Reporter Lu Mi reported that Chongqing Aluminum City Primary School was once a primary school for the children of workers of southwest aluminum processing plants, founded in 1967, located in the center of Xipeng Town, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, about an hour's drive from the central urban area of Jiulongpo. The school is located in a remote location, but in recent years, at the campus football level, it can be said that it is a hot school in the whole district and even the whole city.
Entering the playground of Aluminum City Primary School, the first thing that catches your eye is a huge stone stele with the word "Le" in various fonts. Principal Chen Xingming's office is on the edge of the playground, he does not like to close the door, enjoy sitting in the office, always can hear the laughter of children from the playground. He never felt the hustle and bustle, and such laughter allowed him to enjoy a whole day's work and think about the development of campus football.
Aluminum City Elementary School has a long history and a long history of campus football, with a campus football team since the late 1980s. In the 20 years when the hardware conditions were not developed, the school participated in the competition in the southwest region and won many honors in the national "Factory and Mine Cup".
Chen Xingming was transferred to Aluminum City Primary School in 2014 (below). Xipeng area is not large, but there are many primary schools, in order to make Aluminum City Primary School become the leader on the road of characteristic development, it must be done at one point. After combing through the entire history of the school's development, he decided to fully roll out the construction of campus football.
The vigorous development of campus football in Aluminum City Primary School began with the birth of an idea, which is "healthy and happy". This is the result of the school's thinking from the perspective of modern parents and children. "Now the level of parents in all aspects is very high, in addition to the children's academic performance, whether their spiritual level is healthy and happy, has also been placed in an important position." We also want our children to have a happy childhood in elementary school. ”
Since 2014, the school has held its first campus football festival and has also formed football teams in various classes. Chen Xingming wants the whole school to participate in football activities, and the effect of football-related art activities, he wants that children enjoy the joy of football in the process of participating in these activities.
Before the Ministry of Education asked for the acceleration of the development of school football in 2015, Aluminum City Primary School had established teams in all classes. The initial requirement was two teams per class, a football team, a cheerleading team, and within a year of football festival practice, this goal was achieved. Fast, but not easy, the initial stage, many teachers do not know how to implement, especially many female class teachers, do not know how to organize and manage, the school let the physical education teachers, one by one to train the class teachers. It just so happened that Chen Chuan, the school's moral education director and physical education teacher, was a football graduate, and Chen Xingming's concept and actions made him feel that his profession finally had the opportunity to fully develop.
From the beginning of a football team and a cheerleading team composed of girls in each class, to the later establishment of a football team by the girls of each class, campus football was fully rolled out, and the "prosperous" situation of the whole school's participation was truly achieved.
The annual Football Festival is the annual feast of Aluminum City Primary School. Not only the students were involved, but also the entire faculty and staff as well as the parents of the students. In the years before the epidemic, whenever this activity began, without the invitation of the school, parents came to the school with the prepared banners and musical instruments to cheer the children. The children dueled on the field, the PK of the cheerleaders was off the field, and the skills of parents playing and singing competed, and the scene was lively and cheerful.
Chen Xingming said: "We think about every step of the school with the goal of health and happiness, not just to cater to the regulations of the education department. "Every child, every teacher, every parent, in football activities, can find their place and have projects to participate in.
As the principal, Chen Xingming is most happy to see the tenacity of his own climbing up after the collision and falling to the ground in the game, and the cheerleaders' efforts to rehearse for a long time off the field for a few minutes of appearance, and the scene where the sweat and tears of the team are intertwined after each game. He has also shed tears of emotion many times because of these scenes.
On the other side of the school playground, there is also a cultural wall that separates the school from the outside world. On the wall, there are photos of children participating in various football activities over the years, and colorful campus football activities such as parent-child football games, football story essays, football art works, and football innovation game exhibitions are also posted. Instead of shutting down the children's laughter and happiness, this wall has become a memorial to the children's growth and a carrier for them to transmit happiness.
