The school has been committed to practical activities with special assignments as the carrier, so that tradition can nourish Xinghaiwa. Every winter vacation, the school guides students to find Suzhou old people around them and solve Suzhou customs such as eating rice cakes, writing Spring Festival couplets and pasting New Year pictures in Taohuawu, so that children can communicate with their partners, evaluate each other and inspire each other. The school is composed of "diversified" students from more than ten countries and regions, so that the world's multiculturalism and Suzhou traditional culture can blend and grow together in Xinghai Primary School. Rooted in tradition, vision and vision are international. Xinghai Primary School actively organizes children to participate in international exchange activities and explore international understanding education. Every year, dozens of Xinghaiwa go abroad to study in Canada, Australia, Singapore and other countries. Through learning, children can improve their English, broaden their horizons and enhance their intercultural communication skills.
Children from other countries also regularly come to Xinghai Primary School for immersion study. They learn Suzhou dialect, experience Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures, learn folk dances and learn the art of paper cutting. These activities not only spread oriental culture, but also enhanced international understanding and established profound international friendship. According to the age characteristics of each group of students, the school has carried out a variety of activities, giving more than 2,000 Xinghaiwa more choices and building a stage for them to show their talents. In the process of deepening quality education, the school has displayed some traditional activities in richer, more vivid and more creative forms. Astronomical observation, three models (car model, sea model and empty model) interest groups and "Xinghaiwa" research institute expand children's scientific and cultural horizons. The fifth-grade children in the school also spontaneously set up scientific research institutions by class: Penguin Institute, Animal Science Institute, Sandstorm Science Institute, Meteorological-Environmental Science Institute ... Under the guidance of teachers, the children enthusiastically devoted themselves to the "research topics" of the class in their spare time.
The school takes the characteristic education development strategy of "one school, one product" as the starting point, combines the requirements of comprehensively and deeply promoting quality education, adheres to the characteristic school-running concept of "learning is good and diversified growth", takes the original "one product", that is, swimming characteristics as the root, and is equipped with scientific, reasonable and operable "elective items" as "branches and leaves" according to the needs of students' diversified growth, so as to nourish the towering characteristic education.
The school actively builds the swimming brand of Xinghai Primary School, forming an atmosphere of "everyone loves swimming and everyone can swim".