Introduction to Dafo Duan Primary School, Nan'an District, Chongqing
At the south end of the magnificent Chaotianmen Bridge in Chongqing and at the core of Chongqing CBD under construction, there stands a century old school with luxuriant flowers and trees, small and exquisite, and full of scholarly atmosphere - Dafo Duan Primary School in Nan'an District, Chongqing.
Dafo Duan Primary School, formerly Laoyingyan Private School in Baishatuo Township in the early Republic of China, was founded in the 1920s. In the course of more than 90 years of trials and tribulations, Zeng Sanyi changed the school site and name. In 1956, the school moved to the site of the former private Yumin Junior Middle School in Duanhou Street, Dafo District, where it is now located, and changed its name to Dafo Duan Junior Primary School.
The school now has 18 teaching classes, more than 800 students and nearly 50 teaching staff. Covering an area of nearly 8 mu, the campus is well distributed in terraces. In addition to the ancient trees, flowers and plants everywhere, it has won the reputation of "garden style campus". The school adapts measures to local conditions, makes use of a small space, adheres to the principle of "seeking innovation and refinement, creating details", and builds the campus into a tree lined, clean and tidy, elegant, scholarly, and has its own characteristics and highlights on the road of campus culture and class culture construction.
According to the surrounding environment and its own development needs, the school has refined the school running concept of "good habits lay the foundation of sunny life", and takes "sunshine, fraternity, responsibility" as the school spirit, and takes "getting a little every day" as the school motto, laying a solid foundation for students' lifelong development. The school has successively won the honorary titles of "National Top 100 Educational Research Units in Primary and Secondary Schools", "Chongqing Top 100 School Running Ideas, Top 100 School Mottos and Top 100 School Emblems", "Chongqing English Demonstration School", "Civilized Unit in Nan'an District", "Young Pioneers Red Flag Brigade", "Science and Technology Demonstration School", "Parent School Demonstration School", "Class Culture Construction Innovation School", etc, It has gained certain popularity, reputation and influence in the region.
For many years, the school has always attached importance to quality education and vigorously carried out various community activities. Basketball, football, track and field, rope skipping, shuttlecock kicking... The campus has set off an upsurge of physical exercise, and the characteristics of "sunshine youth" can be demonstrated in the activities. The school choir and dance team participated in the district art performances, won the first prize for four consecutive years, and reported performances in the city and district, winning rave reviews. The school's robot team is at the top level in China. In 2015, it went abroad to Australia to participate in world competitions and won many awards.
Teachers are actively engaged in education and scientific research, participate in research projects, participate in municipal and district competitions, and thesis competitions. "Baojianfeng comes from sharpening, and plum blossom fragrance comes from bitter cold". The unremitting efforts have finally paid off. In recent years, the school has repeatedly undertaken the research task of municipal and district level scientific research projects, and promoted the school teachers to teach lessons and write papers that have won numerous awards in national, municipal and district level competitions; The children have won many awards in art, sports, science and technology, calligraphy and painting, essay collection and other competitions organized in the district.
Dafo Duan Primary School has many outstanding talents in its many years of educational experience. For example, Liu Xia, the current member of the Standing Committee of the Nan'an District Committee and the head of the Organization Department; Film star Jiang Qinqin; Chen Chun, an international model; Tang Jiayu, President of the Student Union of Tsinghua University; Zhang Yu, a research talent studying in the United States, etc. picture
This year, the old Dafo Duan Primary School has ushered in new vitality, and the construction of the new campus has entered the stage of enclosure construction. In the near future, a new, spacious and well-equipped modern school will be built, and the education dream of the people in the Grand Buddha Sect will continue, develop and realize in the new school site
The people-oriented school running concept, rich and colorful campus activities, and the habit cultivation of family school cooperation have demonstrated a good campus spirit, making Dafo Duan Primary School take a more solid step on the characteristic school running road of "balancing urban and rural high-quality education and development", and gradually become a pearl of basic education on the south bank of the Yangtze River.
