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Deutsche Schule Shanghai operates a dedicated Schulsozialarbeit (school social-work) team that provides counselling, conflict mediation, prevention work and social‑training for primary and secondary pupils. The team offers individual and group support, crisis intervention and works as a central contact for students, teachers and parents to strengthen social and emotional skills. Social‑training and theatre‑pedagogical methods are used for violence prevention and to teach empathy, self‑control and problem solving. The school also describes team‑based approaches (e.g. team‑teaching in early years) to allow closer adult support in the classroom. Sources: Schulsozialarbeit and school first‑aid pages.
The school publishes a dedicated Förderbereich (‘support and extension') that includes sonderpädagogische Förderung, diagnostics, individual support plans and cooperation with external therapists (logopedy, occupational therapy). Identified areas of support include learning difficulties, perceptual disorders, LRS (reading/spelling), dyscalculia, and ADS/ADHS; support is delivered in-class, in small groups or one‑to‑one and may be partly fee‑based. Early‑years provision names a specialist in Heilpädagogik for kindergarten inclusion, and the primary school uses team‑teaching with special‑education staff to support individual needs. The school's job adverts and programme descriptions show they employ Förderschullehrkräfte and Förderpädagogen to carry out this work. The website describes integrated special‑education provision within the mainstream school; it does not present the DSSH as a specialist/special‑school for pupils with severe SEN.
The school's public pages describe English as a taught foreign language (starting in early primary years, with native‑speaker teachers and ability‑based grouping in secondary), but they do not publish a distinct ‘EAL' or English‑language‑support programme for pupils who require English as an additional language. The kindergarten page notes that children receiving German‑as‑a‑second‑language (DaZ/DaF) support do not participate in the English/Chinese offer because they receive targeted German support instead. If you need confirmation about bespoke EAL assessments, withdrawal lessons or after‑school EAL tutoring, the school does not set out those details on the website.
Mental‑wellbeing support is led primarily through the Schulsozialarbeit service, which offers counselling, (crisis) intervention, preventive programmes and referral to external specialists where needed. The school describes social‑training, mediation and individual counselling as tools to support emotional health and to respond to crises affecting students and families. Medical first‑aid teams are present on both campuses and the school coordinates these medical services with the social‑work team for preventive and advisory support. Cooperation with external therapeutic partners (e.g. speech and occupational therapy) is also noted in the school's support provision.
The Hongqiao campus publishes a formal Schutzkonzept (protection/safeguarding concept) that builds on a 2021 child‑protection concept and was adopted by the school conference after multi‑year development. The Schutzkonzept emphasises the right to a discrimination‑ and violence‑free environment, includes a Verhaltenskodex (code of conduct) for the community and defines the school's obligation to create a protected learning and living space. The concept was prepared in response to ZfA guidance and is presented as an ongoing project with defined responsibilities for staff and the community. For operational details (reporting routes, named safeguarding officers or statutory procedures) the published Schutzkonzept page outlines the framework but the website does not publish full procedural documents on the public pages.
Deutsche Schule Shanghai (DSS) operates two Eurocampuses in Shanghai: the Hongqiao campus in the western Qingpu district and the Yangpu campus in the north‑east of the city. The school accepts children from 18 months through secondary graduation and offers the full range of German school certificates including the Deutsches Internationales Abitur (DIA). DSS runs kindergarten groups, primary classes and a Sekundarstufe with G8 gymnasialen Bildungsweg; the school publishes a single annual tuition schedule and separate conditions for DaF/DaZ language support and optional services such as the school bus. Cohorts are organised in class groups with a stated maximum class size of 24 in the Sekundarstufe; overall enrolment is around 1,100 children and young people across both sites. Admissions information, registration fees, deposit and the current annual tuition rates are published in the school's payment conditions. For campus contact details and admission steps see the school's admissions pages.
