1.What is the educational background of the school?
Shenzhen Meisha Bilingual School was founded in 2018 and is a distinctive private bilingual school under the Meisha Education Group of Vanke. It was approved by the Education Bureau of Yantian District, Shenzhen and sponsored by the Shenzhen Vanke Education Development Fund.
2. What is the educational philosophy
[School Mission]
Meisha Bilingual School is committed to cultivating leaders with profound Chinese cultural heritage, grasping the essence of modern Western culture, and possessing the necessary thinking and skills for future society.
[School Vision]
Developing national pillars rooted in the Chinese spirit, Chinese sentiment, and Chinese culture, cultivating world citizens with cross-cultural understanding, communication skills, and universal values, and achieving self driven, responsible, and world leaders.
School motto
Rooted in happiness, so that every child can find their true self.
3.Where is the geographical location of the school?
Shenzhen Meisha Bilingual School is located at 33 Huanmei Road, Dameisha, Yantian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. It is situated in the Dameisha Vanke Center Park, along with Vanke Meisha Academy.
4. How is the school environment?
The campus architecture complex was designed by contemporary American architect Steven Holl and has been awarded LEED Platinum certification by the US Green Building Council. It is known as the "floating horizon" and "lying skyscraper", with a strong artistic atmosphere and a strong sense of design. The campus is surrounded by mountains and the sea, with picturesque scenery, making it an excellent environment for learning and living.
5. The relationship between the school and Vanke Meisha Academy?
As an international junior high school connecting Vanke Meisha Academy (hereinafter referred to as the "Academy"), Meishuang is one of the most important source schools of students in the Academy. In terms of teaching methods, teaching objectives, and academic connection, it maintains internal consistency and commonality with the Academy.
6. What are the advantages of upgrading from Shenzhen Meisha Bilingual School to Vanke Meisha Academy?
7. What is the class size of the school?
The school implements small class management, with only about 24 students in each class.
8. How to divide students into classes when they enter school? How to organize the classroom?
The school implements an administrative class management system, with parallel classes and no key classes. The homeroom teacher is responsible for class management and cultural construction, cultivating students' collective consciousness and enhancing class cohesion.
At the same time, the school implements a HOUSE system, which is a cross grade and cross class student organization method. Through senior guidance and peer assistance, it cultivates students' ability to cooperate and communicate.
The classroom organization is a combination of administrative classes and walk-in classes..
9. How is the teaching staff of the school?
We are committed to creating an open, inclusive, beautiful and collaborative campus community. Through a superior and comprehensive salary and benefits mechanism, an understanding and respect for multicultural communication environment, and humanistic care, Mei Shuanghui has gathered a group of outstanding international educators with an international perspective and full recognition of the goal of establishing world-class schools.
The ratio of Chinese to foreign teachers in the school is 2:1, and the ratio of teachers to students is 1:5. Among them, 88% of teachers have a master's or doctoral degree, and 72% of teachers have overseas study experience. They graduated from Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Notre Dame University, University of Edinburgh, University of Sydney, University of the Arts London, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sun Yat sen University, Beijing Normal University, University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, University of Macau。.
10.What are the teaching standards and philosophy of the school?
01. We adopt the national curriculum standards for compulsory education, integrate international education concepts, teaching methods, and diverse evaluation methods, implement bilingual teaching, and provide students with a rich learning experience.
02. Students will engage in in-depth learning and exploration in the regular courses constructed by subject groups such as Chinese, English, mathematics, personal and social, comprehensive science, art, sports and health, to develop critical and innovative thinking, cultivate communication and cooperation skills, strengthen ethnic and cultural identity, and cross-cultural understanding, achieving comprehensive development.
03. With the support of the academy, the overall planning of the junior and senior high school curriculum system will be carried out, and preparatory courses for senior high school will be offered to achieve seamless integration with the academy.
11.What are the teaching characteristics of the school?
