Founded in 1992, Shanghai Yangbo Foreign Chinese Primary School is one of the first private schools in Shanghai. Its campus is located in the community, covering an area of only 5,008 square meters, with a construction area of 5,016 square meters. The school has a professional dance room, a student singing room, a science laboratory, an information workshop, a book reading room, a wind and rain playground, etc., and all kinds of teaching hardware are excellent. By 2017, Yangbo had a total of 63 teaching staff, including 55 full-time teachers, and 49% of teachers with intermediate and senior professional titles.
The school only admits first-choice students within the district. The topics of the interview in 2017 are: (1) answering questions after reading the book; (2) Follow the video to do exercises; (3) Read English sentences and say 5 English words randomly; (4) Examine memory, choose pictures and numbers; (5) Listen to stories and answer questions; (6) Learn to thread the needle and observe the child's hand-eye coordination; (7) Computer-based test: memorize animals, vegetables and colors, etc.
According to the statistics of a third-party education information agency, the number of winners in the four major cups in 2016 accounted for 29.17% of the whole school, ranking fifth among all private primary schools. Most of its students will stay in the district after graduation, 30% of them can go on to Yangbo Middle School, and the rest will enter Tianjiaping, Shibeili and Fenghua. The rest of the students can be admitted to famous private schools such as Lansheng, Jinhua, and Shangwai. It is worth mentioning that Yangbo's counterpart is a district-level key middle school - Fenghua Middle School, which is more secure in terms of further education.
Yang Bo's outstanding achievements in the Olympiad are naturally inseparable from his teaching methods. The school selects Class A students to skip one level to learn Olympiad, and all students in the third grade to learn Olympiad mathematics in stratification. It also has special teaching and research courses in mathematics, and is known as the most bloody private school in Laozhabei. In addition to the Olympiad, Yangbo's English is also a strong point. The school supplements the New Century Children's English and self-compiled reading textbooks, English is learned one year in advance, and the second grade begins to learn phonetic transcription, and it is difficult to keep up with the teaching progress without English foundation before entering the school. Yangbo has English classes every day, coupled with a rich English club, and there is a lot of English teaching time every week. In addition, the school also organizes the top 15 students in the class to enter the English and mathematics club.
There is not much homework in the first and second semesters of the school, and students can complete most of their homework in school in normal times, and students with high learning efficiency do not have homework at home. At the beginning of the second semester of Year 2, the amount of homework increased, mainly due to the increased difficulty of Math and English. The amount of homework is different according to the learning level of each child, and the completion speed is different, and students can generally complete the homework in about two hours.
Yangbo's curriculum includes basic courses, extended reading courses and sports dance courses for foreign teachers, and the school also has nearly 30 club courses such as English salon, children's broadcasting, children's choir, basketball, etc., and students have rich extracurricular activities. Students who join clubs usually leave school around 5 o'clock, and students who do not participate can go home at about 3:30 a.m. If it is not convenient for parents to pick up and drop off, joining a club is a good option.
