When China was reduced to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, some people of insight put forward the idea of learning western science and technology, and some people in the Qing government put forward the slogan of "taking middle school as the body and spreading western learning to the east" and advocated "Westernization". Under this trend of the times, it is put on the agenda to cancel the imperial examination and set up a new school. At that time, the American church was the most enthusiastic about running schools. According to statistics, from 65438 to 0898, American churches held various academies in Nanjing.
1888 (14th year of Guangxu reign), Huiwen College was founded by the American church along the dry river, with American John Calvin Ferguson as the principal. 189 1 year, the American church established the Christian College on the south side of the Drum Tower, with the American missionary Mei Ge (good Chinese name) as the dean. 1894, American Christian missionaries founded the educational academy in Hubu Street. Shortly after its establishment, J.E. Williams was the dean. This college of education is the predecessor of Hubu Street Primary School.
1907, Yizhi College merged with Christian College and was named United Christian College, with Christian College as the campus, Mei Zaizhong as the principal and Wen as the vice-principal. 19 10 (the second year of Xuantong), the new dean of Huiwen College, Bao Wen and Mei Zaizhong, discussed and merged Hongyu College into Shu Hui College, named Jinling University Hall, with Bao Wen as the school supervisor (principal) and Wen Huaien as the deputy; The former Hongyu College was located in the middle school affiliated to Jinling University, and Mei Zai was the director and principal of the Bible Department of the middle school affiliated to the university. The original Yizhi Academy set up Yizhi Primary School.
Yizhi Primary School has been a primary school run by the church since the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China) 19 10 to 1949.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), 195 1 in the second half of the year, the baixia district Municipal People's Government took over Yizhi Primary School and renamed it Hubujie Primary School, with only 9 teachers and a few students. In 62 years, the scale has been expanding. The church was demolished, a two-story teaching building was built and a row of school buildings were expanded. Now it has grown to 19 class with more than 900 students and more than 40 teachers.
During the period of 1955, the Young Pioneers' activities in our school were very active. We organized meetings of Young Pioneers' squadrons such as "visiting the Observatory" and "being a person who loves labor", and set up a planting group, a feeding group, a sewing group and a toy group to educate students during the activities. The general counselor of the school Young Pioneers attended the "National Youth Socialist Construction Activist Conference". The dance of the navy, edited by her, won the first place in the primary school sports meeting in the whole region.
In the 1970s, the school's folk songs were performed for foreign guests and received by Premier Zhou.
This school has trained many outstanding talents for the country.
Lu studied in Yizhi College from 65438 to 0906, and went to England from 65438 to 0937. He was an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences. When she was in England, she was the assistant of Joseph Needham, a British scientist. She returned to China seven times and obtained a doctorate from China Institute of Science and Technology.
Hao Yuan, a graduate of 1973, received a doctorate in electronics and mathematics, and worked in Siemens.
Song Ge studied in the middle school affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music. At the age of 8, he won the first prize of the first instrumental music competition in Nanjing, the second prize of the violin competition in six provinces in East China in 1988, and the fifth prize of the fifth national professional violin competition in 1993. After going to Shanghai, he held three violin solo concerts in Shanghai.
In 1980s, the sports broadcasting exercise competition won the first place for two consecutive years. The school is a traditional chess school. Students have won many prizes in provincial, municipal and national chess competitions. It sent many chess players to various provinces and cities. Xu 1982 won the third place in the national chess competition; Peng Yu and Japanese Mr. Shi Cun won the Nanjing Go Competition with five sets. Chen Yong 1984 won the provincial chess championship; WU GANG won the city Go championship; 1988 won the first place in men's and children's Go in the second East China Cooperation Zone. 19 1 to 1994, our school won the first place in the chess competition for four consecutive years, and also won the prize in the city and district cultural performances.