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Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi presents wellbeing as a whole-school culture guided by a Student Wellbeing Framework used across Dulwich schools to support social and emotional development. The school says the framework emphasises student voice, agency and partnership and that students engage through surveys, peer support and age-appropriate lessons. In its early-years DUCKS programme the curriculum explicitly lists Personal, Social and Emotional Development as a prime area of learning. The College also reports using Common Sense Education digital‑citizenship resources to teach online safety and responsible online behaviour. Parents are described as partners in wellbeing through regular communication with teachers and school events.
The school defines Additional Educational Needs (AEN) to include students who require extra support or enrichment, and explicitly includes EAL and gifted/talented learners in that definition. Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi states it does not provide a separate additional curriculum for students with special learning needs; instead classroom teachers and EAL specialists may provide assistance and enrolment is conditional on the College being able to meet a child's needs. The website lists named staff working in this area (for example an Additional Educational Needs teacher and a Director of Student Services/Child Protection Officer), indicating specific roles for AEN support. The school does not publish a list of specific diagnoses or categories of SEN it will support on its public pages. Dulwich is not described as a specialist SEN institution.
The College describes an English as an Additional Language (EAL) programme designed to develop fluency for students with limited prior exposure to English and says it limits enrolment of students who require EAL support according to the level of support needed. Senior‑school applicants whose first language is not English sit an EAL assessment as part of admissions. The website names EAL staff (for example an EAL teacher profile is published) and the school runs professional activity related to EAL practice. The College also states it may limit the number of students requiring EAL in a single class to ensure appropriate support. For detailed, individual placement or intensity‑of‑support questions the site directs families to contact Admissions.
The College uses its Student Wellbeing Framework to support students' mental and emotional health and reports age‑appropriate lessons, peer initiatives and whole‑school pastoral systems as components of that support. Dulwich Puxi operates a Student Services/Well Families approach that offers parent workshops, family support and links to external mental‑health services in Shanghai; the site names a Student Services lead and describes practical resources for families. The school states it uses pastoral data tools (for example AS STEER and iSAMS are referenced) to identify and personalise support pathways. The College's CIS accreditation report and recent awards referenced on the site also cite the school's commitment to pastoral care and wellbeing. The website publishes workshops and a named social & emotional counsellor, but does not present a full public catalogue of in‑house clinical services and private referrals are handled case‑by‑case via Student Services.
The College states safeguarding and child protection are of paramount importance and that it has an extensive Safeguarding Policy and mandatory training programme for staff. The website describes safer‑recruitment procedures, induction safeguarding training for new staff and periodic refresher training, and says students receive age‑appropriate safeguarding lessons. The school names a Child Protection Officer / Director of Student Services and refers to annual safeguarding audits and safeguarding as a component of external accreditation. The site publishes a Safeguarding Policy link and directs enquiries to the College for further policy detail. For specifics of disclosure checks, reporting procedures or the full safeguarding policy the school's published policy page and admissions/contact routes are referenced.
Dulwich College Shanghai Puxi is a co-educational day school on the Puxi (west) side of Shanghai, located in South Minhang at 2000 Qian Pu Jing Road. The Puxi campus opened in August 2016 and sits on about 40,000 sq. metres of green space. Students follow the English National Curriculum through Year 9, take IGCSEs in Years 10–11 and the IB Diploma in Years 12–13; Mandarin is taught daily with three streamed pathways (native, second-language and foreign-language). The campus includes a 50m Olympic pool, a triple gymnasium and a 500-seat theatre; classes are typically small (around 10 students in most lessons). The school publishes an annual tuition fee schedule on its site (lowest annual fee shown: RMB 141,900; highest: RMB 399,750). If you would like the campus GPS coordinates (from Google Maps), I can fetch those for you.
