In January 2024, Shanghai Qingpu World Foreign Language High School (Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS)was officially announced as completed!
To atrract more high-quality talents for the integration of Yangtze River Delta and promote the devleopment of high-quality education resources in the Greater Hongqiao Area, with the strong support of relevent departments, and the eager expectations of students and parents, Shanghai WFL Education Group has once again reached a new milestone —— Shanghai Qingpu WFL High School, which will be ready for enrollment in September 2024, after 3 years of top-level layout, careful construction, and meticulous preparation, following the successful establishment of Shanghai Qingpu WFL Primary and Middle Schools in 2016.
Brief Introduction
Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS is affiliated with Shanghai WFL Education Group and is WFL Education's 12th Direct School. It represents important strategic meaning of being a flagship school of WFL Education.
Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS is a high-end international school created by Shanghai WFL Education Group, which fully draws on more than 20-year experience of its parent schools —— Shanghai WFLPS and Shanghai WFLA. It gathers core talents from IB curriculum start-up team of WFLA, applies more than 20 years of international curriculum practice experiences, and links with high-quality educational resources in domestic and abroad.
Introduction of WFL Education
The Shanghai World Foreign Language Education Group (WFL Education) was founded in 2017 and is a well-known brand of K-12 basic education fully invested in by the JuneYao Group. Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy (WFLA) and Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School (WFLPS) are the parent schools of this group, and JuneYao considers them to be unique sources of development, high-quality education and culture. These schools and the JuneYao group are committed to providing high-class educational services for the education of domestic primary and secondary school students.
WFL Education relies on its refined school management, rich curriculum resources, and high-quality teaching staff, is brave enough to innovate and break through. It has settled in Qingpu to explore the flagship school mode of WFL Education. In 2016, it founded Shanghai Qingpu WFL School (including primary school and junior high school). In 2017, it established Shanghai Qingpu WFL Kindergarten. Over the past 7 years of operation, it has been widely recognized by all sectors of society and has become a business card for high-quality basic education in Qingpu District. The establishment of Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS will be a key step in forming a closed-loop K-12 education system for WFL Education.
With the vision of building “Century-Honored Schools”, WFL Education aims to create a fundamental educational system with Chinese characteristics based on the Chinese national curriculum, and guided by the concept of integrating Chinese and western education. WFL is now a member school of Chong Wa International Baccalaureate Schools Association (CISA).
Curriculum System
Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS aims to cultivate students to be modern Chinese people going to the world, adheres to the school operating philosophy of WFL Education of Let the students embrace the world; let the world be the part of the school life, inherits the high-quality international curriculum from WFLPS and WFLA, deeply integrates the essence of Chinese and Western education, and takes China's national curriculum as the core to open IBDP and AP international courses to help students realizing their dreams of entering to a world famous school.
The school attaches great importance to the comprehensive cultivation of students' qualities, with the goal of developing diverse abilities for the future. It constructs a distinctive curriculum system for international education that is academic, contemporary, diverse, integrated, and practical, shaping the core competencies of modern Chinese students who are patriotic, dedicated, honest, friendly, and have an international perspective.
Faculty Team
The core management team and leading teachers of Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS have many years of working experiences at WFLPS and WFLA. Many core members of the leadership team are from the IB international curriculum start-up team of WFLA. This is a group of old WFLers with deep educational feelings and are full with educational experiences. In order to achieve the educational ideal of creating world-class and high-quality education for a century, they will gather together for another 20 years to create a new legend!
Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS has a group of dedicated and experienced teaching staff with strong teaching capabilities. All teachers employed at here have undergone comprehensive assessment and multi-party training by WFL Education, and have obtained training certificates issued by WFL Education's Teacher Training Department. They meet the high standard assessment requirements of WFL Education for the Gold Medal Teacher Team and possess comprehensive qualities and teaching abilities to provide high-quality teaching.
Leading Team
Xu, Jason Jian - President of Shanghai WFL Education Group Vice President of Juneyao Group; Mentor of the Ministry of Education Principal Training Program at Peking University Base; Former Principal of Shanghai WFLA, former Deputy Director of Xuhui District Education Bureau, Leading Talent in Qingpu DistrictCen, Clark Xiaohua - Head of Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS Head of WFL-SPS from China; One of the main founders of IBDP curriculum in WFLA; Former Vice-Principal of WFLA;Founding Principal of Hangzhou WFL SchoolChen, Hector Jiachun - Executive Vice-Principal of Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS One of the main founders of IBDP curriculum in WFLA; Formal Principal Assistant, Director of Curriculum Department, IBDP Coordinator of WFLA (2016-2023), IBDP Senior Examiner of Physics
Wu, Bing - Principal Assistant and Director of Curriculum Department of Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS
Leader of Teaching and Research Department in WFLA; Curriculum Leader and Consultant of Teaching and Research in Teacher Development Center of WFL Education; IBDP Senior Examiner of Mathematics
Foreign Resources
To meet the diverse international education needs of students and cultivate Chinese elite students to follow WFL Education's operating concept of Rooted in China, Eyes on the World, the school relies on the rich domestic and international educational resources of the WFL Education and introduces short-term overseas study programs.
By immersing students in authentic American style classrooms at WFL-SPS in the United States, we help them quickly adapt to prestigious schools in American and British teaching methods of strong interaction, emphasis on critical thinking, and high requirements. Students who successfully complete the course can obtain dual diplomas in both Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS and WFL-SPS, laying a solid academic foundation for future applications to overseas prestigious schools and building an advantage for students with diverse educational backgrounds.
School Environment
Shanghai Qingpu WFLHS is located in the core area of the New Hongqiao International Central Business District, which sholders national strategy. It has superior geographical location, not only close to the historical and scenic protection area of Panlong Ancient Town, but also just one step away from the China National Convention and Exhibition Center. With a combination of Chinese and Western styles and a coexistence of ancient and modern times, the school has significant advantages in terms of location.
The school is located in No.455 Panwen Road, facing Shanghai Qingpu WFL School across the road. It is another iconic school of WFL Education, driving the balanced development of basic education resources in Qingpu District and promoting the developmentof high-quality international education in the New Hongqiao Area.
The school is the first flagship campus built by WFL Education with heavy assests, it has self-owned land and independent campus, with a total construction area of nearly 60,000 square meters. The campus environment is beautiful, and the teaching facilities are advanced. With students as the center, the space design integrates the teaching concept of Technology Empowerment and Innovation Integration. It is a high-end international school with first-class software and hardware facilities.