Among the private primary schools in Pudong, in addition to Fushan Zhengda, Pinghe bilingual is also a good choice. Founded in 1996 and located at No. 261 Huangyang Road, its full name is Shanghai Pinghe Bilingual School, which shares a campus for primary school, junior high school and high school. The school covers an area of 24,770 square meters, with a construction area of 38,005 square meters, with a small theater, lecture halls, open library, indoor standard gymnastics room, indoor heated swimming pool, 250-meter plastic track and 38 piano rooms, with first-class facilities. By 2017, there were 55 full-time teachers in the Pinghe Bilingual Primary School, 53 of whom had a bachelor's degree or above, and 78% of them had intermediate and senior professional titles. However, the mobility of teachers who are peaceful and bilingual is relatively high, which is a concern for many parents.
The school recruits first-choice students from all over the city, and the acceptance rates from 2015 to 2017 are 9%, 9% and 13% respectively. According to the collation of a third-party educational information agency, in the interview, Pinghe Bilingual must test puzzles and matchstick movement every year in mathematics, addition and subtraction are not often tested, and they are biased towards spatial imagination questions; English is mainly in three forms: sentence reading, near antonyms, and daily questions and answers. The compulsory Chinese test is to look at pictures and speak, and the daily questions and answers and retelling what the teacher has said are also occasionally tested; In terms of body movements, there are various forms of inspection, such as kicking shuttlecocks, slapping balls, and playing games. In addition, some parents said that Pinghe Bilingual is more inclined to admit children from private bilingual kindergartens and public demonstration kindergartens, and more children have been admitted to Victoria Kindergarten and Orchid Harbour Kindergarten.
After graduating from primary school, 40% of the students are admitted to the junior high school, and 70% of the students are admitted to the key middle school in Shanghai. After graduating from junior high school, not many students enter the Pinghe bilingual high school, and the high school has high requirements for grades, and 100% of the students are admitted to foreign universities.
As a bilingual school, its specialty curriculum is naturally English. Based on the Shanghai edition of Oxford English as the main textbook, Pinghe Bilingual integrates graded reading materials such as Longman WTE and Oxford Tree to provide all-round teaching of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing. The English classroom does not focus on memorizing words and learning grammar, but adopts an English teaching method that focuses on listening and speaking, supplemented by reading and writing, and sets different English listening and speaking goals for different grades. The bilingual English class also implements hierarchical teaching, which is divided into two small classes, A and B, with the same teaching materials for the two classes, but the teaching progress is fast and slow.
In the two subjects of Chinese and mathematics, Pinghe bilingualism is not as vigorous as ordinary primary schools in China, because many of its students aim to go abroad or go directly to junior high school, and the competitive pressure is naturally less, and the Olympiad competition tutorial class will not appear here. However, in order to conform to the current trend, it still offers extended courses such as "Mathematical Brainstorming" and "Mathematical Thinking Training". There is not much homework in Pinghe Bilingual, and most of what students need to do is review and preview.
In terms of extracurricular activities, the peaceful and comprehensive moral education curriculum runs through the daily life of students, such as the "Mathematics Experience Activity" in the first grade, the "Joining Ceremony" and "Life Experience of the Armed Police Force" in the second grade, and the "10th birthday" in the third grade. In addition, the school also offers dozens of elective courses such as swimming, football, basketball, pottery, small press club, English textbook drama, Shanghai dialect, etc.; With the help of social resources such as the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, District Children's Palace, and Tennis Club, we have cooperated in opening a number of high-level interest courses such as piano, chorus, dance, tennis, and chess.
For students who are further away from home, accommodation is provided in a peaceful and bilingual manner. The school has 12 people in a dormitory with 6 bunk beds, and the dormitory is equipped with air conditioning, a common toilet, a bathroom with hot water, and a toilet. For day students, it also has a number of school bus routes to pick up and drop off.
