IB Asia Pacific Newsletter

January - March 2006

China and Mongolia

IB Schools of China and Mongolia (IBSCM)

The IBSCM pre-conference was held from 18 - 19 November 2005 at the Western Academy of Beijing. Participants from 27 IB schools within the region approved the draft charter and elected nine executive committee members:

Diploma Programme

Robin Klymow, Western Academy of Beijing

Jozef Fryckowski, Suzhou Singapore International School

Janice Hew, Guangya School

Middle Years Programme

Amalie Aseline, Beijing BISS International School

Joel Seow Sze Hon, Shanghai Singapore International School

Li Chunlei, Guangdong Country Garden School

Primary Years Programme

Sarah Harris, Western Academy of Beijing

Karen Campbell, Nanjing International School

Diane Fisk, Victoria Shanghai Academy

A letter will be sent to all IB schools within the region outlining its launch and the new charter.

Consultations and Visits

TIST got its evaluation visit on 16 October by Li Bin, the MYP Programme Manager and Gordon Eldridge from Tokyo.

Wang Hong paid a visit to Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School from 11 - 14 October for its coming PYP authorization consultancy.

Wan Ji, a new MYP coordinator of Beijing Shuren Private School after Yu Haiyan who left this school sometime ago, visited our office on 21 October to get advice on solutions of students MYP certificates and how to develop MYP in his school. Students of his school received MYP report card in December after that visit.

Wang Hong, Laurie Ince and Nigel Forbes-Harper conducted an authorization visit at British International School in Shanghai from 1 - 3 November for its Diploma Programme.

Wang Hong visited Shanghai High School on 4 November upon the school’s request for its DP consultancy.

We would like to thank Sha Tin College in Hong Kong for hosting the PYP and DP workshops from 10 - 12 March 2006.

Wang Hong, Regional Representative China and Mongolia

Xia Juan, Personal Assistant

Email: china@ibo.org

MYP Workshops

Beijing World Youth Academy, 12 - 14 November 2005

The IB Asia-Pacific MYP Workshops was successfully held at Beijing WYA in November 2005.

This was the first time that Mandarin was the sole language of instruction for MYP workshops which explained the MYP guidelines to Chinese teachers and teachers whose schools were doing MYP in Chinese.

90 participants from all over the region attended the 3-day workshops held in five groups: Introductory, Language A, Language B, Arts and Technology.

Snapshots from Beijing

WAB Registration

Registration at the Mandarin MYP workshops

IB Schools of China and Mongolia

Opening address at the IBSCM

Wang Hong and IBSCM Wang Hong welcoming participants to the IBSCM