Ms. Jiang Min, Deputy Mayor of Wuxi Municipal Government Visited

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On the morning of June 1st, International Children’s Day, Ms. Jiang Min, Deputy Mayor of Wuxi Municipal Government, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of National High Tech Zone, Secretary of Xinwu District Party Committee and other main leaders of WND visited Boston International School accompanied by BIS Chairman Mr. Yu, Executive President Ms. Sue Su, Executive Principal Mr. Rob Stewart, Academic Principal Mr. Brian Rotunno, and Secondary Principal Ms. Ann Wagner, along with other BIS representatives.

During this visit, Ms. Jiang gave her regards to the campus and students along with the main leadership from WND.  She also took a campus tour. Students from Boston International School expressed their sincere appreciation for the care and welcome from the visitors in their unique and warmest ways.

At the gate, the student representatives in different national traditional dress gave a warm welcome to all the visitors and presented their hand-made paper bouquets of fresh sunflowers to them.

At the central quad, PYP students of Grade 3-5 in National Dress were performing a ‘Parade of Nations’ whilst the MYP Band and ensemble also performed. The joyful and internationally-minded campus atmosphere impressed all the visitors.

In the Primary area, Ms. Jiang and all the visitors observed several classrooms and how foreign teachers interacted and guided their students as well as highly praising the creative and interesting classes at BIS. They interacted with the students positively and expressed their best wishes to them.

At the Early Years playground, the students from EY were playing games guided by their homeroom teachers.  The happy faces and the cheers and laughter of students added much delight to the campus on Children’s Day and was infectious towards the visitors.

At the Performing Arts Center, a group of students were engaged in a Broadway-style drama rehearsal called Seussical.  The students were singing and dancing excitedly and passionately. Ms. Jiang and all the visitors watched the performance and highly praised the educational concepts of BIS to fully develop students in all aspects of their personality and nature.

Ms. Jiang highly praised the impressive development of Boston International School over the past 2 years since its establishment in 2018 and was very impressed at the excellent foreign faculty team and the well-structured advanced curriculum system. When she heard the good news that all the children of Korean staff for the SKC Semiconductor Equipment Recycling Manufacturing Project which was launched in WND recently chose BIS as their school, she was very glad and wished BIS to continue developing and supporting the realization of regional upgrading development blueprint as a regional international educational resource with its advanced International Education Management Concept and resources. She also said as the only International School which provides dormitory services in Jiangsu Province, BIS can support more area around and can work together to contribute to the regional economic integration of Yangze River. 

By the end of this visit, Ms. Jiang presented a holiday gift for students at BIS on behalf of leadership of WND and expressed their best wishes to all the students again. She expressed that students grow happily and healthily in this beautiful campus environment surrounding by the flourishing green trees.

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