A Brief Introduction to Shanghai Pinghe Bilingual School
Shanghai
Pinghe Bilingual School is a boarding school established in
September 1996 with full operational and financial
independence authorized by its board of directors, Shanghai
Jinqiao Group. It was authorized to take overseas students
in 2001.
In September 2002, the school launched the International
Baccalaureate Diploma Program in the high school section.
The application of this program passed the examination of
the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) in May
2003, and the school has been a member school of the IBO
since then.
Pinghe School
with its campus designed by a renowned Canadian architect is
located in Jin Qiao Green International Community in Pudong,
Shanghai. The beautiful campus with its unique and
human-oriented design offers a warm and cozy atmosphere and
fosters the school culture which is known as Modest but not
Mediocre, Harmonious but not Homogenous, which enables
students to spend each and every one of their school days
happily.
All subjects
except Chinese literature are taught by both foreign and
Chinese teachers as required. In August 2004, we set up the
International Program Department
for the international students. In October 2005, the school underwent the
scrutiny of CITA, which is an international and
cross-regional accreditation organization, and was granted
as a member school for CITA China Model School
accreditation. In December 2004, the school was recognized
as one of the first bilingual schools in Shanghai.
The school sticks
to human-centered education and holds the educational
philosophy of “Elite, High Caliber and World Citizen”. With
the unanimous effort made by the staff, all grades in the
primary and middle schools have ranked at the top in Pudong
district examinations soon after the school was founded.
The 4 batches of high school graduates with their
outstanding academic performance and high entrance rate into
the world’s top 100 colleges and universities have aroused
intensive attention and wide appreciation of such
universities as Stanford, Cornel, UC Berkley,
Imperial College of Science and
Technology, UBC, University of Toronto, etc.
Students winning
scholarships take up over 40 per cent of the overall high
school graduates.
The school
observes the laws of education, based on students’ healthy
growth and well-rounded development, carries out quality
education, during which we focus on students’ practice and
experience in the process. We encourage creative mindsets
and abilities while sticking to the combination of Chinese
and western education, Chinese and western cultures as well
as science and humanity.
We aim to pursue
high quality teaching in its core subjects and enable
students to achieve high scores and abilities. The school is
trying to make its management in teaching as effective as
possible, strengthen its quality mechanism, attach great
importance to the fundamentals in the teaching process, make
sure students acquire basic concepts of learning and improve
teachers’ classroom teaching efficiency. The graduation rate
of our grade 5 and grade 9 students has been 100% ever since
we started and the excellence rate in Chinse, Math and
English has been Grade A. Since 2002, the middle school
section has been in the lead in Pudong regarding the
examination marks of all subjects and all grade levles.
Moreover, the middle school graduation rate has been 100%
with the high school entrance rate remaining at the top of
the Pudong New District.
Pinghe consists
of an elementary school section(G1 - 5), a middle school
section(G6 - 9), a high school IB program (G10 - 12) and the
international curriculum department (G1-9) with a total
student number of 1550 coming from all across the globe,
studying in regular and international programs and carrying
out Chinese and western cultural exchanges under the same
roof. The management system featuring low center of
gravity caters to the need of Chinese and western education
and allows diversified schooling features.
Curriculum and Features
The curriculum is Pinghe’s blueprint of education for future
talents, a fundamental means to realize its educational
goals, a platform for students to grow on. Its guiding
philosophy is: to allow students to grow through thinking,
applying and creating. So, with an eye on the students’
development, Pinghe constructed curricula to be open,
dynamic and generating systems, emphasizing on diversity,
options and balance, focusing on students’ experience,
sensitivity and application.
Pinghe’s
Standards on Quality Education
1.
actual class-teaching hours for students
2.
students’ learning progress and grades
3.
the next-level schools of various types that students
could get in after graduation
4.
advanced credits that students could earn during
Pinghe preparatory program
5.
student’s emotional and physical conditions and
physical skills
6.
art appreciation and art education that students
could learn.
7.
essential ethics and priority value judgment of the
students
8.
evaluation on assessable effort and skills.
9.
hours and applying ability of students during the
internship
10.
research skills and performance of students’ during
topic study or research-oriented learning
These 10 standards are established based on the government’s
request for quality education, as well as Pinghe’s existing
situation. They are promises Pinghe makes to the public,
who in turn could assess the school with these standards.
