SIIC is an alternative in that it implements a ten-year flexible school system of 4 years of elementary school, 3 years of junior high school, and 3 years of high school. It is very difficult to enter SIIC from kindergarten to primary school, and the number of applicants is about 5,000 every year, from net screening, computer-based test, interview to admission, and finally only 60 students are left to enter SIIC Primary School. This group of students can go straight to the junior high school and high school of Shangshi, and for parents, there are two fewer big exams, and there is a lot less anxiety and chickens and dogs; There are a small number of students enrolled in the junior high school and high school entrance examination, and the control score line in 2016 is 596 points, and in 2017 it is 589, both of which rank in the top 10 in the city, and the number of Qingbei re-admitted students in 2016-2018 is about 40, and almost occupies all the places in the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China.
SIIC's curriculum can be divided into three major sections: core courses, academic well-being courses and special needs courses. Among them, the core curriculum is divided into several categories, such as tools, knowledge, and skills, and the tenforten series of basic courses (referred to as TFT courses) of ten grades and ten series have been constructed, and teaching materials and teaching reference materials have been formed. The core curriculum of high school is mainly based on the cultivation of the four basic skills (cognitive ability, social ability, expression ability and action ability), and the textbooks used are the unified textbooks. Combined with the characteristics of its own period and the requirements of the ten-year consistent system, SIIC takes the cultivation of students' sustainable development ability as the goal of the design and integration of the academic education course, and divides the learning and cultivation courses into three series according to the course content and teaching mode, namely TFT general education course series (whole class system, full participation), TFT extended course series (class form, independent elective) and TFT club course series (free combination, self-management). The main courses cover theme education, Chinese, English, scientific thinking, STS, art, physical education, social investigation, physical and mental health, etc., with a total of nearly 100 TFT courses in reserve, and about 20 courses are provided for students to choose each semester. If students have an interest in a certain field and motivation to learn, and can continue to explore, they can submit special needs to the school, and they can only take them after being reviewed by a team of experts. This course is not compulsory or compulsory for every student, but only for the innovation class. SIIC's science class is very strong, and it is called second in Pudong District, and only Hua Er dares to call it first, and Jianping Jincai and others are not opponents at all. The top 88 students in the big exam can stay in the science class, and the 88 students who fall out will return to the parallel class.
Compared with many well-known city priorities, SIIC's teachers are slightly thin, the first batch of old teachers have retired, and most of the school is a team of young and middle-aged teachers. However, Shangshi has been working hard in teacher training, not only hiring a number of university professors as consultants, but also setting up teacher training bases to focus on training young and middle-aged teachers; With the support of the Municipal Education Commission, in cooperation with Shanghai Normal University, the Experimental Institute of Primary and Secondary Education was established to carry out scientific research projects and tracking according to the different characteristics of school students, which is relatively rare in primary and secondary schools. However, although the teacher is very dedicated and serious, the overall atmosphere of SIIC is mainly based on the students' self-consciousness, and the teacher does not do much control, and even the students' emotional development is natural, and even openly erects a confession wall in the school. In terms of learning, students need to do a good job of time management and study planning, find their own problems to do, and when they need the help of teachers, such as applying for new clubs, applying for new projects or innovative research projects, teachers can give the greatest support in terms of resources and time, which is even rarer in the city, and is completely different from the normal state of many schools that are free and conservative on the surface. However, a loose academic style can also be an important factor for students with poor self-control.
SIIC's four traditional festivals: Reading Festival, Science and Technology Festival, Art Festival and Sports Festival are held once every semester. AR, VR applications, underwater robots, electric helium balloons, light-curing 3D printers, popular science experiments - Mars exploration, wind energy utilization, Rokid platform, simulated hands based on human neural control, small fighting robots, Google Cardboard interactive experience and other activities are dizzying, in addition to professional booths, basketball courts and gymnasiums, every class from primary school to high school has set up class booths. Everyone showed their magic powers, and it was particularly lively. The festival lasts from 13:00 to 21:00, with food courts, water stage piano shows, celebration parties and other activities. A sports festival is similar to a sports day. The four opening ceremonies of SIIC are very grand, requiring students to spend a lot of time on rehearsals, so much so that they will occupy the time of morning exercises, physical education classes and class meetings every day, and even affect the normal class time. The rest of the TFT interest courses or experiments will also compress the study time, and SIIC itself has reduced the preparation time compared to other schools, if the foundation is not solid enough, it is likely to affect the learning progress, and even the college entrance examination.
In addition to the four major activities, SIIC also has a parent committee and a parent help, which are mainly responsible for organizing six types of activities, including love series, parent-child activities, sports and fitness, social enterprise visits, management skills courses and experience exchange. For example, the New High School Freshman Seminar, Hangzhou Yaoxi National Day Outreach Activities, Shanghai International Marathon Activities, First Aid Training, Chongming Outdoor Outreach Activities, and Love Hand in Hand Activities, etc., were all planned and implemented by parents.
SIIC junior high school and high school each occupy a 5-storey teaching building, which are arranged in descending order according to grades. There are lockers outside the classrooms, and the rooms are equipped with air conditioning, teaching computers, projection equipment, etc. The school has a gymnasium, a basketball court with three stands on the second floor and a newly built indoor climbing room, and a chess room, gymnastics room, gymnasium, table tennis and other facilities on the first floor; The outdoor is a standard 400-meter plastic track sports field, an outdoor basketball court, a volleyball court, a hard-ground rubber tennis court and a real turf football field. The Innovation Laboratory Building is specially built for high school innovation classes, and each floor belongs to different modules: information technology on the first floor, chemistry on the second floor, physics on the third floor, biology on the fourth floor, mathematics on the fifth floor, and mathematical modeling on the sixth floor. In addition, there is a special art building, which is equipped with a digital piano room, a dance room, a painting studio, an art classroom, a music classroom, an art classroom, etc. In 2017, a new library was built, and the school directly connected the third and fourth floors, the whole is transparent and bright, and the sofa in the corner is very comfortable.
The dormitory of SIIC has one room for two people, with its own elevator, air conditioning and hot water, and the men and women are in the same building. It's a pity that Shangshi's canteen has been repeatedly criticized, with few patterns and poor taste, and it is recommended to order takeout.
If it is from SIIC Junior High School to high school, in principle, the school does not have a hard elimination index, but there will be a passing exam similar to the acceptance examination, which generally uses the same difficulty as the high school entrance examination, which is carried out a little later than the unified high school entrance examination, and the grades that do not meet the requirements will stay in the junior high school for another year. There are a total of six classes in the high school, of which 1-4 classes are parallel classes, 5 classes are science classes, and 6 classes are innovation classes, often before the college entrance examination, the number of each class will fall to less than 40 people due to going abroad, a small number of transfers and spring examinations, so there are less than 200 people participating in the college entrance examination each session. The admission line of SIIC is generally after Jianping and Jincai, and the starting point of students who have passed the high school entrance examination is indeed lower than that of the junior high school and the junior high school, but the old rate can reach more than 90%, which is not unrelated to the genius young students who have been cultivated by SIIC since childhood, and at the same time, the school is not large, and the teachers pay more attention to students. The pre-recorded self-recruitment of SIIC is generally at the end of March, and the pass rate is extremely low, and only about 5% of the cow babies can get verbal commitments.
