Beihu Elementary School offers 25 special courses to accompany the children’s personal growth
. Parents love the after-school service like this!
At 4 pm on November 19, the after-school service hours of Beihu Primary School in Jianghan District began.
Street dance, tambourine, dance, clay sculpture, paper-cutting, programming, football, basketball... The children walk into different classrooms and venues to learn their own interest classes. The sound of music, shouts, and laughter are intertwined in the campus, harmonious and harmonious. good.
At the beginning of this semester, Beihu Elementary School has built a colorful after-school service system and opened 25 elective courses of interest: hip-hop, radio direction finding, chorus, dance, roller skating, model, wind music, small host, traditional culture, eco-environmental protection , Clay sculpture, paper-cutting, animation, tambourine, small model team, "little scientist", chess, go, creative art, ukulele, hard pen calligraphy, martial arts, golf, basketball, football, etc.
From Monday to Friday, the children start the "working class" mode, develop hobbies, and cultivate their personality and expertise.
"Developing after-school services in primary and secondary schools is an important way to implement the fundamental tasks of Lide Shuren and the requirements of'double reduction'. It is an important measure to enhance the ability of education services, effectively reduce the burden on parents, and promote the healthy growth of students' physical and mental health." Beihu Primary School Principal Fan Yongsui said that as a nationally civilized campus, Beihu Elementary School takes "harmonious education" as its main line. The school has continuously enriched after-school services through cooperation with professional institutions and inviting non-genetic inheritors into the campus, so that children can enjoy themselves on campus. Be able to explore art, science, sports, develop interests and specialties for free, and truly realize the improvement of students' comprehensive quality and the harmonious development of teachers and students.
■ Non-genetic inheritors please enter the campus
Inherit traditional culture in your mind
"Students should pinch out the body of the pony first, then gently pinch out the horse's mane, and rub the horse's four legs..." In the clay sculpture class, the teacher was explaining the key points of making a clay pony.
Under the guidance of the teacher, the children observe the characteristics of horses, make them carefully, complete each step of the clay sculpture process, and finally make a complete work.
The children who gave clay sculpture lessons were Feng Ying and Zhang Luwen, members of the Wuhan Folk Artists Association and the second generation of non-genetic inheritors of Wuhan clay sculptures.
In addition to these two teachers, Luo Qingxia, the non-genetic inheritor of "Wuhan Paper-cutting", was also invited to the campus to teach students paper-cutting.
In this semester, the school not only opened three intangible heritage after-school service projects, namely clay sculpture, paper-cutting, and cotton wool painting, but also cooperated with the Jianghan District Intangible Heritage Center to carry out two thematic activities of Wang Yuxia mooncake making and Han style illustration.
Every time after finishing the clay sculpture class, Qi Muxi in class four (4) will take the works home to her father to "show off".
From the initial "information" to the present, the clay sculpture of the small animals looks different. Dad Qi Jinzhou is pleased to find that the child has made progress every time he works.
"The school's after-school service is really good, so that children have the opportunity to try, find their own points of interest, and tap their own potential."
"Next year's New Year, the tasks of cutting window grilles and'Fu' in our house will be handed over to the children!" Five (2) Ban Ke Linlang's mother said with a smile.
Ke Linlang chose the paper-cutting class. Once, she showed her mother a little rabbit that had just been cut, and her mother Hu Lanlan was surprised: "I didn't expect that she could cut out such a complicated pattern."
With the encouragement of teachers and parents, Ke Linlang cuts more and more vigorously, and the works are filled with small desks.
"Paper-cutting not only tempers the children's character, but also allows them to pass on traditional culture and traditional craftsmanship."
In the intangible cultural heritage cotton painting class, the children followed the teacher to dye the cotton, drawn, pulled, twisted, and twisted into various shapes to make exquisite three-dimensional paintings.
The boy Chen Jiarui said that he didn't know about this kind of art before, but after contacting him, he discovered that there is a deep historical and cultural accumulation behind the small cotton wool paintings.
"The establishment of'intangible cultural heritage' art courses combines the school's characteristics of'excellent traditional culture on campus'. It is hoped that students can appreciate the charm of traditional folk skills and inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture through understanding, feeling and experiencing intangible cultural heritage projects." Wu Yanjin, director of moral education at Beihu Elementary School, said that children learn by doing and playing to learn, feel the craftsman spirit behind the intangible cultural heritage project, and also experience the joy of manual labor.
