Life at Pao School

Primary School Campus

On March 27th, eminent Peking Opera actress Wang Peiyu visited Pao School and delighted students with her vivid presentation about one of China's most storied theatrical traditions. 

Wang Peiyu talked to students about the evolution of Peking Opera as well as its different schools and representative figures. 

To better understand the essence of Peking Opera, students followed Wang Peiyu's lead as she showed them how to convey different emotions with body language. The presentation helped our students understand Peking Opera is not an art form limited to the stage. Indeed, it is relevant to our daily lives too, especially for students at YK Pao School, as passing on traditions of Chinese culture is one of the key elements of the school’s mission.

Wang Peiyu and Pao School Co-founder Tan Fuyun

At the end of Wang Peiyu's presentation, Pao School Co-founder Tan Fuyun thanked her for teaching Pao students one of the most fascinating and artistically rich elements of traditional Chinese culture.

On a beautiful weekend day in late March, Pao School hosted the first touch rugby game of the season at our Primary campus, where we faced off against SUIS Shangyin. On their way to a decisive 8-2 victory, the Pao players exhibited outstanding teamwork skills, steely determination and sterling sportsmanship. Our touch rugby players will continue training hard for the rest of the games this season. Great work by everyone involved and a special thanks to parents who came out to show their support.

Our Girls Football team turned in an oustanding performance during the tournament held at Nord Anglia Chinese International School in Minhang last week. Thanks to their outstanding teamwork and determined playing, they reached the Plate competition, and after some very tough first games they reached the finals. The last game of the finals was a nail biter which was tied at the end of regulation time. The crowd was on the edge of its seat for the penalty shootout, which resulted in a win for our girls and them taking home the Plate championship!

Our Year 5 Boys Football team took part in an SSSA tournament. After months of training both at school and in the evenings and weekends, they had the opportunity to put their skills into practice against 7 other schools from in and around Shanghai. After two 4-0 wins and a draw in the group stages, our boys progressed to the semi-final where they beat SUIS Shangyin 4-1, reaching the final against SUIS Pudong. We found our rhythm after a tense start, and managed to score two quick goals which took the pressure off and we held out for an impressive win and the championship trophy! Well done to all the students involved, they showed great character throughout the day and represented our school fantastically well. A big thank you also goes to our parents for their support and to coach DJ for leading the team!

Last week our Badminton team took part in a tournament at the French School Shanghai. Our team showed outstanding resilience against some very tough opposition and had a respectful but determined attitude throughout. The event was great fun and the students thoroughly enjoyed their time on and off court and put in some outstanding performances. Extra special mentions go to Sam and Bobo for 3rd place and Alida and Luis for 4th place.

YK Pao Primary School hosted an SSSA Dance competition in our Auditorium, where 16 teams from 8 different schools competed in a range of different styles. The event was a huge success, and everyone involved had a very enjoyable morning. Well done to all of our dancers for their hard work and fantastic attitude on the day and all of the parents and teachers who helped to make the event a really positive experience. Finally, congratulations to Miss Burgess for organizing and running the event.

Middle School Campus

This past weekend six schools from Shanghai competed in the first U13 boys’ basketball tournament of the spring semester. We are proud to announce that we finished in 2nd place! As well as winning the silver medal, YK Pao School was also awarded the tournament Sportsmanship Award.

Our boys showed excellent effort, commitment and team-spirit during each competition. We are very pleased with their achievements as this was the first ever trophy awarded to a boys’ basketball team here on our Hongqiao campus. Over the past few weeks we have seen a high level of growth and development with this team. Our boys have gained a great deal of confidence and they are keen to compete in the upcoming tournament in May!

During the Spring Holiday, the following 6 Hongqiao Fencing Community members attended the 2nd USA Fencing International Regional Circuit in Incheon, Korea. The competition was attended by hundreds of fencers from all over the world. Our students performed extremely well during this competition and finished with very impressive results.

Their continued hard-work and dedication to improving their skills has been very impressive. We are looking forward to more success within our Hongqiao Fencing Community!

Our Girls Volleyball team played a tournament at SHSID and we are pleased to announce both of our teams placed 1st and 2nd in the tournament. We are proud of our girls who faced the challenge of playing against teams older than them, but yet still found a great deal of success!

