Congratulations to Brian Chen of 9B for Winning Silver in the International Math Olympiad

The awards ceremony of the 2011 International Mathematics Olympiad was held in the Netherlands on July 23rd. There were 101 countries and regions, 564 students participating. Taiwan won two gold and four silver medals. It was also ranked 8th internationally. This was the best ranking in the recent five years. Brian Chen was not only the youngest competitor but had found out seven months earlier that he had leukemia. Through the pain and toil, Brian went through chemotherapy and training for the Olympiad at the same time, winning the silver medal and honoring his country. We sincerely hope Brian will get well and make a full recovery from his disease!

NEHS High School Department Performs Excellently at the 51st National Science Exhibition

The 51st National Science Exhibition was from July 25 to 30 at Miaoli High School. Our school represented Hsinchu to the competition and brought back excellent results. Of the contestants, H2-4 students Chen Shuo Pu and Chen Po You won 3rd place in chemistry with "Magnetize! Pudding Absorption Sensitivity"; H2-5 students Lin Chi Zheng, Ling Yen Chen, and Tao Shi Yen also won 3rd place in math with "Sticks Build Walls: Isoperimetric Problems."  Many thanks to the following teachers Mr. Ren, Mr. Chuang, and Ms. Lan for their supervision and support. Again, congratulations to these students!

NEHS Receives Special Recognition in the 2010 High School Counseling Visits of Homogeneous Community Senior and Vocational High Schools

NEHS has been awarded with the first Prize for the counseling visits of Homogeneous Community Senior and Vocational High Schools.  The program of Homogeneous Community Senior and Vocational High Schools plan is a continuation of the Community Senior and Vocational High Schools Plan, which began in 2009. Its purposes are to reach out to the community for educational resources, to aid the school, and to organize courses suitable for the whole community to help students develop in a comfortable environment. As the Coornidator School for Hsinchu City, with Ms. Helen Jou as the program director and Miss Peggie Wu as the contractor, our school has organized several community service sessions such as the UNICEF fund raisers, professional development for teachers, reading tips teaching, lecture on classic literatures, and other activities with fantastic results. Special thanks to our wonderful deans and teachers for their hard workand efforts.

Congratulations to Mr. Chu for winning the Outstanding Teacher Award

On September 21, our beloved teacher from the Elementary Department, Mr. Chu was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Teacher Award by the Hsinchu City Mayor. Also, Mr. Chu will be representing Hsinchu City as a candidate for the 2012 National Educator Award. Mr. Chu is extremely passionate in his job as a teacher. He uses innovative teaching styles, stresses teacher-student relationships, and is also constantly revising and improving his own teaching style. Mr. Chu is also responsible for the creation of "National Experimental's Elementary News Channel" on the school website. In addition, Mr. Chu had placed first in the 6th Hsinchu City Super Teacher Competition, the 7thNationwide Super Teacher Award, and created his own educational blog which was nominated for the 6th Worldwide Mandarin Blog Award... While he continues to win a number of different awards, Mr. Chu is thankful to many teachers who did not hesitate to share their experiences, guiding him towards his success. He also gives thanks to the great learning environment of NEHS. He hopes he can help the students fly into the sky of endless possibilities and let the students find apiece that belongs to them.

IBSH was granted an accreditation term of three years by WASC

IBSH began the accreditation process with WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) since 2008, and was granted an accreditation term of three years by WASC after three years’  efforts. To achieve the goal for WASC accreditation, the admin. Team and teachers have had innumerable brainstorming meetings in order to create and refine the school purposes and the ESLRs (Expected School-wide Learning Results). The ESLRs are the goals of the IBSH school program--what we hope our students to become upon graduation. Teachers are encouraged to integrate the ESLRs into their planning and instruction as guidelines for their teaching strategies and curriculum standards; administrators are encouraged align their decision-making and activities planning with the ESLRs.

New Sister School Agreement Reached with Bei-Jing Fifty-Five High School

New Sister School Agreement Reached with Bei-Jing Fifty-Five High School this year's July, National Experimental High School and Fifty-Five High school began the exchange of academic and technical information and other information of mutual interest. In addition, the schools also established a net work educational platform and short-term teacher and students exchanges in international educational exchange activities. (llolollololo google translate). Set in Bei-Jing Chao Yang, Fifty-Five High School will benefit our school in providing bilingual education and international diploma. In February, Principal Wang Jing accompanying with dean of student affairs, and three other teachers came to visit our school in expression of approving the agreement and decisions on areas of cooperation. After the ministry of education approved this case in April, the principle of our school, Christina Huang, was invited to Fifty-High School to visit and finish establishing the contract. In October, Principal Wang Jing and colleagues visited our school in Taiwan. Thus, the two schools entered discussion and communication to increase interaction between the two schools, broaden visions, and promote international exchange activities.