The school was founded in 1952, passed the acceptance of provincial key middle schools in 1993, was recognized as a national model high school in 200 1 year, and was renamed as the first batch of "four-star" high schools in the province in 2004. There are 150 classes, with a total of 10446 students and nearly 600 faculty members. The campus area is 298 mu, and the total output value of the school is10.50 billion yuan. The school has now formed three characteristics: "scientific and strict routine management, beautiful and harmonious educational environment and leading similar teaching quality". The undergraduate enrollment rate has been rising year after year, and the moral education achievements are brilliant and remarkable, which has become a beautiful landscape on the land of Yanfu.
The school has been commended or rated as an advanced school of moral education in Jiangsu Province, an excellent parent school in Jiangsu Province, an advanced collective of "creating a civilized school spirit and being a teacher" in Jiangsu Province, a unit that meets the standard of safety and civilization in Jiangsu Province, a garden-style unit in Jiangsu Province, and an advanced unit of audio-visual education in Jiangsu Province. It was awarded as "Model School of Jiangsu Province" twice in a row, "Civilized Unit of Jiangsu Province" for five years in a row, and was commended by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in 2003. In education and teaching, daily management, environmental construction, party building and spiritual civilization construction, it has been commended 72 times at or above the municipal level. "You can't lose it when you come, and you can't lose it when you jump." In the tide of reform and development, it is difficult for economically underdeveloped areas to run a modern middle school well. The school seized the fleeting opportunity and followed the trend. In the past eight years, with great courage and boldness, school leaders have made farsighted and correct decisions again and again, which has promoted the leap-forward development of the school again and again. The housing problem of teachers is an important factor to stabilize the team. The leaders of this school always regard solving the housing problem of teachers as a key project. 1997, the school raised 4.2 million yuan, and in just one year, 60 houses were built, each with 98 square meters and a garage. The following year, another 4 million yuan was invested to build a second residential building, which was also completed in one year. 1999, the school built the third residential building according to the needs. Three six-story buildings, lined up in a row, are located at the northern end of the campus, magnificent and dignified. I heard that there was a piece of land in the old street of Xiangshui Town to be auctioned. The school leaders decided to buy this piece of land and build a house as a staff dormitory, and placed more than 50 teachers' families at once. Teachers live and work in peace and contentment, and their work enthusiasm is naturally greatly improved. From 65438 to 0999, with the steady improvement of the teaching quality of the school, the influence and reputation of the school have gradually improved, and the desire of parents to send their children to study in the ring has become increasingly urgent. School leaders are keenly aware that the campus area and scale should be expanded rapidly. After careful consideration, the school spent 6.5438+0.5 million yuan to buy the office space of the former People's Armed Forces Department and the land for the Sports Commission, and built three apartment-style student dormitories and a modern student canteen and bathroom in those two places, which met the further requirements of the school's enrollment expansion for accommodation; The former sports commission stadium was transformed into a school gymnasium, which met the acceptance requirements of national demonstration high schools. These two items alone saved the school 4 million yuan.
"It's not the autumn wind that makes you afraid to speak loudly." Xiangshui Middle School is famous for its outstanding achievements in running schools. With the spread of the school's reputation, students from Nanjing, Suzhou and other distant places have come to the school to study, and students from surrounding counties and cities are also in an endless stream. The school leaders realized in time that this is another opportunity to make the school bigger and stronger, and the hardware facilities must keep up. To this end, the school has requisitioned 45 mu of land and built two student dormitories, a 3,500-square-meter teaching building and a 400-meter standard plastic track and field. In 2003, the number of senior one students in this school reached a record, ranking first in the city. In 2004, judging from the current enrollment situation, the school will be in the forefront of the province.
