Shanghai Wenlai Middle School is a private middle school founded in 1994 by Qibao Middle School, a key high school in Shanghai, and is affiliated to Qibao Middle School Education Group. Its high school is one of the first experimental demonstration high schools in Minhang District, and it is also one of the few key private high schools in Shanghai. In recent years, Qibao Middle School's admission data has been strong, biting into Shanghai's "Big Four" top high schools, and with its special relationship with sister schools, Wenlai Middle School has also absorbed the high-quality resources of Qibao School, which is also regarded by many students and parents as a key factor in choosing the school.
In the past two years, Wenlai Middle School has scored about 560 points in the high school entrance examination in Minhang District, which is above the middle level in the district, and has obvious advantages over private high schools inside and outside the district. In previous years, the first rate of the college entrance examination remained above 35%, and the undergraduate rate remained at about 93%; In the fall of 2018, the comprehensive evaluation rate of the college entrance examination was 41.3%, and 3 people were admitted to the comprehensive evaluation; The undergraduate rate was 98.8%, and all of them reached the line except for only two candidates in the arts and sports category. Compared with Minhang District, Wenlai High School has good competitiveness, and its admission situation is even better than that of some key high schools in the city with average school quality.
The junior high school of Wenlai Middle School is the most important source of students for the mid-year recruitment of Qibao Middle School, and the two schools live next to each other, and their status is self-evident. The relationship between Qibao Middle School and Wenlai High School is not as close as that of Wenlai Junior High School, but Qibao has also sent some high-quality educational resources to Wenlai, and among these advantageous resources, the most tempting is to borrow the preferential channel of Qibao. The annual enrollment volume of Wenlai High School in China is about 150 students, and new students with admission scores within 30 grades can obtain the qualification to borrow Qibao Middle School, and those with excellent academic performance in each semester will also get the opportunity to borrow. There is no borrowing fee for Wenlai to borrow Qibao, but you need to pay two tuition fees for both schools at the same time. In addition, the candidates of Wenlai Middle School also have corresponding discounts, under the premise of good grades and no pre-admission school, they can sign an internal agreement with Qibao to give up zero choice, and the parallel one and two preferences are left to Qibao Middle School and Wenlai High School respectively, if the candidate is admitted to Wenlai High School, they will also be allowed to borrow Qibao Middle School.
In terms of teaching support, Wenlai High School has also benefited. As one of the core schools of Qibao Group, Wenlai High School's teacher level is in principle benchmarked with Qibao Middle School, but the mobility is relatively high, and the members are both promoted from junior high school, self-employed by the school, and seconded from Qibao Middle School, and the actual senior teachers account for about 49% at this stage; About 50% of the teachers, including foreign teachers in the International Department, have a master's degree or above; Among them, the size of the young teaching team is not small, accounting for about 25% of the total. In view of the weak link of young teachers' lack of experience, the group has formed a number of sets of teaching mechanisms to strengthen it, such as the famous teachers of No. 7 Middle School to teach the backbone teachers of the school, and the "master-apprentice pairing" of new and old teachers in the school, etc., so as to effectively realize the internal growth of teachers. In addition, Wenlai High School is a member school of the Qibao Middle School High School Education Consortium, and has achieved integration with Qibao Middle School in some teaching resources, involving teaching seminars, specific implementation of school-based curriculum, and proposition training and other teaching management levels.
Borrowing Qibao is the best destination for Wenlai students, but for students with less qualifications, it is not easy to obtain the qualification to borrow Qibao. In addition to the general college entrance examination, Wenlai High School has also opened up a second way out for such students, that is, to give students good support in the art and sports examinations. In fact, Wenlai High School's independent operation began around 2004, when Wenlai moved out of Qibao's headquarters and tried to replicate a new key middle school at the behest of the Minhang District Education Bureau. However, this attempt was not successful, forcing Wenlai High School to change its thinking, and in the following years, it focused on "multi-channel success", and rolled out a lot of practice under this concept. This change in the school's orientation quickly put the school back on track, and it is at this stage that the rebound in school performance begins to appear.
