At Hiba Academy Hangzhou, we believe that every child has the right to a well-planned, joyful and holistic education. Early years education has a lifelong impact on how young children view and value learning. Key to our educational ethos is full commitment to the Nursery, with staff, children and parents all playing their parts in creating and maintaining a truly unique and vibrant atmosphere. Our Nursery staff are committed in encouraging children to embrace a wide range of experiences, and to foster in them Hiba Values and the Hiba Identity.

To ensure the most effective Early Years approach for our pupils, we have merged the English Early Years Foundation Stage and the Chinese Curriculum (from three to six years) guidelines. The result is an encompassing curriculum and Hiba framework for teaching and learning. There are nine areas of learning and development and three specialist areas that shape our educational programme.

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At Hiba Academy Hangzhou, we treat each child as a unique individual: they are constantly exploring and learning, working hard to realise the goals they have established and gaining resilience and confidence in the process. In an immersive bilingual environment, we encourage and inspire children’s curiosity, provide them with opportunities to embrace challenges, and support them to obtain academic excellence and skills of lifelong learners in a happy and enabling environment.

We aim to provide caring and inspiring learning spaces which are built on positive relationships and developing the whole child emotionally, socially, physically and academically. As well as offering a wide range of learning opportunities, the continuous provision of resources available to pupils allows for independent accessibility and the teaching of new skills in culturally meaningful contexts.

For our learning spaces to foster life-long learners, we use a child-centred approach with a balance of adult led and initiated activities with enhancements and provocations to extend thinking, communication and language and to practise and embed skills such as literacy, mathematics and scientific enquiry.  

Our outdoor spaces are designed to offer huge potential to foster children’s characteristics of effective learning in natural and surroundings. Outdoor learning lets pupils run, climb and explore in ways that are not always possible in their everyday lives.

Every Wellington College Hangzhou teacher is highly skilled, driven by a love of their subject and a genuine desire to inspire the pupils in their care. They have been educated at some of the world’s best universities, including Russell Group and Ivy league. They are all fully qualified and have experience teaching at leading schools in their home countries and abroad.

The ratio between Chinese staff and expat staff is 1:2.

Over 68% of the Chinese staff hold a postgraduate Mater degree and above in most prestigious universities.

Over 62% of the Chinese staff have overseas study experience.

They are lifelong learners who have experienced and accomplished unbelievable things.