The newly established school only covers an area of 15 mu, with 80 houses and 6 teaching classes: there are 3 classes in Grade One, with more than 40 students in each class; There are two classes in Grade Two, each with about 40 students; There are less than 30 students in a class in grade three. It started in autumn before 1942. The school adopts a "pagoda-style" organizational system and implements a strict system of promotion and repetition (wide entry and strict exit). Those who fail in Chinese, mathematics and English must repeat the grade; Anyone who is absent from class for more than the prescribed hours must also repeat the grade.
1936, Li Yugui retired in old age, and his grandson Li Yuting succeeded him as principal. Li Yuting graduated from cheeloo university and was keen on politics. His name is the headmaster, and the actual work is mostly done by Guo Jingzhi, the director of education. 1942, Guo Jingzhi retired, and Jia Baoheng (Zi Xin Jiu Shi), who returned from Linru No.10 Middle School, took over as the teaching director, taking charge of the internal and external affairs of the school. Both directors are teachers with professional qualities and have made great contributions to the development of the school in its initial stage. 1943, Li Yuting became a senator, treasury director and titular principal of Nanyang county.
1944 spring, died of illness, and the eldest son Li (son) returned to his hometown from Huaiyang No.3 Middle School. In view of the vacancy of the headmaster, the gentry unanimously advised him to return to his hometown, so he became the third headmaster.
Li and Jia Baoheng returned to their hometowns to teach, which greatly improved the social status of the school and had a growing influence in the education sector. By June 1947, there were 244 graduates, of whom 186 were promoted to institutions of higher learning and 58 took part in social work. 1945 Winter, Kaifeng High School, one of the six experimental high schools in China, enrolled 80 students with more than 2,000 applicants. At that time, 15 students from Wandong Middle School applied for the school, and 1 1 students were admitted, among which He Qinsheng was the first and second, which attracted the attention of Xu, the teaching director of Kaifeng High School.
In 1930s and 1940s, teachers employed by the school came from all parts of the province, as well as Shanghai, Shandong, Jiangsu, Jehol, Hebei, Hubei and other places, and most of them were progressive people with a sense of justice. 1September, 938, Zhang huancai was appointed by "Wanshu Ping Jin Homecoming Association" to develop revolutionary forces in the credit shop. As a teacher, Qu Yunshan, Sun Yutang and Jia Naigui, students who developed and progressed in Wandong Middle School, joined China and established the Wandong Middle School Branch of the Communist Party of China, which, like the Citizen Branch, Lushan Branch and Sunzhuang Branch, belongs to the leadership of Wandong District Committee. There are secret activities of underground parties and teachers with progressive ideas, and the students in Wandong Middle School are mostly young people with a sense of justice.
1944, during the Pacific War, the school responded to the call of "100,000 young people and 100,000 troops" issued by the National Government, and organized students to listen to the mobilization report of Nanyang county magistrate Zhao Zhiting. Twenty students, including Zhang Xiaomeng, actively signed up for the Youth Army. 1June 947, the school carved a stone tablet to record this feat.
In the 1940s, there was a school song. Hold a "Memorial Week" once a week; There are early and late parties every day. During the memorial week, all teachers and students recited the will of the Prime Minister, sang the national flag song when raising the flag, and often sang the national anthem, school song, morning song, evening song and inspirational song when gathering.
1940 Yao, a famous writer (Li Chunru was a classmate at Peking University), gave a lecture at Wandong Middle School, entitled "What is literature, what is a writer and how to be a writer". Taking the creation process of his first novel "Poor Half-wheatgrass" as an example, he gave a vivid and simple explanation to the teachers and students, so that the teachers and students of Wandong Middle School accepted vivid literary knowledge.
Wandong Middle School has a team of high-quality teachers, such as Sun, a famous historian and archaeologist. He is knowledgeable and admired by the world. Chinese teachers Wei Jingtang and Yu Boren have exquisite calligraphy, which is amazing; Jiang is a versatile English teacher, who can do everything with his piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Du in Hebei and Fen in Shandong are famous, while Lu Zibin in Kaifeng, Wang Haichun in Qiyang and Sun Jingyun in the local area are excellent in sports skills ... Therefore, the students in Wandong Middle School have a colorful after-school life. The school constantly organizes speech competitions, calligraphy and painting competitions, track and field and ball games. Teachers and students also cooperated with actors in the society to organize a public performance in Shanshan Guild Hall, which was well received by all walks of life.
1938, the school has also set up an affiliated primary school in the school, which only enrolls students in grades 5 and 6. 1939 ends. The photo of Wang Qiuyan, a female teacher, was particularly good and left a deep impression on people.
1944, the school opened a women's department in the Gospel Hall to recruit 140 girls, which was rare in Nanyang at that time. 1947, 33 of them graduated and became very valuable young intellectuals when the credit shop was liberated. After liberation, most of them took part in revolutionary work, including Zhou Fengxian, Du Zhexian and Ma.
1947, the school opened a high school in Xige Neijie.
1945 Spring, Credit Town fell, Puppet troops occupied the school for half a year, and the school was forced to suspend classes for one semester. The traitor Sun Zhengxun (maintenance principal) lives in Wandong Middle School, and all the books and instruments in the school are destroyed. "8. 15" Japan surrendered, the town resumed credit, and classes resumed in September. The school still enrolls students in spring and autumn according to the practice since 1942, and classes are resumed every semester, leaving only one semester, that is, the spring class stays in the autumn class and the autumn class stays in the spring class next year.
The school has some physical and chemical instruments and physical and chemical specimens, which can barely do group experiments. There were several books in the library, among which "ABC Series" and "Universal Library" were the most used books at that time.
1945 10, Zhang Huiyan, Nanyang headquarters of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, went to Wandong Middle School to set up the Youth League Committee. Since then, there has been no activity.
Before liberation, the school funds mainly came from "learning wheat" handed in by students and a small amount of donations from local Kunming teachers.
A huge portrait of Mr. Li Yugui hangs in the school office, and a portrait of Zhang Fang hung in the 1940s. Zhang Fang, commander-in-chief of the 20 th Route Army, led his troops in Nanyang. He once sponsored the school and invited him as the honorary president of the school.
1947165438+10, she town was liberated and private wandong middle school was closed. Li, the principal, and Jia Baoheng, the teaching director, returned to Kaifeng to teach at Lianghe Middle School and Kaifeng Normal College, the provincial capital.