Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School is located in Zhangjiagang City. The school covers an area of 123 acres, with a construction area of more than 50878 square meters. The school has 111 teaching classes, more than 5,000 students, and 301 of the teaching staff include three campuses in the east (with accommodation), south (with accommodation), and north. There are 2 special-grade teachers in Jiangsu Province, 4 famous school principals and subject leaders in Suzhou City, and more than 110 subject leaders, teaching experts and teaching talents in Zhangjiagang City.

Inheriting the ancient historical motto of "Correctitude, diligence and perseverance" of Mr. Guo Pinzhi, the school adheres to the school-running philosophy of "people-oriented, cultural education, and promoting the healthy, harmonious and all-round development of every student", and strives to build an informationized campus and fully implements human-oriented management. Practice "intelligent education" carefully, focus on the construction of cultural schools. The school aims to cultivate the school spirit of "healthy, upward, realistic, innovative, united and enterprising", and requires teachers to constantly pursue the teaching realm of "good at integrating children's mind, good at integrating educational resources, good at controlling activity scenes", and carry forward the teaching fashion of "thousands of teachers teach people to seek truth, and thousands of students learn to be real". The university fully embodies the integration of "carrying forward century-old culture" and "highlighting modern school culture", adheres to the organic combination of scientific and standardized management and humanistic emotional care, creates an orderly and independent, tense and comfortable campus atmosphere, and builds a humanistic campus, a safe campus and a harmonious campus. The school will do its best to "practice intelligent education" as a fresh experiment of teaching reform to further promote curriculum and classroom teaching reform and to further implement quality education. "Intelligent education research" has become the backbone subject of school education research, the theoretical support for building educational brand, educational characteristics, improving educational quality and educational benefits, and the intellectual guarantee for the development of school education and the progress and growth of teachers and students. The school put the main position of education reform into practice in the classroom. "Highlight the wisdom of education, create ecological classroom, implement effective teaching" has become the main melody of classroom teaching reform. "To be true to the quality of classroom teaching and to focus on the construction of intelligent classroom" is becoming the ideal pursuit and voluntary action of teachers, which is vigorously promoting the steady and rapid development of school education reform.

Since the 1980s, the school has been awarded more than 10 honorary titles at the provincial level, such as the national "five stresses, four beautiful" advanced collectives, the national school health advanced school, the national red scarf model school, and the Jiangsu Provincial Model School. Teacher Zhao Dexing was rated as an advanced educator in the country, and more than 20 teachers such as Sun Yun and Chen Shaoyu were awarded honorary titles of outstanding educators in Jiangsu Province.

 

Cooperation History

On April 14, 2014, the Education Bureau of Zhangjiagang City and the School District of Janesville in Wisconsin, USA signed a MOU, and Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School became a sister school with Kennedy Elementary School in the United States.

 

Exchange visits

Since July 17, 2016, 20 students from Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School, led by Vice President Wu Lingyan and General Manager Lu Yaping, went to Kennedy Elementary School in Wisconsin, USA, a sister school across the ocean, to open a 12-day study experience.

In July 2017, students from Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School came to sister school Kennedy Primary School in Wisconsin, USA again for a study trip.

In July 2017, Robert, the executive deputy director and CIO of the School District of Janesville, visited Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School.

In October 2017, 25 students from Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School went to North Hill Elementary School in Rochester, USA.

In June 2018, Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School welcomed Carmen Pernot, a teacher from Kennedy Elementary School. She carried out a week-long Sino-US educational exchange activity in Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School.

In July 2018, students from Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School came to Kennedy Primary School in Wisconsin, USA for a study trip.

On March 12, 2019, Dr. Joan Wade, executive director of the American Association of Educational Services, Mr. John Bass, operating director of the American Association of Educational Services, And Accompanying staff Mr. Logan F. Spillner and Mrs. Christi Bass visited Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School.

In the summer vacation of 2019, students from Zhangjiagang Experimental Primary School went to Kennedy Elementary School for a study trip.