Wuhan Foreigh Language School
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Wuhan Foreign Languages School (WFLS) was founded in 1964 in Wuhan, People's Republic of China. It offers education from 1st grade to 12th grade with extensive and pioneering English courses while maintaining the same course load in other subjects as comparing to ordinary junior high/high schools in China. Other language courses such as Japanese, German, French, Russian are also provided. A student at WFLS entering 7th grade is free to choose to study any of the foreign languages but can only choose one as his/her major second language in the next 6 years.
History
WFLS was one of the first four foreign language schools founded in China. In addition to this, it was founded with the help of China's first Premier, Zhou En Lai and Vice Premier, Chen Yi.
Location
Currently WFLS is a boarding school with some thousands of students living at two campuses. One of the campus is located in Downtown Wuhan and the other campus is located by the beautiful Prince Lake in Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone. Most existing buildings in the two campuses were built after 1998. All buildings resemble European/modern styles. Another campus is being built in Wuchang (one of the three major towns in Wuhan) currently.
Education
Being one of the best middle schools in the City of Wuhan and in Hubei Province, WFLS attracts tens of thousands of 6th grade students to write its entrance examination every year. Less than two hundred students will be accepted each year. Other sources of students include those who are from rich and powerful families.
WFLS established connections with Raffles Institution, Singapore. Every year a small amount of students graduated from junior high in WFLS are sent to continue education in Singapore. Besides this, it has a sister school in Pittsburgh, USA. It also has exchange programs with high schools and universities in the U.S., UK, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Austria, and New Zealand.
