Western International School of Shanghai

The Western International School of Shanghai (WISS) is an international school located in Xujing Town in the Qingpu district on the western side of the Huangpu River, Shanghai. WISS has more than 50 different nationalities represented in the school community.[1]

WISS is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School which educates students from preschool through high school. WISS offers the Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP), and Diploma Programme (DP).[2]

The school campus is spread across a 16-acre (65,000 m2) site which was designed by Weimar Architects of the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. The school facilities consists of a theatre, gymnasiums, swimming pools, large field, soccer turf pitch, outdoor basketball court, science labs, art studios, dance studios, tech labs, computers labs, open-plan library, cafeteria, fine arts wing, three playgrounds, and large classrooms.[3]

History

WISS was granted approval by the Ministry of Education in Beijing in 2004 and opened its doors on September 6, 2006. WISS caters to expatriates in Shanghai who want an international education based on the full continuum of the IB, being the first International school in Shanghai to offer all three IB Programmes.

Languages

WISS has a second language programme in Mandarin and offers Spanish, French, and German in the Secondary School. Afterschool mother tongue programmes are offered on campus in Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Slovakian and Swedish.[4]

Activities and sports

WISS offers sports and activities for Nursery through to Grade 10 in conjunction with the school curriculum.

These include but are not limited to: Basketball, Volleyball, Swimming, Soccer, Rugby, Badminton, Ping Pong (Table Tennis), Gymnastics, Wushu, Dance, Piano, Multi Sports, Computer Club, Art & Craft, Jewellery Making, Cooking, Girl Scouts, Lego Engineering Workshop, Chinese Poetry, Ballet, Model Making, school newspaper.

The soccer program is done by Stoke City FC, with coaches from the Premier League-club in United Kingdom.[5]

Affiliations

WISS is authorized and affiliated to many other groups:

IB – International Baccalaureate

WASC – Western Association of Schools and Colleges (Candidate School)

SISA – Shanghai International Schools’ Association

UCAS – University and College Admissions Service

CISSA – Chinese International Schools’ Sports Association

ACT – American College Testing (Approved Examination Center)

See also

References
  1. Hirano, Roger (2018-01-12). "WESTERN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SHANGHAI (WISS)". Newsweek.
  2. "Western International School of Shanghai (WISS)". www.ibyb.org. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  3. "Home Page". Western International School of Shanghai. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  4. "Western International School of Shanghai (WISS) | SmartShanghai". Smart Shanghai.
  5. Family, Urban. "Q&A: Stoke City's Soccer Summer Camp Organiser Angela Smith". Urban Family.

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