Founded in 2001, the Bilingual School Affiliated to Shanghai Wai Chinese University is a private school with bilingual characteristics. The school has a primary school, a junior high school and an upper school (international high school), and the three divisions are located in one campus, covering an area of 28,704 square meters. It not only has modern teaching facilities such as laboratories, language rooms, multi-functional classrooms, advanced audio-visual classrooms, and electronic reading rooms, but also has auditoriums, indoor gymnasiums, and student stages. By 2017, there were 154 full-time bilingual teachers, 62% of whom had intermediate and senior professional titles, and 153 had a bachelor's degree or above.
The school only enrolls students in Yangpu District and admits first-choice students. In 2017, the contents of the bilingual interview were: drawing; Reading; Listen to stories and answer questions; Make moves along with the video; Matchstick numbers are added, decreased, and moved into a new equation; English flashcards are shuffled and read (facial features); Build Lego bricks; play games; passing, etc.
According to the statistics of a third-party education information agency, the number of winners of the four major cups in 2016 accounted for 11.9% of the school, ranking 12th among the primary schools in the city. A total of 45% of the school's students have the opportunity to go directly to the junior high school, and its junior high school ranks in the top 10 in Shanghai, and the results of the high school entrance examination can rank in the top 3 in Yangpu over the years. The rest of the students who do not go directly to the school will choose to be admitted to Lansheng Fudan and Shangwai Secondary School.
English is a brand course of Shanghai and foreign languages. The school introduces original textbooks such as "Oxford English Time" and "Side By Side", combines students' real-life themes to carry out teaching, promotes students' English proficiency through reading original stories, and guides students to perceive foreign cultures. In addition, the original science textbook "Blue Planet" has been introduced, and a bilingual science curriculum has been implemented in different grades.
The school also takes into account the influence of the environment on students' learning of foreign languages, and creates a bilingual language environment from the layout, design and decoration of campus greenery, activity venues, accommodation areas, classrooms, offices, etc., so as to make the campus an "English village". In addition to classroom English, there are many extracurricular activities such as Biology Popular English, Advertising English, English Sketch Performance, English Music and Film Appreciation, etc., which also focus on English characteristics, and students are immersed in English all the time. Since 2010, the company has also offered courses in minor languages such as German and French, and has further deepened students' understanding of the cultures of various countries through frequent international exchanges.
The amount of homework in the first and second grades of bilingual students is not large, and students have more spare time; After the third grade, the amount of homework began to increase, and according to parents, children need about 2 hours a day to complete homework; In the fourth and fifth grades, because of the competition for direct admission places in schools, the amount of homework will become more and the exams will start to become more frequent.
The extracurricular activities of Shanghai and Foreign Language Bilingual are abundant, with four student wind bands of different echelons, and they have participated in national and citywide non-professional wind band competitions for many times. Its dance team, chorus team, folk band, etc., have also emerged in district and municipal competitions for many times, and have achieved the first place in the total score of district art. The student choir also went to the Sydney Opera House to participate in the Sydney International Music Festival and perform at the Vienna Musikverein. In addition, when students are in the fifth grade, the school also has a special course of 6 weeks of study tour to Australia.