I. The evolution of schools
In the early 1960s, Premier Zhou Enlai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi decided to establish a Foreign Languages Institute to train senior foreign language talents in order to meet the needs of the rapid development of various undertakings in China and the increasingly frequent international exchanges. 1963 has established eight foreign language schools in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and Nanjing. Entrusted by the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Education Department is responsible for organizing Hangzhou Foreign Language School.
1964, the primary school was founded, attached to the campus of Zhejiang Kindergarten Normal School, and the middle school was attached to the campus of the former Hangzhou University High School (now Xuejun Middle School). 1966 The two departments merged and settled in the original site of Zhejiang Preschool Normal School.
From 65438 to the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 0966, the school stopped enrolling students. Students also left school on 1969. Primary school students transfer to primary schools nearby, and middle school students are all "going to the countryside". Except for English teachers, almost all primary school teachers are transferred from our school.
1969, the school was placed under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Education Bureau and was changed to recruit ordinary middle school students. Up to 1975, a total of 1465 students were enrolled.
1973 according to the spirit of the approval of the political work group of Zhejiang Revolutionary Committee, the school changed to recruit "workers, peasants and soldiers" and "three-year technical secondary school, which mainly trains foreign language teachers in primary and secondary schools". By 1980, the last batch of students left school, with a total of 426 students in five sessions.
65438-0978 According to the documents of the Ministry of Education, the school resumed the original school-running system outside Hangzhou and began to recruit primary school graduates. The main task of running a school is to "send students with high foreign language proficiency and good general cultural knowledge to colleges and universities" and "lay a good foundation for cultivating high-level foreign language talents and foreign language professionals".
1979 65438+ 10, the school belongs to the provincial administration and directly under the education department. 1980 is one of the first batch of 18 key middle schools in Zhejiang province with the approval of the provincial people's government.
From 1978 to 1984, 80 students are enrolled in Hangzhou every year. From 1985 to 1990, the enrollment scope expanded from Hangzhou to several cities in the province, and only 80 students were enrolled each year. With the development of economy and the increase of social demand, the original scale of foreign language schools needs to be expanded, and the Provincial Education Commission decided to build a new teaching building for foreign language schools. 199 1 year, the school building was basically completed, and the school moved into the new school building of Staff No.3 Road (now Xueyuan Road), and the annual enrollment increased to 120.
In September 2003, in order to better meet the needs of school development and "second venture", the school moved to Xiaoheshan Higher Education Park with elegant environment.
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School has completed the main task of training qualified middle school students in an all-round way, and at the same time, it has also played its own special advantages. 1979 Since the resumption of enrollment, a large number of high-level foreign language talents of different types and levels have been trained and transported for the country. Starting from 1982, various foreign language training courses have been offered for English majors of in-service middle school teachers. 1985 jointly enrolled students with Zhejiang Normal University, set up a specialized English class, and enrolled two books. Since 2004, a training course for key English teachers in primary and secondary schools in Zhejiang Province has been set up, which has promoted the development of English education in primary and secondary schools in Zhejiang Province.
Second, school performance.
The forty years outside Hangzhou are forty years of hard work, forty years of hard work and forty years of hard work. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of people from outside Hangzhou, both old and new, Hangzhou's achievements in running schools have been generally affirmed by superior leaders and all walks of life.
Over the years, Hangzhou Foreign Studies University has taken "learning for the motherland and preparing for the future" as its motto, adhered to the "people-oriented" school-running philosophy, and formed its own distinctive school-running characteristics. In teaching, "foreign language major with both arts and sciences" can improve students' comprehensive quality with "innovative ability" as the core, create a campus cultural atmosphere of "independent innovation", cultivate modern consciousness of "cooperation and sharing" and cultivate a good mentality of "tolerance atmosphere", thus forming a unique education and teaching model. Born in this fertile land, Hangzhou people are intellectuals who inherit the essence of tradition, modern people with civic awareness and China people with international vision.
Over the past 40 years, Hangzhou has trained a batch of outstanding graduates from Shuang Yi who are excellent in arts and sciences, proficient in foreign languages and have strong adaptability and development potential, and are now active in all walks of life. Nearly 30 graduates have worked outside People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), some of whom have become China's ambassadors abroad, and some have become the main translators of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the past twenty years, Hangzhou Foreign Studies University has been one of the main bases for enrollment and recommendation of national key universities in Zhejiang Province. Every year, about 50% of senior three graduates are walked and admitted to prestigious schools in advance. Only in the experimental class of independent innovation that graduated in 2003,14 students were admitted in advance by key universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Foreign Affairs University and Shanghai International Studies University. In the college entrance examination, our school has also made great achievements. Since 1986, our students have won the first place in the college entrance examination in Zhejiang Province for many times.
