Honghe, January 8 (Shi Wenzhi) gourd silk, dance, calligraphy, pebble painting, basketball, football...... Walking into Jinshuihe Guomen Primary School on the border between China and Vietnam, at the end of China's education map, every primary school student here has more or less a specialty.
The picture shows the students of Jinshuihe Guomen Primary School observing the robot technology display. Photo courtesy of Jinshuihe Guomen Primary School
Jinshuihe Guomen Primary School is located in Jinping County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, near the Sino-Vietnamese Jinshui River Estuary. In recent years, the school has taken "running a school with art and sports characteristics" as an important way to improve students' comprehensive literacy, and has carried out 22 activities such as dance, calligraphy, pebble painting, basketball, and football, so as to realize the art and sports teaching pattern of "everyone has a specialty" for students.
Yang Xiong, vice principal of Jinshuihe Guomen Primary School, introduced that the predecessor of this primary school was Jinshuihe Town Port Primary School, which was founded in 1974, and was renamed Jinshuihe Guomen Primary School in 2021, and the school is 29 kilometers away from Jinping County. At present, the school has a total of 19 classes and 897 students, including 8 Vietnamese students.
"Children in the border mountains, if they want to go out, they can only rely on grades. This is not only the hope of students in his hometown, but also the creed of educators such as Yang Xiong. In the past, the infrastructure was weak and the educational concept was backward, so it could only carry out daily teaching. "Xi is unusually 'boring', as constant as sunrise and sunset, and dropouts occur from time to time. ”
In recent years, the school has begun to cultivate students' interests and hobbies through after-school services and rural children's palaces. "Although the school has carried out cultural and sports activities, there is a lack of innovative forms. ”
The picture shows students practicing the basic skills of Xi dance. Photo courtesy of Jinshuihe Guomen Primary School
In March 2021, Yang Xiong went to Yunnan Normal University in Kunming to participate in the "10,000 Principals Training Program" in Yunnan Province, starting the longest off-the-job training in his 12-year career.
The "10,000 Principals Training Program" is a project training commissioned by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education to undertake by Yunnan Normal University, aiming to train 10,000 outstanding primary and secondary school principals through five years of efforts, and strive to create a team of principals with strong political skills, noble moral character, superb business skills and good governance.
At Yunnan Normal University, Yang Xiong exchanged Xi with principals from cities, villages and borders. "The training not only made me realize the importance of happy learning and Xi, but also mastered many innovative cultural and sports activities during the exchange. ”
After the training, go back to school. Yang Xiong proposed that the school should take "running a school with art and sports characteristics" as an important way to improve students' comprehensive literacy, and with the help of double reduction and after-school services, on the basis of the children's palace of rural schools, 22 activities such as dance, calligraphy, pebble painting, basketball, and football should be carried out.
The picture shows students learning Xi intangible cultural heritage skills in Hulu Town. Photo courtesy of Jinshuihe Guomen Primary School
In addition, the school also "moved" the intangible cultural heritage skills of Hulu Town into the Children's Palace, so that children can fully experience the charm of intangible cultural heritage in their spare time. In order to allow children to develop good reading Xi, the opening hours of the library have been extended. The library has been extended from one hour a day to three and a half hours a day.
"Today, 100% of students participate in interest activities, and everyone has a special talent. Yang Xiong told reporters that boring Xi has become happy, which directly affects the work of controlling dropouts and protecting students, "Our school has not lost a single student." ”
In addition to grades, students have more options. On a wall covered with notes from dreams read: "I want to be a scientist", "I want to be a musician", "I want to be a dancer", "I want to play in Europe like Messi...... (ENDS)