INTERNATIONAL
incessant questions and as we sat for a filmed interview with two Year Six students for the school website, we reflected on the similarities between the Dulwich schools in London and Shanghai alike. Particularly marked was the shared ethos of the schools, which emphasised the co-curricular side of school life or ECAs (Extra- Curricular Activities) as well as academic achievement. Once we had spent two lovely days in Shanghai, and we had sufficiently underwhelmed their students with my cello playing and Kenza’s knowledge
International Baccalaureate rather than A-Levels. Each student takes a minimum of six subjects for their final two years of school, including a mandatory science and language subject, which we found resulted in a perhaps less in-depth understanding of an individual subject, but a broader range of academic knowledge that required a significant amount of independent learning, research and presentation. Each student and teacher we met was incredibly welcoming and kind and more than happy to answer our
After being blown away by the various sights the city had to offer and with our jet lag – induced by the eight-hour time difference – now starting to affect us, we awoke early the next morning for the start of our two school days spent at co-ed Dulwich College Shanghai. Having received a detailed timetable for our next two days from the lovely Miss Bugden, we went along separately to our own classes, which included Physics, Biology, English and Drama. The system used in the majority of the International Schools is that of the
Shehzore, Kenza and Cameron with pupils from Dulwich College Suzhou
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