At the foot of Yunding Mountain, beside the road around the island, a bright educational pearl is rising in the east of Siming. It is Xiamen Binhai Primary School! This month, this beautiful primary school by the seaside ushered in an important moment in its 74-year school history. The second phase of the school’s expansion project was successfully completed and put into use. The newly upgraded Binhai Primary School not only has an online appearance, but also has a greatly improved connotation, which is really eye-catching.

External image?

After nearly two years of expansion, the old appearance has been replaced with a new look?

The scale of the school has been expanded, and the conditions for running the school have been improved?

When school started in September, the children of Binhai Primary School discovered that the school seemed to have launched a "one-click beauty" mode during the summer vacation. The campus has become bigger and more beautiful, with more sports fields and various function rooms. Classrooms are equipped with air conditioning, multimedia teaching equipment, and dust-free whiteboards so everyone can say goodbye to chalk dust. Camphor trees and sweet-scented osmanthus trees are planted on the campus, and a reading pavilion is nestled among the birds and the fragrance of flowers. Walking around, you will be surrounded by scenery.

It seems that in just two months, Binhai Primary School has completely changed its appearance. In fact, this is a "major project" that lasted nearly two years. After the expansion, Binhai Primary School added 2 new teaching buildings, and the school scale increased from the original 15 classes to 36 classes, with a total capacity of 1,800 students. Not only has the school's scale expanded, but its conditions have also been further improved. The school has added a 200-meter circular track, a basketball court, a football field, a volleyball court, and three badminton courts; a science and technology activity room, a dance room, a music room, a recording room, a reading room, and a labor and technical room. , psychological consultation room, etc. are all available. The first-grade classrooms are also equipped with eye protection lamps, lunch beds and other facilities. The school has carefully built a 300-square-meter "reading" space, where children can borrow books and take reading classes.

The 120-square-meter dance studio is the exclusive space for the "Binhai Men's Group". ?Such a large dance studio is rare among primary schools in the city. According to the school, Binhai Men’s Group is currently the only all-boys dance group in Siming District Primary School. Binhai Primary School cooperates with the Little Egret Folk Dance Troupe, and the latter sends professional teachers to give the dance troupe 2 classes on a voluntary basis every week.

The needs of teachers are also taken into account by the school. In this expansion, the school has added a new staff cafeteria, teachers’ lunch room, and reorganized the parking area so that teachers can have food, beds, and parking spaces, so that they can better devote themselves to teaching.

Improving the connotation?

Combining the school’s geographical environment and historical accumulation?

Refining the mountain and sea culture? Cultivating smart young people?

Entire During the summer vacation, Chen Junqiang, the principal of Binhai Primary School, spent time in school almost every day. Faced with a myriad of tasks, he wished he could break his time in half. What particularly touched him was that teachers also actively participated in it. ?Do you know how hard our teachers work? ? Chen Junqiang said that one day he saw the general affairs director taking a taxi to the school. When he asked, he found out that the general affairs director had surgery during the summer vacation and took the initiative to come to the school to help the day after he was discharged.

In fact, until the semester started, Chen Junqiang was still thinking about how to further utilize this wall and how to beautify that corner every day when he walked on campus. ?No detail is careless. ?He said that the school makes full use of the corridor space on each floor and sets up different wall painting themes such as science and technology corridor, literature corridor, and mathematical thinking corridor, so that every wall can "speak."

Since the expansion of the school started, Chen Junqiang has been thinking about how to fully tap the historical origins and regional culture to form a campus culture belonging to Binhai Primary School, so as to comprehensively upgrade the school from the inside out. ?The scenery of our school is particularly beautiful, it is really straight to the point, facing the sea. ?Chen Junqiang said that one day, he suddenly had an idea and suddenly said: "Stand on the mountains and seas, work hard in your youth." He made this sentence into a background board and hung it in the school, which was reviewed by all the teachers in the school. After a year of repeated deliberation, it was finally determined as the school motto.

Combining the geographical environment and historical accumulation of being surrounded by mountains and seas, the school finally established the "Mountain and Sea Culture" as its school running characteristics, put forward the school running philosophy of "Classics are like mountains, wisdom is like sea", adhering to the "Mountains and Seas" character, wisdom The natural education model that nourishes children's minds is committed to cultivating coastal teenagers who are as majestic as mountains and as agile as the sea. Chen Junqiang explained, "As stalwart as a mountain" means that students are expected to have aspirations as high as a mountain and a character as stalwart as a mountain; "As agile as the sea" means that students are expected to have knowledge as broad as the sea and life as agile as the sea.

Going to the next level?

Sending more famous teachers to strengthen the teaching team?

Alliance cooperation will start a new journey?

The development of the school is by no means An overnight success. Before the expansion, Binhai Primary School had quietly changed. In the early years, many local students in the school would rather go to a school in the central city than stay close by. In recent years, most of the actors in the film have come back.

What is even more gratifying is that the school has begun to frequently win gold and silver in various competitions.

For example, from 2015 to 2022, the school won the first prize of Xiamen Youth Cheerleading 7 times and the first prize of Xiamen Youth Aerobics 8 times; in 2019, it won the Gold Award of the 23rd Xiamen Children’s Art Performance, Gold Medal at the city's 23rd "Ludao Flowers" Art Performance; won first prize at the 3rd Xiamen Robot Maker Competition in 2020; won the National Model Education Competition "Excellent Organization Award" in 2021; won Xiamen Navigation in 2022 The second prize of the model championship team and the first prize of the Siming District Model Education Competition team?

The expansion of the school has greatly boosted the confidence and energy of the teachers. ? Chen Junqiang said that the superior authorities have given the school strong support in terms of human, material and financial resources. This semester, the district education bureau has sent more famous teachers and outstanding teachers, and the school's teaching team has continued to grow and is full of vitality.

At present, about 50% of the in-service teachers in Binhai Primary School are young teachers aged 35 and under. Therefore, the school regards cultivating young teachers and developing key teachers as an important means to improve the quality of education and teaching, and stimulates the internal driving force for the growth of the teacher team by building an integrated community of teachers' professional development. The school also actively plays the role of exemplary teachers. Like Chen Junqiang, Vice Principal Xu Qiuduan is also a city expert teacher and the host of the Siming District Famous Teacher Development Studio. After the school started, Xu Qiuduan took the teachers from the Academic Affairs Office to attend classes in various classes and gave him step-by-step guidance to help the teachers grow.

Next, Binhai Primary School is expected to receive stronger support. It is reported that Binhai Street is taking the lead in forming the Binhai Education Alliance. This alliance brings together universities, middle schools, primary schools, and kindergartens within its jurisdiction, including Xiamen University, Science and Technology Middle School, Binhai Primary School, Yanwu Second Primary School, Zengcuo'an Kindergarten, and Binhai Kindergarten. Relying on the Binhai Education Alliance, the school will achieve integration of superior resources and multicultural mutual assistance.

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The predecessor of Binhai Primary School was Huangcuo Primary School founded in 1948, founded by Ms. Wang Bilian, the aunt of the patriot Tan Kah Kee. In 2006, with the consent of the Siming District People's Government, it was moved to the current campus. Huangcuo Tatou Society, where the school is located, was once known as "Yanta". It is a village rich in historical and cultural heritage. According to records in "Xiamen Chronicles", during the Ming Dynasty, Tatou Lin's imperial examination success was the highest on Xiamen Island for a while.