太仓市华顿外国语学校是一所十五年一贯制的全寄宿高端民办双语国际化学校。
学校位于太仓市苏州中路200号，占地120亩,交通便捷，环境 优雅，一流的设备设施、舒适完备的住宿条件，为学生营造了温馨的家 外家的学习环境。学校在名校长的带领下，汇聚了一大批业务精湛，敬业善导、乐于奉 献的中外师资团队，实现与上海教育教学同步，共享优质资源,接轨国际先进教育。
The campus, located in Suzhou Middle Road, offers convenient transportation, an elegant environment, advanced facilities and comfortable student accommodations. It covers and area of 120 mu and offers a home away from home for all our students.Under the leadership of famous principals, the school boasts a large number of Chinese and foreign teachers with superb teaching skills, professional ethics and dedication to their students. This enables the school to develop alongside Shanghai educational environment, share excellent educational resources with our community and help students integrated with advanced international educational practices.
学校由中锐教育集团投资创办，中锐教育集团先后投资创办了苏州伊顿国际 学校、合肥世界外国语学校、太仓市华顿外国语学校等14所基础教育及职 业教育的特色院校，全国在校学生约15000人，是目前国内教育业务范围 最广，投资规模最大的教育集团之一。
Taicang Walton Foreign Language School is a private, full-residence bilingual school in Taicang. It was founded by Chiway Education International Service Co. Ltd. (CEIS), which has invested in 14 specialist schools, such as Etonhouse International School of Suzhou, Hefei World Foreign Language School and Taicang Walton Foreign Language School. CEIS has 15,000 students across the country. It is the largest independent investment group and is one of the most well-known domestic education businesses.
课程设计(CURRICULUM SYSTEM)
(一)国内部课程构架/domestic educational system：
1、国家课程:以江苏省课程方案为基本框架，实现基础型课程校本化实施，为学生的全面发展打下良好的知识、技能、方法、素养的基础。
National Curriculum: Based on the curriculum of Jiangsu Province, Walton Foreign Language School adapts it into its own features, so as to help students with laying a solid foundation based upon acquiring knowledge, integrated skill development, multifaceted learning techniques, tutoring for enrichment as well as learning exceptionalities, and education for well- rounded and multifaceted development.
2、学校课程（三大层次）/School Curriculum (Three levels)
（1）奠基课程：奠基课程是遵循学校办学理念和培养目标，奠定学生成为杰出人才的基础。奠基课程共有四门，贯穿小学、初中、高中三个学段。
公民修养课程：这是一门行为课程，它主要不是在教室讲授，而是贯穿在学生整个学习生活过程中；课程旨在通过礼仪教育、言行规范、仪式熏陶、情感陶冶、心灵导引等途径，提升人格修养，培养绅士气质和贵族精神。
思维品质课程：思维能力是一切能力的核心，该课程通过专项训练，使学生的思维不断由低阶走向高阶，由低效走向高效，由一般思维走向创新思维。让学生获得更强大的学习能力，从而实现终身学习，终身发展。
中西文化课程：该课程建立学生良好的文化意识和全球视野。它一方面用祖国优秀传统文化熏陶孩子，使他们变得聪慧、礼仪、仁爱、坚毅、守信、博学，另一方面了解西方文化，西方的价值观念、行为方式和思维习惯，同时通过比较获得文化思辨力和判断力，这将为他们成为世界性人才奠定基础。
自然笔记课程：自然笔记课是实践课程，融合了人与自然教育、观察与写作教育、审美教育和生命教育。学生通过种植（养殖）、观察、记录、体验和感悟，感受自然，学会审美，体验生命的精彩、强悍与坚韧。
（2）拓展课程：拓展课程为选修课程，它提供学生兴趣养成、个性发展以及丰富学生生活的路径与平台，拓展课程包括兴趣课（学生社团），如舞蹈、声乐、剧社、棋类等，特长课（特色课），如太极拳、书法课、武技课等，以及学科拓展课：如语文、数学、外语等国家课程的延伸与拓展。
（3）探究课程：探究课程培养学生发现力、研究力和创造力，如结合太仓地域特点，开设以郑和与海上丝绸之路等为主题的探究课程等。
1) Foundational curriculum: The foundational curriculum is based on the school's educational philosophy and training objectives, which are firmly entrenched in the foundation for students to become outstanding talents. The foundational curriculum consists of four courses which are taught throughout the elementary period, the junior high and the senior high period.
