As of 2016[update], the headmistress was Wu Kit (胡潔).[3][5]
History
The school opened in 2011 in the facilities of the former Escola Luso-Chinesa de Tamagnini Barbosa (巴波沙中葡小學).[6][7] For each subsequent year, the Zheng Guanying school opened another instructional year.[5] The school was the first government school to use Mandarin as its main instructional medium. In addition, Portuguese was to be used for some classes.[5]
Some parents on social media criticized the school in 2016,[8] stating the fact that students were taking different classes in different languages and that this affected the academic performances of their children. The school administration argued that the parents simply were not accustomed to the format of the school.[9]
In 2017, the school, along with another government school, the Escola Luso-Chinesa da Flora, started pilot bilingual Portuguese–Mandarin classes,[10][11] and some students were taken out of the school as a result.[12]
The school inaugurated its new facilities in 2018.[13]
Curriculum
Mandarin Chinese is the language of instruction of most subjects, while music and physical education are taught in Portuguese. By 2017 the school started a pilot programme for bilingual Portuguese–Mandarin classes.[11]
^Chan, Viviana (2016-03-18). "Escola Zheng Guanying nega acusações de pais". Jornal Tribuna de Macau (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-08-15. A direcção da Escola Oficial de Zheng Guanying rejeita [...] facto que dizem afectar o rendimento dos alunos e, consequentemente, a conclusão dos estudos.
Dias, Ana Paula Daiva (2017). Escola Oficial Zheng Guanying: estudo de caso de um projeto intercultural trilingue em Macau [Zheng Guanying Official School – case study of a trilingual intercultural project in Macau] (PhD thesis) (in Portuguese). Universidade Aberta. hdl:10400.2/6750.
