Xiaoshi Middle School
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Xiaoshi Middle School or Xiaoshi Junior High School, or Xiaoshi High School, is a prestigious high school offering education from a junior-high to senior-high level in Ningbo
, China
. A formerly private school, Xiaoshi Middle School, with its long history of over 90 years, is regarded as one of the best schools in Eastern China. Currently run as two separate but affiliated schools, Xiaoshi Middle School now has about 60 classes, 2600 students and 250 staff members.
Its current principal is Zhang Caigeng, principal of honour is Li Qingkun.
Xiaoshi has won a lot of awards in national and international competitions. It strives to develop students in every aspect and enjoys special prestige among Ningbo locals. Xiaoshi Middle School is especially strong at Maths Olympiad, sports and art performances.
Thanks to the commitment of the government, hundreds of millions of renminbi have been spent in the construction and upgrading of school buildings and infrastructure, including tennis courts, soccer field, 400m standard tracks and a mini sports stadium. http://xiaoshi.nbedu.net.cn/intro/school/source/00000123_2.jpg
The school library currently stores more than 110,000 books and is open to all students.
Xiaoshi Middle School has more than 20 Co-Curriculum activities, including sports societies, astronomy club and literature salon.
(严谨、勤奋、求实、创新) http://xiaoshi.nbedu.net.cn/intro/school/source/00000123_1.jpg
Although currently the junior high school and senior high school are two distinct entities, they are often referred to as "Xiaoshi Middle School" because of the long history the two schools shared.
Despite years of disruption ever since its establishment, Xiaoshi Middle School has remained one of the best schools in Eastern China with high academic standards and dedication to the full development of students' potential. It is renowned for its excellent results in annual science and maths competition and especially highly respected as arguably the best school in Ningbo.
The founders of the school, He Yujie (何育杰), Ye Bingliang (叶秉良), Chen Xunzheng (陈训正) and Qian Baohang (钱保杭) organized "Xiaoshi Academic Community" under the guidance of their declared motto "with personal wealth and private management, contribute to education and lead the people to enlightenment" (以私力之经营，施实川之教育，为民治导先路). In the February of the following year, Xiaoshi Middle School was formally built in an abandoned site of a primary school. The name "Xiaoshi" came from Yan Fu, a famous Chinese thinker and political scientist, who wrote in his masterpiece "Tian Yan Lun" "The fittest survive as a result of natural selection; We must be pragmatic to truly exploit our potential" (物竞天择，效实储能). Soon after its establishment, Xiaoshi Middle School came to be known for its academic achievements and good discipline and consequently, its students enjoyed the privilege of entering Shanghai Fudan University and St. John University without attending the entrance exams. Later the school expanded and started teaching Japanese, French and German, with special focus on science, math and English.
In 1937, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War
wreaked havoc on China's coastal areas. Xiaoshi Middle School was forced to move to rural area and at last stopped operating completely when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Ningbo in 1941. In this traumatic era of Japanese Occupation, Cai Zengku (蔡增祜) organized "Qiushi Academic Society" (求实学社) in order to provide secondary education to Xiaoshi students. In 1945, after Japan
was defeated by the Allied forces, Mr. Cai was in charge of the process of transition and formally reopened Xiaoshi Middle School on the 25th of October.
In 1956, the Communist government nationalized all private schools and Xiaoshi Middle School became a publicly-funded school. It had been awarded the prestigious title of "the special school of significance" many times and acknowledged as one of the best schools of Zhejiang Province.
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. It covers an area of 126 mu
with a construction area of 38,500 square meters. It consists of a classroom
building complex, an administrative
building, a laboratory
, an audio-visual
center, a library and several dormitory buildings with three cafeterias. The library has a collection of 110,000 books. A well-equipped gym
nasium, Kuancheng Gymnasium after the donator, stands in the southwest of the campus covering 8765 square meters. There is a standard 400-meter sports field with rubber tracks. Several tennis
, basketball
, and volleyball
courts are all around it.
There are currently 42 classes, with 2,027 students and 252 teaching staff. The teaching facilities are being improved at a miraculous speed and the school is on its way to being a first-class school in the nation as well as a modern and model one.
. In accordance with the agreement signed by both sides, Yale-China has sent 5 Yale
graduates to teach at Xiaoshi, each working for 2 years (the agreement has since been terminated due to funding withdrawal). In the same year, the school established a sister-school relationship with Hopkins School
in New Haven, Connecticut
. Both schools sent exchange teachers to work in the other school. So far more than 7 teachers have benefited from this program. Meanwhile, Xiaoshi also has an agreement with Scotch College, Perth
, which allows 8 Xiaoshi teachers each year to be sent for language training at Perth and two Perth teachers every year to teach at Xiaoshi for one year. Xiaoshi also has strong ties with three distinguished schools in Singapore
, namely, Nanyang Girls' High School
, Yishun Junior College
and the Chinese High School. Each year more than 20 teachers and students from both sides exchange visits for about half a month.
