Xiangzhou No.1 Middle School has specially built classrooms for painting, music (vocal music), body building and performance, and is equipped with high-level professional teachers to provide targeted special counseling. In terms of art and sports, Xiangzhou No.1 Middle School has formed two major features: the annual sports meeting in April and the art festival in September. The sports festival takes the spring track and field sports meeting as the theme, supplemented by tug-of-war, fun sports meeting, basketball game and volleyball game, and is aimed at teachers and students of all grades; Art Festival is to show works of art through art exhibitions, calligraphy exhibitions, competitions, lectures and other forms to cultivate students' sentiment. Xiangzhou No.1 Middle School has also set up a special creative and inventive team, equipped with professional teachers to guide and coach, inspire students' ideas and help solve material and technical problems. In 2009, the school won the team gold medal and seven individual first prizes in the national creative competition. In addition, No.1 Middle School was also rated as an innovation experimental base and Xiangyang Innovation School. More than 65,438+000 people won the second prize in the discipline competition, and 63 students won the national patent certificate for their inventions.