Chinese International School is committed to the achievement of academic excellence and is characterised and enriched by its dual-language programme in Chinese and English. The mission of Chinese International School is to inspire students to a lifelong love of learning.

The school encourages intellectual curiosity and independent, critical and creative thinking which will maximise students’ potential and promote the growth of the whole person. The school prepares its students to be compassionate, ethical and responsible individuals, contributing to local and global communities, respectful of other views, beliefs and cultures, and concerned to make a difference in the world.

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Objectives

This statement of objectives is a living document, the purpose of which is to guide the school’s decision-making processes and ensure that the objectives are consistently focussed on the development of the students.

To Connect, Inspire, Serve

Connect

• Connect students, teachers, and staff in a caring, challenging and inspiring community of learners.
• Connect the school with parents as partners in learning.
• Connect students and staff within a rich dual-language environment in order to develop understanding and appreciation of the associated cultures.
• Connect students and teachers with information and the tools necessary for information literacy.
• Connect the school community with local and global communities.

Inspire

• Inspire students to reach their full potential in pursuit of excellence across the breadth of a balanced and challenging curricular and co-curricular programme.
• Inspire students of all linguistic profiles and backgrounds to achieve their full potential through Chinese and English.
• Enable students to inspire fellow students and adults with their decisions and actions at CIS and beyond.
• Inspire students through the teaching and example of teachers to develop humane values and core integrity that will inform their decisions and actions.
• Inspire in students and teachers playful creativity, experimentation and appropriate risk-taking.

Serve

• Create a school community that is infused with a commitment to service.
• Develop leadership through service opportunities.
• Serve as environmental advocates through the school’s practice and curriculum.

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Happy, motivated, multi-talented and multi-lingual, CIS’s 1,500 students come from over 1,000 families and diverse backgrounds. While about two-thirds of students are ethnically Chinese, they represent some two dozen nationalities with family roots in many parts of the world.

The Primary school is made up of over 600 students aged 4 to 11 in Reception to Year 6, while the Secondary school is made up of over 800 students aged 11 to 18 in Years 7 to 13. Students across the school find unity in a single mission embodied in shared values, a shared campus, common day structure and linked curriculum.

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