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Paul Brewster

International schools consultant

Paul Brewster is a career teacher who was a Headmaster for over 18 years and has considerable experience of both independent day and boarding schools in the UK as well as international schools overseas.

Paul began his teaching career in 1981 as Head of Maths/ICT at Eagle House, Sandhurst.  In 1988 he moved to become Head of Maths/ICT and Director of Studies at Dean Close Preparatory School, Cheltenham and in 1995 he was appointed as Headmaster at St Mary’s Prep School, Lincoln.  He moved on to become Headmaster of Foremarke Hall (Repton Prep School),  one of the leading prep schools in the Midlands, in 2000.  After seven years service he moved to Prague in the Czech Republic, to take up the position of the first Principal of the English International School, (2-18 year olds) covering National Curriculum, IGCSE and IB.  In 2009 he returned to the UK to become Headmaster of the prestigious Beacon School, in Amersham (a boys’ day school for 3-13 year olds).

After 18½  highly successful years as a Head, Paul moved back to Repton in Sept 2013 to become the Chief Education Officer for Repton School’s International Division, overseeing all education matters for the three schools in the UAE, and since late 2014 he has set up his own consultancy company to help advise schools and parents both in the UK and abroad.

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Clair Stevens

Early years Education Expert

Clair has worked with Sheffield University to gather young children’s views of their early years settings. She is a lecturer at Christ Church University in Canterbury, UK and is one of our early years education specialists with experience in child development, child health and environments for young children. Clair has provided lectures in China both at several conferences and teacher training colleges.

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UK-China Education Affiliated Nursery – Kent Beilei Forest School Kindergarten Children’s Day Event

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On the 29th of May 2015, the skies were blue with fresh summer breezes, we welcomed our children to the annual International Children’s Day event. On this festive holiday,  the streets are filled with children’s laughter and UCE’s associated nursery – Kent Beilei Forest School Kindergarten held their annual Children’s Day celebration,  “Dream Set Sail” as the theme of the grand interactive event. Daniel, UCE’s marketing director was invited to co-host the event, to lead the children to show the nursery’s bilingual teaching, indoor and outdoor forest school education model learning outcomes. The children dressed up as farm animals, and with their English teacher they performed “Old McDonald’s Farm” play.  Their performance was filled with children’s smiles, happy hearty laughters and left a fantastic impression for the audience and parents.

Pengzhou Kent Beilei Forest School Kindergarten formed collaboration with UCE in early 2015. Recently Kent Beilei Forest School Kindergarten established a “Kent International Class.” Its bilingual education, indoor and outdoor forest school education model differentiates itself as the “Kent International Class” to the rest of the Kindergarten.

 

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The First Chinese Forest School Training Group in the UK

On the 10th of April 2015, UCE welcomed our first Chinese Forest School Training Group to the UK. A group of nine Chinese educators from all over China attended this first ever Forest School Level Three Award Training programme, which was offered to the Chinese Education Industry by UCE and our Chinese partnered institution (Cheng Du Ding Jian Future Education Research Centre) this year. This group offered rich and diverse  educational backgrounds, including nursery teachers, principals, founders of educational institutions, university lecturers for Early Childhood Development and the chairwoman of Tianen Montessori association in China.

Manor House Forest School delivered the Level Three Award and introduced the British Forest School model  to our training group across a two week period, including 3 days of First Aid training to conclude the learning experience. Here is a short video showing their journey in England.

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    Forest School Education

    The main focus of UK-China Education is to expand the ethos and aims of the Forest School system.
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Forest School Education

What is Forest School?

The main focus of UK-China Education is to expand the ethos and aims of the Forest School system. Forest School is now widely accepted in the UK since 1993, when it was inspired by the Danish education system. The main ethos of forest school is to improve children’s self-esteem and scholastic aptitude. The program’s overwhelming success is based on strong empirical correlations between high self-confidence and improved performance in school.

The Forest School ethos is largely based on the importance of unique learning styles represented by schemas and other human development techniques. This approach to education has been developed by many notable educational theorists, developmental psychologists and scientific pedologists such as Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner. The successes of Forest School, and the research upon which it is based, demonstrates that by adopting independent and child lead learning, children are able to obtain a much more successful learning experience than one that is more forced and teacher lead. Thus these ethoi encourage an outdoor natural learning environment, a place that practices multi-sensory activities and where all learning styles and schemas can be utilized.

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Adrian Bryant

Director

Adrian is the managing director of UCE with over 25 years of business management experience, he has a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He is responsible for UCE’s firm dedication to profitability and growth. He is also responsible for providing UCE with a valuable network of sources that allows us to become ever increasingly integrated into the UK’s educational industry.

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Bi Ma

Director

Bi is UCE’s marketing director who has practical experience in specifically assessing the educational needs of clients. She is the added personal touch that comes with all UCE business relations. She is able to provide clients with a full understanding of the enormous benefits that come with being a part of your institution. Additionally her close relationship with clients in China allow her to fortify client satisfaction.

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Mei Wang

Director

Mei is Co-Managing director, a Chinese national whose 15 years’ experience in business development in both China and the UK have provided her with a holistic understanding of the needs and expectations of both those individuals and those educational institutions who rely on her ability to consistently discover and maintain business relations.