Maple Leaf World Schools - Canada

• Year of foundation: 2016;
• Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;
• Students age: 16-18 years old;
• Language of instruction: English;
• Type of study: private coeducational school.

Maple Leaf Education North America Ltd (MLENA) is a subsidiary of China Maple Leaf Educational Systems (CMLES), incorporated on February 4, 2016. MLENA opened its first independent high school, Maple Leaf World School-TRU, in September 2016 on the Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops) campus. In September 2017, MLENA opened a second educational institution - Maple Leaf World School-KPU - on the campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Richmond, British Columbia). In September 2019, Maple Leaf World School - Lakehead opened on the campus of Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario). These schools are certified by the British Columbia Department of Education, the Ontario Department of Education and teach grade 10, 11 and 12 students. In September 2019, MLENA acquired a beautiful 27 acre campus in Brockville, Ontario. This boarding campus is slated to open in 2022.

Thompson Rivers University (TRU) has over 14,000 students, including over 3,000 international students from over 90 countries. Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) is a Canadian polytechnic university that brings together learning, research and innovation to prepare students for successful careers. Lakehead University (LakeheadU) has been providing higher education in Canada for over 50 years. Lakehead University is one of the most ethnically diverse educational institutions in Canada, with over 83 nationalities represented. Maple Leaf promotes Lakehead University as a strategic learning area.

Each campus has its own residences or offers homestay accommodation options:

• MLWS-TRU offers an excellent student residence in the East Village. The dorms are just steps from the TRU campus, shops and restaurants. Each student has a separate bedroom, a common area with a kitchen and a bathroom, which is shared by four students. There is also a second bathroom in the common area. MLWS-TRU staff and East Village management monitor the dorms around the clock.
• MLWS-KPU has partnered with First Choice International Placements, a company with over 20 years of experience providing international students with safe homestay accommodation. Students live in a family setting, developing relationships outside the classroom. All host families speak English and their homes are located within 30 minutes from the school. The family is home to 2 students, each with a private furnished room. The family provides breakfast, dinner, and the school prepares hot meals.
• MLWS-LakeheadU offers an excellent student residence on on-campus premises and steps from campus, local shops and restaurants. Each student has a separate bedroom with several shared kitchens and bathrooms. Dormitories for boys and girls are located in separate sections, which are located on the second floor of the building. Each unit has a large desk, small refrigerator, bed, bedside table, lamp and sink. Students have access to common areas with large sunny windows overlooking the courtyard garden overlooking the local nature.

Maple Leaf World Schools invites young people to attend school clubs, extracurricular activities, and exercise such as:

• Sport;
• Nature lovers club;
• Dancing;
• Handicraft club;
• English cinema club;
• English corner;
• Japanese club;
• Tea club;
• Theatre;
• Game club;
• Recycle Club;
• Culinary club;
• Volunteer club;
• Adventure club;
• IELTS;
• Golf.

MLWS-TRU students choose up to 16 weekend excursions throughout the school year: trips to Vancouver, British Columbia Wildlife Park, Harper Mountain Ski Resort, and Lake Paul. Students also take part in many recreational activities including rock climbing, Skytrek Adventure Park, curling watching the Kamloops Blazers hockey match.

MLWS-KPU offers communities:

• Calligraphy;
• Crochet;
• Food bank;
• Modeling club;
• Football club.

MLWS-KPU is committed to providing a wide range of sports, fitness and leisure opportunities that promote healthy, active lifestyles and leadership development. These additional activities are free of charge: skiing, hiking, go-karting, sporting events, shows. MLWS-LakeHeadU offers additional activities: sports, music, craft, felting, archery, basketball, house games, cooking, garden club, Chinese culture, photography.

The school organizes competitions:

• Photography;
• Essay;
• Mathematics.

Students attend talks by guest speakers: Engineers (Physics), Politicians (Careers), Employees of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce (Careers).

Excursions:

• Art Gallery;
• Lakehead Kinesiology Laboratory;
• Career day;
• Orange Helicopter Field;
• Archery.

