Curriculum for Excellence
Learner-centered
Wycombe Abbey Schools’ curriculum encourages students to strive for excellence, fostering both outstanding academic performance and their all-round accomplishments.
Fostering outstanding academic performance while developing students’ all-round accomplishments is the essence of holistic education, an approach which we take very seriously indeed at WASCZ. With our student-focused approach to the whole experience of learning, we inspire our students to acquire knowledge and develop academic skills through a unique, innovative and carefully designed Wycombe Abbey Schools “Curriculum for Excellence”. On one hand, we fully comply with the Chinese national curriculum in teaching the sciences and humanities, fine art, music, sports and other essential courses, and on the other hand, we offer the Wycombe Abbey Schools’ Development Curriculum and Super Curriculum. In this way, a system of three distinctive but closely related major curricula is offered at WASCZ.
Our Curriculum for Excellence at WASCZ is designed to emphasise different objectives at different stages, addressing the varying needs of children at various ages. This ensures that their education is coherent and complete and that our students progress consistently and progressively. We help them transform a general interest into a highly specialised skill, fostering a lifelong love for learning.
Nine-year Compulsory Education Curriculum
Our courses have been designed based on the national curriculum and comprehensively cover all key requirements in that curriculum while introducing a wide range of education resources and adopting innovative student-centred teaching methods. We constantly focus on crucial learning objectives and competence measures, paying equal attention to processes, results, knowledge, and skills. We will ensure that our teaching methods advance and adapt over time to enable our students to achieve consistently outstanding academic results, cultivating a new generation of students with a profound knowledge of Chinese culture and a strong sense of national identity.
WAS School-based Curriculum
Our distinctive and bespoke ‘school-based curriculum operates throughout our students’ academic careers. This curriculum covers lessons in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) to those courses that expand, supplement, and extend the nine-year Chinese national curriculum and the internationally renowned IGCSE and A-Level courses in high school. We teach in small classes and apply advanced teaching methods to stimulate students’ curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring their academic subjects and the world and building their potential in science, music, art, sports and outdoor activities. This lays a solid academic foundation while developing holistic skills and accomplishments.
WAS Super Curriculum
Besides extra-curricular enrichment courses and social and practical activities, we also offer students the opportunity to participate in summer camps, overseas trips, engagement with leading schools, world-class competitions and other high-quality activities (including the world-famous “Duke of Edinburgh Award”, the Model United Nations programme, international Maths competitions and the World Scholars’ Cup as well as mountain climbing, diving, hiking and other adventure trips. In and out of school, we promote our “super curriculum”, offering students an individualised education experience which helps them develop a global perspective, participate in global competition and gain a genuinely all-round development.