1.
Bilingual teaching
As a model school
of bilingual teaching and education in Shanghai, Pinghe has
an outstanding team of nearly 40 bilingual teachers taking
up almost 40% of the total teaching staff number. Both
Chinese and English are used in teaching a total of 11
subjects from math to integrated science to certain extents
in different grades.
2.
Chinese teaching
To improve
Chinese language teaching, we use a software-aided program
to help our grade 1 students learn and understand
approximately 600 to 1,000 Chinese characters in the first 2
months. The students will also learn how to input these
characters into the computer by using Pinyin, which will lay
a sound foundation for their future reading skills.
3.
English teaching
Primary School:
New Integrated
Primary English published by Longman and Oxford English
Story Readers from Oxford Publishing House are adopted for
the primary English curriculum in the regular program in a
bid to strengthen students’ listening and speaking skills.
In the meantime, the upper graders of primary school adopt
smaller class sizes of up to 20 students while having
English class.
Middle School:
From Grade 6 to
Grade 8, students take their English lessons in smaller
class sizes (16-18 students each class) according to their
English level, using a combined English program of Longman
Elect and Oxford English. Speaking and listening are taught
by native English-speaking teachers. What’s more, teachers
also use 21st Century as an effective
supplementary teaching material.
4.
High School
IBDP
International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program is a
preparatory program for universities; it satisfies the
16-to-19-year-old high school students who have strong
academic
motivation and self-awareness to learn. The program selects
the merits from different educational systems around the
world.
Its Diploma Program is made up of 6 academic courses and 3
core courses. The 6 academic courses are 1st
language, 2nd language, Experimental Sciences
(physics or chemistry), mathematics, Individuals and
Societies (students get to choose one course among
economics, computer science and information technology), and
art (or choose an elective course).
The 3 core courses are Extended Essay, Theory of Knowledge
and CAS (Creativity, Actions, and Services). Students at
Pinghe High School for the 1st year, belong to
the Pre-IB program, and then formally start studying the
2-year IB program should they pass the registration
process. After two years in the program, students will take
IB assessment examinations; upon passing the minimum,
students will be awarded IB diplomas, with which they could
directly apply for overseas universities.
5.
International Program:
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Key features of the Program:
1) Practical: Education is a process of human’s penetration
into the world, therefore, the curriculum needs to provide
such situations for students’ experience and creativity.
2)Diversified: The interactive process, means and
perspective of human and nature is known as diversified and
complex, which determines the diversification of our
curriculum.
3) Developmental: The society keeps moving forward, which is
a continuously innovative process. As educators, we should
and must focus on fostering students’ innovation mindset and
ability.
The curriculum adopted in the International Program features
enabling students to use both Chinese and English, enabling
the understanding of the cultures, getting students to grow
in moral judgment, team study, art appreciation and athletic
skills while strengthening math and science in the
background of Chinese fundamental education.
Core courses: Chinese, English, math, integrated science and
social studies; art, physical education, skills and others
make elective courses for students with various needs. The
program has grades 1 to 9, with consistent curriculum and
assessment system, providing top-quality education of
Chinese and Western styles for students coming from all over
the world.
6.
Feature courses
Life Learning Class for students in primary school and
junior high school aims:
to teach students about behavior codes for civilized
citizens;
to cultivate their caring for life, to offer psychology
counseling;
to help students with heterosexual relationships;
to cultivate good behaviors, and right attitudes toward life
and learning;
to help in every way for students to grow up right.
The idea is for students to learn to respect, forgive, be
responsible and grow into elite world citizens.
IT is taught in
both primary and middle schools. In middle school, students
are encouraged to choose their own topics, search for
information on the Internet, analyze the information, and
make their own websites so as to develop their creativity.
Communications, economics and debate are also a part of the
curriculum with middle school students.
Lego is carried
out with imported teaching aids from Germany and Denmark to
develop the students' imagination and train the motor skills
of primary school students.
Swimming is a
part of the school's PE program. 1-2 swimming classes per
week are scheduled for the primary school students. Middle
school students have elective courses every Tuesday and
Thursday while primary school students have them every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Economics for Children: for the 4th graders, to
help students’ to learn about social economical phenomenon,
the right attitude toward money, to understand personal
finance and methods.