Chen Xingming proposed in 2014 that the football festival should be used as the base point to comprehensively roll out the road of campus football development. Chen Xingming's all-round development approach once raised concerns, will widespread popularity slow down the pace at which the varsity team gains results? Since the popularization of campus football in 2014, Aluminum City Primary School concentrated on the results in 2017, and it took only three years to take the awards at all levels of the district, and by 2019, they had gone out of Chongqing and achieved good results in national competitions.
Since 2014, the school has actively participated in the competitions organized by the municipal and district football associations and the education committee. From 2014 to 2016, it has been guaranteed to win the championship in the region every year and play in the top three in the city. Since the beginning of 2017, the school has truly ushered in the climax of practical harvest, and the school has won a total of 11 awards in the district, city and even the whole country, including three champions, the men's champion of the Chongqing Campus Football Finals, the champion of the Chongqing Youth Football Championship and the U8 champion of the National Youth Football Invitational Tournament. By 2018, taking it a step further, there were as many as four championship (first prize) trophies.
The competitive results are only a part, because of the impressive results and positive football concept achieved for two consecutive years, Aluminum City Primary School also won the honor of Chongqing Youth Campus Football Outstanding Characteristic School, Principal Chen Xingming, Director of the Moral Education Office Chen Chuan and Coach Xiong Zongping, respectively, won the awards of Outstanding Principal, Excellent Teacher and Excellent Coach.
Improving the team's performance level is not a day's work. In the view of the leadership team and coaching team of Aluminum City Primary School, the school's campus football development is "bigger" is the "denominator", and "stronger" is the "molecule".
The so-called "bigger" is really popularized in the whole school, to achieve this, we must consider from the perspective of children, how to make them fall in love with football. The annual football festival can concretize football and derive many projects that children are interested in, so that they can first generate interest and increase participation, so as to lay a good foundation for team building and development.
For eight consecutive years, Aluminum City Primary School's class football league, class cheerleading demonstration, shooting competition, ball throwing competition, and bumping ball competition are rich and varied. In addition, the school also integrates football with art, and there are many projects such as hand-copied newspapers, paintings, essays, photography competitions, and news reports with the theme of football.
Each class at Al city elementary school has a number of "little reporters" who form a press corps, and whenever there is a competition and class activity in the school, they have to come out to interview players, parents and coaches, and write a report. This makes every soccer festival and soccer-related event basically a large social scene for children.
In the huge group of football-loving students, digging out good seedlings is the molecule above the denominator - "stronger". Therefore, the ability of Aluminum City Primary School to achieve good results can be said to be a natural success. Children find love, exercise and find the joy of childhood in football.
In 2019, the children of Aluminum City Primary School went out of Chongqing, went to the whole country, and even landed on the scene of the Women's World Cup in France. After layers of selection by district, city, region and country, 13 students of Aluminum City Primary School were recognized as third-level athletes by the Ministry of Education, of which 8 students were selected as the best team of national campus football (sub-camp), 5 students were selected as the best team of national campus football (general camp), and 4 students were selected as members of the Chinese campus football national team. The school was rated as a national outstanding football characteristic school by the Ministry of Education (a total of 27 in the country), and Chen Chuan was rated as a national outstanding campus football coach for two consecutive years (a total of 8 in the country).
After being selected for the Chinese campus football national team, Shen Yun went to the Scene of the Women's World Cup in France with the team in June 2019 as the flag bearer of the competition. During this period, she also visited, studied, trained and competed at the Klefontaine football training base, which has trained French stars such as Zidane, Henry and Mbappe. For Aluminum City Primary School, this is not only the representative of the school going out of Chongqing, but also the representative of the development of football in China's campus.
On the honor wall of Aluminum City Primary School, all the niches are filled with trophies won in football matches, and Principal Chen Xingming will still face questions such as "what is the feeling of honor full", and his answer has never changed, "I only hope that my children are healthy and happy." ”