☆ A brief history of the school (Part 1)

Mao Zedong

One of the founders of Xinqun School

Zhou Jiaqian

One of the founders of Huamin Middle School

The predecessor of Xiangtan No. 2 Middle School was the "Xiangtan Municipal Middle School" formed by the merger of Shengli, a private Xinqun School, private Huamin and Hongdao Middle School. On May 10, it has gone through 80 years. In the past 80 years, the school has ranked among the provincial key middle schools, entered the palace of "National Advanced School for Art Education" and "National Experimental School for Modern Education Technology", and is a provincial-level garden It has become one of the powerful "Three Hunan Famous Schools". Alumni Mao Zedong, Huang Dujie and other seven people raised 1,000 yuan to initiate the establishment (contained in "Xiangtan County Chronicle" page 659). The school was initially a primary school, and its location was moved several times. In 1930, it purchased the 14-year-old Chuan Xiang on Jianlong Street. After the kindergarten became a fixed school site, a kindergarten was added. In 1937, a junior high school was added and renamed Xinqun School.

Huang Dujie

The founder of Xinqun School

The Anti-Japanese War During this period, the kindergarten was closed. The primary and secondary schools were moved to the countryside. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1946, the school added a high school in Dachong, Zhuzhou. The original Chunxiang Garden was destroyed by the Japanese invaders. It was repaired in time and gradually restored its old appearance. In 1948, the high school moved back to Chunxiang. Xiangyuan. Until the government took over in 1950, it ran the school for 30 years of hard work. During this period, despite the changes in the current situation, the school continued to grow and develop, becoming the largest school in the county with the largest number of students and relatively complete equipment from kindergarten to high school. Total Xinqun has two school buildings and 1,230 acres of land, and the school teaching materials can be used by 1,400 to 5,000 students. In the past 30 years, more than 5,800 students have graduated.

Huamin Middle School was established by the Zhou family in the autumn of 1943 Mr. Wang founded it with his family property. It was initially called "Linxiang Elementary School" and later expanded to "Linxiang Middle School". At first, Zhou Nanzhou Temple was used as a temporary school building, and later moved to Shitan Aircraft House (now Xiangtan County No. 2 Middle School) , it was not until the autumn of 1946 that Erhutou Ridge on the outskirts of Xiangtan was chosen as the school site and renamed "Huamin Middle School". Zhou Leicun was appointed as the chairman and Zhou Jiaqian was appointed as the principal. Since then, the school has gradually moved on the right track, with gradually complete equipment and increasing scale. The number of students in the school increased to more than 300 at its peak. "Huamin" was founded in 1943 and merged into the municipal middle school in 1951, with more than 1,000 graduates.

Tang Shiyi

Vice Principal of the Municipal Middle School "Shizhong" was renamed as the first principal of Xiangtan No. 2 Middle School, and was later transferred to the vice principal and principal of Xiangtan Normal College

The biggest feature of the school is its ideological progress and the absence of reactionary party and league organizations; the school has Scholarships are awarded to poor and outstanding students in each issue; on the eve of liberation, the school secretly printed various progressive books and periodicals such as "On New Nominalism" and "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship", which contributed to Xiangtan's efforts to welcome liberation. /p>

Hongdao Middle School was originally Hongdao cram school, founded in the autumn of 1944 by Zhou Shunxun and others. The school was located at the Huashi Zhang Ancestral Hall and admitted 40 students. In 1945, it moved to Gaojianlou, Longkou, Xiangtan, and was officially named Hongdao Middle School. Zhang Pingzi was appointed as the principal and Zhou Shunxun was the director. In the autumn of 1946, the school moved to Baihuahua Hall in Xiangtan City. Hongdao Middle School has been running for 6 years and has four cram schools and six junior high school classes.

Xiangtan After liberation, Xinqun and Huamin both petitioned the government to take over. In the winter of 1950, the Xiangtan Municipal People's Government merged the two schools, and at the same time received three teachers from Hongdao Middle School and some school teaching aids to prepare for the establishment of Xiangtan Municipal Middle School. In January 1951, The municipal government appointed Mayor Wang Zhiguo as concurrent principal and Tang Shiyi as vice principal. A meeting was held on April 14 to officially declare the establishment of "Xiangtan Municipal Middle School".

