The school symphony orchestra is one of the school's characteristic education. Nanmo Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1992. Over the years, the orchestra has been hiring professional teachers from Shanghai Conservatory of Music to give careful guidance to its members. After years of careful cultivation, the orchestra has reached a considerable scale and strength. Now the orchestra has been able to rehearse and successfully perform a number of well-known symphony works at home and abroad that are difficult and familiar to the audience, and has achieved gratifying results. The orchestra won the first prize of the first national art performance for primary and secondary school students, and the first prize of the first national art performance for primary and secondary school students and instrumental music performance. At the same time, the orchestra also went abroad, went to Hong Kong and went to Taiwan to exchange performances and learn their acting skills. This not only deepened their relationship, but also showed the good mental outlook and artistic accomplishment of "Nanmo people".
Basketball is also a traditional school sport. The school lets more students know, be familiar with and love basketball through school windows, campus forums and other activities. Taking basketball as the starting point, the school has gradually formed a basketball spirit that runs through all the work of the school. Unity, cooperation and competition have become a well-known action guide for all teachers and students in the school. Through hard work, the school was named "Xuhui District Basketball Characteristic School" and the title of Shanghai Basketball Traditional Characteristic School. The school basketball team has won many awards in various competitions at all levels, winning honors for the school.
Extracurricular comprehensive scientific practice activities are also a highlight of school characteristic education. The school has initially formed a series of operable extracurricular inquiry practice courses in Oriental Land, Meng Qing Museum and Science and Technology Museum. The practice and exploration of this course has been included in the topic of the famous teacher base of Shanghai Education Commission. At the same time, through several years of practice, the school's science comprehensive practical activity course held on-site exhibition activities in cities and districts, which influenced and promoted the joint participation of similar schools around, and had certain influence and popularity. Extracurricular comprehensive practical activities not only stimulate students' interest in scientific inquiry, but also cultivate scientific thinking, scientific methods and inquiry ability in practice. At the same time, through practical activities, students' cooperative ability is also exercised and their cooperative consciousness is enhanced.
The school has always attached importance to science and technology education. The school has set up a number of scientific and technological interest activity groups. Ship model, creative robot, vertical and horizontal code input, astronomy and so on have become our school's characteristic science and technology projects, and won many awards in various competitions such as national, municipal and district competitions.