Jeanette Dixon’s second-grade class did a tracing project called “Big People.” Everyone got to be traced by Dixon who painted their picture. Read the full story

On September 8, the elementary school had an assembly. The assembly focused on friendship, the guidance theme for the month of September. Some fifth-grade volunteers had prepared a skit called “The Friendship Game.” Read the full story

At precisely 6:43am on September 9, a huge yellow crane hoisted the first girder, well over 30 meters long, into the grey air. The massive crane, plopped in the middle of the bus lane that runs along the face of the high school gym, aquatics center and high school, extended its arm high above the construction site itself, and dropped a spider-web of a cable down to the alley where the girders were waiting to be lifted one by one and placed. Read the full story

THEY HUDDLED, THEY PADDLED, THEY RAN, they faced challenges, they “racked-their-brains,” got creative and proved themselves downright resourceful.  They ate, they hung out, conversing with old friends and making new ones, and… they had FUN!  Read the full story

Hsieh wins at Pebble Beach … and tells the story in his own words. Harrison Hsieh, a Grade 8 student, has played on the Shanghai American School’s golf team (Puxi campus) for the past three years. Here is his account of his week at the 80th Northern California Golf Association Championship on the Spyglass course at Pebble Beach. Read the full story

As part of the fifth-grade writing unit, Grade 5 students at SAS, Puxi campus, had a chance to actually experience words by going to the Sensory Word Stores in the fifth-grade project area September 7-11. Using their five senses, students got to taste, smell, hear, see, and touch each object described by a particular word. Read the full story

Travel back to the legendary, story-telling days of ancient China with this action-packed stage adaptation of Disney’s Mulan to be presented by the high school of Shanghai American School, Puxi Campus. Read the full story

The elementary school on the Puxi campus is almost 700 strong. That’s a lot of children. Of upmost concern is the safety of these children. Therefore Principal Mary Lane, and Vice-Principal Michelle Baxter believe that as a part of the emphasis on safety, classes should be offered on how to ride and use a bicycle safely. Read the full story

Middle and high school students here is your opportunity to write!

In the name of community creativity and spirit, that’s Shanghai is opening up one of its pages, and its Web site, Urbanatomy.com, to the expat teens in Shanghai. Read the full story

Welcome to the first Counselor Connection article of the school-year.  Our goal is to keep you connected to what is happening with the SAS elementary counseling programs on the Puxi and Pudong campuses.  Read the full story