A Tour of a TOP RANKED High School in China!
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In today's post, I want to show you the high school campus I have been teaching at for the past 4 years. This high school is ranked #1 in my city. Rankings are super important in China; the rank of your high school is important when applying for universities. A student from a highly ranked high school will have a better chance of getting accepted into a university opposed to a student from a lower ranked high school with the same score.
It has to do with how their education system works. But that is for another blog post!
Today, I bring to you a tour of Qinhuangdao Number 1 High School!
When you enter the school gate, the first building you will probably see is this building: the auditorium. This auditorium hosts several events throughout the year. When students celebrate a festival like the Spring Festival, they will host an event here and have performances, speeches, etc.
On the left side of this building, you have the male and female dormitory.
The boys' and girls' dormitory look identical. In each room, you have 3 bunk beds that house a total of 6 students per room!
If you continue walking left, you will see the teachers' apartment. This apartment has treated me well over the years and I don't mind living on campus at all! The apartment is comfortable and fairly modern.
A lot of the Chinese teachers live here. People from different parts of China work in other cities. Whenever teachers that originally come from other cities or provinces work here, they get their own apartment room to live in.
Next, behind the auditorium is the Service Center. This area includes 2 supermarkets, a bookstore, public bathrooms and 4 cafeterias. Students are pretty much at school for the whole day. As a result, they eat breakfast, lunch and dinner on campus. The supermarket allows them to buy things like snacks and beverages.
To the right side of the service center is the Science Building! I have never actually been inside this building but I presume it has a bunch of labs with different scientific equipment. Regular classrooms just have tables and chairs so I guess this building has chemistry sets and all that jazz.
As I was walking past this building, I saw many students arrive on a bus and they all started waving to me! That's one of the perks of being a foreign teacher in China: you get easily recognized and everyone wants to talk to you!
Finally, if you keep walking, you will get to the main teaching buildings. There is a building for each grade. They have a different grade system in China. The students that we would call Grade 12 in Canada are called Grade 3 here. Subsequently, Grade 11 students would be Grade 2 and Grade 10 would be Grade 1. It can get confusing for some foreigners because if I say I had to teach my grade 2 students calculus, they would say, "wow, already! They are so young!"
The front building is for grade 3 students, middle is for grade 2 and the furthest building to the back is for grade 1 students.
If you watch my video, you will also see their athletic facilities!
This high school is better than any high school I have been to in Canada. The high school resembles a small university campus!
Hope you enjoyed this post and I will see you all later!
Thanks for reading & watching!
Check out my other posts!
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Why I Left My Engineering Career To Be a Teacher in China!
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Why The Heck Did I Move to Communist China?
What's It Like For A Canadian Living in a Small City in China?
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Are all the schools in Canada the same? Surely there are high end private schools that would easily rival anything in China.
In the US there are huge differences between urban public inner city schools and wealthy suburban public schools. Then there are high end private schools which are a step above that.
Somehow I'm not surprised they don't use the art building. How much is tuition?
No they aren't. It's just the area I lived in always had low budget public schools that I had to go to. I didn't go to a "wealthy" school until I went to the University of Toronto. It's just bad luck I guess.
I'm not too sure about the tuition actually. Students that join the international program pay 90,000 rmb for 3 years but students that join this school due to having high marks and meeting qualifications pay MUCH less. I don't know the actual figure though.
Where you teach, it appears to be a state run school, which is probably a lot more relaxed than an actual international school that has branches in every major country.
In Shanghai there are a few of these international schools, whereby everything is taught in English, and there is a wide range of student and faculty nationalities.
Academic standards are also quite high, there is a lengthy interview process that takes place before students get accepted, even into kindergarten.
Many parents jump at the chance to enroll their kids into these schools if they have the financial means, and in some cases even if they don't.
Its all about face, being able to show their colleagues, friends and family that their child is in the "highest ranked school" is more important than the actual quality of that education.
I find all a bit nauseating.
Most kids are not asked what they want in life anymore, they are just told what to do.
What an incredible high school, it is seen with very good facilities and surely a high academic level! Anyone who really wants to study, would love to study there. What a good tour! Thank you for introducing us to this school, I had never heard it
Yeah the facilities are really good. However, students spend a lot of time studying in China.
Do you have schools like this in Venezuela?
Well, if there are similar and very good facilities, the problem is the high cost of the monthly payment and more now with the economic situation that the country is suffering ... few people study in these schools
The schedule established for learning here in Venezuela varies, but the common one is 7 hours. How many hours are spent in China to study?
From 7:30am to 8:20pm or 10:30pm if the students live on campus!
I think it's many hours of school that they exaggerate too much and do not have time to share and practice sports.
You have a minor grammatical mistake in the following sentence:
It should be you're a instead of your a.It should be YOU, silly bot.