People can't help asking, where does the money for running a good school come from? This is really a big problem in economically underdeveloped areas. Especially since 2002, the school has been completely decoupled from the county finance economically, and the salary, welfare and capital investment of school facilities of the teaching staff must be solved by themselves. The school leaders successfully solved this problem with extraordinary boldness of vision and wisdom. While making full use of the active enrollment policy, the school raised funds in all directions and through various channels, took the lead in implementing "logistics socialization" and set up many school-run enterprises, including canteens, bathrooms, printing rooms, water plants, barbershops, gyms, supermarkets and other industries, which can bring more than two million yuan of contracted profits to the school every year and greatly enhance its hematopoietic function. In addition, the school also tries every means to raise funds, which seems to be "ahead of consumption", but in fact it is "timely blood supplement". Raise funds to develop the cause; Make the cause bigger and stronger, which in turn can win more funds for running schools; Considering the long-term interests, this is the real "win-win" strategy. "Ask where the canal is so clear, because there is a source of living water." If you have money, you may not be able to run a good education. It is not difficult to find out why you can achieve remarkable results without being "rich". Everyone who is "rich" has an "indomitable spirit". In the hard years, countless revolutionary martyrs shed their blood on this hot land, and people around the world always adhered to the revolutionary tradition of "suffering hardships" and silently dedicated their years to education. 1999 The school leaders decided to apply to the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education for the acceptance of national model high schools. The evaluation and acceptance criteria of national model high schools are very strict, which requires the school's teaching quality to reach a certain level, the hardware facilities and educational concepts to be modernized, the school can play a strong demonstration role in local and even wider areas in education, teaching and daily management, and the school undertakes certain experimental tasks in teaching research and implementation of quality education. Does it work in the boxing ring? Many people are worried about being suspected, and some even wait for jokes behind their backs. There is no turning back arrow before opening the bow. Facing the new goal, all the teachers and students are in high spirits and full of confidence. A group of school leaders arrive at school at 5 o'clock in the morning and go home around 1 1 in the evening. They either soak in the construction site, soak in the classroom, or attend the school rectification meeting ... The majority of faculty and staff also take the school as their home and regard this work as a lifelong event. In order to check and accept the work, some teachers give their children to relatives and friends in rural areas, some teachers persist in working until they are exhausted, some teachers forget to eat and sleep, study textbooks and improve teaching methods ... In April 2000, the national demonstration high school acceptance expert group conducted a serious and strict review and acceptance of sound education and teaching, routine management, comprehensive management and environmental construction. The expert group agreed that the school "has steadily improved the quality of running a school and is in a leading position in the whole region", which has reached the evaluation standard of national model high schools. The leader of the inspection team said with emotion: "It is a miracle to run such a good school in Xiangshui, an economically backward land."
As we all know, the basic education in Xiangshui County is relatively weak, and the quality of high school students in this school is far from the surrounding counties and cities. Facing the reality, the people in the ring did not complain, nor were they discouraged and disappointed. The majority of teachers and students have the same goal, self-pressure, hard work and determination to break the myth of student source determinism. At dawn, many teachers came to the campus; In the dead of night, there is a teacher in the office preparing lessons at his desk; During the holidays, students left, but many teachers still came to work. "The candlelight swaying gives birth to many talents, and the scenery is often exchanged for courage." In recent years, the enrollment rate of college entrance examination has increased year by year. 200 1, the undergraduate admission rate of the school has increased instead of falling, and the number of public undergraduate students has reached 358. It reached 430 in 2002;
In 2003, the number of public undergraduate students reached 53 1 person, ranking first among key middle schools in Yancheng 10. In the college entrance examination in 2004, more than 600 people were admitted to public undergraduate courses, making it the most remarkable school in Yancheng. Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China's reform and opening up, said: "Only when talents keep pouring out can our cause have hope." Similarly, with the continuous emergence of excellent teachers, our moral education also has hope. Teachers are the key to implementing quality education. The school regards strengthening the construction of teachers' morality and improving teachers' quality as the key to teaching, strives to cultivate high-quality teachers and insists on cultivating first-class students with first-class teachers. The school carries out the educational activities of "Teachers' morality is the most valuable, being a model for others". Starting from shaping images, casting teachers' souls and setting an example, teachers are required to shape people with selfless spirit, cultivate people with profound knowledge, guide people with scientific methods and influence people with elegant temperament. It is put forward that teachers' image quality can achieve "three qualities": virtue-good professional ethics; Talented-versatile; Wise-erudite, thus forming the school motto of "learning to be a teacher, being a model, being a model" in the whole school. The school carries out the "Five in One" activities among all teachers: reading at least one instructive book, taking a high-quality class, writing an excellent paper, transforming an underachiever and helping a poor student every semester; it carries out basic training activities with writing good words, saying good things (Putonghua) and preparing lessons as the main contents, and strives to improve teachers' working ability and teaching business ability. At the same time, combining teacher training with teaching and scientific research, creating "famous teacher activities" and encouraging teachers to declare provincial, municipal and county scientific research projects have effectively promoted the improvement of teachers' professional level and trained a number of educational backbones. At present, among the teaching staff, there are more than 10 graduate students who have obtained graduate degrees and are studying, more than 1 0 special-grade teachers, more than 10 academic leaders at or above the municipal level, 30 academic leaders and teaching experts at or above the municipal level, and 30 municipal "1"project trainers.