【招生简章】Admissions｜ISAWH Kindergarten 武汉爱莎幼儿园招生简章

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ISA Wuhan School is a leading international educational campus with the largest investment scale of almost RMB 2 billion in Central China by ISA International Education Group. It is located on the bank of the beautiful Yangtze River, covering an area of 28 acres with a building area of over 180,000 square meters. With teachers and students from over 30 countries and regions, the campus is an open and inclusive world-class multicultural integration campus, including an international school and a foreign language school, equipped with world-class boarding services, and provides education to 4000 students aged 2-18 at home and abroad.

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The first six years are crucial for the development of a child’s cognitive and social capabilities. During this period children develop themselves, in every possible way, faster than during any other period in their lives. To support this quick development it is crucial schools facilitate learning in a multitude of areas. Therefore, at ISA Wuhan, we offer an holistic IB PYP education program to our Early Years learners.

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•  Former Western Principal of Shanghai United Shangyin Primary School. 

•  30 years of experience in education, has taught students of all ages in primary schools and has accumulated a lot of front-line teaching experience as well as leading whole schools in Mathematics, Physical Education, History, Traffic Safety, and other subjects.

•  A Postgraduate Certificate in Education (P.G.C.E.), a Professional Qualification Certificate for Principals (N.P.Q.H.), an MBA in Leadership and Sustainability, and a Certificate 3 in Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK 3).

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Highly Accomplished Lead teacher, Good principal in China, Excellent individual in national education and scientific research, Provincial backbone teacher, Representative of the Municipal People's Congress, Model worker in the city, Craftsman in the city of Wuhan, Expert on special allowances from the municipal government, Municipal academic leader, and Outstanding municipal educator.

She was formerly the Headmistress of Changchun Street School in Wuhan. She has been teaching for 37 years and has been involved in the brand building of Wuhan Yucai Primary School and Changchun Street Primary School. Adhere to the idea of "running primary school education in the spirit of university", and comprehensively implement holistic education, quality education and elite education. Over the years, she has devoted herself to research on international education development, diversified curriculum construction and education and teaching research, and has developed a unique path of schooling of her own.

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•  Sander Langerak is from the Netherlands. He has been in China since 2016. 

•  He has a BA in History, an iPGCE in Early Years education, a TEFL, an IELTS and 2 IB PYP certificates, (in IB PYP leadership and implementing student agency in Early Years). 

•  From 2020 to 2022, he worked as the Academic Principal and PYP Coordinator at the largest international Kindergarten in Sanya.  

•  He successfully guided that school through the IB PYP authorization process which led to that school becoming the first authorized IB PYP World School in Hainan.

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ISA has joined more than ten well-known teacher recruitment platforms and headhunting agencies around the world to recruit management teams from the world's top schools, and experienced Chinese and foreign teachers with multi-cultural and educational backgrounds.

• Headmasters of prestigious local institutions in Wuhan;

• Headmasters at top 100 international schools in China from top tier cities in the north;

• Having brought in foreign teachers from over 20 countries and regions including the UK, Germany, Poland, Singapore and Japan; 

• The teacher-student ratio can reach 1:4, with 100% professional teachers; 

• Western & Eastern  homeroom teachers, teaching assistants and British-style dormitory management.

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• Grade 1 Learning Goals for our EY4;

• Acquisition of Foundational Skills needed for Grade 1;

• Reflection on learning outcomes through the use of IXL;

• A transdisciplinary unit in EY4 in which students do inquiry into the differences and similarities between the Early Years and Primary schools. This includes Primary School visits, Primary school student interviews, Primary School Demo lessons and reflection in the classroom by the Early Years students on what they learned;

• Parent Workshops to help parents understand the similarities and differences and to help parents understand how they can support their child during the transition process. 

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• Allows for the expression of personality and uniqueness;

• Enhances dispositions such as curiosity and creativity;

• Enables children to make connections between prior experiences and new learning;

• Assists children to develop relationships and concepts;

• Stimulates a sense of well-being.

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• Learning the Letter Sounds - Children are taught the  main letter sounds. This includes alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai and ue.

• Learning Letter Formation - Using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters.

• Blending  - Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words.

• Identifying Sounds in Words   - Listening for the sounds in words gives children the best start for improving spelling.

• Tricky Words - Tricky words have irregular spellings and children learn these separately.

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1. Number (which includes whole numbers, operations, and relations)

Representing, relating, and operating on whole numbers, initially with sets of objects; prior experiences, and new learning.

2. Geometry, Spatial Relations, and Measurement

Describing shapes and space. More learning time in ISA Wuhan is devoted to numbers than to other topics.

• Students use numbers, including written numerals, to represent quantities and to solve quantitative problems, such as counting objects in a set; counting out a given number of objects; comparing sets or numerals; and modeling simple joining and separating situations with sets of objects, or eventually with equations such as 5 + 2 = 7 and 7 – 2 = 5.

KG students should see addition and subtraction equations, and student writing of equations in Early Years is encouraged, but it is not required.

• Students describe their physical world using geometric ideas (e.g., shape, orientation, spatial relations) and vocabulary.

They identify, name, and describe basic two -dimensional shapes, such as squares, triangles, circles, rectangles, and hexagons, presented in a variety of ways (e.g., with different sizes and orientations), as well as three-dimensional shapes such as cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres.

They use basic shapes and spatial reasoning to model objects in their environment and to construct more complex shapes.

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• EY1: Parents reading to children daily (10 mins.) /Learning extensions on occasions.

• EY2: Parents reading to children daily (10 mins.) /Learning extensions on occasions.

• EY3: Home readers 2X per week (10 mins.) / Parents reading to children daily (10 mins.) / Learning extensions on occasions.

• EY4: Home readers 2X per week (10 mins.) /Parents reading to children daily (10 mins.) /Learning extensions on occasions.