Xinhua All Media+| Let's Go! New Classmate - Scanning of the "Welcome" Scene in Duodi Primary and Secondary Schools

The rich and diverse forms of enrollment, comprehensive enrollment education content, and efforts to create a home school collaborative atmosphere... During the opening season, many primary and secondary schools in various regions have launched distinctive welcoming measures to help new students in first grade, junior high school, and senior high school adapt to the new environment. Entering a campus full of vitality and vigor, freshmen are eagerly standing at a new starting point, embarking on a brand new learning life.

Innovate enrollment forms to welcome new students

Stepping into the school, receiving the campus clock in form, checking in at various experience areas, collecting stamps to receive the opening gift... At Maodun Experimental Primary School in Puyuan, Tongxiang City, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, first-year students learn about the new environment through this fun process. Selecting books of interest in the library, playing ball and skipping rope in the gym, sweating profusely, experiencing artistic charm in the art classroom and piano room, children have a great time playing in the check-in experience.

At Maodun Experimental Primary School in Puyuan, Tongxiang City, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, a first-year freshman completed the campus clock in form and received the school opening gift with the company of his parents.

"Each experience area has teachers introducing campus venues, and some senior students also participate in guiding. During this process, new students can quickly familiarize themselves with the campus and prepare for campus life," said Fei Qiuping, a first-year teacher at the school.

At the Yusha Experimental School in Haikou City, first-year elementary school students start their first important learning stage in life through the "opening ceremony" of traditional culture, such as correcting their clothes and crowns, adding cinnabar, beating drums to express their aspirations, and presenting pens. "In ancient times, the 'opening ceremony' was a traditional educational etiquette for children when they officially entered the school. New students can immerse themselves in it and experience enlightenment education," said Li Fang, the homeroom teacher of Class 1 in the first grade of the school.

First year students and parents of Yusha Experimental School in Haikou City attended the "Opening Ceremony" ceremony. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Yuqing

"The sense of ceremony when new students enroll can help them enhance self-awareness, clarify their role positioning, and be more proactive in adapting to new learning and life," said Xiao Longhai, a professor at the School of Education of Zhejiang University.

In order to help new students adapt to the new learning life as soon as possible, primary and secondary schools have launched various distinctive guidance measures based on their own actual situations. Wuhan Experimental High School in Hubei Province organized comprehensive practical activities for freshmen in their first year of high school, including lectures on school history and guidance on mental health, to help students improve their ideological cognition and psychological adjustment before entering the school. Chengdu No.7 Middle School Affiliated Primary School focuses on cultivating students' interest in learning, cultivating study and behavioral habits, and fostering emotional communication between teachers and students. In the first week of school, a "study preparation period" course is formulated. In Suichang County Experimental Primary School, Zhejiang Province, a summer daycare class for new students connecting kindergarten and primary school is launched. Through various courses such as etiquette, sports, and art, children can understand and enjoy the learning and life at school.

Enriching educational content and opening a new stage

"The enrollment education for new students is the 'first button' after entering a new stage of learning, which has a significant impact on their subsequent learning and life." Professor Luo Zubing from the School of Education of Central China Normal University said that the school can strengthen ideal and belief education at this time, helping students establish new learning and life goals.

On the first day of school, facing the sunrise, Wang Yongjun, the principal of Wuhan Experimental High School in Hubei Province, sent a message to the new students at the opening ceremony of the new semester, saying that they should plan their high school life well, be independent thinkers, have a patriotic heart, and take on the baton of the times.

Off stage, high school freshman Yao Yiyao is full of expectations for the future: "I am very interested in science and engineering, and I want to apply for artificial intelligence related majors in the future." He hopes to integrate his personal life goals into the needs of national development and contribute to technological progress in the future.

Teachers and students of Wuhan Experimental High School in Hubei Province are attending the opening ceremony.

The themes of campus safety, technological innovation, and traditional culture enrich the content of enrollment education for new students.

The first lesson of the school year with the theme of "Flood Control and Campus Safety" was held in various classes of Dajing Primary School in Xichang City, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. In class, first-year students learn about risk avoidance and self rescue knowledge through vivid means. School teacher Shamabir said that the school is located in a mountainous area with a high frequency of natural disasters, and hopes to improve their safety and self-protection awareness through such activities.

At the Affiliated Primary School of Chengdu No.7 Middle School, first-year students, led by senior student volunteers, visited the school's artificial intelligence museum, aerospace museum, etc., and checked in to complete the challenge tasks at each venue. Yang Xinzhu, Deputy Director of the School Student Parent Development Center, said that the science and technology innovation experience helps open the door for children to innovate and create in school. In addition, the school has also designed an "Poetry Palace" experience activity, where new students are led by elderly students to read ancient poems and classics, get close to and experience the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

First year students of Chengdu No.7 Middle School Affiliated Primary School watch works printed by 3D printers in the school's artificial intelligence hall. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xing Tuo

Family and school work together to write a new chapter

For mother Ye Yanjing, who lives in Lishui, Zhejiang, this school start season is a bit special: her daughter Ji Yunduo enters first grade of elementary school, her son enters junior high school and begins to live on campus, and the two children each embark on a new journey in life. What should she do as a new parent? For this, she listened to the school's family education lecture, hoping to gain more educational inspiration and enhance children's confidence in facing new challenges in the new semester.

Ji Yunduo's class is waiting to start the first lesson of school.

Li Fang believes that compared to parents of students in other grades, new parents are more likely to be anxious and sensitive about their children's situation. This requires teachers to lead parents to understand the psychological changes of their children, accompany and help them smoothly start a new stage of life.

During the opening season, primary and secondary schools connect with new parents through various means to promote home school collaboration. At Wuhan Experimental High School in Hubei Province, teachers introduced the physical and mental characteristics of high school students at the parent teacher meeting, allowing parents to adapt to the new changes in the new stage together; At Maodun Experimental Primary School in Puyuan, Tongxiang City, family education guidance classes, related videos, and study manuals were launched, emphasizing the importance of parent-child relationships.

Liang Changdan, a primary school teacher at Haikou Experimental School affiliated with Renmin University of China, believes that parents play an important role in their children's enlightenment stage, and should attach importance to parent-child reading, strengthen children's concentration training through various game forms, cultivate positive emotions, and help children develop good habits.

"The new student enrollment ceremony and the first lesson are very important, but more importantly, it is important to pay attention to the daily education and teaching process." Xiao Longhai said that teachers and parents should work together to guide children and provide support and encouragement. He suggests that parents should strengthen their attention to their children's school situation and psychological state, and subtly set good examples to help their children learn and grow happily.