In the 1980s, the school made great efforts to follow the Party's educational policy, constantly corrected its school-running ideas, and carried out the "three saints, two loves and one activity" in depth. In the process of running a school, it is necessary to establish a correct educational concept, form a strong leadership group, build an enterprising team of teachers, cultivate a pragmatic spirit, establish scientific rules and regulations, and strive to optimize the educational environment by "grasping internal governance and promoting foreign aid" so as to make the century-old school glow with new vitality. 1989 won the first prize of achievement evaluation of Suzhou Experimental Primary School.
In the 1990s, the school insisted on taking teaching as the center and paying attention to improving students' quality, initially established the teaching concept of taking students as the main body and teachers as the leading factor and cultivating students' learning ability, and vigorously carried out teaching and research activities with the content of "reforming classroom structure, updating teaching methods, reducing students' burden and improving teaching quality". The overall reform of "Music, Practice and Liveliness" won the first prize of Wuxian's "Eighth Five-Year Plan" teaching research achievements with the experimental results of music teaching promoting music learning. The research topic has 17 papers published in the magazines of Continuing Education and Teaching Research sponsored by the Central Ministry of Education.
The school always regards the cultivation of young teachers as the eternal theme of school work. From the beginning of 1980, the school has put forward the overall development plan of "one, three and five" for young teachers, that is, one year to adapt to work, three years to gradually see expertise, and five years to form a style. "New Miao Cup" and "Miao Cup" teaching competitions are held every year, and quality training courses for young teachers are held at ordinary times, focusing on cultivating the comprehensive quality of young teachers. 1995 launched the experiment of the provincial key project "Case Study on Training Cross-century Qualified Teachers" in the Ninth Five-Year Plan. The experimental scheme was published in People's Education in July and August. 1997. The Tenth Five-Year Plan "Research on the Formation Mechanism and Training Mode of Excellent Teachers" launched in 2000 has achieved remarkable results, all of which have passed the expert group appraisal and successfully concluded the topic. In 2006, the national "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" project "Research on the Formation Strategy of Research-oriented Teachers Based on Problem Solving" was launched. 1986 From 2006 to 2006, the school has embarked on a successful road of "cultivating teachers' souls, practicing internal skills, shouldering heavy burdens and send warm", which has prompted a group of young teachers to stand out. In recent years, in the previous evaluation activities of young teachers in Wuxian (Wuxian City) and Wuzhong District, 40 young teachers won the first prize, 19 won the first and second prizes in Suzhou city-level evaluation activities, 8 won the first and second prizes in provincial evaluation activities, and 4 won the second prize in national evaluation activities. Train 4 special-grade teachers, 4 well-known teachers at the city and county levels, 6 academic leaders at the municipal level, 20 academic leaders at the county (district) level, and1/district-level academic backbone teachers; Sent 15 administrative leaders, principals and vice-principals with both ability and political integrity to higher administrative departments and brother schools. Dongshan Primary School has really become the cradle of young teachers' growth, and its successful experience in educating teachers is well-known in Suzhou and Jiangsu Province, which is known as "Dongshan phenomenon".
198 1 By 2006, two principals, Zou Jinquan and Xu Weizu, advocated school-based management to give full play to the enthusiasm and creativity of all teachers. Through the tree "three styles": the school spirit is "realistic and innovative", the teaching style is "rigorous and well-guided", and the study style is "diligent and happy"; Grasp the "three strictness": strict management of schools, strict management of learning and strict management of education; Achieve "three excellent": beautiful environment, excellent order and excellent quality. Since 1983, the school has won more than 80 honorary titles/kloc-0 for two consecutive years, such as "national advanced collective of self-study reading activities for employees", "national advanced collective of mass sports", "national red flag brigade", "civilized unit in Jiangsu province", "model primary school in Jiangsu province" and "excellent parent school in Jiangsu province", and all the teachers in the school have won 22 national and provincial awards. Students have won more than 20 national and provincial awards and published more than 500 articles. At the same time, the school has given full play to the exemplary radiation function of small provinces, and has successively established sister schools with five schools in Jiangxi, Xinjiang and other regions, thus realizing the desire of many schools in Qi Fei to compete in the same field.
Dongshan Experimental Primary School is located in Jinjiaxiang, dongshan town at the foot of Dongting Lake, covering an area of about 14000 square meters, with a building area of more than 8000 square meters. The campus is shaded by trees, and dozens of centuries-old ginkgo trees not only show the profound historical and cultural heritage of the school, but also decorate the campus beautifully. The main building is the teaching building donated by Mr. Zhu Enyu of Hong Kong, which is built by various funds-Enlightenment Building, Knowledge Building, Enterprising Building, Yangyun Building, Classic Book Building donated by Hong Kong patriot Mr. Zheng Lao, and three kindergarten protection buildings. Since 1998, the school has accelerated the pace of education modernization and informationization, and has successively built a satellite TV receiving system, a two-way closed-circuit TV teaching system, a sound broadcasting system, a plastic track and field, purchased more than 2 10 computers, laid optical cable lines, and built a 100-megabyte campus network; The school's teaching building, comprehensive building and library building are equipped with Storm Sports Activity Room (also a table tennis training hall), multifunctional lecture hall, dance room, scientific inquiry room, instrument preparation room, central computer room, heart room, multimedia classroom, computer network classroom, language lab, art room, Young Pioneers team room, school history exhibition room, health care room, radio and television general control room, TV studio, sports equipment room and file reference room.
In 2007, the school had 1 16 staff, including full-time teachers 100. There are 45 classes, 1700 students.
Dongshan experimental primary school has a long history and a large number of talents. According to incomplete statistics, among the alumni who graduated from this school, 4 were elected academicians of China Academy of Sciences, 17 were provincial and ministerial leaders, 3 were major generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and 296 were associate professors (37 of them received special allowances from the State Council).