Taipei European School

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Campuses in Taipei

The Taipei European School operates on two campuses: Swire European Primary Campus (EPC) at Wenlin Road and Swire European Secondary Campus (ESC) at JianYe Road on Yang Ming Shan.

Swire European Primary Campus – Fuguo Road (福國路）

Swire European Primary Campus was completed in 2007 and consists of three buildings: the Central Resource Area (CRA), the Infant Building and the Junior Building. The Central Resource Area is a four-story building which houses common facilities such as the cafeteria, the library, a multi-purpose room, the Parents' Café, administrative offices, the uniform shop, a maintenance room and an underground car park. It is connected both to the Infant Building and to the Junior Building.

The two-story Infant Building contains general classrooms for students aged 3 to 7 years old from the German, British and French Sections, as well as shared specialist facilities. A multi-purpose room, an outdoor playground with play structures, as well as grassed and astroturfed areas, are also located in the Infant Wing.

The five-story Junior Building houses general classrooms for students aged 7 to 11 years old from the German, British and French Sections, and includes shared specialist teaching facilities. There is an outdoor play area as well as two astroturf sport fields.

Swire European Secondary Campus – Yang Ming Shan (陽明山)

There are three buildings in the secondary campus which are referred to as Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3. The construction of Phase 1 was completed in 1998, the construction of Phase 2 in 2002 and the construction of Phase 3 in late 2019. All three buildings are four floors high.

The Phase I building contains specialists rooms including a music suite, a library, two computer labs, a multi-media room, three science labs, a fine art and 3D art room, a drama and performance area, an outdoor basketball court, a cafeteria, and an atrium.^[2]

The Phase II building contains physics and chemistry labs, a library, a cafeteria, three computer labs, four science labs, two art rooms, an indoor gymnasium, a sport field, two outdoor basketball courts, and a large atrium.

The Phase III building has 30 large classrooms, 2 gymnasiums, a fitness room, a dance studio and an outdoor basketball court.

Student body

Currently, Taipei European School has around 1,800 students, with British section students as the majority.

Students originate largely from Europe and North America, with British, French, German, American, and Canadian as the dominating nationalities. There are also students from Latin America, Africa, Singapore, Japan, and Korea. The school has students and faculty from over 50 different countries.

There are four headteachers running the four sections, under the supervision of the TES CEO John Nixon MBE: The primary section, for students aged between 3 and 11, is located in the Wenlin Campus, and currently enrolls 1078 students.^[3]

The British Secondary Section (Key Stage Three) is located in the

Starting from August 2022, the IB Middle Years Programme has started with new Year 7s and will slowly replace the original curriculum for the British Secondary Section (Key Stage Three) and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) program for H1-H2s.

Sports

TES students compete in the U13 and U15 FOBISIA, an annual international interscholastic sporting tournament between British international schools in Asia. TES hosted the U13 FOBISIA teams in March 2015.

TES offers sports such as

Within the school, the students are involved in the annual intramural House Cup, in four Houses: Bora, Sirocco, Mistral, and Marin.

See also

• Taipei Japanese School
• Kaohsiung American School
• American School in Taichung
• Hsinchu American School
• Taipei Adventist American School
• Taiwan Adventist International School
• The Primacy Collegiate Academy

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Taipei European School.

• Taipei European School official website