There are more than 50 clubs for students to choose, including various international competition clubs, minority languages clubs, subject enhancement clubs, sports clubs, humanities and social sciences clubs, science and technology innovation clubs, art and design clubs, and public welfare clubs etc.
China Thinks Big (CTB)
OTIA Radio Station
Chinese Chess
History Club
Art Techniques
Drama
Public Speaking
Badminton & Squash
Gym – Get strong club
Talk Show Club
Creative Writing Club
Netball
OTIA Robot Club
Molecular Biology & Food Science
3D Printing
Boys Basketball
Performing Arts & Choir
OTIA Chess Club
Board Game Club
Logic Puzzles Club
Newspaper Reading Club
Frisbee Club
Puzzle Club
Origami Club
PingPong Club
Lego Club
American Football
Weekly Financial AnalysisChess
Volleyball
Miniatures Painting Club
Fantasy Football
The Economist Guided Reading
Football
Meditation Club
Movie Review Club
Girls Basketball
Radio Modelling Society
Art and Social Focus
DnD
WooHoo (Dance Club)
Dead Poets Society
Hydrowing
Music Society (OTIA Band)
Algorithm Contests Hosting Club
Chinese Dance
Classical Music Composition and Performance
The Sound of Melodrama: Musical Performance
OTIA Debate Club
The Snaker Basketball Club
OTIA Clubs
The high school has different subject themed activities every month, as well as a serious of OTIA cultural activities in Sep., Nov., Dec., Jan. and Jun. Of each year, such as OTIA Club Fair, Winter Pageant, Masquerade, Thanksgiving Dinner, The Color Run, Music Festival, Science Fair etc.
Unlike traditional high schools, we focus on process evaluation and emphasize the importance of every day’s learning. Students’ performance on midterm exams, final exams, mock exams, regular homework, summer and winter assignments, regular quizzes, classroom participation, and project-based learning will be calculated according to a certain percentage of the total evaluation and recorded in the ManageBac management system, where students and their parents can log in at any time to view the evaluations in order to keep up-to-date with their own academic performance, and the student evaluation reports will be generated four times a year for systematic feedback on the student’s overall performance.
Moral education is managed in a meticulous way, using the Notion system to record and analyze students’ daily moral performance. Each class has a Chinese moral education dean, who works in conjunction with the college counselor and dormitory teacher to help each high school student to develop good learning and living habits.
Parents can keep abreast of their kids’ academic and moral education performance in school through various ways of Wechat, DingTalk, phone call and in-school meeting etc. Every 2 months or so, parents can enter school to attend the Parents Open Day to meet with each subject teacher to learn more about the students’ academic performance status.
OTIA encourages all students to actively participate in academic competitions, and the school specially offers part of the competition training courses to meet the needs of academic diversification and to help students to improve their academic background and explore their future career development. Students’ participation in global competitions has also resulted in a wide range of awards, with numerous top-level medals every year, covering science and technology, humanities and social sciences, science/technology and information and art etc. OTIA is also the officially authorized award center of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Prize in Hangzhou area.
