This school uses labor education to allow students to experience the joy of harvest, at the beginning of the new semester
Recently, students in their first and second year of high school at Shanghai Shangde Experimental School, led by their teachers, came to the labor education practice base on the south side of the school to pick peanuts with the farmers here.
Under the guidance of the farmers on site, the students walked into the peanut field, pulled up the ripe peanuts one by one, picked them one by one from the root system, and placed them in black plastic bags.
Wu Zhenglin, a sophomore student from Shanghai Shangde Experimental School who participated in labor education, said that when the labor education practice base was first established, he came here to clean up the messy stones and later participated in the planting of rice.
In order to carry out meaningful social practice activities for students on campus, the school has negotiated with Pengyuan to establish Pengyuan, which covers an area of 50 acres, as the student social practice base of Shanghai Shangde Experimental School.
This small farm has been carefully designed and built into small grid shaped farmland of different sizes with different crops. In spring, students cultivate here; In summer, they pull grass or pick ripe vegetables and fruits here.
At present, there are crops such as peanuts and vegetables planted in Pengyuan. It is now the season for peanuts to ripen, and high school students will take turns coming to pick up peanuts and experience another way of life outside of the classroom. Cao Fengming, a sophomore in high school, said that this kind of labor occurs almost every semester, which can be considered as a form of relaxation in their spare time.
Prior to this, students in their first year of high school had already uprooted eggplant seedlings that were out of season in the field here; Senior students held hands and led the students from Shangde Kindergarten, Primary School, and Junior High School to carry out activities such as pulling radishes. Shi Xinchun, the teacher in charge of Shanghai Shangde Experimental School and the homeroom teacher of Class 1 in Grade 2, introduced that labor education not only cultivates students' learning ability, but also their hands-on ability, with the aim of enabling students to develop comprehensively.
It is understood that in addition to providing labor education, this off campus social practice base can also provide students with ecological environment education, natural education on insect observation, and knowledge expansion of traditional Chinese medicine.
Text/Photography: Zheng Guiyong
