Mar 2019 News

The NEHS 36th School Anniversary will be held on Wednesday, March 20th. Activities will be held at the International Conference Hall at 8:30 AM. Principal Lee will be presenting certificates to teachers who served in the school for 5, 10, 15, 20, or 25 years to express gratitude towards their hard work and to praise them for their contribution to NEHS throughout the years. Later on, the NEHS elementary department from the class of E601, who won the high distinction award, will be invited to perform a singing performance as a celebration for the school’s birthday. Aside from the performances in the International Conference Hall, several performances will be held in the gym, Including the NEHS high school and middle school department orchestra, kindergarten students,IBSH Cheerleading, D.Co, CBC, and the guitar club of NEHS which will all be bringing us impressive performances. Our school will be continuing our goal to initiate health diet, label calories, and promote the idea of “No Waste,” hoping to decrease the amount of production of manufacturing and food waste. To celebrate the school anniversary, all departments conducted a series of activities, including the student’s work exhibitions, Student Council’s “NEHS Talent Show”, middle school department’s “Let’s Talk in English” interactive seminar, the elementary department’s dancing and sports competition, and the kindergarten department’s parenting lectures. Let us celebrate the NEHS 36th School Anniversary together and wish NEHS to move towards an exciting development!

Possessing the class and aesthetics of one of those trending coffee shops, the Taipei Jian-Guo High School library holds the title of the “Most beautiful High School library in Taiwan.” The director of the school's library, Mr. Wen Shi Hao, established the library renovation project in 2017, and through such created a library he had always envisioned for his students — a room with both open and personal areas, fit for both reading and studying, either with friends or alone. The NEHS faculty visited the Jian-Guo High School Library earlier this January in the hopes of being able to develop a similar environment for the students of NEHS. They hope that renovating our school’s library will create enough, and suitable, space for students of all ages to study in.

As a response to the government’s endeavor to turn Taiwan into a bilingual country and its corresponding policies of promoting bilingual education, NEHS takes the first step to incorporate English into its teachings of main subjects. NEHS elementary department and National Tsing Hua University Department of English Education’s dean, Ms. Chiou-Hui Chou, have a long collaborating relationship. After much discussions, they have decided to practice Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in grade three’s social studies class. Every Wednesday’s social studies class will be taught by both social studies teachers and pre-service teachers from NTHU Department of English Education. Social studies teachers from NEHS will teach the first two periods, and the pre-service teachers from NTHU will teach the third period, assisted by the social studies teachers. Through this experience of CLIL practice, the school hopes to bring bilingual education to NEHS and help the students improve their English.

This past winter, Ms. Joyce Wu and Ms. Grace Lin from the bilingual department led a total of 20 students from the Student Teaching English Program (STEP) to host an English learning winter camp in Yilan from January 19th to January 25th. Other than the most fundamental English classes, the students were also exposed to education through artificial intelligence and various technologically-advanced activities. This integration of more modern activities within the classroom seemed to be a hit with both the students and teachers, resulting in a very memorable STEP winter trip.