User:DocBrucie/Prince of Wales Island International School

Located in the new township of Botanica.CT, in Balik Pulau, Penang, the Prince of Wales Island International School (POWIIS) will open in September 2011. The school campus will eventually provide academic, sporting and residential facilities for up to 800 boys and girls aged 11 to 18, of which 370 will be boarders. The groundbreaking ceremony on January 23rd, 2010, was attended by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. The Penang State Government has identified a 200-acre site in Balik Pulau to be turned into a hub for excellence in education.

In the main building facilities include nine specialist science laboratories, 23 classrooms, music practice rooms, dance studios and meeting and lecture rooms. An adjacent building houses on the ground floor the school's cafeteria, abvoe which is a large dedicated area for design technology and art, On the top floor is the school's multi-purpose hall. A third building houses the school's library and 500 seater acoustic auditorium.

POWIIS will teach a British based curriculum leading to IGCSE and A level and is applying for accreditation with both Cambridge International Examinations (CIE)and Edexcel examination boards.

Boarding accommodation takes the form of four buildings, each subdivided into two units to provide eight residences, four for boy and four for girl boarders. In addition to accommodation for resident staff and recreational rooms, the residences offer mostly twin bedded study bedrooms. POWIIS will offer full boarding, weekly boarding (where pupils return home at weekends) and flexi-boarding (where pupils can stay for one or two nights in any week as required).