The area on the west side of Guanyin Mountain used to be barren hills, overgrown with weeds and graves everywhere, and there were ditches at the foot of the mountain to guard the city. At the beginning of the school, there was only one simple office building, two two-story blue brick classrooms and nine staff dormitories, covering an area of 90 mu. In order to beautify the campus, the teachers and students of the whole school carried forward the spirit of hard struggle. Under the leadership of Chairman Tang, weeds were cleared, land was leveled and trenches were filled. In more than two years, more than 4,000 square meters of campus roads have been built, more than 400 fruit trees have been planted and 4,000 osmanthus trees have been transplanted, with a greening rate of 45%. It was rated as an advanced greening unit in Guilin twice. Every late autumn, the golden wind is refreshing, the osmanthus is fragrant, the melons and fruits hang down, and the scenery is pleasant.
Soon after the school was established, it encountered difficulties for several years. In order to improve the conditions for running a school, the school has set up an agricultural base in the cool breeze far away from the urban area, reclaimed more than mu of wasteland 10, and planted crops such as sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts, which have a considerable harvest every year. Become the leading advanced unit of work-study program in Guilin, and be commended by the municipal government.
At the same time, the school's teaching has also achieved gratifying results. 1960 senior high school entrance examination, the school mathematics ranks first in the city, and the scores of other subjects have also been greatly improved. The school slaughtered pigs and sheep for this purpose and expressed condolences and congratulations to the teachers and students. Excellent results have greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of teachers and students in the whole school for teaching and learning, and inspired them to keep making progress under difficult conditions. In the following years, they made gratifying achievements in succession. The Fifth Middle School has been fully affirmed by the municipal government, aroused the concern of the citizens, praised by parents and welcomed by students.
1966 Although the "Cultural Revolution" broke out, it brought unprecedented catastrophe to Guilin No.5 Middle School, but the school was in a chaotic state of long-term suspension. 1968 Since September, the school has been managed by the military representatives stationed in the school. 1970 school added a high school, renamed Guilin No.5 Middle School, becoming the first high school in the north of Guilin. Since then, the Fifth Middle School has opened a new chapter in its development. No.5 Middle School changed its organizational system and added a high school. The school has expanded its scale, increased teaching facilities, built more teaching buildings and auditoriums, expanded the open-air stadium, and built new staff dormitories and school-run factories. The number of teaching staff has increased to fifty or sixty, and the number of students has increased to four or five hundred. Although the "Cultural Revolution" was not over at that time and the teaching order in the school had not returned to normal, while studying industry, agriculture and the army, we had noticed the teaching of cultural courses. 1972, the military representatives stationed in the school withdrew and the school resumed the principal responsibility system.
1976, especially 1977, restored the college entrance examination system and injected a strong impetus into the development of Guilin No.5 Middle School. Under the guidance of the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Tenth CPC Central Committee, Guilin No.5 Middle School brought order out of chaos, thoroughly implemented the Party's policies, rehabilitated unjust, false and wrong cases, greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of teachers and students, and the school showed vigorous development vitality. 1978 college entrance examination, the admission rate of candidates from No.5 middle school is among the best in the city. Among them, Mo was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results (only two Guilin candidates were admitted to Tsinghua that year).
After reform and development, Guilin No.5 Middle School has made great progress. New teaching buildings and office buildings have been built, football fields and track fields have been expanded, and two dormitory buildings for staff and workers have been built. The size of the school has gradually expanded. The enrollment of junior high school has been expanded from 4 classes to 6 to 8 classes, and the enrollment of senior high school has also been expanded from 2 classes to 4 to 6 classes. By 1996, the school has reached the scale of 30 classes, with about 1800 students and the number of teaching staff increased to about 130.
During this period, Guilin No.5 Middle School was rated as an advanced unit of education reform in Guilin from 65438 to 0986 because of its remarkable achievements in teaching, scientific research and education reform. Due to outstanding achievements in legal education and comprehensive management, 199 1 was rated as an advanced unit of comprehensive management in the autonomous region, and 1992- 1996 was rated as an advanced unit of comprehensive management in Diecai District of Guilin and a civilized unit in Guilin for five consecutive years. The school's educational and teaching achievements are even more gratifying. Su Zhengang, a geography teacher, has been devoted to geography teaching for a long time. He has published dozens of papers and made dozens of sets of teaching AIDS. With remarkable teaching achievements, he was rated as a special-grade teacher in the autonomous region. Xie Rong, a young physics teacher, won the first prize of the quality course for young physics teachers in the autonomous region and the first prize of the quality course for young physics teachers in China. During this period, the school has been rated as an advanced educator and teacher in the autonomous region for 10 times, and 120 times as an advanced educator and teacher in Guilin.
