Hongkou District West Street Kindergarten, also known as Qian Junwei Art Kindergarten, is located in the bustling North Sichuan Road, featuring children's aesthetic education. In 2005, Xijie Kindergarten was rated as a model kindergarten in Shanghai, and won the honors of 38 Red Flag Collective, Civilized Unit, and Outstanding School Performance.
The 100-year-old campus was renovated in 2004 as a former church school. The garden environment is simple and elegant, with red wooden doors and floor-to-ceiling windows complementing each other, full of artistic sense. Outdoor playgrounds are plentiful, with playgrounds, slides, climbing walls and other large sports equipment. There are 9 special activity rooms in two buildings in the park, including an art center hall, a calligraphy and painting room, a garden history reading hall, a structural game hall, an indoor sports hall, an art and creative room, a dance studio, an audio-visual center, and an early education activity center. Each class has its own classroom, cafeteria, and bedroom. Some classes have their own studios, exercise rooms, and reading rooms. In addition to the regular toys, there are also telescopes, animal and plant specimens, laboratory reagents, etc., and the activity room is fully equipped.
The special courses of West Street Kindergarten include children's calligraphy and painting courses, art appreciation courses, partner experience courses, children's dance courses, and children's thinking courses. Its art courses focus on traditional Chinese arts such as calligraphy and Chinese painting, and are relatively simple. Children's English, children's ancient poetry, and art appreciation activities combining literature, art, and music are also the core courses. West Street Kindergarten has a mature experience in art education, which is an excellent choice for families who want to cultivate their children's artistic talents.
West Street has held fairy tale drama activities for a long time, and 110 scripts have been produced, with 3,850 people participating, from makeup, costumes, stage decoration to performances, which are relatively professional. In terms of scripts, in addition to classic plays such as Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, teachers also create scripts based on children's activity experiences, which are closer to children's lives. In the preparation stage, teachers let children understand the plot through interactive multimedia, picture book reading, and situational dialogue. At the same time, parents also participate in the production of fairy tale plays, assisting in synthesizing music, making props, preparing costumes, etc. The kindergarten hopes to enhance children's self-confidence, expressiveness and sense of cooperation through fairy tale performances.
West Street Kindergarten currently has a total of 11 classes, enrolling children aged 3-6, including transfer students. A childcare fee of 700 yuan and a material fee of about 200 yuan are charged every month. West Street Kindergarten adopts independent enrollment, and families with household registration in Hongkou District can sign up and participate in interviews. The content of the interview includes counting, imitating animals, identifying shapes, etc., and the overall difficulty is not high, and parents think that the interview content of the entrance interview on West Street is comprehensive and fair.
