Hudsonway Immersions School Launches New Middle School Track

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HudsonWay Immersion School announced today it is launching a new Middle School track designed to provide motivated incoming 4th-6th grade students with limited prior exposure to Mandarin or Spanish the opportunity to develop biliteracy by 8th grade. Called the “Accelerated Bilingual Cohort (ABC),” the new program supports a group of students in learning content such as language arts, humanities, and math taught through a second language. This program is ideal for those students seeking challenge and readiness for a global future. A special financial program is offered for students in the first incoming class.

“We have had several students join our immersion program in the late elementary or start of middle school achieving biliteracy goals, setting them up for advantages in high school and beyond”, said Sharon Huang, founder and board chair of HudsonWay Immersion School (HWIS). “Our model for transitioning and supporting students’ has been successful which is why we are now launching a formal Middle School Track to accommodate more students in making this exciting leap into a dual-immersion education.”

Students entering this track will receive instruction in the second language for 40% of the day taught by trained middle school teachers who are native speakers. The remaining portion of the day will be taught in English and will cover English language arts, math and science. Students will be combined with the current immersion track for subjects taught in English. The middle school program includes opportunities for global service learning, capstone projects, and collaboration studies with other schools. Parents and students interested in learning more are invited to attend a special virtual information session that will detail the program model, curriculum and support for this new track to be held on May 1, 2024.

HWIS has a reputation of developing academically strong students who surpass independent school norms on the ERB assessments and who get accepted to top tier independent schools in NJ and NY. HWIS is a preschool – grade 8 program. Middle school includes ex-missions and guidance counseling to support students looking to differentiate themselves for top tier independent high schools and college admissions.

Financial aid will be available to qualified students. In addition, special seed funding is being made available for the first incoming class of students to support additional scholarship awards which, when combined with financial aid, can support up to 80% of the full tuition.

HudsonWay Immersion School (HWIS) is a full immersion Mandarin and Spanish school serving children aged 2 through grade 8. The school is located on two campuses – Stirling, NJ and Midtown West, NYC. Children learn all of their subjects in two languages, becoming fully bilingual and biliterate. For more information: visit www.hwis.org

To see what one middle school student has to say about his transition to the dual-language immersion program, watch this video.

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