| International Curriculum
| Academic Excellence
| Early Childhood Program
| Elementary School
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| Middle School / High School
| MS/HS Curriculum Overview
| Activities Program
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Academic Excellence
To ensure that students can reach their
full potential, and achieve academic excellence requires a number
of inter-related elements to be in place.
These include:
• A sound, well resourced curriculum;
• Experienced, caring teachers;
• School wide monitoring of student and school achievement.
At the Western Academy of Beijing we ensure that our standards
make clear the expectations of the curriculum. Achievement Standards
are reference points against which student achievements can be qualitatively
and quantitatively measured and reported.
Achievement Standard data is gathered throughout the year, to ascertain
"snapshots" of each individual student's level of knowledge,
skills and abilities in Reading, Writing, Spelling and Mathematics.
All students participate in these assessments unless they are from
non-English speaking background and have been given a non-English
speaking level, or have specific learning difficulties that require
intensive one-to-one support during the length of the assessment.
Annual assessments against international benchmarks indicate that
the standard of reading for students at WAB is excellent. The cohort
of students who speak English as a first language, who have spent
time at the school show higher standards of achievement in reading
than the typical cohort on entry.
Thirty percent of students are significantly above their chronological
age (18-35 months above), while fifteen percent are outstanding
readers (36 months or more). Students at WAB are also achieving
very high standards in spelling. Some twenty-four percent of newly
enrolled are below standard for spelling while after a year or more
at WAB, only ten percent of students are below.
Achievements in Science and Mathematics in WAB are higher than
international standards. A total of sixty five percent of students
perform in the top thirty percent range of achievement in Science
and a total of fifty seven percent of students perform in the top
thirty percent range of achievement in Mathematics.
Specific program strengths by grade level show higher than average
results in every area of Science and Math skills and understanding,
with very significant areas of strength in Measurement and Space
in Math, and overall particularly high achievement in Middle School
classes.
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