Haileybury in China
Recently, our Head of Languages, Lei Shangguan, and I visited China to further our educational relationships with selected Schools and to continue our plans to attract international students to join HRS, live in boarding and complete their VCE.
Last year we had three international HRS Year 12 graduates who lived and studied with us for 18 months – two from China and one from Vietnam. All three received strong ATARS and were accepted into their universities of choice for 2025.
On this trip we offered another eight places to students from China, and we hope that many of them will join us in Year 11 this year from the start of Term 3. This is part of our plan to add diversity and provide a genuine global educational experience to both our students and those who join us from overseas. In the next few years, we hope to enrol up to 20 students from south-east Asia.
We visited schools in Guangzhou in the south of China, as well as Ningbo and Beijing. We were pleased to develop strong connections with the staff and students in these schools who are studying the VCE with teacher-mentor support from Haileybury. We also had the opportunity to visit Haileybury Tianjin which is about one hour south of Beijing. The HRS China Study Tour of 20 students also visited our sister school in 2024 and we hope that there is enough interest in 2025 to repeat this event in September.
All in all, it was a most successful trip and a positive continuation of our ties with our international school community.
Andrew McGregor
Principal
