a new semester brings a new look! more than 2.53 million primary and secondary school and kindergarten students in guangzhou start school
2024-09-03
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yangcheng evening news all-media reporters he ning, wang moyi, jiang jun, cui wencan
on september 2, 3,839 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in guangzhou opened for the new school year, with 2.5357 million students. many students found that both the hardware facilities and teaching materials were brand new. at the same time, all schools prepared fun and interesting games to help students start the new semester happily.
new school year: schools start their own distinctive "first lessons"
at the opening ceremony of huijing experimental school in tianhe district, guangzhou, the featured activity "loyal to the party, keep moving forward - the loyal national flag guard entered the school to conduct the first class of the new school year" became the highlight of the ceremony. this is a professional team composed of retired personnel from the tiananmen guard of honor and the national flag class. the event displayed the national flag raised in tiananmen square on september 1, 2023, and the retired team members affectionately told the story behind it.
the primary school affiliated to south china normal university held a ceremony for the first-year students. the children lined up neatly and carefully arranged their clothes, which was not only a way to take care of their appearance, but also a baptism of the soul. dressing properly represented respect and expectation for learning. in the cinnabar enlightenment session, the teachers dipped their pens in cinnabar and tapped a red mole on the children's foreheads, symbolizing the opening of the door to wisdom and letting the light of wisdom illuminate their learning path.
the theme of the first class of guangda primary school is "hand in hand with the olympics, grow together". the reporter saw in the second grade class 5 classroom that teachers and students were enthusiastically discussing their feelings about watching the olympics during the summer vacation. lin yitong said that she was impressed by the table tennis match and was moved by fan zhendong's tenacious fighting spirit. "i also want to persevere for my dream like an olympic champion."
at xiaobei road primary school, guo qing, runner-up in the 49kg taekwondo event at the paris olympics, "dropped in" to share his own experiences and encouraged the children to "always persevere" when they encounter difficulties; guangzhou peiwen foreign language school, led by principal fan rui, opened the new semester with a torch relay, allowing the sunny and enterprising spirit to fill the campus.
new "hardware": new campuses, updated facilities, and each district "showing off its prowess"
it is reported that many districts have increased the number of high-quality school places in the new school year. the reporter learned from the baiyun district education bureau that in the new autumn semester of this year, baiyun district will open a total of 8 new kindergartens and 5 compulsory education schools (campuses), adding a total of more than 10,000 high-quality school places. among them, yan letian memorial middle school, which was reopened this year, will provide a total of 514 public school places for junior and senior high schools, and huangbian primary school has opened a third campus, lede campus, and plans to enroll 6 classes with a total of 270 students in the first grade.
haizhu district opened a new primary school this year - guangzhou haizhu district baoyuzhi experimental no. 2 primary school. the first batch of 92 first-grade students started school yesterday.
the huayuan campus of guangzhou huijing experimental school also welcomed its first batch of students in september this year. the new campus is located at no. 239 dongguanzhuang road, tianhe district, covering an area of more than 18,000 square meters. it is a nine-year school that can provide 1,680 high-quality places for the surrounding communities. in the 2024 academic year, four classes will be opened in the first grade and four classes in the seventh grade, with a total of 311 students.
huangpu district has opened 6 new public schools (campuses), adding more than 10,000 high-quality places. these schools include the north campus of huangpu military academy memorial middle school, the east campus of suyuan school, the south campus of xingang primary school, the east campus of tiezheng school, the west campus of kaiyuan school, the new campus of xiayuan primary school, the knowledge city primary school of the affiliated middle school of south china normal university, and the huangpu district experimental primary school.
huadu district welcomed the third campus of guangzhou no. 6 middle school - the junior high school department of huadu campus. in addition, new schools have also been opened, including the primary school department of guangzhou huadu district airport school, the primary school affiliated to guangzhou huadu district kuang weiyu memorial middle school, the longhua primary school affiliated to guangzhou huadu district xinhua no. 4 primary school, and the shangya primary school (qingtan campus) on xinya street in huadu district, guangzhou.
in september this year, nansha district will open three new public primary schools, namely nansha fengting primary school affiliated to south china normal university, dongsheng primary school in nansha district, guangzhou, and wanxin primary school in nansha district, guangzhou, with a school scale of 36, 48 and 30 classes respectively.
in addition, some schools have used the summer vacation to upgrade existing facilities to provide a better environment for students. for example, guangzhou no. 1 iron and steel middle school upgraded its panyu campus during the vacation; guangzhou no. 2 middle school (science city campus) updated all the facilities such as beds and luggage racks in junior and senior high school dormitories, and the planning is more scientific; guangzhou no. 16 middle school transformed the underground space into a specialty restaurant, and the original table tennis hall will be planned and transformed into a new three-dimensional library, adding multiple functional areas such as reading areas and discussion areas.
new "software": new textbooks are used in the first grades of primary and secondary schools
in the new semester, students in the first grade use "new textbooks". on the first day of school, the reporter saw at the guangzhou university affiliated primary school that the covers of the textbooks for first-grade students such as "morality and law", "chinese", "science" and "mathematics" all stated "approved by the expert committee of the national textbook committee in 2024". according to the notice issued by the general office of the ministry of education on july 25 this year on the issuance of the "catalogue of teaching materials for the 2024 compulsory education national curriculum (revised in accordance with the 2022 edition of the curriculum standards)", the textbooks revised in accordance with the 2022 edition of the compulsory education curriculum standards will be put into use in the fall semester of 2024. according to the plan, the unified textbooks for the three subjects of compulsory education will cover all grades within three years. among them, the first grade of primary school and the first grade of junior high school will be used in the fall semester of 2024; in 2025, the first, second and third grades of primary school and the first and second grades of junior high school will be used; in 2026, all grades in the compulsory education stage will be replaced.
what are the changes in the content of the new textbooks? zhang chaomei, a first-grade chinese teacher at the guangzhou university affiliated primary school, said that the new version of the first-grade chinese textbooks is more in line with the actual learning situation. this is mainly reflected in the following three aspects:
first, the selection of texts has changed. new texts such as "i love my motherland" and "two treasures" have been added, and texts such as "painting" and "big and small" have been deleted. patriotism education and labor education have been strengthened from the lower grades.
second, extend the time for learning pinyin. in the new textbook, the teaching of pinyin is adjusted from two units to three units, and the teaching time is increased by 1 to 2 weeks compared with the original. this slows down the learning slope at the beginning stage to help students better master pinyin. extending the time for learning pinyin also consolidates students' pinyin foundation.
third, the difficulty of the textbooks has been reduced to ensure a smooth transition from kindergarten to primary school. teacher zhang chaomei said that the overall difficulty of the new textbooks has been reduced: "we can see that the literacy table at the end of the texts for this semester has been reduced from the original requirement of knowing 300 chinese characters and being able to write 100 chinese characters to the current requirement of knowing 280 chinese characters and being able to write 100 new characters. the number of texts in the first volume of the first grade has been reduced from 14 to 10, and the literacy classes have been reduced from 10 to 8. the overall difficulty has been reduced, which allows students to adapt to primary school life more quickly. in general, the new textbooks are closer to life and pay more attention to the transition from kindergarten to primary school, allowing first-grade students to gradually adapt to school life in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, laying a solid foundation for subsequent learning."
