Hong Kong education is preferred by many parents because of its international education model and pure English teaching. Founded in 1965, Victoria Education Hong Kong has opened 9 kindergartens in Hong Kong and 9 kindergartens in the Mainland, including the first kindergarten in the Mainland to be accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). Among the four branches in Shanghai, Pudong Park is the only first-class kindergarten, and is currently the governing unit of the Shanghai Childcare Association, and has won the first batch of high-quality private kindergartens in Shanghai, Shanghai 3A social organizations and other honors.
Xuhui Garden and Xin Manor both have 3 outdoor sports playgrounds, and Xuhui Garden is equipped with a higher configuration, including 2 indoor sports fields, 1 library and 2 open parent-child reading areas, creative art studios, social role-playing areas, science exploration gardens, etc., and each classroom is equipped with Smart Boards. Gumei Garden and Pudong Garden have a large construction area, equipped with a library, multi-purpose hall, art hall, playground, etc.
All four Victoria Parks implement the IBO-PYP (International Baccalaureate Early Years Programme), which focuses on the social, emotional, physical and cultural development of young children, and carries out learning activities according to different themes each term. With a background in Hong Kong, Victoria Park attaches great importance to English, and the bilingual course is its basic course, which adopts a dual class teacher system in Chinese and English, and foreign teachers follow the class throughout the course. In 2016, Victoria Park introduced the "TCRWP Literacy Program" from the State of California, USA, which combines the original reading system to provide reading materials according to levels and levels, which is very helpful for cultivating children's reading habits and English reading ability.
In addition, Victoria Park will teach Chinese characters, mathematics, logic, art and other courses, which are not difficult and interesting. The activities in the park are quite rich and novel, such as birthday parties, Christmas-themed parties, watching puppet shows, exploring the secrets of Peking Opera, and various art, health-themed activities, etc. At the same time, there are also social practice activities such as visiting the Science and Technology Museum, the Folk Customs Museum, the Exhibition Hall, and going to Pudong Airport for interviews.
The teachers of Victoria Park are stable, and the foreign teachers are all recruited overseas, most of them are European and American, and the pronunciation is standard. According to parents' feedback, Victoria Park's secondary school education work is responsible, will take the initiative to care for children, and will be serious to parents when picking up and dropping off. Xu Honglei, the principal of Pudong Park, has been working in Victoria for more than 20 years, and has won awards such as Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher and Advanced Individual in the Education System. The principals of the other branches have many years of work experience and have high management skills.
Victoria Park has done a good job of communicating with parents about their children's growth through email, WeChat, parent workshops and other means. There is a monitoring in the park, and parents can request to view it. At the same time, the Parent-Teacher Committee cooperates with the kindergarten to carry out various activities and make suggestions to allow parents to participate in kindergarten education.
There are four types of classes: nursery, small class, middle class and large class, each grade is divided into Chinese class and bilingual class, with about 25 students in each class. The bilingual class adopts a Chinese-English dual class teacher system, with one Chinese teacher and one foreign English teacher as the class teacher, and the Chinese class has two Chinese teachers as the class teacher, and each class is assigned a life teacher. The student-to-faculty ratio is slightly higher, around 1:8.
Food is also an aspect that parents are more concerned about, Victoria Park runs its own canteen, providing lunch and two snacks, both Chinese and Western food, with a variety of ingredients, and children think the food is delicious.
New students register in the spring, and Victoria Park also accepts applications from transfer students, including the official website and the mail-in registration form. Victoria Park offers 1-2 parent campus tours once a week, and parents can make an appointment by phone or email. In addition, Victoria Park regularly organizes school experience days, where parents can enter the classroom with their children and interact with teachers to learn about the curriculum. Victoria Park claims that its graduates are more likely to attend bilingual schools or international schools. The bilingual class from Victoria Park Nursery to Kindergarten is 10,200 yuan per class, the Chinese class and bilingual nursery class are 4,800 yuan per month, the bilingual small half-day class and the Chinese small full-day class are 6,200 yuan per month, and lunch is 10 yuan / meal, dim sum is 2.5 yuan / meal, and other expenses are 580 yuan / semester. Although the tuition fee is high, parents still flock to it, and the annual interview acceptance rate for new students is about 20%, and the competition is fierce. During the interview, Victoria Park has high requirements for parents, requiring parents to have a certain foundation in English, be able to communicate with foreign teachers, understand and accept the PYP curriculum, and ask parents about their educational philosophy and understanding of Victoria Park. In addition, during the interview, the children were active in the play area and the reading area where they lived, and the foreign church had a simple English conversation with the children to understand their English level.
