building up Bohui World Cultural Field” and the education practice of “Discipline, Perseverance, Excellence”. Bohui-style education, with its international, diversified and detail-oriented characteristic, differentiates from other education modes, insisting on reshaping itself and developing fast. So far CIS has become a standing executive member of the National Association of Foreign Language Schools, National Youth AI Activity Featured School, the Project Basement for Soochow University National Key Teachers Training Plan, one of the first pioneer schools for 2029 China STEM Education Action Plan, National Ecology Education Featured School and one of the first STEM Pilot Schools in Jiangsu Province. CIS works with Eton School in Britain to offer Leadership Courses and is the only CAIE school and Global Perspectives Pilot School (one of 20 schools globally) in the Changshu area. CIS is one of the 55 German DSD schools in China and has joined in the network of PASCH Partner Schools, becoming one important member of the 1800 PASCH schools around the world. Since the first students graduated in 2017, CIS has been at the top of the Suzhou High School Entrance Exams list for four years in succession.
Led by the practical author of Bohui Education and the founder of Lunhua Education Group, Mr. CAO Lunhua, the school possesses a group of professionally dedicated teachers. With titles including Professor-rate Senior Teacher, Provincial Special Grade Teacher, Prominent Principal of Suzhou, Educational Inspector of Suzhou Municipal Government and Postgraduate Mentor of Soochow University, Mr. CAO Lunhua has nearly 20 years of international school management experience. The school gathers a group of experienced and devoted key teachers, among whom there are Special Grade Teachers, Provincial and Civic Outstanding Educators, Outstanding Homeroom Teachers, Suzhou Top-ten Teachers and Suzhou Academic Lead Teachers. The teaching staff also includes 30 qualified international teachers.
Following trends in education, CIS has launched “Strengthening Basic Discipline and Fusion” Curriculum with full strength, building up a featured curriculum system of “strengthening foundation, focusing on integration, encouraging inquiry, accomplishing the task”. The Primary Division has Strengthening Basic Disciplines and Fusion Class, International Ladies’ Class and IBPYP Class. The secondary division has Elite Class, Bohui Class, Eton Class and Strengthening Basic Disciplines and Fusion Class. The school offers pluralistic courses to satisfy different needs for education from society. The school is a sister school with many well-known schools in the US, Canada, Britain, Spain and Singapore, conducting student-teacher exchange and communication programs in all aspects.
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