The school's philosophy is "people-oriented, harmonious development", and the school's goal is "all for the all-round development and lifelong happiness of students, and strive to make students become qualified talents with sound personality, knowledge, courtesy, enterprising spirit, comprehensive quality, innovative spirit and practical ability in the new era". The idea and goal of running a school reflect the requirements of all-round quality education and are the profound understanding and firm pursuit of educational fairness and balance under the new situation.
Creating a curriculum culture with our school's characteristics is one of our main tasks. Curriculum culture focuses on "people-oriented", pays attention to every student, gives them the freedom to study independently and gives full play to their special skills, and provides a broader stage for students' all-round development. This is the core of educational fairness and balance.
There are several highlights in the construction of school curriculum culture in recent years:
Art education: Adhere to the combination of in-class and out-of-class, popularization and improvement, and set up a number of interest groups such as chorus, dance, piano, guzheng, bamboo flute, painting and calligraphy, sketch and pottery. The school regularly displays artistic achievements and holds a campus culture and art festival every two years to provide a stage for students to display their artistic talents.
Sports: The school is an advanced sports school in Suzhou and a traditional sports school in Changshu. The school has set up amateur training teams such as track and field team, basketball team, volleyball team, table tennis team and swimming team, and nearly 100 students win prizes in various competitions at all levels every year.
Science and technology education: The school is the first batch of science and technology characteristic schools in Changshu, and it is the demonstration base of popular science teaching of Chinese Academy of Juvenile Sciences. The school actively carries out scientific and technological interest group activities, such as intelligent robot teaching, robot assembly, China warship assembly, amphibious electric vehicle assembly by waterway, plant specimen making, lectures on physiological health knowledge, etc. Organize students to participate in science and technology summer camps every summer.
Comprehensive Practice: According to students' interests and specialties, the school extensively carries out comprehensive practice activities. Comprehensive practical courses such as strengthening disciplines, expanding knowledge and giving full play to specialties are offered. Nearly 2000 students participate in activities every year, and their learning ability, practical ability and innovative spirit have been developed.
The school attaches great importance to the cultivation of teachers' professional quality and ability: adhere to the system of class evaluation and student evaluation; Pay attention to the cultivation of young teachers and build a dynamic tutor mechanism; Adhere to school-based training activities and carry out collective lesson preparation activities such as lectures, lectures and grinding classes; Invite famous teachers, experts and academic leaders to come to the school for demonstration classes and make special reports; Strengthen the training of famous teachers, build a growing group of backbone teachers in the school, actively encourage teachers to upgrade their academic qualifications, actively carry out exchange activities with foreign schools, and try to carry out overseas exchange activities, such as hiring foreign teachers and pairing with overseas sister schools.