Macau Portuguese School

Private school
  • Escola Portuguesa de Macau
  • 澳門葡文學校
The school's premises on Avenida do Infante D. Henrique
LocationMap
Sé, Macau, China
Coordinates22°11′29″N 113°32′33″E / 22.191359°N 113.542391°E / 22.191359; 113.542391InformationTypePrivateEstablished1998Number of students1000Websitewww.epmacau.edu.mo Edit this at Wikidata
Macau Portuguese School
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese澳門葡文學校
Simplified Chinese澳门葡文学校
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinÀomén Púwén Xuéxiào
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingou3 mun4*2 pou4 man4*2 hok6 haau6
Portuguese name
PortugueseEscola Portuguesa de Macau

The Macau Portuguese School (Portuguese: Escola Portuguesa de Macau, EPM, Chinese: 澳門葡文學校) is a private, non-profit Portuguese school in Macau, China. It serves grades 1–12,[1] and is located in Sé (Cathedral Parish).[2] The school is operated by the Fundação Escola Portuguesa de Macau and receives partial funding from the Portuguese government.[3][4] As of 2023, the school had 713 students of 20 nationalities.[5]

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,[6] was its continuation. The school occupies the former premises of the former Escola Comercial;[7] circa 1998 this campus, smaller and less expensive to maintain than the former Liceu de Macau,[8] only had enough space to house fewer than half of the students who wished to attend.[4] Initially the school had over 1,100 students.[9] Its administrators were scheduled to be from the local Macanese community,[7] replacing the previous Portuguese leadership at the former Liceu.[4]

Since its establishment the number of students had declined, attributed in part to the departure of many Portuguese families from Macau.[9][5] Around 2012 this reversed and the student body count began to increase, along with an increasing number of students without a Portuguese-language background. As of 2018[update] the school had 577 students from 24 countries.[9] In 2023, the school had 713 students, with non-Portuguese-native-language students exceeding 40% of the student population.[5]

Curriculum

The school provides education from the 1st to the 12th year of schooling, following the curricula defined by the Portuguese Ministry of Education, with the necessary adaptions for compliance with Macau legislation and the local context.[10]

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.[11]

See also

  • Education in Macau

References

  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ "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"
  3. ^ "Sobre Nós". Escola Portuguesa de Macau (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b c "EPM celebra 25 anos à espera de uma expansão". Jornal Tribuna de Macau (in Portuguese). 2023-04-19. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ a b c "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.
  10. ^ "Currículo". Escola Portuguesa de Macau (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  11. ^ "Portuguese School | 20 years: Parents association proposes improvements to Mandarin teaching". Macau Daily Times. 2018-04-20. Retrieved 2018-04-22.

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