Macau Portuguese School Explained

Macau Portuguese School
Native Name:	Portuguese: Escola Portuguesa de Macau Chinese: 澳門葡文學校
Established:	1998
Type:	Private
Students:	1000
Location:	Sé, Macau, China
Coordinates:	22.1914°N 113.5424°W
Pushpin Map:	Macau#China

The Macau Portuguese School (Portuguese: Escola Portuguesa de Macau, EPM,) 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.

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,^[5] was its continuation. The school occupies the former premises of the former Escola Comercial;^[6] circa 1998 this campus, smaller and less expensive to maintain than the former Liceu de Macau,^[7] 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.^[8]

See also

• Education in Macau

Notes and References

1. "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. Web site: Sobre Nós . 2024-03-08 . Escola Portuguesa de Macau . pt.
4. Clayton, Cathryn H. (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 169., 9780674035454.
5. Clayton, Cathryn H. (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 168-169., 9780674035454.
6. Clayton, Cathryn H. (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 171., 9780674035454.
7. Clayton, Cathryn H. (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Press, 2009. p. 168., 9780674035454.
8. News: 2023-04-19 . EPM celebra 25 anos à espera de uma expansão . 2024-03-08 . Jornal Tribuna de Macau . pt.
9. Web site: Currículo . 2024-03-08 . Escola Portuguesa de Macau . pt.
10. News: Portuguese School . Macau Daily Times. 2018-04-20. 2018-04-22].
11. News: Q&A | Manuel Machado: Portuguese School of Macau President | 'The school is growing and has established itself in the MSAR'|newspaper=Macau Daily Times]|date=2018-04-20|accessdate=2018-04-22}} Its administrators were scheduled to be from the local Macanese community, replacing the previous Portuguese leadership at the former Liceu.

    Since its establishment the number of students had declined, attributed in part to the departure of many Portuguese families from Macau. Around 2012 this reversed and the student body count began to increase, along with an increasing number of students without a Portuguese-language background. the school had 577 students from 24 countries. In 2023, the school had 713 students, with non-Portuguese-native-language students exceeding 40% of the student population.^[8]

    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.^[9]

    The medium of instruction of most classes is Portuguese.

    In 2018 Valeria Koob, the president of the school's parent association, advocated for having outside-of-class expeditions for Mandarin Chinese classes.^[10]

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