Assistant Principal (Early Years and Primary)

Shen Wai International School (SWIS) is located in a scenic area of Shenzhen Bay and is the first international school in Shenzhen to be invested in by Shenzhen Municipal Government. The open, green and picturesque campus with its modern, state of the art facilities makes SWIS a particularly attractive learning and teaching environment.

Covering an area of 24,000 square meters with a construction floor area of 42,000 square meters, SWIS boasts spacious and extensive first class facilities with the capacity to host 1,080 students in our 54 classrooms.

SWIS offer an inquiry based programme with an expectation of excellence. We encourage our students to become active participants in their own learning and we ask parents to also share in the life of the school as a community.

At SWIS we have a highly professional and committed staff of fully qualified, experienced English speaking international teachers from countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These Class Teachers are supported by a fully qualified bilingual staff of Chinese Teaching Assistants.

As well as our small class sizes of 20 students, each with their Class Teacher and Teaching Assistant, the children enjoy specialist lessons in Art, Music, PE and Swimming each week with a daily Chinese lesson.

As an international school, the language of instruction at SWIS is English. We recognise that we have a special responsibility to foster the language development of all of our students and so we provide them the environment and the necessary language support to enable them to participate fully in the academic programme and the social life of the school, as well as to develop as individuals.

The Chinese language also has a special place in our curriculum. All of our students take advantage of the opportunity to learn Chinese while in China. Our Chinese programme caters for beginners through to native speakers and recognises the diverse learning needs of our students. The teaching of Chinese language is engaging, multi-dimensional, relevant, challenging and effective ensuring best practice language instruction for all learners.

Parents are also encouraged to take part in the life of the school as partners in their child’s education.

The school is already oversubscribed and has students from 3 years of age in the Nursery up to 12 years of Age in Grade 6.  In 2013/14, SWIS will expand to enroll students in Grades 7 and 8, with further expansion of the upper school in the following year.