Macau Portuguese School
| Macau Portuguese School Escola Portuguesa de Macau 澳門葡文學校 | |
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| Coordinates | 22°11′29″N 113°32′33″E / 22.191359°N 113.542391°E |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1998 |
| Number of students | 1000 |
| Website | http://www.epmacau.edu.mo/ |
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| Traditional Chinese | 澳門葡文學校 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 澳门葡文学校 | ||||||||||
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| Portuguese | Escola Portuguesa de Macau | ||||||||||
The Macau Portuguese School (Template:Lang-pt, EPM, Chinese: 澳門葡文學校) is a private, non-profit Portuguese international school located in Macau, China. It serves grades 1–12,[1] and is located in Sé (Cathedral Parish).[2] The school received funding from the Portuguese government.[3]
History
The school opened on August 21, 1998, taking students from Escola Primária Oficial, Escola Comercial Pedro Nolasco, and Liceu de Macau.[1] The former Liceu was a public institution, and the new EPM, a private school,[4] was its continuation. It occupies the former Escola Comercial;[5] circa 1998 this campus, smaller and less expensive to maintain than the former Liceu de Macau,[6] only had enough space to house fewer than half of the students who wished to attend.[3] Initially the school had over 1,100 students.[7] Its administrators were scheduled to be from the local Macanese community,[5] replacing the previous Portuguese leadership at the former Liceu.[3]
Since its establishment the number of students had declined. Around 2012 this reversed and the student body count began to increase. As of 2018[update] the school has 577 students from 24 countries; around that period the number of students without a Portuguese background had increased.[7]
Curriculum
The medium of instruction of most classes is Portuguese.[1]
In 2018 Valeria Koob, the president of the school's parent association, advocated for having outside-of-class expeditions for Mandarin Chinese classes.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "brochura_epm_EN.pdf" (Archive). Portuguese School of Macau. Retrieved on October 10, 2015. - Portuguese HTML, Portuguese PDF (Archive), Traditional Chinese PDF (Archive)
- ^ "Localização." Macau Portuguese School. Retrieved on April 8, 2017. "Avenida do Infante D. Henrique, MACAU" - Chinese address: "澳門殷皇子大馬路"
- ^ a b c Clayton, Cathryn H. Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 169. ISBN 0674035453, 9780674035454.
- ^ Clayton, Cathryn H. Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 168-169. ISBN 0674035453, 9780674035454.
- ^ a b Clayton, Cathryn H. Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 171. ISBN 0674035453, 9780674035454.
- ^ Clayton, Cathryn H. Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 168. ISBN 0674035453, 9780674035454.
- ^ a b "Q&A | Manuel Machado: Portuguese School of Macau President | 'The school is growing and has established itself in the MSAR'". Macau Daily Times. 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Portuguese School | 20 years: Parents association proposes improvements to Mandarin teaching". Macau Daily Times. 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
External links
- Official web site (in Portuguese)