7.
Elective courses
There are more
than 60 after-school workshops and activities for students
to choose from. They are piano, football, violin, saxophone,
guitar, flute, Chinese handwriting, Chinese painting, Lego,
English, math, physics, English drama, Discovery, knitting,
pottery, arts and crafts, embroidery, table tennis,
badminton, etc. The Pinghe Art Center, jointly founded by
the school and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, has a
wide selection of various tutorial workshops on musical
instruments.
8.
Various activities
Pinghe children
enjoy every school day with lots of fun activities all
throughout the year. There are Mini Global Village, Charity
Auction, text-based English role plays, Simulated United
Nations, lectures or interviews given by or done with top
students, concerts, visits to the Fortune 500 enterprises,
exchange programs with other schools, studying tours abroad
during the winter and summer vacation, Hope Project Primary
School in Western China, Collective 10th Birthday
Celebration at school, English and Art Festival, School
International Food Festival, etc.
School Facilities
Pinghe School is
located in Jin Qiao Green City International Community in
Pudong, Shanghai, covering an area of 24,770 square meters
with a total floor space of 38,005 square meters and a green
area taking up 33% of the total area.
The school has 3
computer laboratories equipped with 120 computers, 4 library
reading rooms, 1 lecture hall with 150 seats, 38 piano
practice rooms, a gymnasium (650 square meters), an indoor
heated swimming pool (25*12.5 square meters), a theatre with
150 seats and an oval rubber track of 250 meters. The
dinning hall can seat more than 800 students. In August
2001, the school set up its campus intranet. In October
2002, the school installed the high speed cable network to
facilitate the students’ on-line learning. In February 2004,
the school's network was connected to the Information Center
of Pudong. In September 2004, our new teaching building,
which has a total floor space of 3851 square meters for the
high school, was completed and put into operation.
Life management
Six things
students learn:
1.
To
be a nice global citizen: Learn to be a qualified world
citizen of the 21st century
2.
To
study: be hardworking, self-motivated and research-involved
3.
To
live healthily: self-management, good living habits and fine
taste of life
4.
To
keep fit: proper amount of exercise and sports,
self-adjustment, psychological and physical health
5.
To
do cleaning and tidying: be able to clean and tidy things up
by oneself
6.
To
be creative: a thinker, questioner and practicer
Primary school
dormitories are connected to the main classroom building
with 5 floors of 18 rooms in all. For Grade 1, 8 students
share each room and for other grades, 12 share each room
with bunk-beds. There are two washrooms and two shower rooms
on each floor with hot water available 24/7. The new
dormitories for high school and middle school students were
completed in September 2005. 4 middle school students share
a room while three high school students share one.
A special study
room is open for the 9th graders in the dorm building. Each
class has a dorm teacher who takes care of the students'
daily lives. As well, there are dorm teachers on duty every
night.
Apart from 3
meals a day, the students get a snack or some milk once in
the morning and once in the afternoon. After the evening
class, they get another snack or some fruit. Our school
dietician writes a weekly menu in accordance with the
nutritional needs of the students. The menu is posted in the
dinning hall every Monday. ects.
The dorm teachers
and inspectors are responsible for the daily lives of the
students. They also give guidance to the students on manners
and behaviors and encourage them to be independent. It is
important that our students grow up healthy and learn how to
manage their lives and studies.
Even since the
school was founded, Pinghe sticks to the philosophy of. We
have achieved continuous development in the process of
private education exploration, possessing multiple features
of the incorporation of Western and Eastern education,
bilingual education and smaller English class size. Under
the leadership of Jinqiao Group, sticking to innovative
education, we grow and develop. The future is filled with
opportunities as well as challenges. More confidently, we
will strive our way to realize the goal of fostering“Elite,
High Caliber and World Citizen” and more competent talents
with broader horizons and cutting edges.
For more
information, please contact Ms Zhang or Ms Chen for Chinese
service at:
Tel: 58541617
50310417 58998221 ext 126 50319392 ext
126
Fax: 58541617
E-mail:
zhaosheng@shphschool.com
Website:
www.shphschool.com
For English
service:
Tel: 50311866
Ms Sue Su
Fax: 50311866
E-mail:
benbentu91827@126.com
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