Choosing a school for your child(ren) is one of the most important decisions parents ever make. We want to help you determine if UISZ is the right fit for you and your family.
Why UISZ?
Families in Guangdong have been choosing UISZ for over 25 years because they want to be part of a diverse international learning community that adheres to our core values: Integrity, Courage, and Compassion. Nearly two-thirds of new UISZ families choose us after receiving positive recommendations from their friends and colleagues who are already part of our community.
Here are a few reasons why internationally-minded families continue to make UISZ their first choice for a boarding school in Guangdong.
UISZ believes that education should centre on developing each person’s academic, creative, social, physical and emotional dimensions. We treat every person as individual and unique, enabling us to engage them, enhance their curiosity, individuality, and creativity, ensuring we can continuously adapt to the changing needs of our community. Experiential learning supports this approach through exploration, questioning, experimentation, and active engagement. This enables us to take action in our lives and to make a positive impact. As a day and boarding school, we consider positive personal relationships as meaningful as academic subject matter. We strive to cultivate our sense of community and belonging by sharing ideas, aspirations, and questions.
UISZ believes that high-quality learning takes place when our community feels safe and nurtured. High-quality learning enables our community to explore their learning through inquiry, is focused on conceptual understanding, and is differentiated to adapt and meet all our students’ needs. Both formative and summative assessments are used to measure their impact and help students in their academic progress. This is facilitated by the IB curriculum frameworks and a focus on a skills-based curriculum.
Intercultural learning happens most effectively when we understand ourselves as well as others. We strive to guide our community to understand and appreciate their own cultures and personal histories while being open to genuinely explore and understand the perspectives, values, and traditions. This is fundamental to an international residential community. Our curriculum expects students to develop an understanding of global issues and grow as adaptive, compassionate, and responsive global citizens who can positively impact the world.
Global Citizenship is supported in many ways at UISZ. Our curriculum explores concepts, ideas and issues that have local and global significance. In so doing, teachers, students and parents become adaptive to the changing world and develop an understanding across a broad and balanced range of disciplines. The service and action programmes promote allegiance and service to the global community, to the planet, seeing its people, animals and the environment as interdependent. A connected and sustainable global community requires individuals to make an impact, be courageous and see service as key to the flourishing of the planet.
