Changsha No.21 Middle School is located between Shaoshan Road overpass and Dong Tang overpass extending in all directions, with convenient transportation, elegant environment and excellent facilities. Teaching buildings, office buildings, science and technology museums, gymnasiums, teachers' dormitories, comprehensive buildings and other buildings are scattered among the green trees. The tree-lined campus and green lawn can be seen everywhere, which makes people feel like they are in a garden full of spring.
Founded in 1957, after more than 40 years of wind and rain, it has now developed into a full-time complete middle school with considerable scale and high reputation. As an important base of secondary basic education in Changsha, the school has a standard physical and chemical laboratory, a language lab, a computer room and a Chinese and English typing room. Modern audio-visual teaching equipment, multifunctional sports facilities and rich books and materials provide superior conditions for comprehensively cultivating students' quality and expertise.
The school has a team of high-quality and enterprising teachers. At present, there are 175 faculty members, more than 30 middle and senior teachers, and 1 13 first-class teachers, among whom 85% are teachers with high and intermediate titles and 70% are young and middle-aged teachers. A group of teachers won prizes in provinces and cities. The school has 40 classes with more than 2 100 students. It has sent a large number of students to Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Renmin University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Foreign Studies University and other institutions of higher learning. Many students have studied and worked in the United States, Germany, Japan and other countries, or returned to China after their studies, and a large number of students have made great contributions to the modernization of the motherland. 2 1 is the cradle of talents.
The school adheres to the motto of "elegance, simplicity, benevolence and harmony", takes "creating a happy tomorrow for every child" as its school philosophy, and takes "cultivating students into new talents with solid basic skills, good behavior habits, strong self-expression ability and creativity, and being able to master modern information technology" as its school purpose, comprehensively implements quality education, and pays attention to students' all-round development and personality cultivation. The school pays special attention to the cultivation of students' specialties. Literary clubs, art groups, sports teams, animation clubs, radio and television clubs and other colorful activity courses enrich the campus cultural life. The school has the best brass band in the city's middle schools. In recent years, I have participated in various activities and achieved fruitful results, such as winning the first prize in the 4th Provincial Art Festival for Primary and Secondary School Students and four gold medals in the 9th National Games. In the past three years, 752 students have won prizes in national, provincial and municipal competitions.