☆ School History (Part 2)

Under the leadership of the party and the government, "Shizhong" abolished the old system and established a new trend. The school was oriented to workers and peasants, enrolling 437 students. In 1952, a high school was added and the "Chinese *** Xiangtan Municipal Middle School Branch Committee" was established. In 1954 After adjusting the county and city system, the school was renamed "Xiangtan No. 2 Middle School", and Tang Shiyi was appointed as the principal. After that, the number of students increased year by year, and the scale of the school continued to expand. By 1957, there were 34 teaching classes and more than 1,700 students. During this period, five new teaching buildings were built. building, three student dormitories, faculty dormitories, auditorium, etc. The campus area consists of 48

00m2 expanded to 45818 m2. At that time, in addition to improving school conditions, the party and government leaders of the school also attached great importance to the political education and ideological transformation of teachers and students, extensively studied the Soviet experience, and the teaching quality continued to improve. In 1955, the passing rate of students was 89.2%, and 80% had first-class conduct. 92% of the first high school graduates entered colleges and universities, and the college entrance examination scores ranked second in the province. In 1957, the enrollment rate of junior high school graduates reached 70%, and 75% of high school graduates entered colleges and universities. .

Xuanxiang Garden

Due to the impact of various movements since 1957, the normal teaching order was disrupted, and the teaching time and quality could not be guaranteed. By October 1976, The noisy campus gradually calmed down. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the school returned to the normal teaching order centered on teaching, and all work was on the right track. The college entrance examination results have been excellent in consecutive years. In June 1980, the school was among the first batch of provincial key middle schools. , the administrative level was subsequently upgraded from the department level to the deputy county level. In April 1983, the school established a faculty representative conference and began to implement the principal responsibility system. In May 1986, the school party branch was renamed as the general party branch, and the faculty and staff began to work in the following year. Professional "job evaluation work. During this period, school education and teaching have made comprehensive progress. "Moral education is placed first and teaching is at the center." Various tasks have been developed in an all-round way and the quality has steadily increased. The pass rate of the 1989 high school graduation examination was the highest in the city. 100% for the 1990 class, and also achieved very good results in the college entrance examination. In competitions such as mathematics, chemistry, scientific and technological works, calligraphy and painting, and sports, students have won provincial and national awards. The municipal government has awarded the school civilized and advanced units five times. Waiting for the honorary title, the school held a grand and enthusiastic 70th anniversary commemoration event on May 10, 1991.

Gu Zhang

In the past 10 years, the school has developed by leaps and bounds. With each passing day, the basic construction of school buildings takes the lead. The comprehensive building, a two-story 103-meter-long sports track, the Chunxiangyuan Restaurant facing the street, the Science Building, the Art Museum, two new faculty dormitories with 78 households, and nearly 20,000 square meters of new school buildings have been completed one after another. .The playground has been completely renovated, the old buildings have been renovated, the environment has been greened, the roads have been hardened, sculptures have been decorated, and lanterns have been decorated. The campus is beautiful. It has been awarded the "Health Model School" and "Garden-style Unit" plaques by the city and province. And in In 1995, it accepted the provincial key middle school inspection and evaluation and was awarded the provincial key middle school plaque.

The school adheres to the school-running idea of ??"moral education first, teaching first, oriented to all, and comprehensive development", with rigorous scholarship, standardized management, and system Complete and well-implemented, it aims to comprehensively promote quality education. The school has established a "three-in-one" education network, established a "three-level" family committee, developed a moral education base, and various moral education activities are rich and colorful. It has been rated as the "City" for consecutive years. "School with Advanced Class Management", a large number of excellent classes and three good students and outstanding student cadres at the municipal and provincial levels have emerged, and it has also developed student party members. The school's teaching quality has been greatly improved, and the "two entrance examinations" have achieved outstanding results." The high school entrance examination ranked firmly among the municipal middle schools. At the forefront, the passing rate of the high school graduation examination was over 95%, reaching 69.2% and 71.26% in 2000. The results in physical education and competition were gratifying. In 1993, the Provincial Sports Commission awarded it the "Advanced Unit for Group Work" and the "Provincial Traditional Track and Field Project" in 1996. The school's "Plaque" has had 2 people reach the national level and 75 people reach the second-level athlete standard. It has sent 84 sports talents to colleges and universities. 5 people have won the provincial championship and 8 people have won the runner-up. The basketball and football teams have won many awards. Won the city championship and runner-up, and represented the city in the provincial competition.

