Founded in 1999, Haidian Foreign Chinese Experimental School includes kindergarten, primary school, junior high school and high school, and its positioning is a high-end full boarding school.
Haidian Foreign Chinese Experimental School has a beautiful environment and excellent teaching facilities. Located outside the West Fourth Ring Road, Haidian Outer Chinese Experimental School has a construction area of about 100,000 square meters, which is close to the High School Affiliated to the National People's Congress, but covers an area of 350 acres, which is 1.64 times that of the latter, equivalent to half of Tiananmen Square. In addition to the common basketball courts, football fields, volleyball courts, the school also has high-end sports fields such as international standard golf driving ranges, climbing walls, fencing centers, and rare halls such as observatories, pottery rooms, studios, and piano rooms. The most attractive thing for children is the zoo, which is home to exotic birds such as black swans and red-crowned cranes. The teaching building and the inflatable air film gymnasium can effectively block PM2.5, and many parents are impressed by this.
The elegant campus environment seems to imply that the learning atmosphere of Haidian Foreign Chinese Experimental School is very relaxed, which is also in line with the school's educational philosophy of "embracing nature, life, learning, the world, and the future", but it should not be "fooled" by appearances, and the management of overseas experimental schools is stricter than that of most public junior high schools. Similar to Shida, overseas experimental schools also adopt full-boarding closed management, there is no WIFI on campus, students are not allowed to bring electronic products during school, mobile phones and other communication equipment also need to be handed in, and teachers can only communicate with parents with permission.
Discipline is also one of the school's cultivation contents, usually students will get up on time at 6:30, before breakfast need to run in the morning, queues, shouting slogans and other characteristic culture has also been inherited in this Chinese school. The lights out time is 21:40, and there will be a two-hour self-study class, and most students can complete their homework before the lights go out. Strict management has also been effective in the high school entrance examination, with data from private educational institutions showing that the average score of the high school entrance examination for overseas experimental schools in 2017 was 544.13 points, which is better than many famous public schools in Haidian, and many parents have doubts about this. The university rarely discloses specific information such as the whereabouts and average scores of graduates, and usually claims that its high school entrance examination scores are firmly ranked 6-8 in Haidian District in more serious occasions.
Overseas experimental schools offer comprehensive quality classes, comprehensive quality multilingual classes, international classes, and international double excellence classes. The comprehensive quality class follows the route of the middle school and college entrance examination, and the rest of the classes are oriented to going abroad. In addition to the national standard curriculum, the comprehensive quality class also offers elective courses and clubs, and students can choose many categories such as humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, and art according to their interests. Another major feature of the comprehensive class is that it is committed to cultivating physical education and artistic literacy, students need to master 2 sports specialties and 1 artistic specialty, and the school will arrange 6-10 class hours/week of special training for this purpose. It should be noted that the special training of physical education and art can be regarded as a compulsory course, but the school will charge additional tuition, which is more than 10,000 yuan per semester. In addition, the curriculum of overseas experimental schools has high requirements for English literacy, and the English textbook for all classes is "Cambridge International English Course", and children who intend to study need to learn English in advance to cope with it easily.
According to the experience of previous years, the examination subjects are divided into Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages, and there are fewer deviations and strange questions, but the scope of investigation is wider. According to the feedback of parents and students, the experimental class is more valued than the parallel class, and the teachers are more responsible, but the academic work is more heavy.
Compared with Shida, overseas experimental schools have more cultural and sports activities and a more beautiful campus environment, but their disadvantages lie in the poor transparency of the recruitment results and destinations, which brings a lot of troubles to parents. The cost of studying in overseas experimental schools is higher: tuition and accommodation and food fees are 39,500 yuan per semester, and the fees for special compulsory courses in art or sports are not included in the "tuition fee", and parents need to spend an additional 12,000-18,000 yuan per semester.
