The Bilingual School Affiliated to East China Normal University is a private boarding school from kindergarten to high school founded in Jiading in 2015 by China Normal Education Investment, Zhengxin Valley Innovation Capital and Shanghai International Automobile City. With the name of China Normal University, Huafu Bilingual Kindergarten has attracted a lot of attention since its establishment, and its combination of Chinese and Western education courses, convenient channels for further education, and bilingual teaching have attracted many parents.
Huafu Bilingual Kindergarten has strong financial resources, and the kindergarten building is not only luxuriously decorated, but also has a very special design and advanced concept. Unlike the colorful kindergarten, Huafu Bilingual resembles a huge Chinese-style courtyard. The design of the building is simple and clean, composed of wood, glass and white walls, and the large areas of glass and the "W" shaped building are distributed to make the classrooms light and bright and transparent. Each classroom is directly connected to an outdoor activity courtyard, with two classes sharing an activity courtyard. Children can walk directly from the courtyard to the library, music room, art room, games room, cafeteria, multi-purpose hall, small farm and large playground. Modern, atmospheric and open are the hallmarks of this garden.
The curriculum of Huafu Bilingual Kindergarten is divided into core, characteristic and interest elective courses. The core curriculum is mainly based on theme integration courses and regional exploration courses, including protection education, life skills, oral expression, language communication and vocabulary development, enlightenment reading, life mathematics, scientific exploration, sports and physical fitness, Chinese and Western painting, music, dance, performance, Chinese and Western culture enlightenment, Chinese and Western etiquette and other courses.
In addition, at the end of each semester, the kindergarten will conduct a week-long mixed-age course for children, first by the teachers to create their own curriculum, show to the children, and then by the children to choose their own choice, the teachers will record the children's learning process this week, as well as the learning interest they have shown, in order to adjust the follow-up education methods. In spring and autumn, teachers will also take children out to explore nature and understand society.
Experiential Reading, Original Art, Science Participation, and Potential Sports are the four featured courses of Huafu Bilingual. In the experiential reading course, teachers choose "Reading in Joy" published by East China Normal University and the "Readers" series published by Scholastic in the United States. At the same time, the school holds a Book Week every year, inviting parents to participate in parent-child reading, and children can choose the characters in the book to role-play. The original art courses focus on music and painting, and the "Music Theater" and "Chinese and Western Painting Exhibition" are used as platforms to display teaching achievements. In the participation in the science course, the kindergarten has designed a variety of science games to educate and entertain. The Potential Sports program is the same as most kindergarten physical education classes.
In addition to soft pottery, martial arts, Chinese and Western painting, roller skating, fencing, the park also cooperates with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Anting Automobile City, District Children's Palace and other groups and societies to offer piano, instrumental music, chorus, dance, chess, Chinese chess and other interest courses. Parents welcome this, believing that their children can enjoy a rich campus life and parents can also save a lot of extracurricular fees.
In addition to the collective parent-teacher meeting and one-on-one parent meeting, the kindergarten also carries out some home interaction activities, such as parent volunteers, parents as teachers, parent-child games and other activities, and regularly organizes parent growth exchange meetings, etc., and the interaction between the two sides of the home is relatively close.
The current director of Huafu Pisces is Tang Jieying, a doctor of education from East China Normal University, who is now an associate professor and has been teaching preschool education for more than ten years, and has served as a guidance consultant for two kindergartens, and has mature kindergarten operation experience.
There are now 18 classes in Huafu Bilingual Kindergarten, which enroll 3-year-old students in a small class, and are open to Chinese and foreign children, including non-Shanghai children. Like most bilingual kindergartens, Huafu Bilingual Kindergarten has a higher tuition fee, with a tuition fee of 12,000 yuan per month in 2018. There is another public kindergarten in Shanghai called the Kindergarten Affiliated to East China Normal University, so parents should pay attention to the distinction.
