Concord Education Group has set up a total of 6 campuses in Shanghai, scattered in Minhang and Pudong. Among them, the Hongqiao Campus in Minhang is the main school, and among the six campuses, its teaching quality and academic performance are the best. And in the mouth of parents in Minhang District, Xiehe Bilingual is the second private primary school after Qiwai.
Founded in 2003, the Hongqiao Campus is located near the Jingting Building, with a spacious and beautiful campus, a library, children's play facilities, a football field, a basketball court, a 400-meter running track, and an indoor swimming pool. In 2016, Concord Bilingual completed and put into use the Learning Resource Center, which has a collection of more than 90,000 Chinese and foreign books and a large number of iPads for students to use. In addition, the LRC also has an oversized slide, where students can collect medals by reading and punching cards, and after reaching a certain standard, they can exchange for the privilege of sliding down the slide.
Concord Bilingual recruits students all over the city, and offers two courses for domestic students, the Elite Integration Program (Elite Class) and the Pioneer Integration Program (Pioneer Class), and students can only choose one of the two. At the same time, you cannot register for Wanyuan Campus after registering for Hongqiao Campus, and vice versa. In 2017, the main interview questions for students with the first and second choices were as follows: (1) playing games, iPad whack-a-mole and tangram; (2) Addition and subtraction within 20; (3) Playing with rubber bands; (4) Graphic Sudoku, playing card addition, memory of numbers and nine-square grid position memory; (5) Answer questions in English, such as what is the name, how to spell it, what is the mood, and read 6 words; (6) Guess riddles, tell stories and sing English songs.
For students who sign up for different courses, Concord Bilingual also has different interview questions, and the pioneer class is an English wooden man game, and an imitation of animal running; The elite class is for team building games and listening to instructions. In addition, parents are also required to participate in a separate interview, and the interview questions are: (1) home-school cooperation, what form do you hope will help your child grow; (2) List 3 to 5 of the virtues you would most like your child to have.
In 2014, about 4 students were admitted to Huayu Middle School, ranking ninth among all private primary schools. Looking at the data of previous years, the number of students who were admitted to Huayu, Shiwai, Shangbao, Lansheng and Shangwai was between 25 and 30, and some students went straight to their junior high schools. Concord Bilingual students can basically go on to a good junior high school as long as they stay in the top 30 of their class.
The school's elite class curriculum is basically the same as that of a regular primary school, except that it focuses more on English. There are 8 English lessons per week, and each grade level will have a different lesson with a foreign teacher. In order to make students' pronunciation close to native speaker, the school only hires foreign teachers from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, and introduces Longman WTE and American SSRW textbooks. Mathematics is biased towards Olympiad mathematics, and there are one or two Olympiad papers every week. The pace of language teaching is faster than that of many public schools. In addition, Concord Bilingual has many elective courses for students to choose from.
The Pioneer Class adopts a dual-track teaching system, and students can enter domestic junior high schools or study abroad after graduation, which is essentially an international school with Chinese courses. In fact, Concord Bilingual also offers international classes, which only admit foreign students and adopts a small class system. From the third grade onwards, in addition to Chinese classes, the international class is taught in English, with two class teachers, Chinese and foreign languages.
The amount of homework in Concord Bilingual is not small, and students in the elite class are required to memorize 7 words a day for two months after enrollment. In addition, some of the assignments are also different from those in general schools, such as the inquiry class requires students to consult various Chinese and English materials before making speeches, PPTs, etc., students need to spend time memorizing the manuscripts, and they cannot read the text on the PPT during the presentation.
Concord Bilingual is a day school with different bus routes for students in different classes. The dishes are not the same every day of the week, and the quality of the meals is generally praised by the students.
