Overview of No.12 Middle School in Wuhu City, Anhui Province

Wuhu No.12 Middle School is a model high school in Anhui Province. The school now covers an area of 243 mu, with a total planned building area of 63,000 square meters. Among them, the teaching building 14863㎡, the experimental building 6275㎡, the office building 5836㎡, the art museum 2995㎡ and the library science and technology museum 333 1㎡ have been built. In addition, there are18000m2 student apartment and 5530m2 canteen. The school has 60 senior high school classes, more than 3,000 students and 180 employees.

This school has a long history. As early as the third year of Fuyuan in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 100), Wuhu Confucianism, the first official institution of higher learning in the history of Wuhu, was founded in the old campus of No.12 Middle School in Rulin Street, with a history of more than 900 years. Wuhu County School was renamed as Xiangyuan School (1905), Xiangyuan Senior Middle School, Private Xiangyuan Middle School (19 19), Wuhu County Junior Middle School (1946) and Wuhu Normal School (1969). It was not until 1972 that the school was officially named as Wuhu No.12 Middle School, and was approved by the municipal government in 1978, which was designated as the key middle school of the city. In March, 20001was appraised and approved as a provincial model high school by Anhui Provincial Education Department.

Wuhu County School, the predecessor of a leisurely university with rich humanities, has trained Zhang Xiaoxiang, a famous patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiao Chimu, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Yue, a painter in the Qing Dynasty. In the "Wuhu Normal School" stage, the school sent thousands of teachers and cadres to the whole country. Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, the school has sent nearly 10,000 qualified freshmen to colleges and universities all over the country and trained a large number of outstanding talents for the society.

Located in the old campus, Dacheng Hall was built in Fu Yuan period of Northern Song Dynasty. It is the oldest main building in Gong Xue of Wuhu, and it is also a symbol of the prosperous culture of Wuhu. It has been listed as a municipal key cultural relic. There are several famous monuments on both sides of Dacheng Hall. Among them, the Monument to Wuhu County by Mi Fei, a great calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Monument to Gangua by Li, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, are both important monuments in the history of Chinese calligraphy. They are listed as provincial key protected cultural relics and are ancient and precious cultural landscapes.

Over the years, with the cordial care of the party and the government and the joint efforts of the teachers, students and staff of the whole school, the school has developed rapidly and achieved remarkable results in all aspects:

The school environment is beautiful, and the green area of the campus is 42886m2. It is an advanced health unit in Wuhu City, an advanced greening unit in Anhui Province, a provincial "garden school" and a provincial green school.

The school has a strong faculty, with senior and intermediate titles 120, master's degree teachers more than 20, provincial super teachers 1, provincial and municipal teaching stars and backbone teachers 15, and provincial and municipal advanced teachers, excellent gardeners and excellent party member more than 30. The school pays attention to the construction of teaching staff and implements the "Hundred Excellent Projects" to train famous teachers. Adhere to caring education and strengthen the construction of teachers' morality; Pay attention to legal education and standardize teachers' morality; Pay attention to continuing education and hone teachers' skills; Pay attention to cultivating young teachers and building a teacher echelon. Through introducing, selecting, adjusting, training and carrying out various distinctive educational activities such as "pairing new people and learning from each other", a backbone teacher team with high professional ethics, excellent professional skills and reasonable structure has been formed.

The teaching facilities in the school are very advanced. In addition to supporting physical and chemical laboratories, computer network classrooms, multimedia classrooms, teachers' electronic lesson preparation rooms, teachers' and students' electronic reading rooms, music rooms, art rooms and voice rooms, there are also observatories, digital planetariums, simulated ecological specimen rooms, digital comprehensive exploration laboratories, robot classrooms, general technology classrooms, geography classrooms, history classrooms, psychological consultation rooms, campus TV stations, concert halls and lecture halls. Library collection 7 1000 volumes; The school is an experimental school of modern educational technology in Anhui Province. In order to meet the needs of the new century, the school is implementing the "education informatization" project, and strives to promote the modernization of school education with informatization; The school has standard football track and field, as well as gymnastics area, basketball, volleyball, tennis court and other sports venues, which can fully meet the needs of physical education teaching, competition and fitness for teachers and students.

Boarding school apartments, canteens, bathrooms, supermarkets and other living facilities should be complete. Each dormitory of the student apartment can accommodate 6 people to ensure the convenience and comfort of students' study and life.

