Shanghai French School (french: Lycée Français de Shanghai, ) is a private, international school in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

, China, with one campus in the

Qingpu District Qingpu District, is a suburban district of Shanghai Municipality. Lake Dianshan is located in Qingpu. The population of Qingpu was counted at 1,081,000 people in the 2010 Census. It has an area of . Qingpu District is the westernmost distr ...

and one campus in

Yangpu District Yangpu District is one of the 16 districts of Shanghai. It is located in northeastern part of downtown Shanghai, bordering the Huangpu River on the east and south, Hongkou District on the west, and Baoshan District, Shanghai, Baoshan District on ...

. Students range from 3 to 18 years of age and must be of French nationality or already have been taught under the French system. It forms part of the international network of French schools managed by the French government through the

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(AEFE), a national administrative body.

History

In 2005, LFS and the

German School Shanghai The German School Shanghai (DSSH) (german: Deutsche Schule Shanghai) is a private school in Shanghai, with locations in Hongqiao (DSSH) and Yangpu (DSSY). It was established in 1995 for expatriate German pupils. With approximately 1,250 pupils t ...

completed a combined "EuroCampus" for their students in Qingpu, Shanghai. In 2008, LFS opened a new satellite school in

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, Shanghai. The Pudong Campus was on the property of the

Shanghai Gold Apple Bilingual School Shanghai Gold Apple Bilingual School ( "Shanghai City Private Gold Apple School") is a private boarding school for elementary through high school levels in Pudong, Shanghai. It opened in 2000. The Pudong Campus of the French School of Shanghai was ...

.Home
." French School of Shanghai. Retrieved on 23 May 2014. "Campus de Pudong : 1555, Jufeng Lu, Pudong District 201208 Shanghai (Chine)" The school was opened as a primary school and become a secondary school year by year (completion of middle school, ''collège'', by 2012). As of 2010, the Pudong campus has students from preschool to ''troisième'' (ninth grade). All students in the secondary school in Pudong follow the English/French bilingual curriculum. In 2019, LFS opened a new satellite school in Yangpu, Shanghai.

Campuses

Qingpu campus

Shanghai French School shares its facilities with Shanghai German School "''Deutsche Schule Shanghai"'' to create the Eurocampus.

Yangpu campus

The campus has a total area of 56,000 square meters, shared with the DSS, the German School in Shanghai. The campus was certified LEED Platinum, becoming first school in Asia to obtain this certification. The Eurocampus is composed of 19,000 m² of green space, a 1,200 m² canteen, sports facilities, including a 7,000 m² sports center, 4 basketball courts, a football pitch and a running track of 400 m. There isalso be a 25m swimming pool and a 550-seat theater.

Curriculum

The education offered is equivalent to the

education in France Education in France is organized in a highly centralized manner, with many subdivisions. It is divided into the three stages of primary education (''enseignement primaire''), secondary education (''enseignement secondaire''), and higher educatio ...

, and students sit the French Baccalaureate (

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) at the end of Terminale (high school). Beginning in the 2010-2011 school year, students who have followed the appropriate course will have the opportunity to take the OIB (''Option Internationale du Baccalauréat'') in either Chinese or English. Preparation for this option requires study of certain subjects in the chosen foreign language. Alternatively, students may choose to enter the

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which includes extra study of English and a history and geography course taught in English. In 2008, LFS opened two bilingual sections in the primary and middle schools at the QingPu campus. Parents can choose from dual-language English and French, French and Chinese, or the classic French program. Students in the bilingual sections are taught on a split timetable with half of their lessons in French and the other half in English or Chinese.

Exams Offered

In addition to the standard French examinations, LFS offers its students the opportunity to prepare for a variety of Chinese, English, Spanish and German certifications, including: * Cambridge Young Learners' English Tests for primary school students *

IGCSE The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is an English language based examination similar to GCSE and is recognised in the United Kingdom as being equivalent to the GCSE for the purposes of recognising prior attainm ...

- From troisième (9th grade), advanced English students have the option to prepare for the IGCSE in either English Literature and Language or English as a Second Language. *

IELTS The International English Language Testing System (IELTS ), is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia an ...

- Preparation classes are offered to final year students planning to apply to Anglophone universities. * HSK - The Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì (HSK), (Chinese: 汉语水平考试), translated as Chinese Standard Exam, is China's only standardized test of Standard Chinese language proficiency for non-native speakers such as foreign students and overseas Chinese. The test is administered by Hanban, a non-government organization affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. And the French School of Shanghai is a Hanban centre.

References

External links

Lycée Français de Shanghai

Lycée Français de Shanghai
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