Shanghai Private Yugang Pao Experimental School is a pioneering Chinese school with an international perspective.
The school was founded in 2007 as a non-profit bilingual school. It was founded by the Bao family in memory of the patriotic entrepreneur, politician, philanthropist and shipping king Sir Yukong Pao. Ranked first in the "2020 Hurun 100 Top 100 International Schools in China". There are currently more than 1,000 Chinese and foreign students. The school provides twelve-year academic education from primary school to high school, integrating advanced Chinese and international curriculum and educational concepts.
Pao School provides innovative two-way immersion bilingual education and advocates whole-person education - committed to the all-round development of students in all aspects such as intelligence, emotion, body and society, and cultivating students to become enthusiastic and responsible people in the world. citizen. Pao School is divided into primary school, junior high school and senior high school.
The primary school (grades 1-5) is located in Changning District in the center of Shanghai and operates as a day school. The junior high school (grades 6-7) and high school (grades 9-12) are located in Songjiang District, Shanghai, and adopt the traditional British and American boarding school model (day school is also optional). The school offers IGCSE courses and is currently an IB school.
Establishment background
1. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and the 90th birthday of the world's shipping king Sir Patrick Pao, who is patriotic and loves Hong Kong.
2. Establish a world-class school where Chinese students can be connected to world-class boarding schools without going abroad. While learning the essence of Chinese and Western educational concepts, they will always have a Chinese cultural environment.
3. Provide Chinese language and traditional Chinese culture education for young international students who are children of foreign families and realize their desire to “study in China”.
Basic information about Pao School?
School nature: Private school international curriculum class
Creation time: 2007
Curriculum system: IGCSE&IBDP
IGCSE international bilingual course (Part of Cambridge Global Testing), students are free to choose courses, but they need to ensure that humanities, mathematics, art, and science are all taken into consideration. Students in grades 11/12 receive the IB International Bilingual Course and will receive a bilingual diploma issued by the IB official organization upon graduation.
Based on the Shanghai curriculum standards, supplemented by Western elements, and bilingual in Chinese and English, the Shanghai+ concept includes Chinese, mathematics, and social sciences as core courses, a "synthesis" of expanded courses and research courses. Cultivate students' judgment, innovation, curiosity, investment, profound knowledge, self-confidence, communication, cooperation and other spirits.
Student size: 210
Teacher-student ratio: 1:5
Chinese and foreign teacher ratio: 1:1
Tuition fee: 21 0,000/school year (parents need to prepare certain fund expenditures.)
What are the advantages of Yugang Bao’s software?
School Education Philosophy
Students will master cross-cultural knowledge and skills, focus on the world, and achieve success in life.
Developing holistic education Our students can comprehensively develop their intelligence, improve their social and emotional management abilities, and build a resilient character and positive attitude through a variety of learning activities.
Vision
Our students can understand and appreciate the essence of Chinese culture, and have a general knowledge of Chinese literature, history, philosophy and art.
To create a world-class institution for tomorrow’s China and to cultivate future talents with excellent academic performance, correct values ??and excellent character. Mission: Pao School helps Chinese and foreign students achieve brilliant lives.
Expand international horizons
Create a world-class institution for tomorrow’s China and cultivate future talents with excellent academic performance, correct values ??and excellent character. Mission: Pao School helps Chinese and foreign students achieve brilliant lives.
Developing a holistic education allows our students to comprehensively develop their intelligence, improve their social and emotional management abilities, and build a resilient character and positive attitude through a variety of learning activities.
Inheriting Chinese culture
Our students can understand and comprehend the essence of Chinese culture, and have a general knowledge of Chinese literature, history, philosophy and art.
Expand international horizons
Our students will master cross-cultural knowledge and skills, focus on the world, and achieve success in life.
Values: benevolence, righteousness, equality
Principal profile: Principal Wu Zijian, 40 years of education experience, special principal. Director of the Shanghai Nine-Year Education Professional Management Committee and vice president of the Shanghai Private Primary and Secondary Schools Association. Former principal of Shanghai Jianqing Experimental School, he has been the principal of Shanghai Private Bao Yugang Experimental School since 2010.
Has theoretical and practical experience in kindergarten, primary school, and middle school education, and has been engaged in the practice and research of educational internationalization and bilingual teaching since the 1990s. He has edited and published books such as "Happy Experience", "Research on the Nine-Year Consistent Quality Education Model", "Research on the Cultivation of Students' Creativity", "Inquiry Learning and Teacher Behavior Improvement", etc. Published the monograph "Where is Education".
Student activity clubs: Model United Nations, history club, debate club, choir, symphony orchestra, jazz band, science club, sports leadership, etc.
