Wycombe Abbey Changzhou Receives BSA’s 2024 Supporting International Boarders School Award

25 April 2024 - Changzhou

On 18 April 2024, the Boarding Schools’ Association (BSA) announced its finalists for the BSA Supporting Excellence Awards 2024. Wycombe Abbey School Changzhou has been recognised for a second time, previously being awarded “International School of the Year” in 2022.

This year BSA has awarded Wycombe Abbey School Changzhou the “Supporting International Boarders – School Award,” for their innovative scholars programme in collaboration with ‘Engage with China.’

In September 2023, Wycombe Abbey School Changzhou welcomed the first cohort of ten international students from a range of schools and backgrounds in a unique venture. Coming just as borders fully reopened, they encouraged a group of inquisitive students to engage with China in a way that had only been talked about before.

The ‘Engage with China’ (a UK Charity) Scholars are gaining a deeper understanding of Chinese culture by sharing experiences, food, and conversations with new friends. Already they have visited Ancient Water Towns of Suzhou, experienced street food in Wuxi, attended the Xitaihu Mid-Autumn Festival, seen the bright lights of Shanghai, climbed Jiangsu’s Purple Mountain to the Buddhist temple and explored the site of the Nanjing Massacre. These students are receiving a truly global perspective, an opportunity to live and learn as international students and mirroring experiences of many Chinese students who have been brave enough to come to schools in the UK for years. Pioneers they have been. Ambassadors they are. Global Citizens they will be.