Among the four major private primary schools in Xuhui District, Aiju Primary School has the strongest artistic atmosphere, but it is also relatively weak in overall strength, and there is a certain gap in the admission rate compared with the other three private schools. It was established in 1993 by Mr. Liu Haoqing, a famous Hong Kong industrialist, and his wife, Ms. Kong Aiju, and was transformed into a private primary school in 2007.
Aiju Primary School is located at No. 247, Anfu Road, Xuhui District, covering an area of about 5,000 square meters and a construction area of about 8,900 square meters; The school has 52 special classrooms such as dance room, chess and card room, calligraphy and painting room, piano room, as well as basketball courts, badminton courts, 50-meter plastic tracks, solid courts and other cultural and sports activity spaces.
As of 2017, Aiju Primary School has a total of 95 teachers and 84 full-time teachers. Among them, there are 64 teachers with intermediate and senior professional titles, 7 master's students, and 77 with college degree or above. Since the school was only converted into a private school in 2007, teachers who joined before 2007 were able to retain the public establishment. Therefore, although Aiju Primary School is a private school, most of the teachers have a public establishment and a stable teaching team, which is not available in other private schools.
According to the statistics of a third-party education information agency, the number of winners in the four major cups in 2016 accounted for 20.83% of the school, ranking tenth among all private primary schools. Among the graduates each year, about 10 can enter Huayu, about 40 enter the world, and most of them can be promoted to Southwest Model and Southwest Education. In 2014, among the 431 students who were promoted to Huayu Middle School in the city, Aiju Primary School occupied 11 seats, ranking sixth among private primary schools.
There is no doubt about the popularity of Aiju Elementary School, with an annual enrollment ratio of about 100:8. According to parents, the school's 2018 interview content included using iPad to do questions, listening to stories and answering questions, one-on-one interviews, etc., and there were no self-introduction, skipping exercises, and English questions. Among them, the problem on the iPad is to look at graphics and numbers to find patterns; Interview questions include how to get to school, who picks you up from kindergarten, and where you've traveled.
Aiju Primary School is divided into domestic and overseas departments, and the overseas department includes bilingual classes and French classes. The bilingual classes are mainly for students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign passports, while the French classes are only for French students. Most of the students in the French class are the children of the staff of the French Consulate, and the teachers are also determined by the French Consulate. Students in the domestic division can enroll in French classes after entering the third grade, and the teachers of the French classes will be the teachers. The list of students who progress to the French course is determined by the recommendation of the English teacher, and each class selects 4 to 5 students and attends the class once a week.
Chinese is the characteristic of Aiju Primary School, the school uses the same Chinese textbooks as other schools, but basically each lesson has its own supplementary textbooks distributed, and the amount of Chinese homework for students in the lower grades is more than the sum of mathematics and English homework. In addition to the Shanghai unified textbook, the mathematics is supplemented with a Zhejiang version of the textbook. English, like Chinese, combines the city's unified textbooks with self-compiled textbooks, and has one foreign teacher class per week.
The school does not publish specific rankings for each exam, only the score range, such as how many people score from 90 to 100, how many people score from 80 to 89, etc. Relatively speaking, the overall amount of homework in Aiju Primary School is not much, and parents say that their children can complete their homework in one to two hours a day. And the daily arrangement of the school is also very user-friendly, such as the need to have seven or eight consecutive days of classes after national holidays, Aiju Primary School usually puts spring outings or other play courses in the middle to reduce students' fatigue.
As the first officially listed art primary school in Shanghai, Aiju Primary School has a strong artistic atmosphere, with nine professional courses such as string music, wind music, folk music, and painting, advocating that students "everyone has a special talent, and everyone loves art". The school's wind ensemble will start recruiting students from the second semester of the second year, and will be selected by professional teachers according to the students' mouth shape, teeth, hand shape and other conditions; In addition, Aiju Primary School has a brass music professional class once a week, which is carried out in the form of a large class; In addition, the school conducts a band training once a week. There are two classes a week for the lower grades and one session a week for the upper grades.
The art curriculum of Aiju Primary School covers 33 categories such as piano, guzheng, Chinese painting, calligraphy, bridge, etc., and 13 clubs such as the Sunflower Dance Troupe and the Little Skylark Folk Orchestra have been established. Among them, the instrumental music "Dance of the Mountain Eagle" of the Little Skylark Folk Orchestra won the first prize in the country. Aiju Primary School has also established friendship schools with 7 schools in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taipei and other countries and regions, and regularly carries out mutual visits between teachers and students, enriching students' extracurricular life.
