Although Pudong District is not a traditional education area, it is rich in high-quality kindergarten resources and has the most public demonstration parks, among which Oriental Kindergarten is the leader. Founded in 1992, Oriental Kindergarten features swimming, roller skating, and ice skating. Oriental Park has been awarded the titles of Shanghai Civilized Unit, Shanghai Advanced Collective of Early Childhood Sports, District Advanced Collective of Teacher Ethics, and District Teacher Professional Development School. At present, Oriental Park has a number of branches such as Lianyang Department, Yanlord Department, Tangcheng Department and so on.
In 1999, the Oriental Park was rated as one of the top 10 landscapes in the Pudong community, but now the facilities are slightly outdated. The other branches have been established for a relatively short period of time, with new and tidy floors and spacious and bright classrooms. The garden is equipped with an indoor skating rink, an indoor heated swimming pool, large sports equipment, flip buckets, a sand pit, a botanical garden, a play area, and an animal feeding corner, which is like a small amusement park. There is plenty of space for children to be outdoors and indoors.
The classrooms in the Oriental Garden are usually equipped with multimedia computers, LCD TVs, video recorders, projectors, air conditioning and other facilities. Most kindergartens are limited by the land and funds for running schools, and the cafeteria, toilets, and activity rooms are all shared by the classes, while each class in the Oriental Garden has an independent activity room, bedroom, dining room, toilet, cloakroom, etc., and the children have their own exclusive space. In addition to the basic teaching facilities and living facilities, science and technology activity rooms, dance rooms, construction rooms, Go rooms, libraries, computer rooms, piano rooms, guzheng rooms, accordion rooms, etc., are much richer than most kindergarten activity rooms. The hardware conditions are superior, far exceeding most public kindergartens.
Many parents are attracted to the skating and swimming lessons at Oriental Park, after all, there are not many kindergartens with ice skating rooms and heated swimming pools. Children are active by nature, and they are very happy in the pool and skating rink, which is very good for improving children's physical fitness. Oriental Kindergarten has always focused on sports, and also offers courses such as roller skating and taekwondo. There are also many artistic activities such as Go, pottery, guzheng, piano, etc., which combine movement and static. When most parents choose kindergarten, they pay more attention to the number of interest courses, the intensity of physical activities, etc., in the Oriental kindergarten, children's interests and hobbies can be well developed, and there is a lot of physical exercise, but families who value cultural classes and English more often need to find another way.
The teachers at the Oriental Garden are relatively young, mostly under the age of 35, with a college or bachelor's degree, and the nursery staff also have a Level 3 certificate. At present, Dongfang Park is a Shanghai Teacher Professional Development School and an excellent training base for trainee teachers in Shanghai, and is relatively mature in teacher management, teaching and curriculum setting.
Parents who are interested in Oriental Kindergarten can first participate in its free parent-child early education activities with their children to learn about the kindergarten, which includes parent-child games and early childhood talks. Each branch has a different enrollment scope, and it is open to children with household registration in the surrounding area, and there is no interview. If the number of applicants exceeds the enrollment quota, the children will be admitted in the first order of the time they move in. For most branch kindergartens, it is not difficult for children who meet the household registration conditions to enter the kindergarten, and most of them can be admitted. The enrollment policy of Pudong District is similar to that of Putuo District, and both advocate nearby arrangements and free admission to kindergartens.
