Brief Introdution to Nanjing
Foreign Language School
Nanjing
Foreign Language School (NFLS) is one of the first foreign language schools
established under the direct guidance of our beloved late Premier Zhou
Enlai.
NFLS
advocates the spirit of seeking the truth, scaling the heights, being erudite
and modest. It also emphasizes teaching that is“strict, careful, creative and
flexible”. The educational target of NFLS is to produce high quality talented
students who are ambitious, patriotic, ethical and broad-minded. These students
are also civilized, erudite, creative, proficient in certain fields and experts
at foreign languages; integrating both knowledge and practice using a healthy
body and a sharp mind. In brief, NFLS aims at producing international
multi-talented graduates who have a good command of foreign languages with a
wide knowledge of Science and Art including powerful abilities to integrate
these subjects.
During
the last forty years since its establishment, NFLS has been following the
educational principles of humanism; paying great attention to cultivating its
students’sense of being the masters of the classroom; developing their potential
and actively pursuing quality oriented education. As a result, it has achieved
remarkable accomplishments.
The
campus of NFLS occupies 45,000 square meters with 55 classes and 2828 students.
Its staff and teaching faculty include 265 people among whom are seven special
rank teachers and sixty-three senior teachers. Four languages–English, German,
French and Japanese–are taught in NFLS. To date, more than 5,000 graduates have
been turned out from the halls of Nanjing Foreign Language School.
Based
on the learning style of being discreet and practical, NFLS fully respects the
development of individual students and strives to create an educational
atmosphere of democracy, openness, liveliness and harmony, which is the spirit
and pride of NFLS. A special feature of the School is the large variety of
opportunities available for the students to develop their other abilities.
Students acquire the unity of knowledge and practice by“playing in
learning”and“learning by playing”, through all kinds activities, such as the
Foreign Language Festival, an Arts Festival, the Reading Festival, Science Week,
organized Sports, Spring and Autumn outings, concerts, the Students Union,
displays of talent (dance, music, art) on the campus, speech competitions and
debates.
Nanjing
Foreign Language School values openness, tries to adapt foreign things to China
and incorporates elements of diverse culture, resulting in a splendid multi
cultural atmosphere on the campus. NFLS has established sister-school
relationships with 34 schools abroad; among which are Toho High School in Japan,
the Attached School to Washington University in the United States of America,
the Fontainebleau Middle School in France, Taylors College in Australia, Hurl
Middle School in the United Kingdom and Lisgar High School in Ottawa Canada.
This not only enables NFLS to organize teachers and students conveniently to
visit for study or to participate in international camps, but also attracts many
foreign teachers and students to exchange learning or work. Recently, NFLS has
set up the experimental double-diploma Sino Canadian International School. It
has also carried out cooperative teaching in a Sino Australian International
Class. and has attracted dozens of foreign students from Germany, Italy, Japan,
South Korea and other countries. The impact of multi-cultural backgrounds will
surely broaden the students’vision and further develop their abilities.
Every
year, many students of Nanjing Foreign Language School stand out and become the
best among all participants in various competitions and contests, both home and
abroad. Every year, top universities in China and around the world admit large
numbers of our students. Today you can never fail to find the figures of the
graduates of Nanjing Foreign Language School studying diligently, whether in
Beijing University or in Tsinghua University, in Massachusetts Institute of
Technology or Yale University, in Stanford University or Cornnell University, in
Columbia University or Oxford, in Cambridge University or the University of
Toronto, in Melbourne University in Australia or Paris University in France, in
Berlin Freedom University in Germany or Waseda University in Japan. In recent
years, Nanjing Foreign Language School has maintained an extremely high rate of
admission rate in the National Matriculation Tests, and ranked as the first in
Jiangsu Province successively for several years.
Nanjing
Foreign Language School has educated about 200 diplomats for China, seven of
whom act as Ambassadors to other countries, eight general consulates and dozens
of whom work for our Party and State Leaders such as Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zeming
and Hu Jingtao. Many more graduates of NFLS hold leading positions in
government. In addition, significant numbers of graduates have become famous
experts or scholars.
Today,
the reconstruction of the campus of NFLS, costing 100,000,000 RMB, is very close
to being completed, while a new campus of NFLS will be erected in the Eastern
suburbs of Nanjng. This new school comprises an area of 350 mu with an
investment of 200,000,000 RMB. Looking ahead, Nanjing Foreign Language School is
facing a bright and prosperous future. Tomorrow, Nanjing Foreign Language School
will surely be even more splendid.
Tel:
83282309 83282310 83282311 83282300
Website:
http://www.nfls.com.cn/nfls/page/main118/main.aspx
