SJCS Nanjing A new nursery to share the St John’s ethos abroad The school has embarked on an exciting project with a Chinese partner to open a nursery school (ages 3 – 6) in Nanjing, China. This has been 18 months in the planning and with the blessing of the St John’s College Council and the school’s Governing Body, we launched this new school in May and it will open in November 2018. There is a high demand for nurseries in China since the abolition of the ‘one child only’ law. The Chinese are looking for the very best in nursery education and are very open to the more holistic approach to education we have in this country and particularly in the pre-prep education at St John’s. St John’s College School, Nanjing, will be founded on our ethos, with the Emotions for Learning curriculum at its core. There will be an emphasis on an holistic and playful approach to education. From the outset we have seen the potential of the project to create cross-cultural links for the children here in the UK and in China. It will contribute to our outreach programme which aims to share our philosophy with others and which we believe gives children such a good start to their educational journey. The income generated will go towards financing bursary support for children in the UK and will also help to fund the extension of our outreach programme in this country. We hope that our partnership with China will have a positive impact on our children and give them a link to another culture where both sides can learn from each other. We have already seen the benefits of this with the school we are supporting in Ghana. We want our children to be outward looking and prepare them for the interconnected global environment in which they live; this can only be beneficial to all of us in the future.
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The Eaglet 2018 ~ SJCS International