Directly under the leadership and management of Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai Foreign Language Primary School is a featured primary school of high teaching quality and good social reputation.
The school has won a lot of honorary titles, including Excellent Private Run Middle and Primary School of the Country, Exemplary School in Feature Construction, Exemplary School of Excellent Teaching Quality, Exemplary School of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Top 10 Exemplary School of Chinese Teaching, Director Unit of Foreign Language School Research Council, Civilized Unit of Shanghai, Exemplary School of Standard Behavior, the first batch of Bi-lingual Pilot School in Shanghai, Exemplary School with Science and Technology Education as the Feature, Red Flag Team of the Young Pionneer in Shanghai, Unit with Garden Like Environment, Safe and Civilized School in Shanghai, and so on.
The school has strong teaching staff in which 85% are young and middle aged teachers. Nearly half of the 77 young teachers have won the first or second prize of teaching competitions of the district, municipality, or the whole nation. The teaching and research groups of our school in such subjects as English, Bi-lingual teaching, Chinese, Maths, PE, and Music were all appraised as excellent teaching and research groups of Hongkou District. At present, 3 teachers of our school has been chosen as candidates for the municipal level famous teacher training project, 3 teacher has been included in the list of Top 10 Young Teachers (including nomination), and 8 teachers has been awarded as the Backbone Teachers in the district. The number of prizes won by the teachers far surpassed other primary schools in the district.
The OM team of the school has won the championship of the 33rd International OM Finals, winning honor for the whole country. The team was awarded by Sun Jianping, the secretary of Hongkou District, Wu Qing, chief of the district, and other leaders during the meeting with them.
Taking English teaching as its feature, the school emphasizes the all round development of students. Students of the school have made excellent performance in competitions of English, Maths, Chinese, Information Technology, Science, OM, and so on, organized by the city and the country. The number of prizes won by out students in competitions of different levels has reached over 12,000 and over 1900 articles written in either Chinese or English were published on Xinmin Evening News, Youth Daily, and other newspapers and magazines since September 2005. Our school has also sent about 180 excellent graduates to the affiliated Middle School of SISU.