There are also surprising results in the college entrance examination. Chen Lizhi, who entered junior high school at the age of 9, was admitted to the preparatory class of Suzhou University of Science and Technology at the age of 12, the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 15, and went to study in the United States at the age of 19, becoming the only junior college student in the school. 1987, 1989, 1994, the admission rate of No.5 middle school entrance examination ranks second among ordinary high schools in urban areas. Due to outstanding achievements, after the 1994 college entrance examination, the municipal government also allocated a special place for the school and sent a high school student to New Zealand for exchange and study. 1995 and 1996, the admission rate of the college entrance examination in No.5 middle school reached 54.3% and 72.2% respectively. Among them, 1996, the comprehensive level of literature and history candidates ranked in the top 30 of 452 high schools in the whole autonomous region, achieving a historic breakthrough. 1May, 1997, the leadership of Guilin No.5 Middle School was greatly adjusted, and Luo Tianxing was appointed as the principal and secretary of No.5 Middle School. Under the leadership of Guilin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, in order to keep pace with the times and promote the development of No.5 Middle School, the new leadership team of the school has adjusted the school layout and separated the living area from the teaching area. Raise more than 20 million yuan to build a new 10950 square meter teaching building and a 2200 square meter sports training hall (including table tennis hall, fitness hall, basketball and badminton hall, gym, etc.). ), artificial grass Sports Ground, 265,438+093 square meters comprehensive office building (including multimedia classroom), network classroom, language laboratory, physics laboratory and so on. The modern teaching facilities in No.5 Middle School are more and more complete. In addition, there are more than 7,000 square meters of leisure green belts on campus, creating a good environment for teachers and students. The school also helped to expand the dormitory built in the early days and improved the living conditions of the faculty.
At the same time, the school adheres to the tenet of "governing the school according to law, promoting education through scientific research, promoting quality education in an all-round way, constantly improving the quality of education and teaching, standardizing the behavior of teachers and students, and constantly improving the overall quality", and puts forward the requirements of unity, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation to the leaders, and makes a good start and do good deeds with their practical actions of diligence and clean government; Put forward the requirements for teaching staff to work hard outside the tree and practice internal strength, and demand themselves by the standard of "learning to be a teacher and running the world" and strive to become the masters of teaching and work; Put forward the requirements of "low to high" for students, lay a good foundation, pay attention to ability, improve quality, and make yourself a good student.
Through years of hard work, the quality of teachers has been greatly improved. The school has 2 special-grade teachers, 3 municipal department leaders, 58 senior teachers and 63 first-class teachers. Students in Class A, B and C of "2 1 Century Gardener Project" 14, municipal teaching experts 17, 3 members of municipal curriculum reform expert group, and 37 excellent counselors in academic competitions. Teachers of No.5 Middle School published 55 papers in newspapers and periodicals at all levels, including national papers 12, 34 papers at autonomous region level and 9 papers at municipal level. There are 120 people who have won prizes in the excellent course competition and courseware making competition at or above the municipal level. Among them, Mr. Lan Chen's Making Multimedia Courseware and Mr. Lin Yuping's Excellent Course won the first prize in the country.
The comprehensive quality of students has also been greatly improved. Since 1997, except for a few years, the online rate of No.5 Middle School has been in the top two of municipal ordinary high schools, attracting worldwide attention and enjoying a good social reputation. The school has won more than 30 advanced awards at or above the municipal level, such as the advanced unit of the National Youth Federation's "Motherland in the Heart, Others in the Heart" activity, the national green school, the advanced collective of moral education in primary and secondary schools, and the civilized unit of the autonomous region. In 2003, it was rated as a first-class school of ordinary high schools by the Supervision Office of the autonomous region government, ranking among the advanced schools in Guilin. The new leadership of the school with Wen Zehong as the principal. According to the needs of national construction and society for all kinds of high-quality talents, and around the overall goal of improving teaching quality and cultivating students' quality, this paper puts forward the school-running idea of "strengthening management, grasping the three styles (school spirit, teaching spirit and study style), emphasizing scientific research and promoting quality", deepening the reform of internal management system, and changing the original subject group office into grade group office, which is beneficial to the head teacher mechanism to communicate with the head teacher, exchange teaching information and keep abreast of students' situation. The online rate of the fifth middle school entrance examination continues to rank second in the ordinary high schools directly under the municipal government, and some high scores appear. Among them, the highest score of science is 587, and the second is 585, ranking first and second in the city's ordinary high schools, and the highest score of liberal arts is 593, ranking second in the city's ordinary high schools.
