Fengxian District is relatively lacking in high-quality educational resources, with only two demonstration kindergartens, and Nanzhong Road Kindergarten is one of them. Founded in 1955, Nanzhong Road Kindergarten, formerly known as the county kindergarten, has won many honors such as the Municipal Teacher Professional Development Demonstration School, the Municipal Family Education Guidance Experimental Base, and the Municipal Excellent Teaching and Research Group. Nanzhong Road Kindergarten is not well-known in the city, but it has a good reputation in the district, and its folk education has won the favor of many parents.
There are many kindergartens featuring art, sports, Montessori education, and traditional culture, and folk education is refreshing. In terms of environmental creation, the South Park decorates the garden with Chinese knots, homespun cloth, bamboo knots, and hemp ropes, and the quaint waterwheel, red stage, and folk promenade all reveal full of Chinese elements. Teachers have designed a number of folklore exploration theme activities, including Chinese Dragon, Chinese Red, Four Great Inventions, Four Treasures of Study, Thousand Thousand Chinese Knots, the Origin of Saws, Chinese Architecture, etc., which are novel and interesting for children, and can increase their understanding of local culture.
Westernized teaching is prevalent in Shanghai's preschool education sector, but South Park allows children to play with ancient and modern Chinese folk crafts. Kindergarten children dance dragons and play with lanterns on the outdoor field; hide and seek in the grass and make bird's nests; Throwing pots, flying kites, riding horses, and shaking bamboos in the back garden; rolling hoops, stepping on stilts, and racing dragon boats on the runway; Pick marans, cut leeks, and shoot rice in Happy Farm. Kindergarten children in the folk culture corridor paper-cutting, pottery, weaving, shadow puppetry, flower arrangement, kite, calligraphy, tea ceremony, etc.; In the activity room of bamboo play, wooden play, bottle play, etc., children play and explore to their heart's content.
The annual Folk Culture Festival is a traditional program of Nanzhong Road Kindergarten, which aims to let children experience Chinese folk culture by exposing them to Chinese folk craft culture stories, small craft production, games, etc. Emphasizing folk culture, South Park has not rejected foreign education concepts, and has introduced STEM teaching methods to integrate science and technology teaching into folk education.
Nanzhong Road Kindergarten has two kindergartens and 18 classes, which are open to the whole city, but the lot students are preferred, and the childcare fee is 700 yuan per month. Fengxian District has a large migrant population, and the enrollment threshold of public parks is slightly lower, and the children of immigrants who have reached a certain number of points can also apply for public parks, and they are not required to have a Shanghai hukou.
