Tangshan No.8 Middle School was founded in 1955, and Hebei No.1 Foreign Language High School was founded in 1996. 200 1 changed its name to Hebei Tangshan foreign language school. Now there are two brands and one school. The school is a municipal middle school, a demonstration high school in Hebei Province and a provincial key middle school. There are 70 classes and 3500 students in the school.
◆ Advanced school-running concept ◆
The school adheres to the management concept of "harmony between humanity and talents", emphasizing morality, talent, ability and achievement. Adhere to people-oriented, respect, understand, care and develop people. Insist on running the school according to law, building the school with morality, developing the school with characteristics and strengthening the school with quality; Strengthen the construction of foreign language characteristics, and strive for survival and development with characteristics.
◆ First-class teaching staff ◆
The school has a team of teachers with noble morality and excellent business. In recent years, the school has introduced a large number of high-quality teachers from national key universities and county key middle schools. There are 300 faculty members, including 75 special and senior teachers, 60 graduate students or graduates, and 30 teachers who go abroad for study, inspection, training and exchange. Teachers have rich teaching experience and innovative consciousness. There are 29 outstanding teachers, national, provincial and municipal academic leaders, and more than 80 books are published every year. It has laid a solid foundation for cultivating high-quality talents.
◆ Distinctive foreign language features ◆
In the teaching of characteristic foreign languages, we should increase the investment of teachers and equipment in characteristic foreign language classes in line with the school-running idea of "harmonious development, giving consideration to arts and sciences, balancing disciplines and highlighting foreign languages", so as to lay a good foundation for cultivating specialized talents with strong foreign language application ability and all kinds of outstanding talents. Three foreign language subjects, English, Japanese and Russian, are offered, and foreign language teaching is taught in one class; Japanese classes and Russian classes offer English as a second foreign language. The school not only has foreign teachers who have been teaching for many years, but also has established friendly relations with schools in Britain, Japan, Australia, Ukraine, Singapore and other countries, achieved many teacher-student exchange visits, carried out extensive exchanges and cooperation, and reached an agreement or intention to exchange international students. Since 2004, we have sent overseas students to Singapore every year, and the tuition and living expenses are all provided by Singapore.
Superior school conditions
With the approval of Tangshan Municipal Government, the new campus of Hebei Tangshan Foreign Language School was built according to international and modern standards, covering an area of 65,438 0.32 mu and a construction area of 57,834 square meters. The new campus has a superior geographical location, elegant environment, people-oriented overall design and respect for individuality.
The new campus has first-class school conditions and advanced teaching equipment, modern science and technology museum, modern distance education receiving station and campus broadband network, and enjoys rich and advanced teaching resources simultaneously with famous schools and universities; The realization of multi-computer access to the classroom conforms to the requirements of future school quality education, embodies the characteristics of foreign language teaching in schools and adapts to future development.
Excellent school performance ◆
In recent years, the school regards quality as life and strives for development with quality. Most high school graduates have successfully entered institutions of higher learning. In recent years, nearly a thousand graduates have been admitted to key universities. Since 2000, Shen has won the top prize in liberal arts in Lubeikao District. Feng Bin and Bai Jing achieved excellent results in physics and chemistry respectively in the college entrance examination.
The school attaches great importance to the development of students' personality, and students' achievements in the Olympic Mathematical Physics Competition, Mathematical Hope Cup Competition, Information Technology, Scientific and Technological Innovation Competition and English Competition are among the best in the city and even the whole country. The enrollment rate of key high schools 100%. In 2004, more than 270 graduates were promoted to No.1 Middle School, with students 168. This year, student Annabel participated in the national competition and won the first prize as the only finalist in Hebei Province in the information technology practice and innovation activities of primary and secondary school students nationwide; Student Chen Miao's comprehensive homework "I am growing up" was compiled into the experimental textbook "Comprehensive Practice and Innovation Activities" of compulsory education in Hebei Province; Students Lv Liangyu, Yun, Feng Fuling and Hou won the first prize of the Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Competition and were eligible for the college entrance examination plus points 10. At the same time, the aerobics team of our school won the championship in national competitions for many times, and the men's volleyball team won the championship in Hebei Province for two consecutive years.
Since 1997, our school has been rated as Tangshan Senior Middle School for many times. Our school is a national advanced art education school, a national youth aerobics training center, an innovative education experimental school in Hebei Province, a civilized unit in Tangshan, an advanced unit in ideological and political work in Tangshan, and a municipal science and technology demonstration school.