VBS News Net: On October 7, 2021, the list of experimental schools of new teaching and learning model based on teaching reform and integration of information technology of Shenzhen Education Bureau was released. VBS was selected.

To effectively promote the construction of the experimental area of new teaching and learning model based on teaching reform and information technology integration in Shenzhen, primary and secondary schools applied for school-level experimental projects in the experimental area. After school application, district-level recommendation, expert evaluation, and comprehensive evaluation, the Education Bureau announced the list of experimental schools, and VBS was selected as one of the nine schools in Longhua District.

Since its establishment, VBS has actively promoted innovative education and attached importance to educational informatization reform. Under the leadership of Principal Yang, VBS made the project of innovation curriculum (PBL curriculum) and interdisciplinary integration (STEAM), which is also one of the experimental directions declared by the experimental school. Taking the PBL course as an example, the school has completed many projects such as VBS bank, 24 solar terms, learning our campus, healthy diet, life with zero waste, and infiltrated the PBL teaching concept in all disciplines.

In August 2021, the tutors of high-tech high schools in the United States were invited to provide teachers with world-leading PBL training. VBS STEAM project mainly focuses on AI, integrates Science, History, Architecture, Art, and Music, and makes innovative attempts to integrate disciplines in project-based learning at all grades, such as making solar water heaters (Science and AI), Dutch windmill (Science, AI, and Architectural), and energy conservation of generator (Science and AI), speech recognition (AI, Chinese and Mathematics), fish and plant symbiotic circulatory system (AI and Biology), clay bomb music (Science, AI and Music), and intelligent spray humidifier (Science and AI).

VBS always adheres to provide students with various courses and learning methods that meet the needs of students' development. In this application for the experimental school, all relevant work and assessment indicators of VBS meet the requirements, which benefit from the top-level curriculum design of the school. The school will continue to highlight innovative characteristics, steadily carry out experiments, accept the regular acceptance of the Education Bureau with high standards, and use a new learning method to enable children to have the knowledge and ability to experience and adapt to the future.

Written by Ms. Wu Ping

Photographer: Linda

Translated by Reny