What are the characteristics of Pao School?
Curriculum Practice
1. Chinese Culture Week. During the 10-day event, a series of teaching activities are carried out around the cultural themes of each grade level, and students are invited to present at the end. learned.
2. Primary school Chinese course teaching, combined with students’ language development needs and interests, designs a set of reading courses to guide the completion of intensive reading of a book, appreciation from the theme, creative background, etc., so as to learn how to Read a book independently.
3. English learning provides an immersive language environment for students to learn English, strives to improve the connection between various disciplines, conduct graded reading, and achieve the comprehensive development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
4. Mathematics pays more attention to the cultivation of application ability, and combines teaching with life practice.
5. Interdisciplinary (including IBDP courses) learning of geography (Shanghai curriculum). The learning of geographical concepts, principles and laws is often closely related to natural subjects and humanities.
Learning Hardware Information
Library: Pao Huang Xiuying Memorial Library
Laboratory: Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Integrated Science Laboratory
< p>Sports facilities: indoor gymnasium, swimming pool and outdoor sports groundCanteen: Chartwells provides catering services
Dorm: 2-3 rooms
Medical care: infirmary
Other facilities: IB Center, Auditorium, Black Box Theater, Oxygen Pavilion
What is YK Pao’s enrollment plan?
Number of students: 100 students
Test content: English written test, principal interview, mathematics
TOEFL scores are required, and students are required to have good English proficiency. High schools require a TOEFL score of 80.
What are the admission requirements?
Grades 1-5
Do not accept any form of transfer application from grade 5 students
Do not accept grade skipping or repeat students
Shanghai household registration is required Students and one parent holding a valid Shanghai residence permit, or non-Mainland Chinese students who meet the requirements of the Education Bureau
Grade 6-9
Students with Shanghai household registration and one parent holding a Shanghai residence permit are required Students with valid Shanghai residence permit, or non-Mainland Chinese students who meet the requirements of the Education Bureau
Grade 10-12
Students with Shanghai household registration, students with non-Shanghai household registration, or foreign children
Only accepting applications from the first semester of Grade 10 and the first semester of Grade 11
What are the characteristics of Pao School?
1. Bilingual teaching
2. Diversified environment
3. Unique integrated courses
4. Tutor system: Well-known Chinese and foreign experts form a team of consultants and mentors.
5. Holistic education: All students are required to participate in various sports and extracurricular activities, art, music and student societies.
6. First-class academic level, ready for further study in university.
7. Guidance by professional dormitory teachers is helpful for moral education and all-round development.
8. Excellent teachers, 50% of international classrooms and 50% of Chinese teachers have received solid professional training and have rich teaching experience.
Where is the address of Pao School?
Primary school campus: No. 20, Lane 1251, Wuding West Road, Changning District, Wuding Campus
Junior high school campus: Hongqiao Campus, No. 2206, Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai
High school Campus: Songjiang Campus, No. 1800, Lane 900, Sanxin North Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai (located in Thames Town, British Style District, Songjiang District, with a full-size swimming pool, indoor and outdoor sports venues, library, multimedia classroom, restaurant, black box theater, Shakespeare Modern and first-class facilities such as an amphitheater, dormitories, and day student centers)
What is the situation of Pao School graduates?
The first 49 high school graduates were admitted to first-class colleges and universities, including Columbia, Brown University, Dartmouth College, etc.
The total number of graduates this year has reached a new high, but the number of students with scores below 30 has decreased by 60% compared with last year. The average IB score has reached 36 points, which has been greatly improved from last year's score of over 35 points. At the same time, all graduates have obtained IB diploma certificates, and 100% are bilingual diploma certificates, which is much higher than the approximately 25% bilingual diploma certificates in the world. Proportion.
In addition, the proportion of scores above 40 is increasing year by year - 14% and 23% in 2018 and 2019 respectively, and this year this proportion reached 26%. At the same time, more than 50% of students achieved scores of 37 points and above, a 10% increase from last year.
What is the student situation of Pao School?
The students in Pao Yugang’s junior high school are all excellent, and they originally went directly to the United States to attend high school. Later, Bao Yugang began to spend a lot of money and focused on the source of high school students. Since junior high schools and high schools were unable to go out due to the epidemic, Pao Yugang could be directly admitted. Many of Pao Yugang's high school students graduated from Shanghai Nord Anglia Bilingual School. According to the rules of the world, the big fish eats the small fish, and the small fish eats the shrimp.
Yugang Pao’s students’ families are relatively wealthy. Like foreign institutions, donors will be given certain admission quotas. If the school wants to build a football field, it will solicit donations from parents.
In contrast, parents are also happy to donate 1.8 million yuan.