Xiaoshi has also set up a program with Heinrich-Heine Gesamtschule in Germany
. Every three years, Xiaoshi welcomes around 30 German students on its campus and the German host families have the pleasure of having Chinese visitors for about ten days. Moreover, the Witts Education Center in Hong Kong
also sends foreign teachers to teach at Xiaoshi. Each year, Xiaoshi welcomes numerous groups of visitors from home and abroad. In 2001, a delegation led by the President of Yale University, Dr. Richard Levin, paid a visit to Xiaoshi. He spoke highly of the many achievements that Xiaoshi had made. In recent years, several Xiaoshi graduates have been accepted by world-famous universities, such as Harvard, Yale
, Stanford, and Columbia University
in the U.S.
and Cambridge University in Britain
for their bachelors, masters or doctorate
degrees.
, Stanford, California, MIT, Columbia, Oxford
and Cambridge
, to further their education.
Ningbo
Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...
, China
China
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. A formerly private school, Xiaoshi Middle School, with its long history of over 90 years, is regarded as one of the best schools in Eastern China. Currently run as two separate but affiliated schools, Xiaoshi Middle School now has about 60 classes, 2600 students and 250 staff members.
Overview
The school offers a 6-year secondary education from junior high school (3 years) to senior high school (3 years).Its current principal is Zhang Caigeng, principal of honour is Li Qingkun.
Xiaoshi has won a lot of awards in national and international competitions. It strives to develop students in every aspect and enjoys special prestige among Ningbo locals. Xiaoshi Middle School is especially strong at Maths Olympiad, sports and art performances.
Thanks to the commitment of the government, hundreds of millions of renminbi have been spent in the construction and upgrading of school buildings and infrastructure, including tennis courts, soccer field, 400m standard tracks and a mini sports stadium. http://xiaoshi.nbedu.net.cn/intro/school/source/00000123_2.jpg
The school library currently stores more than 110,000 books and is open to all students.
Xiaoshi Middle School has more than 20 Co-Curriculum activities, including sports societies, astronomy club and literature salon.
Student Council
The student council of Xiaoshi Middle School is independent of the Communist Youth League and this is one of the main differences between Xiaoshi and other schools. However, the degree of autonomy of student council is still a matter for debate.Declared Academic Requirement
Meticulous, Diligent, Truth-seeking, Creative(严谨、勤奋、求实、创新) http://xiaoshi.nbedu.net.cn/intro/school/source/00000123_1.jpg
Disambiguation
Due to some administrative regulation of the municipal government, the junior high school has been separated from the senior high school and renamed "Ningbo Foreign Language School" since 1991. In 2004, as the new campus built for the junior high school (Foreign Language School) was completed, the classes from junior high school moved there. In face of continuous opposition from parents of junior high school students, the process of formal separation has been fraught with troubles and conflicts. The process ended successfully in 2006 with intervention from the municipal educational board.Although currently the junior high school and senior high school are two distinct entities, they are often referred to as "Xiaoshi Middle School" because of the long history the two schools shared.
Despite years of disruption ever since its establishment, Xiaoshi Middle School has remained one of the best schools in Eastern China with high academic standards and dedication to the full development of students' potential. It is renowned for its excellent results in annual science and maths competition and especially highly respected as arguably the best school in Ningbo.
History
Xiaoshi Middle School was established in 1912. The first principal was Shen Xianghan (陈祥翰). As a school built one year after the Chinese Nationalist Revolution (1911), Xiaoshi Middle School was dedicated to the mission of bringing new thoughts to China and nurturing talents for the Chinese society, which was under drastic changes then.The founders of the school, He Yujie (何育杰), Ye Bingliang (叶秉良), Chen Xunzheng (陈训正) and Qian Baohang (钱保杭) organized "Xiaoshi Academic Community" under the guidance of their declared motto "with personal wealth and private management, contribute to education and lead the people to enlightenment" (以私力之经营，施实川之教育，为民治导先路). In the February of the following year, Xiaoshi Middle School was formally built in an abandoned site of a primary school. The name "Xiaoshi" came from Yan Fu, a famous Chinese thinker and political scientist, who wrote in his masterpiece "Tian Yan Lun" "The fittest survive as a result of natural selection; We must be pragmatic to truly exploit our potential" (物竞天择，效实储能). Soon after its establishment, Xiaoshi Middle School came to be known for its academic achievements and good discipline and consequently, its students enjoyed the privilege of entering Shanghai Fudan University and St. John University without attending the entrance exams. Later the school expanded and started teaching Japanese, French and German, with special focus on science, math and English.
