On the afternoon of May 30th, 2012, Colin Andrews, principal from Blockhouse Bay Intermediate, New Zealand, paid a visit to our school.
Mr. Andrews held a talk with Principal Zhou on school-running concept, improvement of students’ comprehensive quality as well as teachers’ professional development. They reached consensus on a lot of issues. More cooperation will be conducted between the two sides in the future. Students from China and New Zealand will be likely to work together to carry out one project on the possible topic like environmental investigation, with the aim to raise students’ awareness of teamwork and provide them with more opportunities to get exposed to others’ languages.
After the talk, Mr. Andrews was shown around the campus. Modern facilities in our school left him a very deep impression, especially the robot program organized by Ms Qiang Wei. Mr. Andrews showed great interest in robot making and program design.
At 15:30, Mr. Andrews attended the chorus competition of Junior Two. He was greatly impressed by the thoughts and sentiments expressed in the songs. At the end of the performance, Mr. Andrews delivered a short speech to express his gratitude and congratulations to our school and students.
Principal Zhou visited Blockhouse Bay Intermediate in April this year. The cooperation between our two schools will continue in the following years.