a) The Global Citizenship Training Course: this is a behavior-based course, which is not taught in the classroom, but throughout the whole process of student learning; This “course” aims to cultivate the student's temperament and noble spirit through education on etiquette, expression of oneself, manners, sentiment edification, spiritual and emotional guidance.
b) The Analytical Thinking Course: The ability to think is the foundation of all our abilities. Through special training, this course enables students to change their thinking from low level receptors to high level participants who continuously ascend from low efficiency to higher and higher efficiency, and from general thinking to innovative thinking, so that students can acquire better learning abilities, so as to achieve lifelong learning and advanced self-development
c）The Transcultural Course (Straddling both Chinese and western culture): This course aims to help students to establish a good cultural awareness and a truly global view. It can make them wise, polite, benevolent, determined, trustful and knowledgeable through the learning of our own outstanding traditional culture as well as, enabling students to learn westernized cultural, values, behaviors and thinking patterns. By simultaneously comparing these two models, they can acquire critical thinking abilities and an enlightened capacity for judgment, which can lay a solid foundation for making them worldly talents on a global stage.
d) The Aesthetics of the Natural World Course: This is a practical course, which integrates the knowledge of the human being and the natural world. This course requires observation ability, writing proficiency, aesthetic appreciation, and lifelong learning skills. Students can learn to appreciate the natural beauty and experience nature’s and life’s brilliance, resilience and persistence through planting, observing, recording, experiencing and being inspired.
2) The Elective Courses: Elective Courses are for peripheral and enhanced educational learning, they provide a platform for students to build interest, to cultivate personality, and to enrich school life. The courses include student clubs, such as dancing, singing, drama, chess and specialty classes such as shadow boxing, calligraphy, Kung Fu, etc. Besides these, we also have extension classes in Chinese, higher mathematics, foreign language, and other expansion courses from the national curriculum.
3) The Inquiry Courses: Inquiry courses promote a student’s ability for discovering, researching and creativity. For example, these courses combine with the regional characteristics of Taicang City, and courses which are themed with Zheng He, (The most famous navigator in Ming Dynasty) and the maritime Silk Road.
（二）国际部课程架构/International Education System
我校高中国际部实施多元出口，为学生提供多条海外升学路径。高中国际部学制为四年即从9年级开始一直到12年级。其中9年级采用北美基础学科框架，开设中文、数学、英文（ESL）、人文社会、综合科学、艺术、体育等基础学科。10年级开始，我校开设加拿大方向、美国方向或者其他国际课程体系预备课程。
11年级，学生将根据自身的留学规划选择相应的国际课程体系，如加拿大、美国、英国等不同国家的课程体系，同时也成为IB-DP授权学校，IB-PYP候选学校，A-level授权学校，形成完整的世界范围认可的国际课程体系。
Senior High School Department resorts to the idea of “cultivating students with multiple level intelligence, and providing students with various ways of enrolling in Overseas Universities. The International Senior High Department adopts a four-year schooling program which goes from grades 9 - 12. Grade 9 employs the basic framework of a modified North American curriculum. Chinese, Math, English as Second Language (ESL), sociology, integrated courses, art, physical education and other basic courses as established in our course handbook. We also have Canadian University options, American University options and other preparatory courses in the curriculum. For Grade 11, students will choose relevant international and elective courses according to their own study plans such as; Canadian, American, British and other countries’ curriculum. At the same time, we are authorized IB-DP and A-Level school as well as a IB-PYP candidate school and we are working on the authorization of it in October, 2019.
国际项目/International Programs
1. 2+1 北美项目
华顿中加项目是我校与加拿大BC省甘露市合作开展的高中直升项目。学生在我校完成两年的学习（10年级和11年级）并修满规定的学分后在12年级直升加拿大甘露市下属的公立学校，学生在修满加方学校所规定的学分并且成绩合格后可直接收获加拿大毕业证书。最终学生将持加拿大高中毕业证书直接申请加拿大大学。
The 2+1Canadian Program at Walton is a Sino-Canadian Project in high school that is jointly conducted by our school and an affiliated school district called Kamloops in Canada. After completing two years of learning (10th grade and 11th grade) and completing the required credits, the students will go straight to the public schools of Kamloops in the 12th grade. After students complete the credits required by the Canadian school, they will directly receive Canadian diplomas. In the end, students will apply directly to Canadian Universities with a Canadian high school diploma.
