Lycee francais de Shanghai, Qingpu and Yangpu

Online Tutor for Students at the French Lycee in Shanghai

Q: Where are the Qingpu and Yangpu campuses?

The Qingpu campus is at the Eurocampus, 350 Gao Guang Road, Qingpu district, west of Shanghai, and holds close to 900 students. The second campus is in the Yangpu district. In total the school has around 1,500 students of more than sixty nationalities, making it the largest French school in mainland China.

Q: Which Baccalaureate papers does a Shanghai student sit?

The Asia examination centre papers, distinct from those of metropolitan France and North America. Speciality papers run over two consecutive days, giving two papers per speciality per session. Practice is done on those past papers, timed and marked to the official scheme.

Online tutoring for students at the Lycee francais de Shanghai, on both campuses, from Sixieme to Terminale. Mathematics, physics-chemistry, NSI and SVT, the Baccalaureate specialities, Brevet preparation and the Asia zone papers. I have tutored in Montreal for more than 10 years, and the session sits in the Shanghai evening, which is my morning. In English or in French.

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The school

The Lycee francais de Shanghai was founded in 1995 as the Ecole francaise de Shanghai. It is now under agreement with the AEFE and accredited on all fifteen year groups, from pre-school to Terminale. It has around 1,500 students of more than sixty nationalities across two campuses: Qingpu, at the Eurocampus, 350 Gao Guang Road, in the west of the city, which alone holds close to 900 students, and Yangpu, in the north-east.

It is the largest French school in mainland China, ahead of Beijing. That size is an asset: the range of specialities on offer is fuller than in the small structures of the network, and the lycee classes genuinely run, which is not guaranteed everywhere in Asia.

It has a flip side too. A full Mathematics speciality class leaves little time for individual questions, and the student who understands a beat late ends up revising one idea while the class already works on the next. That is the profile I work with most often, in Shanghai as in Montreal.

What I see most often with students in Shanghai

The commute between Qingpu and central Shanghai

The Qingpu campus sits out west, away from the centre. For many families the student's day starts early and ends late once travel is counted. Adding an in-person lesson in the evening usually means a third journey, and that is exactly what the online session removes: it starts when your child closes their bedroom door.

Crowded speciality classes

The Lycee francais de Shanghai is the largest French school in mainland China. That is an advantage for the range of specialities on offer, but a full Mathematics speciality class leaves little room for individual questions. The average student, the one who is not failing but no longer quite following, is precisely the one who slips through.

The step from Seconde to Premiere

It is the number one reason families call, across the whole network, and Shanghai is no exception. Sequences, differentiation, the dot product and conditional probability all arrive within a few weeks, and a student whose algebra is not automatic ends up calculating instead of reasoning. Catching up is quick in September and very expensive by March.

Written French among trilingual students

Many students here are excellent at calculation and perfectly at ease in English and in Mandarin, yet lose marks on the written justification: an induction badly initialised, a theorem hypothesis left unchecked, a missing conclusion. The Baccalaureate mark scheme pays for that written reasoning as much as for the result.

Relocations mid-year

Shanghai is a city of fast rotation. One family arrives in January, another leaves in March for Singapore, Hong Kong or France. Online follow-up survives the move: the syllabus is identical everywhere in the network and in France, only the time of the session changes.

The Shanghai evening, the Montreal morning

Shanghai is at UTC+8 all year, since China does not change its clocks. Montreal is at UTC-5 in winter and UTC-4 in summer: the gap is 13 hours from November to March and 12 hours the rest of the year. Your child's evening therefore falls in my morning, an ordinary weekday slot on both sides, with no one having to sit up at night.

Session in Shanghai	Montreal, winter	Montreal, summer
Weekdays, 7 pm	6 am	7 am
Weekdays, 8 pm	7 am	8 am
Weekdays, 9 pm	8 am	9 am
Saturday, 10 am	Friday 9 pm	Friday 10 pm

The slot is reserved for the year. It shifts by an hour twice a year, on the Canadian side only, and I warn the family in advance.

Corrected exercises and revision sheets, freely available

Whether you take sessions or not, the whole revision library is free and requires no sign-up. Corrected exercise sets covering the French syllabus from Sixieme to Terminale, revision sheets by chapter, a four hour mock Baccalaureate and a two hour mock Brevet. Everything reads in the browser, with no download, which matters on an irregular connection. It is written in French, the language of the examination.

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Frequently asked questions

Do you work with students at the Lycee francais de Shanghai?

Yes, online, from Sixieme to Terminale, on both campuses. The school is under agreement with the AEFE and accredited on all fifteen year groups. Its students follow the official French national syllabus, the same one followed by the students I have tutored for more than 10 years at the Lycee Marie de France and the College Stanislas in Montreal.

Where are the Qingpu and Yangpu campuses?

Qingpu is at the Eurocampus, 350 Gao Guang Road, Qingpu district, west of Shanghai, and holds close to 900 students. The second campus is in the Yangpu district. In total the school has around 1,500 students of more than sixty nationalities, making it the largest French school in mainland China.

Does an online lesson avoid an extra journey?

Yes, and Qingpu families cite it first. The campus is out of the way and the day is already long once travel is counted. The session starts on time, from your child's bedroom, with no third journey and no parent tied up driving.

What time do sessions take place from Shanghai?

In the Shanghai evening, most often between 7 pm and 9 pm, which is early morning in Montreal, 6 am to 8 am in winter and 7 am to 9 am in summer. China never changes its clocks, so the gap varies only on the Canadian side. Saturday and Sunday mornings are open too.

Which Baccalaureate papers does a Shanghai student sit?

The Asia examination centre papers, distinct from metropolitan France and North America. Speciality papers run over two consecutive days, giving two papers per speciality per session. Practice is on those past papers, timed and marked to the official scheme.

Do you also work with college students?

Yes, from Sixieme to Troisieme, Brevet preparation included, whose papers are also published by examination centre. The college years are the cheapest moment to close a gap: the same weakness in algebra costs a few sessions in Quatrieme and a whole year in Premiere.