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Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten (Domestic)

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Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten is known as "the kindergarten with the most celebrity parents", and the children of celebrities such as Sun Li, Deng Chao, Yao Ming, Lu Yi, Bao Lei, and Ma Yili have all studied in Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten. The school's reputation is made for its luxurious hardware, excellent campus environment, and outstanding educational outcomes. Founded in 1991, Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten has won honors such as Shanghai Advanced Unit of Childcare Institutions, Naito International Parenting Award, National May Day Labor Award, etc., and is one of the most popular top kindergartens in Shanghai.

Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten is divided into the domestic and international departments, and the international department only enrolls foreign children. The hardware strength of the two campuses is very strong, far exceeding that of most private kindergartens. Most kindergartens are limited by land and funds, and the cafeteria and toilets are common to all classes, while each class in Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten is equipped with an independent activity room, dining room, toilet and bedroom. In terms of shared resources, Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten has set up a heated swimming pool, a children's library, a children's kitchen, a pottery room, an art room, a dance room, a piano room, a computer room, a construction room, a Jelica brain development activity room, an indoor sports hall and other functional rooms. There are also many sports venues, such as plastic sports fields, forest squares, starry sky pavilions, flip buckets, sand pits, skating squares, etc.

Bilingual teaching is the core curriculum of Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten, which includes 60% Chinese instruction and 40% English instruction. There is one English class per day in the nursery class, and after the children enter the middle class, there will be a foreign teacher who will follow the class throughout the day. Compared with the traditional teaching mode of teaching words, single sentences and simple conversations, the Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten Church directly intervenes in the children's life and play, so that the children are exposed to a bilingual environment. In addition, Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten also opened courses such as living habit education, folk education, swimming, basketball, and ice skating, and held classroom environment design, story meetings, plant planting, concerts and other activities. The art festival of Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten is quite grand, and it is performed at the Shanghai Grand Theatre every year.

Teachers are at the heart of early childhood education and have a significant impact on early childhood development. Soong Ching Ling kindergarten has a strong teaching force, with 79% of teachers with bachelor's degree or above, and 58% of senior teachers in early childhood education. Among them, 68% of the teachers have participated in overseas study and investigation, and 48 teachers have participated in international forums and published academic papers. In addition, 31% of the nursery staff are senior nursery workers, and 55% have a college degree. At the same time, Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten has established cooperation and research relationships with Simonte Terresori Teachers College, Washington Montessori College in the United States, and the University of Melbourne in Australia to improve the quality of teaching.

Feng Lirong, the first director of the kindergarten, is a member of the China Council of Early Childhood Education, and has won awards such as National Model Teacher and Shanghai Education Meritorious Hero, and has rich and profound experience in kindergarten teaching and management. Zhu Sujing, the current director of Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten, graduated from East China Normal University with a major in preschool education, and is currently a member of the Scientific Research Academic Committee of the China Welfare Association.

The popularity of Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten is also due to the fact that its students can be given priority to enter the primary school of Soong Ching Ling School. Covering kindergarten to high school, Soong Ching Ling School is recognized as a leader among private schools in Shanghai, with excellent hardware conditions, rich extracurricular activities, and a combination of Western-style international education and traditional Chinese education. Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten is open to the city's enrollment, and non-Shanghai household registration children can be deployed under the condition that the number of places permits, but in fact, the vast majority of students are registered children in the city, and the probability of non-registered children entering the kindergarten is very small. Soong Ching Ling kindergarten set up an interview, mainly asking parents some basic parenting questions, including education methods, children's behavior habits, etc., and at the same time requiring children to introduce themselves, to examine their ability to recognize pictures, recognize colors, etc., the overall difficulty is not high. The school prefers children who are well-behaved and polite, and decides whether to admit them after considering the situation of parents and children. The domestic class charges about 4-60,000 yuan a year, and the annual sponsorship fee varies from 40,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan. It is worth mentioning that Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten is one of the few kindergartens that publishes budgets and final accounts, and publishes budgets and final accounts on the official website every year, with detailed content, and parents can consult them at will.

In addition, there are many kindergartens opened in the name of Soong Ching Ling, such as Soong Ching Ling International Kindergarten, Soong Ching Ling Love Kindergarten, etc., the Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten introduced in this article is named by Jiang Zemin, located at No. 3908 Hongmei Road (International Department) and No. 1 Yehui Road, Zhao Xiang (Inside), please pay attention to the distinction.

Throughout Shanghai's preschool education sector, many kindergartens only perform well in one or some aspects, while Soong Ching Ling kindergarten has a balanced development in all aspects and has no obvious shortcomings. Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten has rich experience in running schools, mature management system, excellent hardware conditions, reasonable curriculum setting, and emphasis on innovation, which can be described as a superior garden.


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