It is recognized that Pudong's public primary schools are better than private primary schools, and although there are many private primary schools, most of them are biased towards international education, so it is difficult to get the favor of parents. But the young Fukuyama Zhengda Foreign Language Chinese Primary School is changing this stereotype.
Founded in 2010, Shanghai Fushan Zhengda Primary School is divided into two campuses, the south campus covers an area of 14,000 square meters and the north campus covers an area of 16,005 square meters. Every year, the campus is decorated as a theme park, which is the envy of many students from other schools. As of 2017, Fushan Zhengda has a total of 103 full-time teachers, 37 teachers with intermediate and senior professional titles, and 99 teachers with bachelor's degree or above.
The school recruits students from all over the city, Pudong household registration is preferred, and only the first choice students are admitted. However, according to parents who have signed up in the past, there are very few students from other districts admitted by Fushan Zhengda. From 2015 to 2017, the school's acceptance rate was around 10%. In 2017, the interview was entitled: (1) Look at pictures and speak; (2) Listen to instructions to do actions or vice versa; (3) Answer questions and describe pictures in English, and read along with English; (4) retelling picture book stories; (5) Look at the graph to find the law, find the difference, and the addition and subtraction within 30. In general, Fukuyama Zhengda focuses more on the examination of students' English ability.
According to the statistics of a third-party education information agency, Fushan Zhengda accounted for 4.76% of the total number of winners in the four major cup competitions in 2016, ranking 14th among all private primary schools. In addition, in 2016, the first batch of graduates of the school, among the 155 students in the school, about 20 were admitted to Huayu Middle School, 29 were admitted to Shangwai and Puwai, 20 were in Zhangjiang, and 30 were in Lansheng and SIIC Junior High School. Data for 2017 are not available. Compared with the data of the number of people admitted to Huayu Middle School in 2014, 20 people admitted to Huayu Middle School have been able to rank among the top five private primary schools in the city.
Fukuyama Zhengda is characterized by English and has a high learning intensity, with no less than five classes per week, learning English from the four aspects of spelling, writing, phonics and grammar. In addition, English nursery rhyme elective courses, ESL enrichment courses, speaking and reading classes are offered as supplements. There are foreign teacher classes and activities every week, using Longman teaching materials. The course adopts two sets of textbooks, Oxford and WTE, with WTE as the main textbook. Bilingual teaching is implemented in some subjects, and a second foreign language is taught from the third year onwards. There are self-compiled thinking training materials for mathematics, and the progress of language is also relatively fast, and children will struggle if they do not have a certain amount of literacy before entering school.
The school also offers TOI compulsory courses and LA elective courses. The TOI Thematic Inquiry Course is co-taught by Chinese and foreign teachers, and is taught in two languages, focusing on six themes, including "How the World Works" and "How We Share Resources and Coexist on Earth", to learn about humanities, geography, history, virtues, science and other related fields.
LA stands for Language Arts, which is based on thematic reading to expand vocabulary, learn writing skills, and improve reading comprehension and writing skills. The course introduces foreign curriculum resources, hires foreign professors, and pays attention to the improvement of language ability. The class learning is mainly in the form of small classes, with about 20 students per class. Classes are held for 80 minutes a day, four days a week.
Fukuyama Zhengda's homework is generally posted on the webpage of each class, and it can also be queried through the app. The amount of homework gradually increases as the study progresses, and students need about 2 hours a day to complete their homework. School exams do not rank and only judgement is excellent, good and pass. In addition to the mid-term final exam, Fukuyama Zhengda's more important exam also has two flight exams. The flight test refers to the surprise test. When students are in the fifth grade, better private junior high schools such as Zhangjiang and Hua No. 2 may go to the school to hold flight tests to select students.
In terms of extracurricular activities, Fushan Zhengda has club activities such as martial arts, basketball, football, badminton, table tennis, robotics, innovative experiments, and computer programming. There are also winter and summer camps, community activities, happy squads, parent-child parties, overseas classes, Christmas performances, poetry recitals and talent performances.
Lunch at the Fukuyama Zhengda Cafeteria is well received by parents, and afternoon tea is also available. In addition, the school also has a school bus service, there are 9 lines in the north campus, 5 lines in the south campus, and the implementation of big station pick-up, the specific route can be found on the school's official website.
