It is recognized as the first of the three private primary schools in Hongkou and one of the most popular private primary schools in Shanghai. Founded in 2005, the private foreign Chinese primary school affiliated to Shanghai Foreign Chinese University is directly led and managed by Shanghai Foreign Chinese University. The school was formerly known as the private Beibei English Primary School, which was rated as one of the first bilingual experimental schools in Shanghai. In 2006, the primary school added courses in languages other than English, becoming the first primary school in the country to offer multilingual foreign Chinese.
The school is located at No. 590, Guangyue Road, Hongkou District, covering an area of about 15,000 square meters, with a construction area of 10,000 square meters and perfect infrastructure. At the same time, the primary school has a strong teaching force, and Qi Chenghui, a famous English teacher in Hongkou, teaches here, and all English teachers in the school have won the first prize in the national or municipal English teaching competition. As of 2017, there are 88 full-time teachers in the primary school. Among them, there are 63 teachers with intermediate and senior professional titles, and 69 have bachelor's degree or above. In addition, a total of 8 teachers in the school were rated as backbone teachers in Hongkou District, the largest number of primary schools in the district.
Getting into the elementary school is not an easy task, and the school's acceptance rate in 2017 was only 11%. Only the children who apply for the first choice will be interviewed for the interview, and only the children of the first choice will be admitted. The interview in 2017 was divided into two rounds, the first round of content included self-introduction, puzzle puzzle, vegetable recognition, memorization of ancient poems, looking at graphics to find patterns and dancing rhythmic exercises; The second round consists of assembling a light bulb (giving a small light bulb, two wires, and a battery to make the light bulb brighter), dancing, looking at pictures and saying idioms, etc. The interview does not focus on English, but mainly examines students' common sense of life, attention to social news, study habits, etc. In addition, there are preferential places in the kindergarten every year, which is another way to enter the primary school.
Shangwai Affiliated Primary School was once known as "Shangwai Olympic Primary School", and its annual Olympiad results are not far behind Shaw Primary School. According to the statistics of a third-party education information agency, the number of winners in the four major cup competitions in 2016 accounted for 35% of the school, ranking third among primary schools in the city.
In terms of further education, there are 120 interview places for the fifth grade of the Shanghai Foreign Affiliated Primary School every year. In 2016, 35 students were admitted to the school, 31 in 2017 and 32 in 2018. In addition to the Shangwai High School, the Shangwai Affiliated Primary School has students entering Huayu, Shibei, Lansheng, Fuxing, Xinhua Junior High School every year. In 2014, 20 of the 431 students admitted to Huayu in the city were from the primary school attached to Shanghai Foreign University, ranking fourth in the number of private primary schools in the city.
As a foreign Chinese primary school, the special curriculum of the primary school is naturally English. The school is taught English by foreign teachers, and students can choose French, German, Japanese and other second foreign language courses from the fourth grade. In addition, the English classes of the primary schools attached to the school are taught in layers, and one administrative class is divided into two small English classes, and different teachers are responsible for English teaching. The senior high school students of the Shanghai Foreign University High School also have English conversation practice with the students of the Shanghai Foreign University Primary School every week, and the students' oral English proficiency is generally high.
Mathematics is also emphasized. In addition to Shanghai's unified mathematics textbooks, it also introduces Zhejiang version of mathematics textbooks and offers thinking training courses. The second grade is divided into Olympiad interest classes, the third grade is divided into Olympiad A and B classes, and there are also math summer camps and other activities in the summer vacation. The Chinese language focuses on the training of students' writing skills, and students' works in both Chinese and English can often be found in publications such as "Juvenile Daily", "Xinmin Evening News" and "Bilingual Weekly for Primary School Students".
Parents said that the teachers of the primary school are very responsible, and they often send learning materials and homework of the day to parents through WeChat and other means in the evening or during holidays. The school has exams almost every week, but the amount of homework is not too large, and students are usually able to complete it in school.
The school's OM team has won the championship of the 33rd World Olympic Competition Finals and the first place in the China Division of the 36th World Olympic Competition, representing China to participate in the world competition. In addition, SISU Primary School also won the first place in the Asia-Pacific Mathematics Competition in Shanghai, and many students entered the finals of the Asia-Pacific Mathematics Competition held in Singapore.
In terms of daily life, the lunch at school is relatively average, and students generally do not like it; The school has a school bus, and due to the congestion of the nearby roads, parents mostly recommend that their children take the school bus to and from school, and it is best to apply at the time of registration, as there may be no place in the middle of the semester.