Congratulations on our YK Pao students winning 3rd place in the “Yao Shun Cup” Shanghai Primary and Secondary school golf competition. This was the 6th “Yao Shun Cup” which attracted over 100 schools and 216 junior players. It is excellent to see our students making commitments and achieving success outside of school. We hope to see our students continue to focus on extra-curricular sports and activities in order to build their character. 

High School Campus

On March 24th, the third Cycle for Love charity ride was held in Shanghai's Pudong District. This charity ride was jointly organized by student cycling clubs of YK Pao School and four other bilingual schools in Shanghai. Nearly 300 people participated in the event during which they traveled 3,000 kilometers. Most importantly, the event raised 20,000 RMB for children receiving treatment at Ningbo No.1 Hospital (Department of Hematology and Oncology). Since the first Cycle for Love charity ride in April 2017, more than 120,000RMB has been raised to support twelve families in need.

Background board designed by Viola

Year 10 student Viola led the organization of this event. She began planning for it in November 2018, communicating with parents, other participating schools and more. The organizing committee from Pao school planned the whole event, from cycling routes selection, sponsors recruitment, logistics and event promotion. Rather than the shorter, winding 5 km route of years past, this year's race featured a long 32 km route for more experienced riders.

Last December, Chris, William, Leon and Charlie from Pao School attended the (NEC) regional competition in which some 400 teams took part. From there they qualified for the National Final held March 15th to 17th in Suzhou. The students again performed strongly and now are one of only 12 teams from China who have qualified for the global final, to be held May 18th to 22nd in New York, US.

The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is a prestigious competition organized by the Council for Economic Education and has been held successfully for seventeen years with around 100,000 participants each year.

In the recent international Ling Ling Poets’ competition which is dedicated to discovering promising young poets who are born after the year 2000 (Lingling) and who master dual-language writing or even multi-language writing skills, Pao students demonstrated outstanding performances.

Tommy in Y10 earned the Outstanding Award in this competition while Danny in Y10, Stephen in Y9 and Sophia in Y8 had their poems compiled and published in the Ling Ling Poets’ collection. Danny and Sophia attended the awards ceremony on April 20th and read their poems.

In the NSDA Shanghai Novice competition, Andrew from Year 8 was awarded the Outstanding Speaker prize. In the NSDA Ningbo Novice competition Anna from Year 8 won the Championship and Sarah and Grace, both from Year 9 were awarded the Outstanding Speaker prize. In the NSDA Nanjing Novice competition, Grace and Sarah were again the Outstanding Speakers and finalists while in the NHSDLC competition Ken from Y8 did exceptionally, finishing as the Double Octofinalist.

On April 20th, Pao School hosted the SSSA Track and Field athletics meet. Over 350 athletes competed from ten different schools. There are 22 players from the High School joined the track and field meet, taking home 14 gold medals, 9 silvers and 23 bronzes.

The Varsity Girls Football team played at home and won easily 6-0. Diana scored 4 goals from corners, demonstrating her exceptional offensive skills.

Our Boys Football team has performed admirably of late, racking up four consecutive wins. We did especially well against the strong SUIS Gubei team, winning 2-0, led by goals from Andrew. Our captain John scored two goals in our 2-1 defeat of Yeh Wah. Harris led the team to a 1-0 victory against SHSID while James' two goals helped carry Pao School to a 3-0 victory against Jincai. As a result, The Boys team finished all the league games unbeaten for the first time in the school's history.

U19 Boys Volleyball team played in an SSSA tournament, finishing in second place.

The Ultimate Frisbee team entered the League Tournament after finishing the season in first place. The Varsity Ultimate Frisbee team finished third in the final playoffs to conclude their League season.

On April 21, Miss Shaina led our floorball team in the Shanghai Floorball tournament, where we finished in third place. Barry and Jimmy won the MVP Award, while Leevi won the Best Shooter Award.

 Middle School (Hongqiao Campus) Info Session

Who should come: Applicants who are now in Year 6

Time: 3:00 - 4:15 pm, May 15th, 2019

Location: No.2206, Hongqiao Road, Changning District

Registration: Please scan the QR code below to submit the registration form. 

*The registration of Information Session is subject to the final confirmation of Pao School.