The Diversity Program is structured primarily through the curriculum. In addition to the basic courses of the Education Commission, the school has set up a large number of special courses, such as art, photography, choreography, dance, etc., and more or less graduates enter colleges and universities through these paths every year. The school has been rated as a variety of characteristic schools, such as Shanghai Photography Characteristic School, Shanghai Film and Television Choreography and Directing Characteristic School, etc., and is a member of the Music Cooperation Alliance of Shanghai Normal University; In the two projects of photography and directing, Wenlai High School has achieved fruitful results, and the first place in the art directing major of the Shanghai college entrance examination in 2017 came from Wenlai High School. In addition, in 2016, Wenlai High School also signed a cooperation agreement with China Eastern Airlines to open a flight test class, continuing to expand its territory on the road of diversified education.
Wenlai High School has a visual literacy innovation and training center, including an art teaching room, a photography studio, a film and television directing room, a machine vision laboratory, a drama theater, a calligraphy and painting experience hall, a handicraft experience room and other characteristic platforms, corresponding to a number of school-based courses and student clubs, this series of "visual literacy" projects is also the focus of Wenlai High School in the near future. It is worth mentioning that due to the radiation of the school's teaching philosophy, the literary and art clubs of Wenlai High School are more active and have a strong official color.
In terms of general high school curriculum, the school divides it into three major sections, namely basic courses, extended courses and research-based courses. In recent years, the basic curriculum has been tried to teach in layers and case studies in the first and second years of senior high school, and the results have been steady. The enrichment curriculum is a continuation of the school's diversified talent program in the general high school curriculum, these school-based courses are implemented by the student rotation system, a total of four categories of more than 70 courses to choose from, each student in the school in the first and second semesters of senior high school must take one in each of the four subjects, the purpose is to help students understand themselves, find their own expertise and development direction. Because the school emphasizes diversified education and teaching students according to their aptitude, the importance of career planning is more prominent, so the school has specially set up life navigation courses, implemented a full tutor system, and guided students to learn to choose. It is worth noting that the transition of backward students to the art college entrance examination is a common means for private schools to increase the number of admission rates, but Wenlai High School is more mature and reliable in the cultivation of characteristic subjects, and the art and sports college entrance examination has become a possible upward channel, rather than a guaranteed way out.
The International Division (abbreviated as SWIS) is also one of the key projects of Wenlai High School, and the school has American curriculum classes and Japanese curriculum classes, and implements small class teaching. The Japanese curriculum class takes two years of Japanese high school courses at the Wenlai International Division, and then goes to a sister school in Japan to complete the remaining 1.5 years of high school, and directly takes the exam in Japan to apply for university. Students in the U.S. curriculum take U.S. high school courses and AP courses, and can choose to enter a sister high school in the U.S. to continue their twelfth grade (equivalent to the third year of high school) after completing two years of study in Wenlai International Division, and apply directly to universities in the United States. You can also choose a three-year program in China and apply for a university in school. In recent years, students in the Sino-American class have basically been able to enter the world's top 90 universities every year, and about 40% of the students admitted to the Sino-Japanese class in 2018 can enter high-quality universities above C level in Japan.
In terms of hardware, the campus is small in size, but it is exquisitely furnished, with basketball courts, sports halls, dance rooms, music rooms, laboratories and other cultural and sports venues, and no football fields. The accommodation environment in Wenlai High China is relatively general, and the conditions of the men's dormitory are particularly poor, with a six-person room, no independent desk, no independent bathroom, and it is not recommended to live on campus unless there are special circumstances. The International Department sleeps in Wenlai Junior High School of Qibao Middle School, and there are two or four rooms, and the conditions are relatively good. Lunch is served in the school cafeteria, and the quality of the meals is average. For Wenlai students who choose the traditional college entrance examination path, the schoolwork pressure is not great, and the improvement of academic performance needs to rely more on self-management. If you are interested in a famous university in China, you need to maintain a high level of competitiveness in your grade, and when the grades meet the standards and the financial conditions allow, borrowing Qibao Middle School will still be the most ideal study plan.
