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Martha Lyman To Set up Keystone’s College Counseling Program Hundreds Seek Keystone’s Unique Education Model Keystone Academy is in the planning stage of setting up a college counseling program to help and support our students get into the international colleges of their choosing. We have a most experienced expert in the field of college admission helping us with this – Martha Lyman. Ms. Lyman retired in June 2013 from a wellknown independent boarding school in Massachusetts, Deerfield Academy, as its Associate Head of School and Director of College Advising. Before that, she worked in the Admission Office of Harvard University. 22 November 2014: Over 850 people attended the first semester’s Open House Day. Prospective parents and students got a taste of the rich and culturally-rooted education model that Keystone offers. Current parents and students also shared their views and experiences giving guests the insider’s look into academic and residential life at the school. Open House Day culminated in a campus tour led by our very own boarding students. Keystone PTA is in Office 9 December 2014: Keystone’s inaugural Parent Teacher Association was formed towards the end of the first school semester. Our first-ever co-presidents are Stacey Atterton, middle school PE teacher, and Chang Qing, primary school parent. Other members are primary school parents, Li Yuan and Wang Jianying, middle school parents, Cao Xiaojing and Qu Songbai and faculty members, Amanda Narkiewicz and Juli James. Strings of Symphony 11 December 2014: It was the ideal end-of-term musical evening. Cellist prodigy, Feng Yao, enraptured the audience with his soulful performance from Bach to Chopin, including even a number from the 2009 Academy Award winning Japanese film, Departures. Feng Yao, Chinese-German, is a world-renowned cellist with principal positions in Germany’s Schleswig Holstein Symphony Orchestra and Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra. Beginning his training at the age of 5, Feng Yao had already won multiple awards and accolades by the age of 17. www.keystoneacademy.cn 7