Author: Xin Feng.
On the morning of December 28, 2023, all the teachers and students of Shanghai Huangpu District Baotong Primary School held a grand ceremony on the campus to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the founding of the school and the project-based learning achievement exhibition. Leaders of Shanghai Huangpu District Education Bureau, Huangpu District Education College, Huangpu District Post Office of Shanghai Post Company, Bund Street, Chen Heqin Educational Thought Research Association, Shanghai Puppet Troupe, and Huangpu District Luwan No. 2 Central Primary School Education Group attended the event.
At the beginning of the event, a song "Selling Newspaper Song" kicked off, Principal Zhou Qimin first took the stage to deliver a speech, Principal Zhou reviewed the school's 85th anniversary of the ups and downs, she said that "the heart of a child, rejuvenating education and strengthening the country" is the original intention and mission of the newspaper boys, we remember the "glorious history" of the newspaper boys, follow the footsteps of the ancestors, and constantly draw the strength to move forward. Reminisce about the past and base yourself on the present. Baotong Primary School continues to deepen the research results of the district's ideological and political public key project "Excavating School History Resources and Exploring the Practice Research on Red Culture Education Methods", and actively participates in the project-oriented learning practice of literacy under the perspective of "big ideological and political courses", so as to leverage the school's "modern little newspaper boy" curriculum reform and change students' learning methods. The school practices "insisting on the unity of explicit and implicit education, excavating the ideological and political education resources contained in other courses and teaching methods, and realizing all-round education for all employees." This important idea has been integrated into the national sentiment of "Thousands of miles of postal service, the national vein is related" in the project-based learning of the school's "re-taking the road of selling newspapers", so that the postal service and ideology and politics go in the same direction. Through the space creation of the newsboy-themed post office, the newspaper boy primary school focuses on the theme of "square inch contains childlike heart", creating a field of integrated interdisciplinary learning, so that students can not only enter the "square inch of the world" and "newspaper source" youth philatelic and newspaper industry, but also let them become the little master of the post office operation, effectively expand the students' self-management ability, enhance the students' labor awareness, cultivate aesthetic taste, cultivate team spirit, and enhance innovative thinking and innovative practice ability.
During the activity, the teachers and students talked about "The History of the Party in Stamps", "The Heroic Demeanor of the Square Inch", talked about "The Newspaper Boy Runs the "Children's Newspaper", and exhibited "Re-walking the Newspaper Road Philatelic Products", interviewed the founder Chen Heqinsheng's family Chen Yixin's grandfather online and presented the philatelic products designed by the students, and also revealed the 15 issues of the "Children's Newspaper" collection edited by the students themselves, and other project-based achievements, integrating the postal feelings and national heritage from multiple dimensions, presenting the school's "big ideological and political course" From the perspective of perspective, it focuses on the theme-based comprehensive practical activity courses, and the results of multidisciplinary project-based learning such as Chinese, Taoism, and art. Mr. Jin Yi, deputy director of the Huangpu District Education Bureau, presented a collection of newspapers that recorded the 85th anniversary of the history of Newsboy Primary School to Principal Zhou Qimin, hoping that all Newsboy people would inherit the red gene under the leadership of Principal Zhou and understand the power of inheritance.
At the event, Mr. Wei Wei, Secretary of the Party General Branch of Shanghai Huangpu District Education College, delivered a speech. Secretary Wei summarized the achievements of Baotong Primary School in recent years, and said that today's activity display is not only a display of the project-based learning and education achievements of Baotong Primary School, but also the school's adherence to and practice of the theory of "living education" The modern little newsboy.
After the demonstration, the guests moved to the "Newsboy-themed Post Office" under the leadership of the Little Post Messenger to participate in the opening ceremony co-hosted by the students and the puppets of the puppet troupe. Walk into the post office: "Post Chief" introduced the post office management department, cultural and creative department, sales department and distribution department and other postal positions in the post office, the "post minister" enthusiastically introduced the work process of their own department, the guests were immersed in laughter, and the postcard stamped with the "newsboy theme post office" medal was delivered to the mailbox. The red teenagers of the Newsboy Primary School also used AI to show the image of the newsboy in the new era, and the little AI newsboys introduced the significance and far-reaching connotation of the establishment of the "Newsboy Theme Post Office".
After the ceremony, everyone walked into a number of post-themed activity spaces such as "Precise Delivery" and "Meet Postcards", and a fun and educational welcome garden activity showed full vitality under the guidance of Da Sizheng.
The celebration of the 85th anniversary of the founding of Newsboy Primary School is a review of the glorious past and a prospect for a better future. It is expected that in the coming days, Newsboy Primary School will continue to inherit the red gene, innovate the education model of "red culture to educate newcomers", and strive to draw a new picture of the high-quality development of Newsboy Primary School.
Correspondent: Zhang Haoying.
*: Shanghai Huangpu District Baotong Primary School.