Greentown Yuhua School: Benevolence and Truth Seeking
Hangzhou Greentown Yuhua School is a school committed to make the children obtain good education in their community, adhere to providing ideal education and featuring international compatibility of culture and diversified development of children.
Stay True·Move forward
Originally founded and located in Dataer Lane in 1993, after decades of development, Greentown Yuhua has now become a key senior high school in Zhejiang Province, the first batch of first-class characteristic demonstration schools in Zhejiang Province, and the first batch of education internationalization demonstration schools in Hangzhou. It is the first batch of "Beautiful Schools" in Hangzhou, the only pure private school directly under the municipality of Hangzhou, the only member school of the Global Boarding Alliance in mainland China, and the advanced school for quality education in China.
In 2020, Hangzhou Greentown Yuhua School has reached a new starting point. As the only private high school of the country listed on the National Demonstration Zone and Demonstration School List for the Implementation of New Curriculum and New Textbooks for Senior High Schools of the Ministry of Education, which means Greentown Yuhua will have more diversified development and better prospects.
Enforcement and Cohesion
The school attaches great importance to the work of the CPC construction, conscientiously implements the Party's educational policy, and actively carries out the theme activities of Party history learning and education. Party members actively play a pioneering and exemplary role. The school highly values the strengthening of the professional ethics of teachers, and actively guides teachers to behave themselves, improving themselves and conduct teaching with virtue-oriented concept.
Optimize the way of education·Develop the Featured Courses
In recently years, the school actively explores and optimizes the way of education, highlights the cultivation of core literacy, and has held many New Courses and New Teaching Materials exhibition activities, which has become an important window and a typical model for showing the characteristics of high school education.
The school always believes that curriculum is the life-long cornerstone of student development, education and teaching is the fundamental task of the school, and curriculum construction is an important part of education and teaching. Therefore, in addition to the compulsory courses such as Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, biology, politics, history, and geography, two compulsory courses ---labor courses and comprehensive practice courses are included in the class schedule of the first-year students of Greentown Yuhua School.
The research learning topics derived from classroom teaching have become the main content of the comprehensive practice curriculum. There are many subject related courses such as "Decision-making and Optimization Course" closely related to mathematics, "Winemaking and Cultural Studies" closely related to chemistry, "Wetland Plant Community and Its Relationship with Water Environment Quality" related to biology, "Street Stall Economy from Wushan Night Market" related to political science, "Natural and Humanistic Investigation of the Grand Canal" related to geography, "Exploration of Hangzhou Southern Song Dynasty Architecture" related to history, mathematics and fine arts, etc. In June, 2021, the freshmen of school presented their research results to the teachers and students in various ways. Through continuous exploration and practice, the school has formed its own characteristics in labor education. In the first semester of senior high school, the "Experience Day" activity is carried out for children to work with their parents. In the second semester, there will be one special week for “labor”. Teachers and students visit Hangzhou and surrounding companies in the fields of commerce, medical care, catering, education, finance, law and so on. The sophomore year offers labor courses such as micro-film production, graphic animation production, tie-dyeing, woodworking, graphic design, and pottery sculpture for students to choose from.
Project-based Learning·Exploring the world
Internationalization of education is the stage for students to explore the world. Since 2007, the school has officially become a DSD school (a school qualified to carry out DSD German programs and hold DSD German exams). In 2014 , Spanish was offered for the first time as an optional language for our High School students and, since 2020, it is also offered to our Secondary school students. In 2018, we were authiorised by the Instituto Cervantes as an examination center for the DELE exams (Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language) for students under 18 years old, the only one in Zhejiang Province.Over the years, the school has been characterized by "International Compatibility and Diversified Development", and has developed a good relationship with more than 20 international famous schools.
The school holds an international cultural festival annually, which has become a platform for Chinese and foreign teachers and students to communicate and interact. The second foreign language school-based elective courses opened since 2018 are available for students to choose. Currently, German courses, Japanese courses, French courses and Spanish courses are on the list, which are very popular among students, as they enables students to have access to high quality education with the international standard without going abroad.
The achievements the school has got are just a starting point. In the future, Greentown Yuhua School will spare no effort to explore in the implement and practice of curriculum reform, and strive to play a leading role in promoting the reform of the education model of senior high schools and promoting the diversified and distinctive development of schools, so as to contribute to the development of education in Hangzhou.