Daning International Primary School is a newly promoted famous school, and its school-running model is quite distinctive. Founded in 2007, the current principal Xu Xiaowei is the principal of the former Zhabei Experimental Primary School, and the first batch of teachers of the school are also the backbone teachers of the former Zhabei Experimental Primary School. Principal Xu is a famous teacher in the district, and some parents have even transferred their children to Daning International Primary School because of her.
Daning International Primary School is divided into two campuses, East and West, and the senior students of the International Class and the Lot Class study in the West Campus. The school covers an area of 19,000 square meters, with a construction area of 35,000 square meters. Its hardware facilities are first-class, including robot classrooms, network classrooms, book reading centers, calligraphy and painting classrooms, dance classrooms and science classrooms, as well as book bars, chess bars, children's homes and other places for students' independent learning and entertainment. However, it should be noted that "Daning International Primary School" and "Daning International School" are two completely unrelated schools.
In terms of teachers, as of 2017, Daning International Primary School has a total of 114 teachers, including 107 full-time teachers, and the proportion of middle and senior teachers is 30.8%. According to parents' feedback, the school's international class and aristocratic class teachers are relatively stable, and the teachers' qualifications are much better than those of the regional class. Most of the teachers in the lot class are relatively inexperienced and inexperienced, but they are very conscientious and responsible.
Like Zhabei Experimental Primary School, Daning International Primary School is also a strong school in Olympiad mathematics. According to the statistics of a third-party education information agency, the number of winners in the four major cups in Daning International Primary School in 2016 accounted for 23.75% of the school, ranking second only to Mingzhu Primary School. In the third grade, the school began to set up free math interest classes and regular tutoring. In the second half of the fourth grade, the number of class hours will be increased, and the number of students in the interest class will be reduced to about 20 in the first semester of the fifth grade.
In terms of the school-running model, the school innovates the student evaluation method and carries out the practical research on the comprehensive evaluation of students based on the "smile passbook". The round smiley face medals in different colors such as blue, green, pink, purple, and orange are used as a commendatory record of students' civilized etiquette, behavioral performance, academic attitude, public service, participation in mass activities, and self-transcendence. Students collect different smiley face badges and exchange them for "vouchers" of the corresponding denomination every month in exchange for rewards such as small notebooks, pencil and pencil cases, and stationery bags.
In addition, Daning International Primary School also offers classical dance, pop dance, a cappella vocal chorus, ukulele, origami, children's painting, pottery and other interest courses, and in the Shanghai A Cappella Vocal Choir Competition, the school choir is the only award-winning primary school student team. Daning International Primary School's interest courses are conducted twice a week for one hour each time, and students choose courses online at the beginning of each semester. In addition, in the art and music courses, the school implements a pilot "mixed-age teaching", and students of different grades go to class together.
The counterpart junior high school of Daning International Primary School is a district-level key - Fenghua Junior High School, which is a very worry-free choice for children who take the public route. Every year, except for 4 or 5 students who are promoted to Shibei Polytechnic, 1 or 2 students who enter Shangwai 120, and some Lansheng, Xinhua Junior High School, and Shangwai High School Kele Class, most of the students choose to enter Fenghua Junior High School.
The corresponding areas of the school (2017) include Nos. 2-33, Lane 1083, Pingxingguan Road, No. 1018, Pingxingguan Road, Nos. 2-10, Lane 1088, Pingxingguan Road, Nos. 1-17, Lane 2399, Gonghexin Road, Nos. 1-6, Lane 555, Guangyan Road, Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 6, Lane 1188, Guangyan Road, Nos. 1-16, Lane 2999, Gonghexin Road, Nos. 1-37, Lane 318, Yuexiu Road, and Nos. 1-9, Lane 2989, Gonghexin Road, with housing prices ranging from 80,000 to 120,000 yuan per square meter. The above price information is as of June 2018.
