Plan Your Summer at Jingkids’ Massive Family Picnic May 29!
Bring the whole family out to play at the Jingkids Summer Fling on May 22!
Content by: Michael Wester
E-Learning Lessons for Schools to Retain
More than a year after Covid-19 initially closed schools in Beijing, what can we say about online learning that hasn’t already been covered? The answer, according to school leaders at October’s Jing International School Expo panel, is empathy, flexibility, and a multi-pronged approach that looks at all stakeholders in the school community: students, parents, and staff.
We’ve Got a Brand New Name – Introducing Jingkids!
What is this sorcery, you may ask? Is this a knockoff product produced by pirates? Have we been taken over by some external force? Are we leaving Beijing?
Nope, it’s still us, the same beijingkids you’ve come to know and (hopefully) love for a decade and a half.
All Schools in Beijing to Close for in-Person Classes Starting This Friday
The district is concerned about the further spread of Covid-19 particularly within the kindergartens. All of Beijing’s kindergartens, regardless of public or private, must be closed.
Shunyi Residents Urged to Spend Holidays at Home; Afterschool Programs Shut
All 51 of the district’s after-school training centers have been ordered closed, as well as movie theaters, swimming pools, and other recreational facilities that normally draw crowds.
Need a Covid-19 Test in Beijing? Ditan Hospital is Quick and Easy
It took us 30 minutes to get tested, which means they are testing at a rate of about one person every minute.
New Shunyi Cases Lead to Mandatory Villa Testing
The latest cases in Shunyi have set the city’s clock of consecutive days without a local transmission back to zero.
New COVID-19 Case Reported in Shunyi
The latest case of COVID-19 was discovered in Shunyi from a resident who flew in from Ningbo.
Official 2021 Chinese Public Holiday Calendar Out Now
This is roughly equivalent to your mom making you a hearty pancake breakfast and then afterward telling you that you’ll need to work it off by raking the lawn for the rest of the day.
WAB Dining Strip Reloaded with New Choices
The strip of shops just outside the Western Academy of Beijing (WAB) campus on Laiguangying Dong Lu has seen a rapid revitalization in recent weeks, starting with Hulu taking over the space formerly occupied by Fella’s and ending with the opening this week of another branch of popular Japanese spot Hatsune.