The school has advanced school-running concept, distinctive school-running characteristics and remarkable school-running results. As a provincial model high school, in recent years, we have made some achievements in the concept and practice of innovative education, which embodies a model. Over the years, the school has always adhered to the "three orientations", comprehensively implemented the education policy and comprehensively improved the quality of education. It has always adhered to the school-running philosophy of "people-oriented, teacher-student development-oriented, laying the foundation for students' lifelong development" and positioned the school-running goal as "school standardization has its own characteristics, and outstanding students have their own specialties". In order to meet the development needs of society and students, improve students' comprehensive quality and cultivate innovative talents, the school is committed to building and practicing a brand-new "6 10" quality education model, requiring students to achieve "six societies" and "ten indicators", and strive to explore a road of educating people with five educations, all-round development, obvious characteristics and personality development. The implementation of "6 10" project has promoted the transformation of the school from focusing on knowledge education to focusing on personality shaping and ability training, which has made the school full of vitality and achieved remarkable results. The school has successively won the honorary titles of "excellent grade of comprehensive evaluation of municipal school-running level", "the first batch of A-level people's satisfaction schools in Wuhu City" and "advanced unit in Anhui Province".

"Optimized moral education and good school spirit" is a major feature of our school and is well received by all walks of life. 1985, the school was named as "municipal civilized unit" by the municipal government, and 1998 was upgraded to "model of municipal civilized unit". In recent years, the school has won the titles of "Model School for Students to Implement Norms", "Advanced School for Moral Education", "A-level League Organization of the City" and "Red Flag Youth League Committee of the May 4th Movement of the Province", and "National Advanced Collective for Moral Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" and "Civilized Unit of Anhui Province".

For a long time, the school insists on taking moral education as the leading factor and pays close attention to the education of "three styles and one training". "Health, diligence, harmony and civilization" is the school spirit gradually cultivated in our school; The teaching style of "loving students, dedication and rigorous innovation" and the style of study of "respecting teachers, being diligent in thinking, seeking truth and being pragmatic" have also taken shape. We actively guide students to practice the school motto of "determination, goodness, diligence and sensitivity"; In moral education, we should persist in taking activities as the carrier, strive to make moral education close to life, reality and students, full of human feelings and affinity, constantly improve the times, initiative, pertinence and effectiveness of moral education, strive to explore a new way of overall optimization of moral education with "serialization of content, diversification of methods, networking of approaches and scientific management", and adhere to the concept of "adults must become talents first". Actively carry out the experiments of "modern personality education" and "students' independent education" with patriotism education as the main line, actively implement the "full tutorial system" in boarding schools, and strive to achieve "five educations" in teaching education, management education, environmental education, life practice education and full education, and achieve good educational results, so that students will not commit crimes for many years. Over the years, we have persisted in striving for civilized and standardized classes, civilized groups, civilized teachers and students, and civilized citizens. In April, 2002, the school was named "Provincial Patriotism Education Demonstration School" by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Education Department and the Communist Youth League Committee. In June 2003, it was awarded the title of "National Advanced Unit of Patriotic Reading Education for Teenagers" and in March 2008, it was awarded the title of "Provincial Model School for Ideological and Moral Construction of Minors".

The school insists on taking teaching as the center, offering all courses in strict accordance with the standards of higher authorities, and explores the way of "facing the whole, paying close attention to both ends, paying attention to' three dimensions', reforming three methods (teaching method, learning method and assessment method), adhering to routines, optimizing links, strengthening school-based research and improving teaching quality" in the teaching curriculum reform. The school pays attention to cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability, actively carries out comprehensive practical activity curriculum research marked by inquiry learning, promotes a new round of curriculum reform, and promotes profound changes in teaching methods and learning methods. In the past two years, high school students have closely linked social life and school life, and identified 206 topics for research, of which 45 key topics at the school level have achieved initial results. The school won the title of "Wuhu Advanced School of Curriculum Reform Experiment".

The quality of school teaching has improved steadily, and the total passing rate of college entrance examination has remained at 100% for many years. Since 200 1, more than 2,000 people have been admitted to undergraduate colleges, and more than 400 of them have been admitted to national key universities. Gong Wen and other college entrance examination champions emerged in the school, and some students with excellent academic performance were sent to key institutions.

