Recently, the reporter learned from Xiangnan Primary School that the school and Hunan Kunju Opera Troupe signed a cooperative school agreement in 2016, and the school became the heritage base of Hunan Kunju Opera Troupe, an intangible cultural heritage protection project in Hunan Province. The troupe sends 4 senior actors a week to the school to train students in the afternoon of Tuesday and Thursday. There are currently 800 students in the school.
In January 2017, the classic Kunqu Opera repertoire "The Garden", compiled by the Kunqu Opera Association of the school, won a gold medal at the Hunan Children's Opera Spring Festival Gala, jointly organized by the Hunan Provincial Cultural Department and Hunan TV. The actors and actresses were honored with the title of "Little Inheritors".
Vice President Luo Chenglin introduced that in ideological and moral education, schools should strengthen the education and practice of socialist core values and actively promote socialist core values into teaching materials, the classroom and the minds. The school has made full use of the important time node to carry out the "My China Dream" theme education practice activities to guide students to have a dream, love learning, love labor and love motherland. The school has strengthened the construction of the moral education system, set up and implemented the moral education course scientifically, deepened the study of moral education, reformed the teaching content, improved the teaching methods, improved the teaching means, integrated the ideological and moral education into all aspects of the school teaching, and students' learning and life.
The school has carried out the socialist core values education practice activities and "My China Dream" theme education practice activities; has focused on implementing the "Code of Primary and Secondary School Students" and promoted children's behavior habits in a variety of forms; has set up a psychological counseling room and hired 3 professional psychological counsellors outside the school to develop the students' sunshine mentality and healthy personality under the guidance of "Guiding Outline of Mental Health Education in Primary and Middle Schools". The school has imported Xinjiang's ethnic customs and culture into the Xiangnan Primary School in a steady stream through the network joint school, so that the children could receive intuitive national education and national unity education when they were young.
Since 2016, there have been 1 provincial excellent class teacher, 8 municipal teaching backbones and more than 30 district outstanding teachers, forming the "National Teacher Moral Model Pan Zhenyu Studio". In August 2016, the school was named the demonstration schoolof the 19th National Youth five good little citizen "Hello Teacher, My Good Teacher" theme activities. In 2017, the school was awarded the national defense education special school in Hunan.