At Hiba Academy Hangzhou (Nursery), our goal is to provide a nurturing and inspiring learning environment, as a good educational setting can play a positive role in helping children develop comprehensively in emotional, social, physical and academic aspects. In addition to offering a wide range of learning opportunities, we continuously provide resources to encourage independent learning and impart new skills within a multicultural teaching environment.
To create a learning space that fosters lifelong learners, we employ a set of child-led teaching methods alongside a series of adult-initiated activities. Together, these approaches enhance and stimulate the children's thinking, communication, and language abilities, while allowing them to practice and internalise a range of skills such as Chinese character recognition, mathematics and scientific inquiry.
As a bilingual nursery that integrates the essence of both Chinese and Western education, we not only focus on providing high-quality educational resources but also use the British standardised assessment system to measure pupil achievements. This ensures that they can demonstrate excellence on the global stage. We are excited to share this assessment data with everyone and to celebrate the remarkable achievements of the children in the EY3 at Hiba Academy Hangzhou (Nursery). These accomplishments reflect the children's intelligence and diligence, laying a solid foundation for their future growth path.
Sophie Brookes
Head of Early Years
At Hiba Academy Hangzhou (Nursery) we are delighted to share some of our data to illustrate the incredible achievements of our EY3 cohort, measured using data standardised with the UK.
Firstly, in English our phonics data for the 2024-2025 academic year has shown not only a big upwards trend from year-on-year data but also is extremely impressive in its own right. At Hiba, we use the Read, Write Inc Phonics system which allows our staff to access training, use research-based materials and compare our results with children in the UK. This year, for pupils who completed thefull EY3 year, we saw 93% of our pupils reaching the UK national standards with 62% of the total exceeding them.
Another area of assessment for our pupils comes through the Early Learning Goals (ELGs), which are used by all nurseries in England to track children’s achievement before they begin Year One (EY4). In our Nursery 92% achieved or exceeded the ELG for Maths, 95% for Physical Development and 91% for Understanding of the World and Expressive Arts and Design.
Our Personal, Social and Emotional outcome stood at 87%, fully demonstrating our emphasis on the comprehensive and balanced development of pupils and ensuring that they develop into well-rounded individuals who are confident, caring and motivated.
In addition, for Chinese Communication and Language and Literacy, which are not UK standardised but are moderated across our Wellington China schools, 89% and 91% of our pupils achieved or exceeded our goals respectively.
We are extremely proud to be providing our children with such a solid foundation of learning in their early years, our educational practise underpinned by the most up-to-date research into how young children learn and develop, including being heavily influenced by the world-renowned Reggio Emilia approach.
RWI assessment data for EY3
Early Learning Goals
achievement data
comparison with UK schools
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