The academic competition has achieved remarkable results. In the past three years, more than 50 students have won the national, provincial and municipal subject competitions, and Wu Hongming and other outstanding students have won the first prize in the national physics competition. While strengthening compulsory courses, the school also strengthened elective courses and developed environmental protection courses. Moral education, environmental education, comprehensive practical activities, phonetics, preliminary gardening technology, electronic preliminary technology, the cultivation of different thinking, the guidance of learning methods, online classes, film and television classes, health education, literature and art appreciation, etc. The school has always attached importance to the teaching and extracurricular activities of various disciplines of body music art, and has successively set up nearly 30 teams (teams) of ball games, chess, track and field teams, chorus, folk bands, special classes of painting and calligraphy, special classes of computers, scholars' literature clubs, small press groups, "English Salon", photography associations and various interest groups (teams), which have cultivated students' many specialties and enriched campus cultural life. The school is a "provincial traditional sports school" and was awarded the title of "National Advanced School of Traditional Sports". The qualified rate of sports has remained at 1.000% for many years, and the results of sports games are at the advanced level in the city. Art education dominated by calligraphy and painting is another major feature of running a school. In recent years, hundreds of paintings by painting and calligraphy students have won grand prizes in national, provincial and municipal painting and calligraphy competitions. 1993, the school hosted the first invitation exhibition of middle school students' calligraphy and painting works in Anhui Province, and the school's literary and art team won the special prize and the first prize in the city competition for many times. The school insists on holding "Sports Festival" and "Science, Technology, Culture and Art Festival" every year. Through these activities, students' physical quality and scientific awareness are further enhanced, and their aesthetic taste and ability are greatly improved.

The school insists on teaching and scientific research as the guide and takes the road of teaching and research school. The teaching and research groups of various disciplines in the school adhere to the "Five Ones" teaching and research activities and actively explore innovative teaching models. New teaching modes such as "Chinese open teaching", "mathematical thinking teaching method" and "English situational teaching method" and research teaching of various subjects have been initially constructed, and remarkable results have been achieved. Four groups have won the title of advanced teaching and research group in the city. In the past three years, the school has undertaken five teaching and research projects above the provincial level and achieved remarkable results. More than 20 teachers' papers 120 were published in newspapers and periodicals, and hundreds of papers, teaching plans and courseware won prizes in provincial and municipal competitions, among which dozens won the first and second prizes in provincial competitions. The school insists that the teaching staff regularly edit and publish Essays on Education and Teaching.

In management, the school insists on establishing rules and regulations, pays attention to daily management, manages the school according to laws and regulations, and manages education by virtue according to laws, which deepens the reform of the "four systems" and further promotes the school management to embark on a virtuous circle of standardization and scientificity. The school attaches great importance to the construction of leading bodies. Members of the leading group pay attention to renewing educational concepts, insist on guiding school-running practice with modern educational concepts, regard "unity, hard work, high efficiency, honesty and self-discipline" as the style requirements of school leaders, standardize their words and deeds, and consciously accept democratic supervision. The school has long adhered to the implementation of the responsibility system for the assessment of the work objectives of school-level leaders and middle-level cadres and the "three-in-depth" contact assessment system between administrative cadres and grassroots work. The school attaches great importance to the "cohesion project" construction, explores the "people-oriented" school management mode, pays attention to caring for the teaching staff in politics, business and life, gives full play to the positive role of party member, league members, trade unions, teachers' congresses, democratic parties and members who have withdrawn from the school, and manages the school democratically. In recent years, the school has been awarded the title of provincial-level advanced unit for opening school affairs, the trade union has been awarded the title of advanced unit for trade union work in provinces and cities, and the general party branch of the school has been awarded the honorary title of advanced grass-roots party organization in Wuhu City. The school attaches great importance to the construction of a safe campus ruled by law. Strict and effective scientific management ensures campus safety and optimizes the educational environment, which has been well received by the society. The school won the title of advanced unit of comprehensive management in Wuhu City and model school of managing schools according to law.

"Old trees are blooming in spring". Numerous achievements have enriched the glorious history of the Millennium University. The bell of the century calls for Wuhu No.12 Middle School to move towards a brighter tomorrow. Considering the overall situation of future education development, the Wuhu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government decided to rebuild the Twelfth Middle School with a high starting point, high standards and high quality, and invested 654.38+0.54 billion yuan to build a new modern boarding high school with the first-class level in the province. The construction of the new school officially started in May 2005. At present, the first phase of the new campus has been basically completed, and it was officially put into use in June 65438+February 65438+February 2007.

The history of the Twelfth Middle School marked by the completion of the new school and the relocation of the school has turned a new page. Nowadays, the school leaders are leading the teachers and students to strive hard to create a first-class boarding brand school that the people are satisfied with. A new Twelfth Lieutenant General of Wuhu will make new contributions to the great cause of rejuvenating the country through science and education and to economic development and social progress!

(From Wuhu No.12 Middle School Campus Network)