Thunder Bay, surrounded by beautiful landscapes and provincial parks, hosts a variety of outdoor and cultural activities. Thunder Bay has two ski slopes for skiing and snowboarding, as well as three cross-country skiing trails where students learn to love winter and breathe fresh air. Thunder Bay also contains the longest and tallest zipline in Canada at 600 feet! Kakabek Waterfall Provincial Park is one of the most protected skiing facilities in the region. The mountain trails are spectacularly beautiful: 25 minutes from downtown Thunder Bay, these trails adjoin one of Ontario's largest and most visited waterfalls.

• The Maple Leaf University School model offers the best of both worlds - high school education delivered on campus. Students experience the support and community of small classrooms, a unique learning center identity, along with the independence and academic capabilities of world-class higher education institutions. The campuses offer access to many university resources, including libraries, laboratories, sports, fitness centers.
• The university partners provide a safe, stimulating learning environment, offering advanced course and dual credit options.
• Maple Leaf students have the opportunity to begin their first year university courses, which provide early university admission (grade 11).
• More than 75% of Maple Leaf World Schools - Canada 2019 alumni have entered the top 100 universities in the world by QS rankings.
• Small classrooms with an average ratio of 1 teacher to 10 students help ensure academic success.
• Curriculum and school programs focused on academic and personal growth, global leadership.
• Academic mobility, global learning thanks to a network of more than 100 educational centers around the world.
• An opportunity for students to accelerate their learning through mixed learning - school in Vancouver + university.
• Provision of OSSD certificate.
• Offering AP (Advanced Placement) courses in several subjects.
• Direct links to universities through the established Maple Leaf partner network.
• The opportunity to study music, performing arts, attend creativity courses, extracurricular activities.

• The Tournament Capital Center (TCC) is an outstanding world-class sports center with an Olympic-sized swimming pool located in the aquatic center, which was built for the 1993 Canadian Summer Games along with an NBA-standard indoor basketball court. The center is equipped with a six-lane treadmill, gyms, and gymnastics facilities. Students use two TRU libraries, visit the campus theater.
• Through a partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University, the school provides an optimal learning and teaching environment. Premises include a cafeteria, library, science lab. The learning environment includes small classrooms, cozy seating areas. Students gain access to an Olympic-designed sports facility that can be used during class and after school hours. The educational center is located in a quiet location on the campus, where students are supervised. Students will gain access to state-of-the-art university facilities, including science labs, libraries, cafeterias, cafes, an Apple repair point, and a bookstore.
• Lakehead University comprises over 6,000 sq. m. of recreational facilities: 50 m. swimming pool, 200 m. indoor path, climbing wall, indoor artificial turf, yoga studio, cardiovascular equipment, gym, beach volleyball, outdoor soccer fields overlooking picturesque Lake Tamblyn.
• The new Maple Leaf Augusta Academy campus includes a newly renovated historic academic building, two gymnasiums, a newly installed soccer field, a dining room with a kitchen, a large banquet hall, a cafe, student residences for 150+ students, nineteen villas, townhouses (for teachers, staff, 100+ students), a chapel. The educational institution includes 12 buildings with an interior space of over 140,000 square feet (13,000 square meters). The school is just 5 minutes from Brockville, an attractive historic city located on the St. Lawrence River and known as the "City of 1000 Islands".

For detailed information about mandatory and additional fees please contact to SMAPSE manager.

• High Academic Standards and TOEFL Score - Each student must have a GPA of approximately 70% in previous studies, as well as high SSAT, TOEFL, IELTS, or other accepted English tests.
• All applicants must interview in person or online with the principal of their chosen Maple Leaf World school. If the principal believes that the student's English proficiency level is sufficient, he may be granted an exemption from providing English proficiency test results.
• Applicants must have a valid passport and provide the reception team with a copy of the photo ID page. If a student is currently studying in Canada, they must provide a Canadian study permit and student visa. Other required documents include two-year transcripts, behavioral records or comments from a teacher from a previous school, a letter of recommendation from a previous principal or home teacher, and English language test (IELTS, TOEFL) certificates. All documents must be translated into English.
• Study permit in Canada.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision