Minhang's high-quality private primary schools, in addition to the popular Qiwai and Xiehe bilingual, there is also a rising star Fudan Vanke. It is a descendant school of Fudan High School, which was jointly founded by Vanke and Fudan High School in 1996. The primary and junior high schools of the school share a campus, located in the Vanke City Garden, covering an area of about 22,000 square meters, with a green area of about 38%, with laboratory buildings, science and technology activity centers, various special classrooms, primary and secondary school libraries, basketball and volleyball courts, multi-functional tennis courts, plastic track and field stadiums and indoor gymnasiums, all classrooms are equipped with multimedia teaching equipment and air conditioning.
As of 2017, Fudan Vanke had more than 180 full-time teachers. Among them, there are more than 80 full-time teachers in the primary school, 3 foreign teachers, about 49% of teachers with intermediate and senior professional titles, and nearly 100% of teachers with bachelor's degree or above.
Both the first and second preferences are within the scope of Fudan Vanke's interviews, but in recent years, many parents have reported that the second choice is relatively easy to be brushed off. In addition, if the interview results are the same, Fudan Vanke is more inclined to admit Vanke owners. The main contents of the interview are: a simple conversation with a foreign teacher, examining words such as sports, colors, and animals; Sort the images and tell a story based on the content of the images; Watch videos to learn origami; Select the corresponding number according to the given figure, such as 3 for triangles, etc.; Mathematics problems within 20; Listen to stories and answer questions.
The majority of Fudan Vanke's students are admitted to its junior high school, and almost all of its students have direct admission places. According to the results of previous years, about 50% of the school's junior high school graduates can be admitted to Fudan High School, No. 2 High School Affiliated to Normal University, Shanghai High School, Weiyu, Xiehe, Shangde and other well-known international high schools. In addition, the school also holds some recommended places in Fudan High School. The student's path to higher education is clearer.
The school's teaching methods are distinctive, offering three types of courses: A, B and C, among which Class A courses (Class A) are intensive Chinese courses for overseas students, Class B courses (Class B) are exquisite and characteristic courses for domestic students, and Class C courses (Class C) are bilingual courses in Chinese and English for domestic and foreign students. All classes have about 25 students, and adopt a small-class teaching and management model.
Class B is a class dominated by domestic students, and the characteristics of bilingual teaching are obvious. There are 7 English classes a week, 2 of which are taught by foreign teachers. In addition to Oxford English, there are also experience English, Cambridge English and school-based English textbooks. At the same time, physical education, music, handicraft and other courses are also bilingual teaching, such as physical education teachers will intersperse various English words and play English games during class; The music teacher will teach some English songs; The manual teacher is also an English teacher, who teaches half Chinese and half English, and teaches in English after the third grade. Students' assignments take about 2 to 3 hours a day to complete.
Fudan Vanke's curriculum system is summarized as the "VIP curriculum system". V courses include extended and inquiry-based courses, various interest groups and student clubs, three sessions a week, including Go, painting and violin courses; The I course focuses on training excellence and making up for differences, and is aimed at students with different levels of academic performance, starting various tutorial classes and interest classes; The P curriculum is the national curriculum.
The school adopts a day school system, with a break at noon, and lunch in the canteen is 15 yuan. It has 9 different lines of school buses, which can reach Gubei, Xujing, Jiuting, Xinzhuang and other places, and is responsible for pick-up and management by a special person, 900 yuan per semester.
