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K EYSTONE
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BILINGUA L
IMMER SION
IN CHINESE A ND
ENGL ISH

Student’s learn language
and culture through a variety
of classroom and arts-based
experiences.

The advantages of fluency in two or more
languages are undisputed. Mastery of
multiple languages opens the way to
a lifetime of educational, professional,
cultural, and personal opportunities.
Keystone Academy is an incubator of such
opportunities for its students who will learn
in both Chinese and English. Our goal is
for graduates to think, speak, read, analyze,
and create with equal fluency in both
languages.

Primary school uses a dual-language
immersion program in which students
study, play and learn throughout
the school day using both Chinese and
English. In middle and high school, our
students increase their study of, and
in, English to best prepare for universities
around the world, but they also retain
their study of Chinese throughout
the program. Learning in more than
one language allows students to develop
greater cognitive flexibility overall, and
high literacy skills in both languages.
Each language brings with it its own
culture, history, and way of looking at the
world, thus giving students multifaceted
viewpoints for creative thinking and
problem solving.

blocks that students need to flourish. The
humanities curriculum is interdisciplinary,
creatively drawing together the domains of
literature, arts, social studies, and language.
Students also engage in rigorous math
and science instruction that informs their
understanding in the humanities, and allows
them to begin developing a deep knowledge
of mathematical and scientific concepts.

Bilingual Internationally Recognized
Liberal Arts Curriculum
Keystone students engage in the gold
standard curriculum recognized by colleges
and universities around the world — the
International Baccalaureate Programme.
They have the deeper advantage of learning
bilingually.

The Middle School introduces the
International Baccalaureate Middle Years
Programme (IBMYP), a curriculum
in harmony with the unique mission of
Keystone. In the middle years curriculum,
Keystone maintains its central core of
Chinese language, culture, history, and
identity, even as students explore other
major traditions of learning in languages,
humanities, sciences, mathematics, and
the arts. The curriculum focuses on
skill development, social and emotional
growth, study of both individual subjects
and interdisciplinary areas, and affords
students a variety of opportunities for
individual and collaborative planning
and research.

The Primary School at Keystone tailors

The High School prepares students for entry

for its students the International Primary
Curriculum — an engaging, rigorous, and
internationally-minded thematic curriculum
of choice in schools in 80 countries. The
program carefully develops the social,
emotional, and intellectual building

into university through the International
Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP),
and continues to develop the intellectual,
personal, emotional, and social skills needed
to succeed in an interconnected world.
Students will deepen their commitment to

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Students are offered many
opportunities to develop
their interests, such as in
calligraphy and other arts.