Haikou, May 2025 - The highly anticipated 2nd AISL Harrow Games will be grandly held in Haikou, the core city of Hainan Free Trade Port, from June 5th to 7th, 2025. As a key annual event of AISL Harrow Schools, Asia's top education group, this competition is hosted by AISL Harrow Haikou School. It will bring together nearly 400 young athletes from nine schools across three countries: Bangkok (Thailand), Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Nanning, Hengqin, Appi (Japan), and Haikou. Through competitions and interactions in sports such as football, basketball, and athletics, they will showcase the outstanding sportsmanship and leadership of Harrow students, creating a diverse and integrated international youth exchange event.
Hainan Free Trade Port's Advantages Empower a New Benchmark for International Educational Events
As a frontier for China's deepened reform and opening-up, Hainan Free Trade Port has become a hotbed for global educational and cultural exchanges, thanks to its convenient cross-border policies, superior geographical location, and international business environment. The selection of Haikou as the venue for this AISL Harrow Games relies on the policy support of Hainan Free Trade Port in visa facilitation, international talent flow, providing efficient travel guarantees for teachers and students from multiple countries. It also benefits from its positioning as an "International Education Innovation Island," attracting high-quality educational resources and helping Harrow Haikou deepen international cooperation through the "sports + education" model. During the event, Hainan's unique natural environment and complete sports facilities will provide the best stage for students to demonstrate their athletic potential.
Connecting the Global Harrow Network: Cultivating Future Leaders with Sports Spirit
Since the founding of Harrow School in the UK 450 years ago, "holistic education" has always been at its core. As the 15th school in China accredited by the Council of British International Schools (COBIS), Harrow Haikou continues this tradition. Relying on Hainan's rich outdoor resources, it has established a full-range sports curriculum system from kindergarten to high school. As Mr. Olly Wells, Headmaster of Harrow Haikou, said, "Sports are not just about competition but also a core path to shaping leadership skills such as collaboration, resilience, and confidence. The AISL Harrow Games provide an excellent opportunity for students to transform knowledge into practical abilities and leadership."
The Harrow network spans the globe, and on the event day, Eugene Higgins, Director of Co-Curriculum at Harrow School (UK), and Charles Ellison, Director of AISL Harrow Education, will visit Haikou to celebrate the AISL Harrow Games together.
AISL Harrow leads the industry in close collaboration and resource sharing across the 12 schools. This event is another milestone following the first AISL Harrow Games held in Bangkok in 2024. Last year, riding the wave of the Paris Olympics, seven campuses joined forces to ignite the passion for sports. This year, the scale has further expanded with the addition of students from Appi (Japan) and Hengqin, demonstrating the AISL Group's interschool network of "connecting Asia and radiating globally." During the event, Harrow students from different cultural backgrounds will compete together and collaborate, broadening their horizons and building cross-border friendships through sports exchanges.
Diversified Integration Fosters Talents: Free Trade Port Boosts Global Competitiveness
As the host, Harrow Haikou takes this event as a window to actively implement the mission of the Hainan Free Trade Port to "create a new benchmark for open development of education in the new era." By organizing cultural experiences and Friends of Harrow community service activities, the event not only focuses on competition results but also emphasizes cultivating our young students' global competence and social responsibility. An AISL education group official stated, "We hope that students will grow into future leaders with both local sentiment and international vision in the open environment of the Free Trade Port."
The 2025 AISL Harrow Games not only epitomizes the educational innovation achievements of Hainan Free Trade Port but also injects new vitality into regional international exchanges. As the event approaches, this tropical island is welcoming global Harrow students with an inclusive attitude, where they can sweat, grow, and write a new chapter of sports spirit and multicultural integration.