·Exquisite small class education, "seeing" every student
·Emphasize the cultivation of solid English and mathematical literacy
·Immersive bilingual classroom with 50% English teaching
·Putting students at the center and emphasizing that students are the masters of the classroom
·Project based and exploratory learning, solving practical problems in real environments
·Sharing academy resources and seamless integration with academy courses
12.How is the leadership organization for school students established?
1. Shenzhen Meisha Bilingual School has organized a rich and diverse extracurricular activity curriculum system to help students develop their abilities.
2. Student leadership
3. A Growth Platform for Excellent Organizational Capability
4. The student union is an important link for communication between students and schools, and its members will develop excellent leadership, coordination and communication skills, and a sense of responsibility in helping all students fight for their rights;
5. The Senior Student Union is another official student organization of Mei Shuang, dedicated to shaping the image of Mei Shuang students, participating in care activities both inside and outside the school, showcasing the power of senior peers, and providing diverse and three-dimensional experiences such as caring for younger students.
13.What are the unique student activities in the school?
Theme campus activities
Rich and diverse growth experiences
We plan and organize campus activities in four different theme types: cultural season, world season, sports season, and art season:
·Cultural Season·
Rooted in the spirit of traditional Chinese culture (Mid Autumn Festival garden party/Dragon Boat Festival series activities/Hanfu Day)
·World Season·
Making the World a Classroom (International Volunteer/Social Practice Week/MBS TedX Theme Speech Event/Mathematics and Technology Festival)
·Sports Season·
Developing a lifelong sports hobby (Spring/Autumn Games/House Fun Sports/Teacher Student Basketball Tournament)
·Art Season·
Cultivate an elegant and composed artistic spirit (New Year's Eve/Summer Concert/Language Art Festival/Mei Shuangda Talent Show)
14.What extracurricular activities are also set up by the school?
ECA extracurricular courses
A fun and interesting exploration of interests
Extracurricular activities (ECA) are an extension and expansion of the teaching program at Meisha Bilingual School, aimed at enriching students' curriculum content, exploring their personal potential, meeting their interests and needs, enhancing their self-awareness, cultivating responsibility, independence, and exploratory spirit, and benefiting them for a lifetime. Five categories of courses, students can choose according to their interests and hobbies——
-Student clubs
-PBL project-based learning courses
-School sports team
-Special elective courses
-Academic Expansion Connection Course
15. What specific student clubs does the school have?
The currently established student led clubs include Khop Dance Troupe, Parallel Line Band, Fashion Design, Garage Band, Shi Shang Yuan Universe, Hai Yan (Literary Society), Xingsheng Art Department, British Parliamentary Debate Society, Anime Culture Society, Handnet Society, Shoe Culture Society, Frisbee Society, Athletics Team, Badminton Society, etc.
16.What elective courses does the school offer?
We currently offer courses including host and broadcaster, Bacis Latin Basic, Environmental Protection Research, Tesla Physics Classroom, Descartes Mathematics Competition, Biology Competition Society, English Reading, Self Media Operations, Guzheng, TechDigi7.0, UN SGDs Learning, and Fifteen Lectures on Modern Chinese History.
17. What are the hardware educational conditions of the school?
The school's teaching facilities include standard classrooms, science laboratories, Steam classrooms, indoor sports classrooms, music classrooms, visual arts classrooms, libraries, small theaters, and multifunctional tiered classrooms.
Outdoor facilities include green and environmentally friendly roofs, community gardens, plastic playgrounds, basketball courts, football fields, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, climbing walls, etc., providing a solid foundation for students to realize their dreams.
18. What are the library environment and reading conditions in the school?
As the "Annual Reading Model School of the 6th Shenzhen Education Reform and Innovation Award", Mei Shuang's "Ten Thousand Volume Library" adopts the same borrowing and returning book system as the Shenzhen Library. Students can borrow and return books through the school card, which is very convenient. Equipped with a full glass curtain wall, it provides a transparent and bright reading environment. With a panoramic view of the mountains and the sea, it is a must visit place for Laimei Shuang to check in. Many teachers like to arrange reading courses in the library.