In order to make better use of the existing modern teaching facilities and improve the efficiency of classroom teaching, the school has also established a campus network center and a teacher's electronic lesson preparation room. Teachers' Day saves time in preparing lessons, but it enlarges the classroom capacity and improves the teaching effect. 99% teachers in the school can independently use audio-visual teaching to make their own courseware, and some courseware has reached a higher level. The courseware "Market in the Sky" made by Lan Chen won the first prize of the State. Under the guidance of teachers, students also actively participated in the production of courseware. The cyclone and anticyclone demonstrator made by student Qin also won the first prize of the autonomous region and the national patent. Teachers and students of No.5 Middle School made their own courseware to participate in competitions at all levels, and 55 works won prizes. Among them, there are 3 at the national level, 25 at the autonomous region level and 37 at the municipal level.
Teachers of No.5 Middle School actively participate in the research of scientific research projects at all levels while engaging in their own teaching, including the national key project "Research on the ways to improve the effectiveness of Chinese traditional virtue education", "Experimental research on the cultivation of middle school students' humanistic quality and scientific spirit" and "Experimental research on the integration of information technology and new curriculum", and have achieved fruitful results. For example, in the annual review meeting of the national "Spreading America" research, among the 22 papers selected by No.5 Middle School, 4 won the first prize, and the rest won the second prize, so the school was rated as the national excellent experimental school for spreading American education.
In addition, No.5 Middle School is an effective school with all the characteristics in art and sports. According to the characteristics that some students are interested in art and sports and have a wide range of hobbies, the school requires to vigorously carry out second-class activities, strengthen the training and guidance of these students, so that their specialties can be fully and harmoniously developed and strive to become useful talents. Through classroom teaching to attract students, enhance interest, cultivate sentiment through extracurricular activities, lay a good foundation, hone their will and improve their ability through amateur training, the school has trained a large number of students with artistic and sports expertise. Over the past five years, more than 400 of these students have been admitted to art colleges, and 3 1 has been admitted to Wuhan Institute of Physical Education and other sports colleges. This achievement has been praised by some outsiders as the pillar industry of No.5 Middle School, which is probably exaggerated. The scale and achievements of cultivating art students in No.5 Middle School have jumped to the first place in Guilin and the second place in Guangxi.
Among these special students, Lu Jing was selected as the image ambassador by Guilin Radio and Television News in 2004, and Oufeng Pan, a singer who participated in the Spring Festival Gala in Guangxi in 2005, was admitted to Tian Jin and Lv Jie of the Central Academy of Fine Arts successively. In 2002, Ai Wu was admitted to Shanghai Conservatory of Music with excellent results, and studied under the famous vocal educator Zhou Xiaoyan. Shortly after Ai Wu graduated from graduate school, she was admitted to Paris Higher Music Normal School. In April, Ai Wu participated in the first European Baroque Vocal Competition held in France, and won the best performance award in one fell swoop. In April, Ai Wu won the first prize in the vocal competition in her university. Soon, she participated in the 35th International Vocal Music Competition, and won the special prize and the best mezzo-soprano award. Ai Wu's achievements not only won honor for China, but also added luster to her alma mater, Guilin No.5 Middle School.
Today, on the occasion of commemorating the 50th birthday of Guilin No.5 Middle School, more than 2,000 teachers and students of the whole school warmly extend cordial greetings and heartfelt thanks to the leaders, teachers and alumni of previous schools! Pay high tribute to all people with lofty ideals who care about and support the growth and development of No.5 Middle School! I would like to extend my best wishes to the students who have spread their wings and taken off in No.5 Middle School! Let's cherish the memory of the glorious course of No.5 Middle School in the past 50 years, look forward to a more glorious future and write a more glorious historical chapter in No.5 Middle School.