As the "School of the future" in the 21st century, Vanke Bilingual School in Long Hua District of Shenzhen City has been actively inheriting red education since its establishment, developing its own characteristics with the times, and exploring the form of future education. In order to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party in China, the school takes the updated designed classroom as the venue, through the rich activities inside and outside the school, let the students learn the history of the Party, praise the kindness of the Party, follow the Party, practice the educational promise of "Follow the original heart.", and cultivate "Future talents" with family and national patriotism. 

Starting from the young to cultivate their patriotism

Integrating Party history into every single of the primary school history lesson

Since its establishment, Vanke Bilingual School has established a clear educational goal to cultivate Chinese citizens with sound personality, outstanding academic ability, international vision and national patriotism, and the courage to create a better future. Children are the builders and successors of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. To cultivate the feelings of home and country, we should start with children.

Led by Yang Fan, the Principal of Vanke Bilingual School, the school has provided history lessons from the first grade, based on the Chinese and foreign historical knowledge which is interesting and knowledge-based. At the same time, it puts the history of mankind in the context of the great cosmic history, giving students the concept of "Big history" with many faces and three dimensions, and understands the fear of life and the fear of nature.

At the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China, the school launched a history themed activity course "Learning party history, praising the party's kindness and following the party". With the classroom as the main channel, the school integrated the centennial development of the Communist Party of China into every history lesson in primary schools, solidly promoted students' learning party history, enhanced children's national self-confidence, and imperceptibly rooted the faith of patriotism and loving the party in every child's heart.

In addition, the school takes the classroom as the position and uses innovative curriculum to promote students' cognition and creation. For example, through the Chinese reading class to carry out "learning new ideas, good successors" reading sharing activities, sharing patriotic poetry reading feelings; The Youth League branch takes the Youth League class as its position, and invites guests to explain the origin of the May 4th Youth Day for students, so that students can understand the history of the party.

Each class also held the theme class meeting of "Red heart to the Party" and the theme class meeting of "Striving together with our motherland" to guide young people to establish the ideal and belief of following the party. With the theme of "remembering the achievements of our ancestors, strengthening our ideals and beliefs, and being a good leader", we should enhance the patriotic feelings, civic awareness and sense of social responsibility of young people.

Carry out rich red activities inside and outside the school

Keep the feelings of home and country forever in the walking classroom

Activities aiming at cultivating people and promoting growth. As a new type of modern internationalized school, Vanke Bilingual School focuses on promoting students' growth with rich experiential practice activities. Since the establishment of the school, the school has been actively inheriting the red education, so that students can broaden their horizons and maintain the feelings of home and country.

For example, organize students to study in Changsha, Hunan Province, to cherish the memory of the achievements of great people and to firmly believe in ideals. Go to the cemetery of revolutionary martyrs Lin to celebrate the revolutionary martyrs and look forward to the monument to revolutionary martyrs; to find out the stories of the old revolutionary predecessors, listen to the moving stories of the old party members about the first line of earthquake relief of Wenchuan earthquake, and understand the construction process of the party and the glorious achievements of the heroic ancestors; inherit Lei Feng spirit, organize student volunteers to carry out garbage classification publicity activities in community areas.

By carrying out a series of rich red social practice activities, we can fully inspire students to set up lofty ideals and strive for the rise of China, and further strengthen their confidence in the road, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

At the same time, in order to create a stronger atmosphere of praising, respecting and loving the party on the campus, the Party branch of the school carries out a forum on party history and holds a competition on party history quiz in the sixth class every Friday; During the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the essay competition of "learning the history of the party for a hundred years and being a new person of the times" was held, the speech activity of "the glory of the party shines on my heart", "the online knowledge competition of" inheriting the glory of the party, striving to light up my dream "," the video collection activity of "the League emblem shining on my post", "making friends with Party members, looking for red scarves" and "Centennial praise", "Red heart to the party" theme activities.

In these activities, teachers and students reviewed the glorious course of the party, eulogized the great achievements of the party, looked forward to the goal of building a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful socialist modern power, displayed the spiritual outlook of teachers and students of Vanke bilingual school in the new era and new normal, and guided young students to carry forward their ambition of serving the country with practical actions.

 On June 25, 2021, this article was published by Southern Metropolis Daily.

Editor and Photographer: Linda

Translator: Zhang Lan (Victoria)