To encourage unceasing learning and exploring
To cultivate independent thinking and innovation
To enhance social skills and social awareness
To foster a growth mindset
As a diverse community, HFI is more than a campus for study, but a home for mutual growth. Rooted in traditional Chinese culture, HFI embraces diverse thoughts and cultures. Through student clubs and extra-curricular activities full of variety, unique home-school partnership, and superb alumni network worldwide, students are cultivated to care about and participate in community development and eventually grow to be responsible global citizens.
Unique and demanding, the integration of Chinese high school courses and AP courses in HFI curriculum helps students construct a complete knowledge structure, lay a sound groundwork for academic development, nurture rigorous academic integrity, foster critical and innovative thinking, and light the passion for pursuing the truth.
HFI values interdisciplinary connection and integration, pays close attention to students’ physical and mental balanced development, and cares about the harmony between individual progression and the outer world.
As a diverse community, HFI is more than a campus for study, but a home for mutual growth. Rooted in traditional Chinese culture, HFI embraces diverse thoughts and cultures. Through student clubs and extra-curricular activities full of variety, unique home-school partnership, and superb alumni network worldwide, students are cultivated to care about and participate in community development and eventually grow to be responsible global citizens.
Unique and demanding, the integration of Chinese high school courses and AP courses in HFI curriculum helps students construct a complete knowledge structure, lay a sound groundwork for academic development, nurture rigorous academic integrity, foster critical and innovative thinking, and light the passion for pursuing the truth.
HFI values interdisciplinary connection and integration, pays close attention to students’ physical and mental balanced development, and cares about the harmony between individual progression and the outer world.
HFI encourages students to think critically and analyze what they read, to dig beneath superficial narratives for facts and truths, to engage in deeper thinking and reasoning, and to ultimately enable them to build the capacity for independent analysis and problem-solving.
Through academic practices both inside and outside the HFI classroom, students absorb the precious treasures of human history and civilization. They perceive and understand diverse cultures and value systems, cultivate civic knowledge, civic skills and civic virtues, and ultimately grow into responsible global citizens.
Within our academic setting, students are granted abundant opportunities and space to refine their expressive and communicative capabilities, empowering them to develop and practice essential social skills. In campus life, our social education centers on empathy, cross-cultural awareness, communication and collaboration, tolerance and compromise. This cultivation runs through all school programs and students’ entire high school experience.
HFI’s curriculum design transcends the constraints of university admissions tracking systems. Centered on students’ intrinsic motivation to explore and learn, it offers a rich array of courses to nurture intellectual curiosity, alongside a highly flexible elective framework that inspires independent learning and self-motivation.
The primary purpose of education lies in self-discovery. From their first day at HFI, students are encouraged to explore their identity, unique talents, personal interests and long-term aspirations. Guided by teachers amid constant exploration and practice, students develop clearer self-awareness and craft personalized growth plans.
Community awareness refers to the sense of belonging among community members. At HFI, students learn to care for their surroundings-from classrooms, student clubs, and campus to their neighborhoods, streets, and cities- and to reflect on their responsibilities as community members, identify community issues from their own perspective, cooperate with other community members and make contributions.
International Department, The Affiliated High School of SCNU
