In May 2016, at the invitation of Nanxiang Town Government, Shanghai Jiading Education Bureau and Shanghai Juneyao Group cooperated in running schools and introduced the high-quality education brand of "World Foreign Language School". Shanghai Jiading World Foreign Language School (referred to as JDWFLS) was then established.
JDWFLS is a nine-year privately-run school, located at No. 255 Huigui Road, Nanxiang Town, Jiading District, covering an area of 50 acres. The school has successively been awarded the honorary titles of Shanghai Standard School of Law-based School Management, Shanghai Green Campus, Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus, District Education Comprehensive Reform Innovation Award, District Advanced Education Unit, District Star Torch Endeavour Award, District Star Torch Professional Award and so on.
There is one administrative building, four teaching buildings, and one gym-canteen combined building in the school campus. There are more than 40 special classrooms in total, including the psychology classroom, the recording and broadcasting classroom, the drama classroom, the sinology classroom, the computer classroom, the innovation laboratories, etc. The three-floor school library also functions as a reading room. All those places are built to meet the demand of different kinds of curricula.
The school can hold 36 classes in total and 4 classes for each grade. The secondary school set up 2 classes, recruiting 70 students in total for the first year in September 2017. Currently, there are 36 classes and nearly 1100 students (from Grade 1 to Grade 5 in the primary school and from Grade 6 to Grade 9 in the secondary school) in all.
Adhering to the original intention of cultivating "modern Chinese people who are going to the world" and the core concept of "for the lifelong development of every child", JDWFLS focuses on showing the curriculum characteristics of "consolidating key competencies and highlighting comprehensive development" and enhancing students' ability to secure the future. The school aims to cultivate students with a temperament of "Being caring, elegant, graceful and confident" to get ready for ideal, capable and responsible socialist builders and successors with the "soul" of socialism, the "root" of the Chinese nation and "eye" of international perspective. They must be people with comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor.
In order to promote the diversified development of students, JDWFLS has customized a set of integrated bilingual courses based on the national curriculum for students. Small class teaching is adopted to reflect the modern quality, selectivity, practicality and academic nature of the courses. The curriculum of JDWFLS, as a nine-year consistent school, also focuses on the continuity of learning stages, the rationality of structure, the richness of content and the diversity of evaluation. Among them, the foreign language discipline fully embodies the integration and richness of the curriculum, adheres to applying what is learned, creates a characteristic teaching model of "activity-communication" as the core to cultivate students' good foreign language abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing and acting. While consolidating foundational courses, in conjunction with the traditional culture and humanistic heritage of Jiading and Nanxiang, JDWFLS strengthens the construction and guidance of comprehensive courses, social practice and career development so as to help students broaden their knowledge, stimulate their thirst for knowledge and cultivate their key competencies.
The school has also carried out extensive international and regional educational exchange activities. It has conducted mutual visits and exchanges between teachers and students with schools in multiple countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, Australia and Germany.
The school is student-oriented and pays attention to the comprehensive and individual development of every student. The teachers and students are confident to move towards creating a modern first-class school that leads Jiading, leads Shanghai, influences the country and even the world.