Our Government Education Group is a body that incorporates three State owned and managed schools that comprise of the Yucai Primary School, The Yucai Experimental School and the International Cultural Exchange Learning Centre. All three educational campuses are State funded, Government owned facilities that are completely financed and supported by the Government’s Education department.

Education is the simple and ultimate goal in our three schools here in Yangzhou. We are not the biggest school-enterprise in China precisely because we are NOT an Enterprise; we are a School, a Government school whose priority is to educate our students as best as possible, firstly and lastly with no exceptions to the fact.

Our school is currently extending the Super Tots and Super Kids’ English program we have been teaching to our kindergarten and elementary grades-1, 2, 3 and 4 classes to cover all primary grades up to grade-6 and therefore we wish to assign 1 new foreign teacher to each grade. The Super Kids’ program is a very well designed children’s syllabus and boasts one of the most modern, well designed and functional text books used in China today.

The program makes the blending of teaching oral conversation skills and structured written and phonetic skills a breeze, yet still allows the individuality of the teacher to express their own fun and creative freedom by using their own formatting and unique style, without feeling like they are off the Reservation in their teaching direction and student’s language needs. Teachers will be given a class of 20 students (with a near-to-fluent English speaking Chinese assistant to help-out, no matter what grade level you are teaching) and this all makes for enjoyable, fun and rewarding quality teaching work as you develop an excellent rapport and bond with each of your kids, seeing their English grow and strengthen from your work.

About Yangzhou:
Yangzhou is a nice, easy going, laid-back Chinese city. It’s considered a medium-sized city by Chinese standards with a population of 4.5 million people. It was listed as one of the most livable cities in the World by the U.N in a recent Global listing of Most Livable cities that they conducted earlier in 2007. The city is a true mixture of both old, traditional style buildings and old shops nestled in amongst the ancient hu-tongs (laneways) that run throughout the city like mazes and the ultra-new and modern buildings and shopping malls that also fill the city.

The ancient Grand Canal of China runs through the heart of the city, as many years ago, in ancient times, Yangzhou was an important trading port for jade, salt, silk and spices. Many of the historical sites about the town are the beautiful houses and gardens once owned by these traders. There are many, long, maple-tree covered, ancient shopping streets, markets of all different forms, old tea-houses that perch on scenic canals, internet-coffee shops that make a great cappuccino as good as anywhere and a modern, multi-level-mall filled with fashion boutiques, everything within walking distance of the other.

Yangzhou is a true mixture of the old and the new China wrapped into a user friendly, medium-size city that is 1-hour by coach bus to the bustling city of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province. We are also about 3-hours coach-bus ride from the mega-city of Shanghai, making either of the two cities an easy and affordable weekend getaway. Yangzhou has a great nightlife and is pumping any night of the week at any of the selection of nightclubs and bars around the city. The restaurant scene is equally as vibrant with more variety than can be listed here as to what’s on offer, ranging from traditional Chinese cuisine, the cuisines of the many different ethnic people who live in the City and the modern western-style restaurants that abound (plus the usual-suspects of take-away chains that infest the thoroughfares for when your in the mood to give your digestive system an oil-bath).

Yangzhou has many historical and scenic locations to explore and enjoy too. Considered to be one of the greatest Buddhist temples in the World and listed as a World heritage site, the Da-Ming-Si Temple (or Temple-of-Light) is still a functioning monastery and its surrounding gardens and temple pavilions are a spectacular must-see. There is also Slender West Lake and its botanical gardens, walkways and waterways to be enjoyed from a peaceful boat ride sweeping through willow trees that line the shoreline or a relaxing stroll. The Great-White-Pagoda of Yangzhou stands majestically in the very centre of the city, beckoning to all who pass-by it to explore the four corners of this fascinating city.

Yucai Elementary School is situated almost in the centre of town. Yangzhou has a good, well serviced bus system that is very inexpensive to use and can get you to almost anywhere in the city as well as to places on the fringe-outskirts of the city too.