Promenade

St. John

The school insists on "developing with quality and creating a famous school with characteristics" reform ideas. The five-step biology teaching reform experiment based on audio-visual education media was evaluated by the province in 1994 and won the first prize for the provincial audio-visual education scientific experiment results, which promoted the development of the school's educational technology modernization experiment. In 1993, "three machines and one scene" were realized "After entering the classroom, the language room, computer room, TV editing room, multimedia classroom, multimedia language room, and satellite TV receiving station were put into use one after another. At the same time, he participated in or independently conducted research on more than 50 teaching and research projects at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. , most of which have won municipal, provincial, and national awards, with outstanding achievements. In 2000, it was awarded the honor of National Modern Educational Technology Experimental School. In the same year, the school invested another 1 million to build the city's first campus computer network, integrating dual control of broadcasting, telephone, and teaching. , monitoring system. At present, the school has 5 million yuan of audio-visual equipment and a 1,000 m2 professional audio-visual room. The school has recruited a specialty experimental class in the junior high school every year since 1993. The high school also recruits some students with special talents and has invested in them successively. Nearly 1 million fully equipped

There are three music classrooms, two art classrooms, as well as vocal, music and dance training rooms, instrumental music rooms, practice rooms, etc. After winning the first prize in the national middle school chorus program in 1995, the third provincial key middle school literary and art performance in 1999 won the "Two golds and one silver", a good result of the second place in the total score of the group. In the 2000 municipal and provincial primary and secondary school art festivals, our school's singing, dancing and music programs all won the municipal first prize, and the dance won the provincial first prize. It also won the first prize in the country. In the dance TV competition, it won the first gold medal. In February 2004, the dance team of Xiangtan No. 2 Middle School performed in Beijing. The dance "Prison Song" won the second prize in the country. Appointed by the Ministry of Culture, the city's dance team, mainly students from our school, The children's art troupe went to France and Hungary to perform with great success. In the past five years, 107 students have been admitted to art schools. With outstanding achievements in art education, they have been awarded the provincial art education advanced school award for consecutive years. In 2000, another 1.6 million was invested to build a sound system. The first art gallery in a city school with advanced lighting and a capacity of more than 1,200 spectators was rated as a national advanced school for art education that year.

The school’s other work has been comprehensively promoted, and it has won the title of Provincial Outstanding Grassroots Trade Union and Municipal "Three Preventions" Education Demonstration School, Municipal Advanced Unit of Comprehensive Management, Municipal Model Unit of Democratic Management, Municipal Outstanding Communist Youth League Committee, Municipal Advanced Unit of Work-Study, etc., and won many medals and flags, and also won more than 200 related competitions and individual tasks. Municipal-level awards. The school-run factory once created good results with an annual net profit of more than 500,000 yuan, and it still has a slight surplus.

The school’s rapid development and progress is due to the effective leadership team, well-organized teaching staff, and There is a strong democratic atmosphere. Principal Ma Jianjia has served as the vice principal of Xiangtan County No. 1 Middle School, director of the Office of the Municipal Academy of Educational Sciences, etc., and has rich experience in school management. Among the 187 existing teachers, 85 are senior teachers, with an academic qualification rate of 98%. It has a group of special-grade teachers such as Li Shougang, Li Ren, Xie Songcheng, and Song Xinmin, as well as Zhou Yuzi, Hu Dajun, Xu Binsong, Zhou Qi and other provincial and municipal teachers. National outstanding teachers; Cheng Sihong and Weng Hesong and other national advanced individuals in three education and national outstanding middle school art teachers; the school has grown to 46 classes and more than 2,400 students.

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