Zheng Guanying Official School
# Zheng Guanying Official School

Zheng Guanying Official School (Chinese: 鄭觀應公立學校, Portuguese: Escola Oficial Zheng Guanying, EOZGY) is a primary and secondary school in Toi San [zh], Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Macau. It is named after Zheng Guanying.

As of 2016, the headmistress was Wu Kit (胡潔).

As of 2021 it was the sole governmantal educational institution in the special administrative region which uses Standard Mandarin as a language of education.

## History

It was known as the Escola Luso-Chinesa de Tamagnini Barbosa (Chinese: 巴波沙中葡小學) until 2011 when it adopted its current name. For each subsequent year, the Zheng Guanying school opened another instructional year. That year it also began using Modern Standard Mandarin as its main instructional medium. The school added Portuguese classes, and some students were taken out of the school as a result.

## Curriculum

Mandarin Chinese is the language of instruction of most subjects, while music and physical education are taught in Portuguese. That year, some parents on social media criticized the school, stating that the fact that students were taking different classes in different languages and that this affected the academic performances of their children. The school administration argued that the parents simply were not accustomed to the format of the school.

By 2017 the school was starting a pilot programme for bilingual Portuguese-Mandarin classes.

