Xuhui is one of the "four major private primary schools" and one of the private primary schools with the largest number of applicants in Shanghai. Founded in 2001, Shanda Garden Primary School is located in the middle of Shanda Garden Community and Longhua Temple, covering an area of about 14,000 square meters and a construction area of 13,386 square meters. The school has basketball courts, tennis courts, indoor and outdoor sports fields, as well as a bridge hall, a dance studio, a paper workshop, a psychological counseling room, a rehearsal hall, a STEM classroom and 60 piano rooms.
By 2018, there were 145 full-time teachers in Shanda Garden Primary School, 80% of whom had intermediate and senior professional titles, and more than 95% of the teachers had a bachelor's degree or above.
In 2015 and 2016, the admission rate of Shanda Garden Primary School was 8.6% and 7%, respectively. The first and second choices are the scope of the interview, but most of the students who are admitted are the first choice. In 2017, the interview questions of Shanda Garden Primary School were: (1) using iPad to answer questions, including equal substitution, short-term memory pictures, comparison of light and weight, comparison of distance and proximity, number of graphs and finding patterns; (2) Origami parachute, tangram; (3) Dancing or dancing to the video; (4) Look at pictures to tell stories, listen to stories and answer questions; (5) Reciting ancient poems and children's songs. The interview does not require self-introduction, and English proficiency is not measured.
The preschool class enrolled in Shanda Garden Primary School is also one of the ways to enter Shanda Garden Primary School. The school's preschool has a total of 20 classes, the tuition fee is 9,800 yuan, and the class starts from September to May of the following year, and the class is held once a week. The teaching content includes Chinese pinyin, word recognition, reading comprehension, addition and subtraction of mathematics and thinking problems, as well as English enlightenment. The quality of its teaching is average, the purpose of registration is to occupy the pit for children, and the acceptance rate of preschool students is as high as 20%~30%, if you are not admitted, there is the possibility of getting two sides. To enroll in the preschool at Grand Garden Elementary School, you need to go to the school guard for advice.
In the statistics of third-party education information agencies, the number of winners of the four major cups in 2016 accounted for 27.78% of the school, ranking seventh among the primary schools in the city. In 2014, a total of about 15 students were promoted to Huayu Middle School, ranking fifth among all private primary schools. If you rank in the top 20 in the class, you can be admitted to a good private junior high school even if you do not participate in extracurricular tutoring classes.
Shanda Garden Primary School is divided into domestic and overseas departments, with Chinese as the main subject. In addition to the city's unified textbooks, its Chinese course is also supplemented with a "Reader of Ancient Poetry and Literature for Primary School Students". Since the first grade, I have been learning to read pictures and speak with a little difficulty, and I have practiced it regularly. The school's Mathematics Olympiad is taught once a week, and in the third grade, the Mathematics Olympiad will also be taught in a hierarchical manner. In addition, there are 3 speaking classes with foreign teachers a week.
It is worth mentioning that from the first year, Shanda students must choose piano or art as their interest class, once selected, it cannot be modified, and the school will divide the class according to their interests. Piano students go to the piano room 30 minutes after lunch every day, and one teacher teaches four to five students. The art class uses the last three classes every Friday for a total of one and a half hours of training. Piano classes and art classes are divided into classes for students of different levels, so you don't have to worry about children not having a foundation. In addition, the school requires students to learn to swim from the third grade.
Shanda Garden Primary School has strict management, a lot of homework, and often exams. Students' homework from Monday to Friday usually takes about an hour and a half to complete, and weekend homework takes two to three hours to complete. In addition, the teachers of Shanda encouraged students to participate in extracurricular training classes, and the atmosphere of the parent group was very strong.
The school cafeteria serves lunch, snacks in the morning and afternoon, and there are evening nursery classes and interest classes after school every afternoon, which is very convenient for parents to pick up and drop-off. For parents in need, the school also admits some boarding students.
