Haileybury Rendall School, Darwin in China
Recently, our Head of Languages, Lei Shangguan, and I visited China to further our educational relationships with selected schools and to continue our plans to attract international students to join HRS, live in boarding and complete their VCE.
Last year we had three international HRS Year 12 graduates who lived and studied with us for 18 months — two from China and one from Vietnam. All three received strong ATARS and were accepted into their universities of choice for 2025.
On this trip we offered another eight places to students from China and we hope that many of them will join us in Year 11 this year from the start of Term 3. This is part of our plan to add diversity and a genuine world educational experience to our students and those who join us from overseas. In the next few years, we hope to enrol up to 20 students from south-east Asia.
We visited schools in Guangzhou in the south of China, as well as Ningbo and Beijing. In all cases we developed connections with the staff and students in these schools who are studying the VCE with support from Haileybury as a teacher mentor.
We also had the opportunity to again visit Haileybury, Tianjin which is about one hour south of Beijing. The HRS China Study Tour of 20 students also visited our sister school and we hope that there is enough interest in 2025 to repeat this event in September.
Our connections between the NT and China are very important to us and we look forward to these relationships further developing.
Andrew McGregor
Principal, Haileybury Rendall School