The library currently has a collection of about 30000 books, 25 newspapers, and 117 journals, including Chinese, English, and bilingual books and newspapers suitable for various reading levels, to meet the daily reading needs of students at school. The library is also equipped with a large number of electronic reading devices and provides an online resource called "Wanfang Database", making it convenient for students to read online.
19.How is the dining experience at school?
Mei Shuang has carefully crafted three restaurants, namely Chinese and Western style, focusing on providing students with healthy, delicious, diverse, nutritious, and safe meals.
20. Can students board? What are the boarding conditions?
The school provides boarding conditions and is equipped with a warm and comfortable boarding environment. The student apartment is located in Tianqin Bay, with a blue sea and an endless coastline outside the window. Here, surrounded by mountains and seas, it is peaceful and elegant, with fresh air, warm and comfortable. Equipped with wardrobes, desks, independent bathrooms, and air conditioning, it is an excellent place for learning and living.
21. How are boarding students managed?
We implement a closed management system for boarding students and equip them with high standard Vanke Property, providing gold medal property protection. Students take shuttle buses to and from campus and dormitories with the full accompaniment of the department, dormitory management teachers, and security personnel every day. There are also rich dormitory activities waiting for everyone's active participation to jointly build a more loving dormitory culture.
22. What is the schedule for school accommodation students?
23. Can schools carry electronic devices?
1. Regulations on the use of mobile phones
⚫ Boarding students will submit their mobile phones after returning home on Sunday, and the homeroom teacher will send them back before returning home on Friday.
⚫ Day students hand in their phones to their homeroom teacher every morning when they arrive at school and retrieve them after school.
⚫ Students are not allowed to carry phone watches with internet access.
2. Computer usage regulations
⚫ At present, schools do not allow students to bring personal computers into school.
⚫ Teachers will distribute iPads to students in the classroom for online data collection based on teaching needs.
⚫ At the same time, the school is equipped with a fully MAC computer room for teachers and students to use in teaching activities. In addition, the school also provides a desktop computer for students to use in each classroom.
24. Who are the enrollment targets of the school?
01. Excellent primary school graduates with good English listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities will enter seventh grade in the autumn of 2023.
02. Seventh or eighth grade students with good English listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities will enter eighth or ninth grade in the fall of 2023.
25.What is the enrollment scope of Shenzhen Meisha Bilingual School?
Meisha Bilingual School has boarding conditions and can enroll students across all districts in Shenzhen.
26. How to apply for and process student status?
Students who meet the conditions for applying for student status in Shenzhen can apply for student status in the Education Bureau system. If you have any questions about applying for student status, please contact the admissions office teacher.
27. What is the tuition fee for the school?
2022-2023 Academic Year Fee Standards:
Tuition fee: 146000 yuan/year
Accommodation fee: 14000 yuan/year
28. How to make an appointment for visiting schools?
Follow the WeChat official account of "Shenzhen Meisha Bilingual School Junior Middle School Department" (below) - menu bar "Studying in Meishuang" - "Making an appointment to visit the school".
In order to meet the needs of parents and students to visit the school on site, we have also opened an offline channel for visiting the school within the week.
If you also want to explore Meishuang Campus on the spot and interact with the recruiting teachers face-to-face, please follow the WeChat official account to register. We look forward to meeting you in the beautiful Dameisha.
29.How to register for enrollment?
Follow the WeChat official account "Shenzhen Meisha Bilingual School Junior Middle School Department" - menu bar "Learning Mei Shuang" - "Future Elite Training Camp" to obtain the registration channel - improve the submission of registration materials - wait for approval - complete the activity payment - participate in the activity.
30.How to contact the school recruitment office?
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