Pennon Foreign Language School, Beijing

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Pennon Foreign Language School, Beijing, founded in 2008, is a full-time Edexcel high school in Beijing Edexcel is the UK's largest A-level examination organization.

The school offers IGCSE, A-Level and GAC courses. Pennon is currently the largest Edexcel British school in China. Average scores of GCE-A Level ranks first among Edexcel’s peers in China.^[1]

Over the past eight years at Pennon Foreign Language School, Beijing, there were 56 students admitted to the university of Oxford, Cambridge, Pennsylvania, Columbia and the California Institute of Technology. More than 300 students enrolled in the world's top ten universities, such as Imperial College London and University College London. Over 1,600 students were admitted to the world's top 100 universities. In 2014, 46 students received the interview invitation to Oxford and Cambridge University. The average GPA of GCE-A Level in Pennon Foreign Language School is 263 and the school's GPA is the top five in the same UK high schools.

In 2014, Pennon won the 2014 Pearson Edexcel Excellence Center Award and the President Guo Hong was awarded the “international education outstanding contribution award” in Asia by Edexcel Examination Authority for the first time in the past 10 years. In addition, the school has been awarded the title of "Most Influential Educational Brand"and "China's Most Comprehensive Strength Education Group" in successive years by Sina Corporation and the Xinhua New Agency.

Three of the seven Outstanding Teacher Awards are from Pennon Foreign Language School (Beijing) in the Edexcel China Conference in 2016. The teachers are divided into "oversea returnee" teachers and foreign teachers. These teachers were graduated from the prestigious universities like National University of Singapore, Nottingham University, University of Melbourne, University of Texas and many other top universities. Their goals are simple. Academic standards and the quality and physical development of students are both to train sound persons rather than candidates

At Pennon Foreign Language School, Beijing, extracurricular activities are complementary to classroom teaching. Pennon's student community activities are in full swing. In order to cultivate responsible citizens in the future, the school has always encouraged students to organize themselves and evaluate themselves. The school hopes that when they grow up, they will have the ability to choose their own work and life with an independent value system and action force. And they will be inclusive and be the citizens who have the ability to bring well-being to themselves, their families and the whole society.

In addition, the school also organized students carrying out volunteer activities to Thailand, Cambodia, Tanzania, Vietnam, the Fiji Islands and other countries to help students become citizens with universal spirit. The school also achieved excellent results in a number of competitions. In 2016, the school ranked seventh in the world in the Euclid Competition of University of Waterloo and ranked 10th in the whole country in the ASDAN Math Tournament. The business competition club in the school also won the Outstanding Company Award in the DECA-Microbiz, the national high school students' business competition, ranking first in the category of technology innovation companies.

Pennon Foreign Language School, Beijing, in strict accordance with the teaching requirements of British Edexcel Examination Authority, opens various compulsory courses and electives. These courses cover humanities, mathematics, art, design and other categories. These courses match students' interests and learning potential to make them more active and focus on exploration. In addition, their temperament gets more active and their physical fitness conditions get well. From the professional distribution of Pennon graduates to the universities of the US, Britain, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Hong Kong and other places, we can see that the effect of curriculum allocation is getting better and better.

Pennon Foreign Language School, Beijing, is the test center of IGCSE and GCE A-Level authorized by Edexcel. Its examination centre code is 93869.