In 1937, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...
wreaked havoc on China's coastal areas. Xiaoshi Middle School was forced to move to rural area and at last stopped operating completely when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Ningbo in 1941. In this traumatic era of Japanese Occupation, Cai Zengku (蔡增祜) organized "Qiushi Academic Society" (求实学社) in order to provide secondary education to Xiaoshi students. In 1945, after Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
was defeated by the Allied forces, Mr. Cai was in charge of the process of transition and formally reopened Xiaoshi Middle School on the 25th of October.
In 1956, the Communist government nationalized all private schools and Xiaoshi Middle School became a publicly-funded school. It had been awarded the prestigious title of "the special school of significance" many times and acknowledged as one of the best schools of Zhejiang Province.
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Honors
Xiaoshi has received several honors. It was named a "Key School in the Province" as well as one of the "Best Key Schools in the Province", and "the Best First-Class Key School in the Province." In 1999 the Province chose Xiaoshi as one of two "Bases for Creative Teaching of Science," and it was chosen to be the "Experimental School of Modern Teaching Techniques" by the National Ministry of Education in 2000. In 2005, one more great honor was awarded to Xiaoshi by the National Ministry of Education as one of the "100 Famous Schools in China".New Campus
In 1999, Xiaoshi moved to its present campusCampus
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. It covers an area of 126 mu
Mu
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with a construction area of 38,500 square meters. It consists of a classroom
Classroom
A classroom is a room in which teaching or learning activities can take place. Classrooms are found in educational institutions of all kinds, including public and private schools, corporations, and religious and humanitarian organizations...
building complex, an administrative
Academic administration
An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities...
building, a laboratory
Laboratory
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, an audio-visual
Video
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center, a library and several dormitory buildings with three cafeterias. The library has a collection of 110,000 books. A well-equipped gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasium, Kuancheng Gymnasium after the donator, stands in the southwest of the campus covering 8765 square meters. There is a standard 400-meter sports field with rubber tracks. Several tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, and volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
courts are all around it.
There are currently 42 classes, with 2,027 students and 252 teaching staff. The teaching facilities are being improved at a miraculous speed and the school is on its way to being a first-class school in the nation as well as a modern and model one.
Relationships
Xiaoshi has several long-term connections with many foreign countries and associations. In 1999, Xiaoshi established a good relationship with the Yale-China Association in the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. In accordance with the agreement signed by both sides, Yale-China has sent 5 Yale
YALE
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graduates to teach at Xiaoshi, each working for 2 years (the agreement has since been terminated due to funding withdrawal). In the same year, the school established a sister-school relationship with Hopkins School
Hopkins School
The Hopkins School is a private, college-preparatory, coeducational day school, located in New Haven, Connecticut....
in New Haven, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
. Both schools sent exchange teachers to work in the other school. So far more than 7 teachers have benefited from this program. Meanwhile, Xiaoshi also has an agreement with Scotch College, Perth
Scotch College, Perth
Scotch College , is one of Australia's leading independent schools for boys, situated in Swanbourne, Western Australia, Australia. The school is a member of the Public Schools Association and is now a Uniting Church school, although it was founded in 1897 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia...
, which allows 8 Xiaoshi teachers each year to be sent for language training at Perth and two Perth teachers every year to teach at Xiaoshi for one year. Xiaoshi also has strong ties with three distinguished schools in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, namely, Nanyang Girls' High School
Nanyang Girls' High School
Nanyang Girls' High School is an all-girls secondary school in Singapore. It participates in the Integrated Programme with Hwa Chong Institution under the Hwa Chong Affiliate Programme...
, Yishun Junior College
Yishun Junior College
Yishun Junior College is one of the 17 junior colleges in Singapore, offering two-year pre-university programmes for students who graduate from secondary schools after the General Certificate of Education 'Ordinary' Level Examination. The two-year programme prepares students for education in local...
and the Chinese High School. Each year more than 20 teachers and students from both sides exchange visits for about half a month.
Xiaoshi has also set up a program with Heinrich-Heine Gesamtschule in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Every three years, Xiaoshi welcomes around 30 German students on its campus and the German host families have the pleasure of having Chinese visitors for about ten days. Moreover, the Witts Education Center in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
also sends foreign teachers to teach at Xiaoshi. Each year, Xiaoshi welcomes numerous groups of visitors from home and abroad. In 2001, a delegation led by the President of Yale University, Dr. Richard Levin, paid a visit to Xiaoshi. He spoke highly of the many achievements that Xiaoshi had made. In recent years, several Xiaoshi graduates have been accepted by world-famous universities, such as Harvard, Yale
YALE
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, Stanford, and Columbia University
Columbia University
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in the U.S.
United States
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and Cambridge University in Britain
United Kingdom
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for their bachelors, masters or doctorate
Doctorate
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degrees.
Alumni
Up to now, more than 30,000 students have graduated from Xiaoshi Middle School and some of them entered world-class universities, including Harvard, YaleYALE
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, Stanford, California, MIT, Columbia, Oxford
Oxford
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and Cambridge
Cambridge
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, to further their education.