In addition to non-heritage courses, the school’s traditional school-level clubs such as tambourine, street dance, and dance have been retained, and a wind band has been formed to ignite the children’s artistic dreams.
On New Year's Day this year, the children of these groups will perform a song "Hemerocallis Flower" to show their learning achievements.
■ "Little Scientists" play high-tech
Drones "fly into" elementary school classrooms
"Wow! It's really a drone!" "How can a drone fly into the sky?" In the computer classroom of Beihu Elementary School, 10 drones were placed in front of the students, and everyone suddenly became excited.
This is a drone club class offered by the school during the after-school service hours. 3 teachers and more than 30 students learn drone programming skills, understand the mechanical structure of drones, and experience the joy of technology.
In the school’s makerspace, students skillfully manipulate robots to start a robot competition.
These robots are designed and assembled by the students themselves. This process stimulates the creativity of the children and also exercises their hands-on ability and teamwork ability.
Teacher Fan Jun, a science and technology counselor at Beihu Elementary School, introduced that this semester, the school’s robots, radios, nature notes, "little scientists", models, drones and other courses will be opened in the after-school service hours in the form of club activities for children. With concentrated time to explore and research cutting-edge scientific knowledge, comprehensively improve students' information literacy, imagination and creativity.
Science and technology courses are not only open on campuses and classrooms.
On November 19th, under the leadership of teachers and parent volunteers, the children came to the Polar Ocean Park to play radio direction finding.
They held the radio direction finder and looked for the signal sources hidden in the park one by one according to the signals in the earphones while running.
In order to be able to find it faster and more accurately, the girl Guo Yongyi checked the information and taught herself and studied radio principles after returning home.
Guo Yongyi’s mother said that she was especially pleased to see her children discover and solve problems independently, and never give up when encountering difficulties.
"She learned scientific knowledge and realized the spirit of scientific research."
"The development of the country cannot be separated from technological innovation. Innovative thinking needs to be cultivated from an early age. Beihu Primary School has always insisted on carrying out various scientific and technological activities among students." Director Gai Nan of Beihu Primary School said that these science and technology courses have improved the children's innovative practical ability. And hands-on ability stimulated the children's potential and creativity. What children harvest is not only innovative results, but also an innovative spirit and innovative thinking.
■ Gain health and happiness in sports
Basketball, football, and martial arts make students "active"
The after-school service began, and there were a group of dedicated and serious students on the sports field of Beihu Elementary School.
The students in the martial arts class followed the teacher to learn one trick. The football team members put on different colored jerseys to practice their basic skills in groups. The boys and girls on the basketball court slapped the technical movements carefully. The sound of "boom bounce" released their vitality. .
Basketball, football and other clubs have always been the school's boutique clubs. Both the school-level basketball team and the football team were established in 2015, and then developed by leaps and bounds and later developed into star teams in Jianghan District.
In 2017, the school introduced martial arts to the campus.
During the after-school service hours of this semester, these sports programs are also open to all students in the school and are available for interested students.
According to the football coach Li Xin, during the one and a half hour every Wednesday and Friday, three coaches will bring more than 100 classmates to play football games and a small game to introduce them to the history, culture and rules of football games. .
The upper grades will take the lower grades to play together, in groups to experience different football training projects in turn, and feel the joy of this sport.
"Of the more than 100 students, 70 are members of the school team, and more than 40 are children interested in football in each class," Li Xin said. These students are small "promoters" of football. The joy of football spreads to the friends around, so that more and more children will participate in football.
Li Xuemei, the vice principal of Beihu Primary School, said that in order to provide students with rich and professional physical education, the school not only tapped teachers with special skills in physical education, but also introduced off-campus resources to make physical education more professional.
The 6 martial arts coaches of Beihu Primary School are all professional coaches from Wuhan Wushu Association.
They give students a special martial arts class every week. During the after-school service hours every Friday afternoon, more than 40 children who have chosen the martial arts interest class will continue to "practice martial arts" with the teacher.
Wushu exercises, Duanwei boxing, Shaolin chain boxing, three-way long boxing... the children are becoming more and more proficient.
He Xiaoxuan, deputy secretary-general of the Wuhan Wushu Association, felt that not only did the children have better physical fitness, they also became more polite and abiding by the rules.
"We will teach the children to hold the fist, remind them to say hello to the teacher, and let the primary school students pass on the traditional culture while practicing martial arts. Children who have studied martial arts have obviously different spirits!"
(Author: Nie Peng)