Since its establishment, the school has defined the purpose of "educating people". All administrative organizations, course preparation, training methods, experimental research and all facilities are based on the principle of fully developing children's personality, inspiring children's intelligence and meeting children's needs. In the 1920s, American educators Dewey and Meng Lu visited the school twice and praised it as "keeping pace with the first-class primary schools in Europe and America". From 1950s to 1980s, the school adhered to the tradition of "emphasizing experiment and demonstration" and became the experimental base of primary education in the whole province, which had great influence both in the province and at home. Since the 1990s, the school has inherited the tradition, pioneered and innovated, with the goal of promoting students' all-round and harmonious development, and primary schools have studied big education. Primary schools carry out big education. The school took the lead in carrying out the experiment of quality education curriculum reform. Take the lead in establishing a quality-oriented education base for students in the whole school, taking the lead in carrying out education quality management certification and publishing monographs, and taking the lead in establishing a primary education group. Take the lead in jointly running schools abroad.
More than 100 years of running a school, the concept of educating people, and unremitting educational experimental research; Practical and enterprising; The school motto of "honesty, kindness, wisdom and steadiness" has been formed by the spirit of pursuing excellence. The study style of "unity, cooperation, realism, tenacity, flexibility and cooperation" and the teaching style of "reality, precision, liveliness and innovation". In the past hundred years, the school has trained a number of well-known teachers in China, such as Yu Ziyi, Ji and Huang. More than 20,000 qualified graduates have been sent to the society. I.M. Pei, a world-famous architect, and Wu Dakun, a famous economist in China, are all alumni of our school. In recent years, more than ten scientific research works, such as "Research on the Strategy of Implementing Quality Education Curriculum in Primary Schools", have been published one after another. The school has successively won the honorary titles of advanced unit of teaching and scientific research, advanced unit of moral education and civilized unit in Jiangsu Province. It was named UNESCO Club, Experimental School of Education Experimental Research Center of Central Education Institute and National Excellent Primary School Principal Training Base. The school has been fully affirmed and praised by all walks of life. It is listed as one of the famous schools in China.