Join us for our first Early Years Open Morning for 2025-26!
We are kicking off our new 2025-26 admissions season with our Early Years Opening, and we invite you to join us!
The Wellington Shanghai Early Years Centre is the perfect place for your child to get a head start on their lifelong learning journey. We provide a supportive, safe and nurturing environment for your child aged 2-5. At Wellington we believe happy pupils make happy learners. Alongside our holistic education model, your child will build strong academic foundations, gain physical strength and coordination, become more confident and independent, learn a new language and, of course, make some great friends along the way.
During this event, you will have the chance to tour our facilities, meet our leadership team, engage with our faculty, and learn about our holistic approach to education. Our admissions team will be there to guide you through the application process and answer your questions too.
This will be an early-bird campus tour opportunity for families interested in enrolling for the 2025-26 academic year. Spaces, however, are still available for the coming 2024-25 academic year. If you would like to enrol your children for the coming 2024-25 academic year, do not hesitate to contact our admissions team.
To learn more and make a booking, please see below.
Take a video tour of our Early Years Centre with Ms Charlie our Executive Head of Early Years
Why Wellington?
Wellington College International Shanghai is a fully co-educational day school serving families with children aged 2 to 18. We are guided by a clear Vision and Purpose founded upon three strong pillars and expressed in our motto: ‘Be You. Be More.’ The College offers a pioneering education to serve and help shape a better world, combining the very best of British and international pedagogies to create a pupil-centric, multilingual, multicultural and inclusive learning experience.
From our Early Years Centre to our Secondary School, Wellington pupils are learners with the passion, intrinsic motivation and critical thinking that enables us to solve real-world challenges. They are connectors with the confidence, openness and empathy to bridge cultural chasms and bring our world closer together. They are changemakers with the knowledge, networks and commitment to better serve their community and make a positive impact on the future.
Regardless of age, Wellington pupils are inspired to be the best version of themselves and to take pride in where they come from. By living the Wellington values of kindness, responsibility, respect, courage and integrity, they learn to be the change they wish to see in the world.
An education that produces outstanding results
Last academic year, our year 11 pupils made remarkable achievements on their IGCSEs. 90% achieved an A or A* (7/8/9) grade in mathematics and 91% achieved an A or A* (7/8/9) grade in physics for instance. Our graduating Class of 2023 was a unique cohort. Their exam years were bookended by the sudden onslaught and eventual retreat of a global pandemic. In the years in between, they contended with postponements, lockdowns and a host of other disruptions. Nevertheless, they achieved some spectacular results. Their average International Baccalaureate examination score was 36.7, well above the global average of 30.2. Nine of our 2023 leavers achieved scores of 40 or higher, with a top score of 44! This year also saw a 100% pass rate for our pupils doing second language (Language B) papers with grades 6+, and our IB Core average at grade 2 out of 3. They have already begun their university careers at some of the world’s top-ranked schools, such as Cambridge, Oxford, Caltech, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown, Imperial College London, University College London, University of California Berkeley and more.
Creating young learners, connectors and changemakers
At our Early Years Centre, your child will begin building the foundations for a lifetime of success. Through our unique play-based curriculum, pupils do not just learn the basics of maths, literacy, language and the arts. In our outdoor learning areas, they learn to take calculated risks while they develop fine and gross motor skills. Meanwhile, they cultivate several essential life skills, like building positive relationships with others, independence and self-care.
By the time they advance to our Primary School, they will be ready to develop self-management, critical thinking, research, communication and social skills. As they broaden their academic horizons, they will become empathetic, self-reliant and reflective learners who embrace diverse cultures and have a thirst for knowledge.
This fully readies them for our Secondary School, where they engage with a deep, broad and challenging curriculum. Here they grow intellectually, creatively, physically and morally as they gaining the courage and resilience to stretch themselves well beyond their comfort zone. They are primed for success in their IGCSE in years 10 and 11 and then the IB as they advance to sixth form. Our talented team of teachers are with them along the way providing guidance and pastoral care.
A strong parent-teacher partnership
The Friends of Wellington (FOW) is our parent and teacher association and brings the school community together to share, contribute and celebrate. It is integral to College life as it hosts several key events throughout the academic year. The FOW also contributes to the wider community and promotes the Wellington Value of Kindness through annual fundraising and charity activities.
A campus
purpose-built for holistic education
Our campus offers endless opportunities to put our values into practice and we hope these will be guiding principles for our pupils as they navigate life well into adulthood.
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