"Teacher, do you think this vase I made looks good?" "Teacher, this bottle mouth is a little uneven, can you help me guide me?" This summer is quite fulfilling for Xiao Yong, who is in the seventh grade of Chashi Middle School in Hengnan County, Hunan Province.
This year is the third year that Xiao Yong has signed up for the summer care program.
When the reporter approached Xiao Yong, he introduced his creative inspiration to the reporter in detail while doing the handmade works in front of him. After a while, a beautiful vase was presented in front of everyone, and the friends all gathered around and gave out bursts of admiration.
Like Xiao Yong, there are many students who do pottery together in the "classroom" in the summer.
"In the summer, I had a lot of fun with my friends, and I will come back next vacation." Xiao Yong said excitedly to reporters.
Through the reporter's in-depth understanding, the classroom that made Xiao Yong amazed was called "Wild Goose's Nest", which is the action of caring for left-behind children in the tea city joint school in Hengnan County, Hunan Province, and the summer love care set up in the branch campus of the tea city middle school, and the left-behind children and children in need in all campuses of the joint school can enjoy such a heart-warming care service.
"Our summer care class will start in 2022, focusing on the needs of rural children, not only providing holiday homework guidance, but also offering rich labor practice courses." Liu Chunping, executive vice principal of the Tea City Tea City United School in Hengnan County, Hunan Province, said that the name "Wild Goose Nest" was chosen to let the left-behind children feel the warmth of home.
The reporter learned that there were 13 students in the "Wild Goose's Nest" class this year, and there were 27 students at the most. The school has equipped them with 1 cultural teacher, 2 physical and artistic teachers, and 1 life teacher. In addition to tutoring students in cultural courses, it also offers courses such as baking, pottery, Baicao Garden labor, chess, recitation of Chinese classics, calligraphy, and swimming.
"Here, I learned to cook with my big brothers and sisters, and now I can fry a delicious egg fried rice!" Xiaolin, the second grade of the Central Primary School of the Tea City United School, said happily.
When the reporter visited, it was found that in the "Wild Goose's Nest", in addition to the activity classroom, there are also dormitories and restaurants for left-behind children. Carry out daily activities according to the normal schedule set by the school every day.
"We teach them simple life skills, such as serving food, sweeping the floor, picking vegetables, etc. For older children, we will teach laundry and cooking. Yang Huige, a labor instructor, said that cooking is the children's favorite content, and they experience happiness and confidence from labor. The children made their own fried rice, and our teachers took photos and sent them to their parents, who praised the children. ”
It is understood that there are more than 1,200 students in the Chashi United School in Hengnan County, Hunan Province, of which more than ninety percent are rural children and about one-third are left-behind children. In recent years, the school has been committed to exploring the path of integrating labor education with caring for left-behind children.
Exploration of institutional mechanisms. The Tea City United School in Hengnan County, Hunan Province has established a leading group for the care of left-behind children with the principal as the team leader and the moral education office, teaching office, general affairs office and class teachers as members.
Exploration of "immersive" labor education. For all left-behind children who come to the "Wild Goose's Nest", the Tea City United School of Hengnan County, Hunan Province will cultivate students' hands-on operation and life ability, carry out similar competitions and evaluation activities such as folding quilts and making dumplings, so as to integrate labor practice into daily life and convey the warmth of the big family.
Exploration of the role of the "Art Children's Companion" left-behind children care project. The tea market joint school of Hengnan County, Hunan Province is not only the province's labor education experimental school (Hengnan County is the province's labor education experimental county), but also the demonstration site of Hengyang City's "Millions of 'Art Children' - Left-behind Children Care Project".
Make good use of the exploration of the labor practice base of Baicaoyuan. Every left-behind child who comes to the "Wild Goose's Nest" for the summer vacation, in the Baicao Garden labor practice base opened up and built by the school, from turning the soil, sowing seeds, watering, fertilizing, and picking vegetables, the students will experience these farm work and farming one by one, harvest fruits and vegetables in sweat, and realize the value of labor.
The reporter also learned that the labor education of the Tea City United School in Hengnan County, Hunan Province is not only integrated into the care of left-behind children, but also integrated into daily teaching.
After the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, the school incorporated labor education into the school curriculum and independently compiled the school-based textbook of "Labor Education in Tea Market Joint School". At the same time, it has set up "one class, one product" labor courses such as cooking, handicraft, paper-cutting, fruit platter, and architectural model, and has made full use of surrounding resources to create seven labor education bases. In 2023, Chashi United School in Hengnan County, Hunan Province was identified as the second batch of labor education experimental schools in Hunan Province, and the project "New Classroom Research on the Integration of Labor Education and Traditional Culture Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" hosted by the school was listed as a key project of basic education reform in Hunan Province.
"Labor education has made left-behind children more confident!" Luo Bin, Secretary of the General Party Branch and Principal of Tea City United School in Hengnan County, Hunan Province, said that in the future work, the school will further play the comprehensive education function of labor education in the new era, adhere to the principle of cultivating morality through labor, increasing wisdom through labor, strengthening the body through labor, and educating beauty through labor, deepen the integration pattern of five educations, promote students to form a correct world view, outlook on life, and values, and strive to cultivate new people of the era who are responsible for national rejuvenation.
Source: Hunan Education News Network
Author: Lu Yuanlian Cao Li
Editor: Li Yingjie