Nord Anglia School Guangzhou, Panyu

Teaching is built on the Chinese national curriculum, covering the eight national learning areas, and is delivered bilingually in Chinese and English. Two routes run in parallel. The combined dual-track class keeps the national curriculum as its core so that students remain fully prepared for domestic progression, while adding international pedagogy and an immersive bilingual environment. The international IB track follows the IB framework for families aiming at universities abroad. Group-wide programmes add further international content: the MIT STEAM collaboration, the Juilliard performing-arts programme, UNICEF-based sustainable development work and the Nord Anglia Global Campus.

The school takes students from the primary years through to the end of secondary education. The primary programme covers ages six to twelve and teaches the national curriculum across nine areas: moral education, Chinese, mathematics, English, music, art, physical education, science and humanities. The secondary programme covers ages thirteen to eighteen and adds biology, chemistry and physics, using cross-disciplinary thematic and project-based learning taught in both languages. In the upper years students move onto advanced courses that prepare them for university.

The school's stated aim is to educate confident, bilingual global citizens who are grounded in their own culture and able to express themselves on an international stage. It describes a vision of raising a generation that is self-assured, capable and creative, and says its teaching puts personalised learning, small classes and student wellbeing before results alone. The approach rests on four strands: bilingual achievement, the global campus, wellbeing, and innovative technology-supported learning.

The campus covers more than 170,000 square metres. Sports facilities include a temperature-controlled six-lane indoor pool with filtration, an outdoor pool, outdoor tennis courts, an air-conditioned multi-purpose sports hall with padded walls and outdoor playing fields. Teaching spaces include primary classrooms for up to 26 students with interactive screens, dedicated music, science and ICT rooms, and in the secondary school science laboratories, a design and technology workshop, a computer laboratory, an art studio and two drama rehearsal rooms.

Boarding is available alongside day places, with separate floors for boys and girls, further divided by age group, and house staff who are bilingual and professionally qualified. Boarders have a structured daily timetable with supervised study, activities and meals, and there is 24-hour medical assistance on campus. Lunch is prepared on site by the school's own chefs. Meals, uniform and school bus transport are charged separately according to use. University and careers counsellors support students through the transition to higher education.

Activities run inside and outside the timetable. Sport includes swimming, taught in the 25-metre pool, with a school team competing at district and city level; football, with teams in local school leagues and in Nord Anglia's annual global games; basketball in the indoor hall; fencing; golf; and horse riding. The performing arts are delivered with The Juilliard School and cover dance, drama and music. Students have also won awards in AMC mathematics, Model United Nations, English public speaking, robotics and arts competitions, and the school reports more than 400 individual competition awards in recent years.