华顿外国语学校认为：学校教育的核心就是课程，学校的课程思想决定学生学什么，怎么学，为什么学；华顿外国语学校改变传统学校德育、教学分离现象，以整个校园为课堂，所有教育教学活动为课程，以科学的育人观进行重构，形成实现“全人教育”的博雅课程体系
Walton Foreign Language school believes that the core of school education is the curriculum. The school curriculum ideology determines what students learn, how to learn, and why they learn. The Walton Foreign Language School changes the traditional school moral education and makes a clear distinction in the pedagogy of education. The whole campus is our students’ classroom for all the instructional time. All the school activities are part of the curriculum. They are constructed with a scientific and analytical concept of modern education and blend with a liberal arts curriculum system that realizes the importance of a “Holistic Education” that will be the foundation for our creation of Global Citizens.
2. 国际文凭大学预科项目(IB-DP)
作IB世界学校中的一员，我校已获得IB高中课程(DP)的授权，并有望在近期获得IB小学课程(PYP)的授权。学校将携手中外方教师努力把华顿打造成为一所国际化的IB-DP和IB-PYP授权学校，携手世界上其IB学校共同秉承旧课程理念，为下一代探索高质量的国际教育。
As an official IB World School, our school has been authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to offer the IB Diploma Programme (DP) at senior school level. We also work hard and expect to be authorized to offer the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) in October 2019. Our local and foreign staffs are working hard together to make our school a fully authorized IB PYP school. We are also cooperating with other schools offering the IB curriculum as we grow in the world of high-quality international education.
DP阶段是整个IB课程体系中最早开设的阶段（1968年）。这个阶段的课程对16-19岁的学生开放。整个课程为时两年，相当于国内的高二高三，完成DP阶段的课程后即可进入大学进行学习。
The Diploma Program is the earliest stage of the entire IB curriculum system(1968). This phase of the course is open to students between the ages of 16 and 19. The whole course lasts for two years, which is equivalent to China’s year 11 and 12 study. After completing the DP curriculum, students apply for university globally.
整个课程分为六门学科组课程和三门核心课程。六大学科涵盖：语言A(母语)、语言B（习得语）、个人与社会学（历史、地理、经济学、哲学等）、实验科学（物理、化学、生物等）、数学、艺术与选修。三大核心课程包括知识理论（TOK），拓展论文（EE），活动（CAS）。
The entire curriculum is divided into six subject groups and three core courses. The subject groups include native language, acquired language, sociology, experimental science, mathematics, art and optional courses. Based on the study of these six subject group, students in IB-DP stage will master three core skills like TOK(Theory of Knowledge), EE(Extended Essay) and CAS(Creativity, Activity, Service).
3. 剑桥国际项目（A-level）
CAIE,全称Cambridge Assessment International Examinations,是剑桥考试委员会旗下的三大考试委员会之一，成立于1858年。目前为全世界超过160个国家，超过10000所学校提供教育项目授权和教育考试服务。Primary, Secondary,IGCSE和A-Level等都是CAIE旗下的全球考试。
CAIE（Cambridge Assessment International Examinations)，one of the three examination committees of Cambridge Assessment founded in 1858, is now providing international education programs and qualifications for over 10,000 schools in more than 160 countries. CAIE involves global examinations like Primary, Secondary,IGCSE and A-Level.
在IB-DP的基础上，我校引入英国剑桥国际项目，正式成为A-Level官方授权学校。A-Level属于英国高中课程，是剑桥国际考试（CAIE）中信誉度高，国际认证的考试，是英语国家（英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰等）大学申请最受认可的文凭。A-Level课程秉承了英式教育的严谨，一年两考，课程选择灵活，相规避中国学生的语言劣势，是中国学生最易适应的国际课程。
Walton Foreign Language School has also implemented a new program that complements our IBDP (International Baccalaureate Diploma) program as well as the other curricula that are part of our educational structure. A-Level is a British high school curriculum and is widely recognized around the world, especially in English speaking countries like UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Inheriting the rigor of British education, A-Level is the best option for most students for its flexibility in both exam arrangement(twice a year) and subject options.
