In recent years, the school has strengthened the construction of campus culture. On the outer wall of the back teaching building, the eight-character school motto "Integrity, Joy of Learning, Cooperation, and Innovation" is dazzling; on the front teaching building is inlaid with "Love Reading, Love Reading, If you are good at thinking, you will learn from each other through teaching; if you understand responsibility, you can cooperate, and you will win in harmony." Promotional calligraphy and paintings such as famous quotes are posted on the walls inside the teaching building; the entire teaching building has carried out systematic campus culture construction in accordance with the corridor culture, stairwell culture, wall culture and toilet culture. Various promotional and educational placards have been erected or pasted in conspicuous places on campus. In addition, the school also gives full play to the role of blackboard newspapers, campus wall newspapers, class magazines, promotional windows and red scarf radio stations, and strives to create an optimistic, civilized and courteous campus cultural environment, so as to better achieve the purpose of environmental education.
Yishi Affiliated Primary School has become a provincial-level prestigious school through the hard work of its people from generation to generation. In recent years, it has been rated as an advanced unit in basic education in the country, an advanced unit in civilization and health in Hunan Province, the first batch of four-star red scarf model schools in Hunan Province, and the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" key scientific research project of the Hunan Provincial Society of Education "Home-school Innovation". "Research on Cultivating Children's Sound Personality in Learning Families" project research unit, Hunan Province Youth Education Research Base, Hunan Province Language Standardization Demonstration School, Hunan Province Safe and Civilized Campus, Yiyang City Demonstration Complete Primary School, Yiyang City Integrity Culture Pilot School and Advanced Units, Yiyang City Language Model School and Advanced Units, Yiyang City Model Teachers’ Home, etc.
The school also actively creates various spaces and platforms for teachers to show themselves, and encourages teachers’ personality development and self-innovation. In recent years, the school has organized teachers to carry out teaching competitions, essay evaluations, speech contests, essay contests, art contests and other activities every semester, and has vigorously promoted them to the outside world so that teachers’ talents can be displayed and their personalities can be promoted. In this way, in the fertile soil of Yishi Affiliated Primary School, a large number of outstanding teachers have grown into the backbone of teaching and scientific research and experts in education and teaching.
In recent years, quality education in Yishi Affiliated Primary School has also yielded fruitful results, cultivating students with excellent knowledge and outstanding abilities. Since 1983, the pass rate of all graduates of the school has been above 98%, the excellent rate has reached 90%, and the moral education pass rate has been 100%, ranking among the best in the city. In 2004, the school ranked first in total scores, average scores, and pass rates in the three subjects of Chinese, Mathematics, and General Studies in the district's teaching quality inspection for graduating classes. In the final inspection of the first semester of 2008, the school was far ahead in the district in Chinese and Mathematics subjects. In the final test of the first semester in 2009, the school ranked first in the district level in Chinese subjects. In the second semester of 2009, in the fourth-grade Chinese and mathematics test, the fourth grade students were far ahead.
The students trained by the school have all-round development and dare to innovate. In the past three years, the students of this school have repeatedly won good results in essay competitions, science short production competitions, sports and health tabloids, and various art competitions. They have published dozens of works in newspapers and magazines at all levels and won national, provincial, municipal, and national awards. Nearly 200 works were awarded by the district. The school also attaches great importance to arts and sports. The school is staffed with music, physical education and art teachers. Art education, mental health education, and various interest groups have also emerged. Sports teams, choirs, art teams, etc. are full of vitality.
In the 2008 District Games, athletes from Yishi Primary School won the first place in the overall team score. The dance team organized by the school has participated in the Hunan Provincial Campus Art Festival for four consecutive years and won the first prize for four consecutive years. As a result, it has become a famous children's art school in the province. In July 2009, the dance "Big Me" participated in the Yiyang Art Festival and won the special prize and was sent to the provincial level. During the Yiyang City Art Performance on the 60th Anniversary of the National Day, the school’s dance team’s three performances won high praise from the society. The school's art group coaches students to participate in science and technology painting competitions every year, and has repeatedly won good results.
The school attaches great importance to students' skills training and comprehensively improves students' comprehensive quality by strengthening experiments and social practice activities. We focused on carrying out scientific and technological small-scale production activities and scientific experiment activities to cultivate their manual and mental abilities and innovative spirit. In 2009, the school was rated as an outstanding advanced unit in the 30th Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition. In the past three years, more than 100 students have been rated as three good students at the provincial and municipal levels, and 50 students have been rated as three good students at the district level.