2. Traditions Whole School: Events such as Sports Day, Reading Week, Chinese New Year School Festival
3. Symbols Whole School: The School’s logo, the School’s sporting crest, The IB logo
4. Convictions Whole School: The belief that what the school is trying to achieve in its teaching and curriculum is challenging and rare for a Chinese school to do, but we are growing very fast and becoming recognised as a new model. E.g. We have just been rated as one of the top 100 schools in China according to the Hurun Report with only 2 years since its founding
5. Mission and Vision All Stakeholders: This is ingrained and is easily remembered by every school stakeholder
6. Aims Whole School:This ties in with the schools M&V, excelling in the Chinese National curriculum while using the IB teaching and learning framework
7. Values Teaching Staff: The IB Learner profiles are a focus of all teachers. The IB Learner profiles and The Socialist Core Values are the Chinese staff’s values.
8. Norms Teaching Staff: Classroom norms Foreign staff prefer a respectable discussion based approach to their classes. Some traditional/older members of the Chinese staff prefer complete silence. Some modern/new members of the Chinese staff prefer an open discussion based class but struggle to keep the class focussed.
9. Tangible Manifestations
10. Rituals Whole School: Celebration of National Holiday. Some include:- Chinese New Year, Chinese National Day
11. Ceremonies Whole School: Graduation from K3 to G1, G5 to G6, G12 to College. Celebrating success in the different subjects with gifts and certificates for students that have excelled. Sports Day
12. School Uniform Whole School: Many varieties of uniform but all feature the colours and logo or crest of the school
13. Assumptions Teaching Staff: The teachers have a different idea of success based on their social cultures. Foreign Staff are deeply aligned with inquiry based learning for student success and preparing students for life and not just assessments. Chinese members of staff align with an intensive knowledge based style of learning and to focus on the next exam.This is not the case but an assumption by many non-teaching staff.
