The warm winter sun is sprinkled on the banks of the Wujiang River. Sizhong Junior High School, located next to the Confucian Temple in Sinan Province, is in the quaint and exquisite campus, where students are walking across the waterless three-arch bridge, crossing the Lingxing Gate, and happily running towards their dreams.
"Our school is a new school in a century-old school. An Ling, Secretary of the Party Branch and Principal of Sizhong Junior High School, confidently introduced that the school has won the first prize of comprehensive evaluation of education and teaching quality in Tongren City for five consecutive years.
Sizhong Junior High School, formerly known as Sinan Middle School Junior High School, is a non-boarding junior high school officially established in July 2016. In 2017, the school moved to the site of Sinan Middle School, a century-old school, and was renamed Sizhong Junior High School in 2019.
Sinan Middle School was founded in the 30th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1904), when it was known as Sinan Government Middle School. In 1950, it was officially named "Sinan Middle School of Guizhou Province" by the Guizhou Provincial People's Government, and in 1960, it was established as one of the first batch of provincial key middle schools by the provincial government, and is one of the most prestigious century-old schools in eastern Qiandong.
In 2017, Sinan Middle School was relocated to Sinan Education Park as a whole, and the original site became the new campus of the newly established Sinan Junior High School.
"Although we are a new school, after moving to the old site of Sizhong, in accordance with the principle of still building the old and repairing the old as the old, we will retain the original campus style of Sizhong, continue to use the school motto and school emblem of Sizhong, and insist on innovation and development in the inheritance of the cultural context. An Ling said.
Taoyuan, Magnolia Garden, Waterless Three-Arch Bridge...... These campus attractions, which carry the memories and feelings of generations of teachers and students in Lao Sizhong, still maintain their original appearance. Even the school gate has not been replaced.
The school adheres to the school motto of the century-old Sinan Middle School of "Heavy Responsibilities and Long Roads, Determined to Become Talents", adheres to the school spirit of "unity and diligence, seeking truth and enterprising", practices the teaching style of "rigorous and good teaching, love and dedication", creates a school style of "consciously working hard, respecting teachers and abiding by discipline", establishes the school-running concept of "let every flower and bone bloom brilliantly", and strives to create the school-running characteristics of "attaching equal importance to knowledge and ability, and compatibility between learning and life".
Sinan Middle School is also a "red" school. In October 1938, Xiao Cizhan, a communist who was then the secretary general of the Guizhou Provincial Underground Party Working Committee and the director of education in Sizhong, established the first underground party organization in Qiandong, the underground branch of Sinan Middle School of the Communist Party of China, and cultivated a group of revolutionaries such as Xiong Daying. In 1950, the students of Sinan Middle School responded to the call to defend their families and the country, and actively signed up to join the army and go to the Korean battlefield.
Sizhong Junior High School has always adhered to the fine revolutionary tradition, and more than 180 teachers in the school have not forgotten the original intention of running the school, kept in mind the mission of educating people, and made every effort to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor for the country. At the same time, it pays attention to the patriotic education of young students, uses weekly speeches under the national flag, theme class meetings, etc. to cultivate the feelings of family and country, and encourages students to strive to be good teenagers in the new era with all-round development.
The school also pays attention to the inheritance of national culture, relying on Sinan flower candle and other local excellent culture, and establishes flower candle clubs in students' extracurricular activities, and actively guides students to pay attention to the inheritance and development of national culture.
Inheriting the cultural context and innovating and developing, Sizhong Junior High School continues to promote the high-quality development of education and teaching.
The school actively explores and innovates the "party building +" model, sets up a party group in the teaching and research group, and actively implements the "double training" mechanism of training backbone teachers into party members and party member teachers into teaching management backbones. And take the party members to package the teaching and research group, the class, and the party member demonstration class, etc., to give play to the leading and exemplary role of party members in teaching, moral education, extended service, duty on duty, and logistics services.
In order to promote the efficient and quality improvement of curriculum teaching, the school also deepens the school curriculum reform, comprehensively promotes curriculum construction, and forms a team of high-quality characteristic teachers through curriculum construction and the development of characteristic activities. And explore the implementation of the "behavior first" classroom teaching reform project, and refine the management of all aspects of education and teaching.
In terms of teacher training, the school leaders have been implemented to listen to and evaluate classes on a regular basis or "push the door to listen to classes", and the dual tutor system and the "Qinglan" project have been implemented to strengthen the training of young teachers. At the same time, we will carry out guided lectures, research lectures, and mutual assistance lectures, and establish a regular and systematic teaching reflection system to improve the professional ability of all teachers.
In order to promote the all-round development of students, the school insists on grasping the characteristics of art on the basis of excellent academics, exploring the integration of basic courses, extended courses and art education characteristics, comprehensively cultivating students' interests and hobbies, and improving the comprehensive quality level of students.
Implement the "five educations at the same time" and cultivate new talents of the times. The school has established more than 10 student clubs, covering candles, dance, wind music, chorus, basketball, table tennis, badminton, calligraphy, painting, etc.
In recent years, the school's dance and basketball have frequently won awards in various activities held by provinces, cities and counties: the dance team won the second prize at the provincial level in the 17th Guiqing Cup Competition, the calligraphy club represented Sinan in the Tongren National Unity Cup on-site calligraphy competition, and the basketball team went out to compete on behalf of Sinan junior high school students every year. The school has also become a county-level basketball, table tennis, badminton base school, and in November this year, it was also approved by the Provincial Department of Education as a traditional sports table tennis school in Guizhou Province.
Inherit the cultural context of the old school and cultivate new talents of the times. This new school, which is based on a century-old school, has achieved fruitful educational results in just seven years and has become a leader in public junior high schools in Tongren City. According to statistics, in the past seven years, the county has enrolled a total of 5,591 new students, graduated 5 classes of students, a total of 2,915 students, 91% of the students went on to study in public high schools, of which 1,556 were admitted to provincial demonstration high schools.
"We will continue to inherit and carry forward the century-old school context, do not forget the original intention of establishing morality and cultivating people, keep in mind the mission of educating people for the party and the country, resolutely do things well, do things well, and build Sizhong Junior High School into a high-quality modern demonstration junior high school. An Ling said.
Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Yang Cong
Edited by Tian Yong
Second instance Wu Caili
Third trial Zhu Xie