Liuli International School
December of 2020
1. School Introduction:
Tianjin Liuli International School, established in 2014, located in Wuqing District, Tianjin City, China, which covers an area of about 440000 square meters. It is a private school with beautiful and well equipped school campus, including 3 teaching buildings, 3 apartment buildings, 1 stadium, 2 playgrounds, a dining hall, a school library.
Liuli International School has been approved by the International Baccalaureate Organization as a candidate school for PYP (primary school), MYP (Secondary school) and DP (Diploma Preparatory Program). It is the first school in Tianjin to conduct IB experimental teaching with three IB programs.
Liuli International School offers personal tailored way of education and cultural inheritance program to develop each student’s unique potential. It aims to nurture students with oriental wisdom, combining cutting-edge western educational methodology, to grow as individuals genetically full of charm, happiness and the spirit of liberty. To cultivate each student’s innovative, future-adaptive and sustainable capability along with development of their peculiar advantages at large, Liuli respects the physical and psychological peculiarity of each student and develops the customized growth plan for single child to inspire their enthusiasm and spirit of exploration in both study and the real world.
Up to now, Liuli serves students in Grades K-12. With over 2000 students and 300 faculty staff, and a growing rate of more than 50% over the past two years, Liuli international school is one of the fastest growing schools in North China.
1.1 Mission Statement:
Liuli International School aims to be a leading and prestigious international school in North China and be of certain influence nationally, with a high quality school curriculum.
The mission of Liuli International School is to cultivate successfully and globally competent students with oriental wisdom and global vision.
1.2 The Faculty
As a school dedicated to international education, Liuli has a very strong faculty with diverse educational as well as professional backgrounds. Among them are well-educated teachers who have devoted their active lives to International education, foreign tutors and other experienced teachers offering indelible contributions to Liuli in high quality education and establishing international links.
According to the statistics in 2020, there are 333 full-time faculty members, of whom there are 18 foreign teachers, 212 Chinese Teacher, 132 service staff.
2. Learning Resources
Liuli provides students with a rich living and teaching facilities, including 3 teaching buildings, 3 apartment buildings, 1 stadium, 2 playgrounds, 1 dining hall, 1 school library, 2 dormitories building with 1500 room, 2 laboratories.
2.1 Activities
With the constant development of the school, 15 student associations and clubs have been organized in the school. At the same time, Liuli regularly holds a variety of competitions including:
l English Vocabulary Contest,
l Speech Contest,
l International Competition for Science,
l Project Management Training.
In order to improve students’ practical skills, Liuli arranges English Volunteer Teaching and Psychology Activities every year.
3. International Academic Collaborations
3.1 Overview
Liuli has in recent years established dozens of international academic collaborations with the overseas institutions and schools,.
In 2018, Liuli has established partnership with Mt.Blue High School, which is a well-known public high school founded in 1969 located in Farmington, Maine in the US. All the courses taught in our school are structured, supervised and assessed by Mt.Blue. Students are expected to go to US and study in MT.Blue for grade-12 and receive a graduation certificate from Mt.Blue.
In 2019, Liulin International School’s Victoria Eduhub campus in Singapore was established and authorized by EduTrust Certificate (Cert No. : EDU-2-2090 Validity: 30-11-2016 to 29-11-2020 ) of Singapore. A-level students who meet the required criteria shall be eligible to complete their courses in Grade 12 and A-level exams at Victoria Eduhub campus in Singapore
3.2 Victoria Eduhub
Victoria Eduhub was established in the year 2000 providing specialized language training for students of all ages. In addition to English and Mandarin courses, Victoria Eduhub now offers Preparatory courses towards the Singapore-Cambridge GCE ‘O’ level and Singapore government school entrance examinations.
Victoria Eduhub is conveniently located next to the Paya Lebar MRT station in a quiet neighborhood with easy access to transportation and amenities. The school occupies a floor area of 297 square meters with six classrooms and a resource room that are air-conditioned, newly furnished and well-maintained. It offers a conducive environment for our students to learn and excel in. The teacher-student in Victoria Eduhub ratio is on average 1:10, depending on classroom size.
3 Introduction to course for Cambridge Pathway
Liuli currently offers courses in Chinese National Curriculum, Cambridge A-level Curriculum, American Common Core, and Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Liuli is a registered Cambridge International School with the school code of CN475, and a registered AP School with the school code of 694194. Liuli International School has been approved by the International Baccalaureate Organization as a candidate school for PYP (primary school), MYP (Secondary school) and DP (Diploma Preparatory Program).
3.1 Aims
The courses aim to prepare students for university study and successfully and competently negotiate the journey between Chinese pedagogical approaches and those employed by overseas universities. English Language and Academic basic studies are important features of the course. The course aims to improve the language, study skills and specialist subject knowledge required to succeed at an international university.
3.2 Graduate Requirements
Students enrolled in Cambridge A-level will study a compressed IGCSE courses at grade-10, AS at grade-11 and A2 at grade-12 and take Cambridge exams accordingly. Eventually they will take A2 exams of at least three subjects.
3.3 Course Structure
The academic year runs from September for about 35 weeks made up of 2 semesters, the first 19 weeks, and the second 16 weeks. Each week has around 35 hours of timetabled classes including sessions for independent and group study. Students are expected to do an additional minimum of 15 hours per week self-study. All students follow 5-6 compulsory core courses and in addition choose 3-5 courses from further mathematics, Global Perspectives, economics, and EPQ each semester
Subject type | Grade | Subjects | |||||
IGCSE Compulsory | Grade 10 | ESL | Math | Physics | Chemistry | Economy | Global Perspectives |
IGCSE Elective | Psychology | History | Biology | ||||
AS Compulsory | Grade 11 | IELTS Speaking | IELTS Reading | IELTS Writing | IELTS Listening | Math | |
AS Elective(choose 2-3 subjects) | Further Math | Physics | Chemistry | Global Perspectives | Economy | ||
AS Additional | EPQ | ||||||
A2 Compulsory | Grade 12 | IELTS Speaking | IELTS Reading | IELTS Writing | IELTS Listening | Math | |
A2 Elective(choose 2-3 subjects) | Further Math | Physics | Chemistry | Global Perspectives | Economy | ||
A2 Additional | EPQ | ||||||
General | Sports | Psychology | Clubs |
3.4 Teaching and Learning Methods
The courses consist of whole class lectures supported by handouts where appropriate, group seminars, workshops, individual/group learning sessions, one- to-one tutorials and laboratory course. The tutorials give students the opportunity to receive individual feedback on their progress and to discuss any individual problems they may be having with an aspect of the course.
3.5 Scholarship
In order to ensure that students are motivated, study hard and develop in an all-round way after admission, Liuli International School offers students who shall meet the certain conditions and pass the examination three type of Scholarships in the second and third academic years
3.6 Advanced Placement:
In order to satisfy students' academic aspirations and help students promote their abilities in application for oversea universities, Liuli is currently preparing applications for AP course.
AP Subjects | Teaching Hours for One Semester | Teachers |
AP calculus AB | 6 | English Teacher |
AP physics 1 | 6 | English Teacher |
AP chemistry | 6 | Chinese Teacher |
AP calculus AB | 6 | Chinese Teacher |
AP physics 1 | 6 | Chinese Teacher |
AP statistics | 6 | Chinese Teacher |
AP chemistry | 6 | Chinese Teacher |
AP biology | 6 | Chinese Teacher |
AP Computer Science | 6 | Chinese Teacher |
AP English Literature | 6 | English Teacher |
AP Economics (Micro) | 6 | Chinese Teacher |
AP Economics (Macro) | 6 | Chinese Teacher |