Students from outside Hangzhou performed well in various competitions. A large number of students have entered the forefront of various subject competitions in China: since 1994, nearly 50 students in our school have won the first prize in various mathematics knowledge competitions such as the national high school mathematics league; More than 40 people won the first prize in physics knowledge competitions at all levels, such as the China Physics Olympics; Nearly 12 people won the first prize in all kinds of biological knowledge competitions at all levels, such as the National Biology League for Middle School Students. Nearly 15 people won the first prize in the middle school students' Olympic chemistry competition and other chemical knowledge competitions at all levels. A total of 17 Olympiad won the first prize in the National Youth Computer Olympics Competition. Our students also won the first provincial TV debate competition for middle school students and the first and second place in the English TV debate competition for middle school students. Won the first prize 18 person-times in various English competitions, such as the National English Writing Competition for Middle School Students and the CCTV "Star of Hope" English Style Competition. Nearly 50 people won prizes in various national composition competitions such as the New Concept Composition Competition, and 5 of them won the first prize ... Over the years, a considerable number of overseas graduates entered Harvard University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania University, Yale University, Michigan University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nottingham University and St Andrews University with high scores in TOEFL, IELTS and comprehensive tests.
In 2004, the school offered minority language courses, which marked the beginning of multilingual teaching outside Hangzhou. In 2004, Zhejiang University cooperated with Zhejiang University to set up "Zhejiang University Minority Language Experimental Class".
In the past 20 years, Hangzhou people have been pioneering and enterprising, looking at the world, and devoted themselves to building a first-class school in China. With the aim of "broadening the international horizons of academic students and teachers, cultivating rich international communication skills and enhancing the understanding of national culture", we actively explore international exchanges and cooperation and strive to integrate with international education. Academic schools employ foreign teachers to teach full-time all the year round. Since 1985, 78 foreign teachers from the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada and other countries have taught in our school for half a year or a year. Hangwai has established long-term exchange visits and contacts with Guardian Middle School in Britain, Nalabunda College in Australia and Neufenburg Middle School in Germany. Every year, teachers and students from the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, African countries and other countries and regions visit our school. Our school sends a delegation of teachers and students to visit and exchange in the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries every year. Up to now, there are 160 teachers visiting abroad in our school ... all these have created a cosmopolitan vision for foreigners in Hangzhou, focusing on the future, aiming high and specializing in education of this national industry. At the same time, it also provides valuable experience and reference for the deepening and exploration of various teaching reforms in our school.
In the long-term teaching work, the school has adhered to the road of "developing the school through science and technology", and a large number of scientific research teachers have emerged, which has achieved fruitful teaching and research results. In recent years, teachers in our school have edited and published more than 30 monographs, textbooks and translations, and published more than 400 educational papers, including 3 first prizes at the national level and 40 at or above the provincial level. Undertaking and completing nearly 10 national and provincial key projects, which laid a solid foundation for the deepening of school education reform and the improvement of national teaching quality.
Fruitful, witnessing the pace of progress outside Hangzhou.
Three. Facilities and scale
At the beginning of the school, the school building was crude and the equipment was incomplete. In September 2003, the school moved to Hangzhou Xiaoheshan Higher Education Park as a whole. The investment of the new campus is about 320 million yuan, covering an area of 405 mu, with a construction area of about 6,543,800 square meters. It has first-class teaching complex, gymnasium, library and information center, lecture hall for more than 500 people, standard track and field, tennis court, student canteen, student apartment and other advanced facilities. The school is also equipped with advanced computer networks, multimedia teaching equipment, communication systems, physical and chemical laboratories and other special classrooms and equipment.
Hangzhou Foreign Language School also has a strong faculty. The number of teaching and administrative staff has grown from more than 80 at the beginning to 269 at present, including 9 in-service provincial special-grade teachers, 7 1 senior teachers, 2 provincial teaching rookies 12, and 2 graduate teachers employed by universities. The number of students in school has grown from 80 in two classes of 1964 to nearly 2,000 in 45 classes today.
In 2004 10, Hangzhou celebrated its 40th birthday. Forty years of wind and rain have washed away the character of foreigners in Hangzhou; Forty years of persistent pursuit, casting Hangzhou spirit; Forty years of hard work have made Hangzhou brilliant!
Looking back, we are full of pride; Looking ahead, we still have a long way to go. Hangwai clearly knows that the glory of the past is the driving force of today. All these achievements can not be achieved without the strong support of superior leaders and sincere care from all walks of life. In the face of the ever-changing educational situation and the high hopes of the older generation of revolutionaries such as Premier Zhou, outsiders in Hangzhou feel a great responsibility. All foreigners in Hangzhou will remember all this, turn pressure into motivation, build a brand outside Hangzhou, surpass themselves, and strive to continue to write the glory and glory that belongs to Hangzhou!
People outside Hangzhou with lofty aspirations have started a new journey, and new glory is rising from the river at the foot of the mountain and Ran Ran in Ran Ran!
Hangzhou Foreign Language School advocates quality education. In order to enrich students' spiritual and cultural life and cultivate students' ability, the school held five festivals: sports festival, foreign language festival, cultural festival, science and technology festival and art festival. There are also frequent opportunities for overseas exchanges and visits by foreign sister schools. The teachers in the school are very dedicated and get along with students like friends. They advocate improving academic performance in a happy environment, rather than adopting the tactics of asking questions. Over the years, the online rate of undergraduate courses in schools has been 10.