Our new partner school is the Qingdao #58 High School in Qingdao, Shandong Province.
A DHS trip to Qingdao is tentatively planned for April 2007. Dr. Auclair made a visit to the school this past year.
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Our other partner school is the well-known #3 Girls School in
Shanghai. DHS has made 4 trips there
and 3 groups of students have visited DHS since the program began in 2001.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton visits the No. 3 Girls' , and looks at her web site in the Internet Room. |
Mrs. Clinton greets students following her speech at the No. 3 . |
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The front hall of Shanghai #3 Girls' School |
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The following information was sent to us by a member of the US-China Exchange Program in Shanghai.
Background about Shanghai No. 3 Girls' School
Shanghai No.3 Girls High School, the only state-owned key school for girls in China, has a history of 109 years, with McTyeire High School and St. Mary's Hall as its predecessors. In 1952, the two schools were taken over by Shanghai Municipal Government and combined into one, named Shanghai No.3 Girls High School. Operating on a part-boarding system, the school now has an enrollment of 1700 students in 34 classes with 170 teaching and administrative staff members.
The set objective of running the school is to provide excellent academic environment and cultivate teenage girls into people of great ability and good quality. For more than a century, a great many famous educated women, such as Song Qingling, the late Honorary Chairman of the State, and her two sisters, once studied in this school. Zhu Lilan, the former Minister of Science and Technology of the State Council, Deng Zhifeng, Vice Chairman of the State Senate of Oregon of the United States, etc., all graduated from the school. Having experienced over 100 years' development, Shanghai No.3 Girls High School has now had a very good reputation both at home and abroad. The school has established friendly cultural exchange relationships with a number of counterparts in various countries and regions, including the United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan Region. This has enhanced the better mutual understanding and helped the students to be aware of the importance of global cooperation.
Since the beginning of the new century, the school has already prepared to face the challenge of the second centennial progressing period. In order to achieve the aims of running a first-rate school, which is cosmopolitan, with information agenda and featuring its own characteristics, we've set our girls the school motto --- Be young ladies who demonstrate independence, ability, care and elegance. To bring up qualified girls, the school has laid great emphasis on the psychological and physical development of the girls' characteristics. With the fine fame, the school is featured by its English teaching, art and physical education. It has its school brass band, folk music band, dancing group, chorus, bridge group, softball, volleyball, basketball, track and field teams and other after-school activities and programs such as calligraphy, seal carving, painting, flower arranging and arts and crafts, which benefit the students both mentally and physically.