In addition to setting courses according to the national teaching plan, the school also highlights characteristic education; First, offering art classes to open up a new path for students with poor cultural foundation who are interested in art. The school started offering art classes from 1995, and trained 943 art talents, including 755 undergraduates, 2 from the Central Academy of Fine Arts 1 person and 2 from China Renmin University. This school has become the base for Xiangyang to send art talents to key universities in China, and its art education has become the most competitive characteristic education in the city. The second is to strengthen foreign language teaching. The school and Millwell English College in Sydney, Australia jointly held an English training class, hired foreign teachers, and created a foreign language atmosphere in the school, which greatly improved students' listening and speaking ability. The third is to offer music elective courses to improve students' quality in an all-round way.
The school has two teaching buildings, two standardized sports grounds, 45 well-equipped standard classrooms, 35,000 books in the school library, more than 500 kinds of Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals for students to read in the reading room, 8 first-class physical and chemical laboratories in the city, closed-circuit television teaching system 1 one, high-definition voice teaching system 1 one, and a microcomputer room that can accommodate 180 people to get on the computer at the same time. With this platform, students can learn and master new technologies and travel in a new world.
The school's logistics support system is complete, the system is perfect, and boarding students are closed, providing students with a good environment for study, life, rest and safety. There are canteens and canteens that can accommodate 2500 people at the same time. The electronic rice selling system is convenient and fast, and students only need about 300 yuan's meal money every month. There are 4 student apartments, which can accommodate 2000 people; There is a infirmary with complete equipment and medicines, and four school doctors are on duty day and night, which can solve the suffering of students' diseases and parents' worries.
The way of civil and military affairs is relaxed one by one. The school not only pays close attention to the study of cultural classes, but also actively carries out various colorful extracurricular activities to promote the all-round and healthy development of students' body and mind. The annual sports meeting, cultural performance, military training for freshmen, semi-annual lectures on fire control, law and literature, and weekly student basketball, football and table tennis leagues not only cultivate students' perseverance, hard work and courage to face difficulties, but also increase their knowledge, cultivate their interest, strengthen their physique and exercise themselves.
In recent years, the school is determined to innovate and forge ahead into the future, becoming a municipal key high school with strong school-running strength. It has been successively rated as "provincial civilized unit", "Garden School", "Red Flag Youth League Committee", "Modern Technology Teaching Pilot School" and "Advanced Unit for Comprehensive Management of Social Security". 200 1 Won the "College Entrance Examination Progress Award" in Xiangyang with impressive results, and in 2002, the number of fresh graduates in provincial lines was the first in Fancheng area. Schools adhere to standardized management of teaching, increase investment in teaching and research reform, make full use of modern multimedia teaching, and carry out teaching and research reform experiments. Many teachers won prizes in the provincial quality course competition, more than 200 papers won prizes in the national, provincial and municipal paper selection, and dozens of courseware won prizes in provinces and cities, and 2 provincial projects 1 were completed. The teaching quality of the whole school has been greatly improved.