Seize the Present, Create the Future - Yingcheng Foreign Language School's 2019 New Year's Address

The wind and snow fade with winter, and the peach blossoms and plum blossoms herald the arrival of spring. Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, 2018 has passed, and the brand new 2019 has arrived.

On the occasion of the Spring Festival, first of all, I sincerely wish all teachers and students, parents, and friends a happy Spring Festival and all the best!

The year 2018, which has just passed, was a year of hard work and struggle, a year of striving for excellence and fruitful results. All teachers and staff have shown their passion for struggle, enjoyed the joy of success, lived fulfilling lives, and walked steadily, turning many impossibilities into possibilities and realities, continuing to write the "Waijiao Legend" that is both heartwarming and memorable:

We completed the Phase II construction project with an admirable "Waijiao speed", with a total construction area of 180,000 square meters. Teaching, living, and sports facilities are all equipped according to the standards of provincial model schools, providing teachers and students with a better learning, working, and living environment and conditions.

Our school scale has expanded rapidly, with the number of students increasing from 2,300 to 5,000, and the number of teachers and staff increasing from 330 to 680. The quality of teachers and students has continuously improved, laying a solid foundation for the long-term development of the school.

We have established and improved various rules and regulations, improved internal management, and improved the overall level of educational services. The characteristics of closed-off, boarding schools have been highlighted.

We insist on putting educational teaching quality in the first place, promoting classroom teaching reform and innovation in classroom management models, promoting students' autonomous development, all-round development, and healthy growth; the stratified teaching of high school students has achieved remarkable results, and the junior high school entrance examination results are gratifying. The primary and junior high school grades have ranked among the top in the city's unified examinations, and teachers and students have achieved outstanding results in numerous teaching competitions and subject competitions, winning numerous awards.

We successfully hosted a series of teaching and cultural and sports activities in Xiaogan City and Yingcheng City, fully demonstrating the school's image, expanding the school's influence, and increasing its popularity. All sectors of society, parents, and the public have a broader understanding, deeper recognition, and higher satisfaction with the school.

It can be said that Yingcheng Waijiao School has deeply rooted itself in this land of Yingcheng and in the hearts of the people of Yingcheng. The school's accumulation of strength and its soaring flight have a solid foundation and conditions.

The school's perfect and dreamlike start comes from the strong leadership of the Yingcheng Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, and Municipal Education Bureau, the care and attention of various departments at all levels, the support and love of parents and the public, and also from the 6,000 teachers and staff who have made the school their home, worked hard, forged ahead, and made contributions. Here, let us express our high respect to the leaders and people from all walks of life who have always cared for and supported the school's development! And express our heartfelt gratitude to all the teachers and staff!

"Seize the opening year, lay the foundation in three years, and see results in five years." From the beginning of its establishment, Yingcheng Waijiao School has established the ambitious goal of "first-class in the province and nationally renowned," and has outlined a grand blueprint for the school's short-term and long-term development. "The steeper the halfway up the mountain, the braver the one who fights against the waves." 2019 is an important year for our school to strengthen its muscles and bones and lay a solid foundation. It is a key year to build on the existing foundation, seek long-term development, and go further from a hundred feet high. It is also the year of Nirvana for the school to achieve a qualitative leap in the quality of education from the accumulation of the quantity of school scale. All Waijiao people should show the spirit of being ready to fight at any time, seizing the day and striving for excellence, the attitude and style of leaving a mark, the courage and courage to be the first, and the determination and momentum to stand at the forefront of the tide and forge ahead, and effectively promote the school's connotative development, rapid development, and scientific development.

In 2019, we will complete the enrollment task as planned, achieving full coverage from the first grade of primary school to the third grade of high school, establishing and improving a service system and management mechanism suitable for "10,000-person large school" and "10,000-person strong school," providing strong support for teachers and students to study, work, and live with peace of mind, and truly achieving "stable school through service." We will regard talent as the school's first resource, providing treatment, status, and a stage, strengthening the training of backbone teachers and young teachers, accelerating teacher growth, and forging a management team with execution ability, combat effectiveness, and creativity, and a team of teachers with excellent skills and high quality, effectively promoting "strong school through talent." We will deeply promote the experimental exploration, implementation, and fruition of efficient ecological classroom teaching models such as the "Yangsi Model" and the "129 Class Autonomous Management Model," truly improving the efficiency and quality of classroom teaching. The teaching quality indicators of each school stage should strive to be the first in the city, truly reflecting "quality-oriented school." We will strengthen the characteristics and advantages of the twelve-year integrated system and closed-off, boarding, international, and diversified education, truly highlighting "characteristic-oriented school," allowing the school to be based in Yingcheng, go out of Xiaogan, go to the whole province, and truly become a shining pearl in Jingchu education.

Dear teachers and staff, friends: Waijiao is a warm, harmonious, and vibrant family. The times are a new era of reform, innovation, and chasing dreams. The new journey of the rise and take-off of Yingcheng Waijiao School is a journey of passion, grandeur, confidence, and happiness that we run for and yearn for. Time never stops its hurried pace for those who are slack, and dreams will only bear fruit in struggle. Let us, all Waijiao people, join hands, be eternal dream chasers, roll up our sleeves and work hard, and together welcome, create, and savor a brighter tomorrow for Yingcheng Waijiao School!