National Wu-Ling Senior High School

National Wu-Ling Senior High School
Address

TaiwanNo. 889, Zhongshan Rd,

Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City, 330
Information
Type National High School
Established 1955
School district  Republic of ChinaTaoyuan CityTaoyuan District
Principal 林清波
Staff 24
Faculty 209
Grades 3 grades，63 classes
Number of students 2,733（September 2012）[1]
Color(s) Yellow and Green
Area 49250 square metres
Website http://www.wlsh.tyc.edu.tw

The National Wu-Ling Senior High School (WLSH) is a secondary school in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.[2][3][4] Currently, WLHS is the high school with the highest entrance grade in Taoyuan City: only the top 1% of scorers on the Comprehensive Assessment Program for Junior High School Students receive admission. Junior high school graduates must score 1A++, 4A+ or above in the CAP test to be enrolled.[5] A large portion of graduates go on to attend prestigious universities locally and worldwide.

History

The school was established by JenChiou Pan, the president of National Chenggong High School in February 1955. At that time it was named National Chenggong High School Chiedung River Department. In 1959, the school became independent and was named Provincial Wu-Ling High School. In 1970, the junior high school department (grade 7 to 9) went independent, the remaining senior high school department (grade 9 to 12) was renamed Provincial Wu-Ling Senior High School.

In 2007, the school participated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs English contest,[6] and in 2013 a student from the school won the International Physics Olympiad.[7]

Etymology

There has been various sources and guesses of how the high school got its name, including the hypothesis showing below

Descriptions

Classes

There are 21 classes in every grade, which can be further sorted into 6 different categories. The independent entrance tests of the Science Class and the Musical Talented class are setted in March each year, in which the examinees from the upcoming graduate level (9th grade) of junior high schools would compete against each other. The entrance exams of the STEM class and the Linguistic Talented Class are held in July, the exams usually attracts many freshmen who were enrolled by CAP just a month earlier. The Medical Talented Class uses a much very different way to recruit pupils; upon the ending of the freshman year (May), students from regular placements could apply for admission, only the top 45 applicants with the highest GAP in the freshmen year would receive the entry ticket.

STEM Class

The STEM class, or the Mathematical Talented Class, was founded in 1988; the homerooms of STEM class is 101, 201 and 301. STEM is a class that offers advanced Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology placement.

Medical Talented Class

The MTC (醫科班) is a class that offers advanced Mathematics, Science courses and a much more competitive academic environment comparing to regular placement. The homerooms of MTCs are 202 and 302.

Science Class

The Science class is a programme for talented students directly sponsored by the Ministry of Education, pupils in the Science Class will complete the three-year high school curriculum in just two years. At the end of the eleventh grade, pupils will take an examninaton which decides if they could take courses in National Central University. The homerooms of the Science Classes are 103, 203 and 303.

Regular Placement

Classes with suffix 04-19 are regular classes, these are where most students in Wuling High School are attending.

Linguistic Talented Classes

The LTC was founded in 2004. The homerooms of the LTCs are 120, 220, 320. Pupils of LTC could take a second foreign language courses, French or Japanese.

Musical Talented Class

The MTC was founded in 1991. The homerooms of the MTCs are 121, 221 and 321, all of which are in the Meiyu Building. Pupils in the MTCs could take courses such as Chorus, Acoustics, Orchestra and Music Theory.

Uniform

Formal Uniform

The formal uniforms are nicknamed as "Kiwi fruits" because of their iconic colour. There is also a Kiwi Festival hosted every April Fools' Day by the EPOCH.

Sportswear Uniform

The sportswear uniform does not differentiated by sexes, as a showing of support to non-binary sexes and LGBT groups. The front side of T-shirts and sweaters features the name "Wuling" in traditional Chinese calligraphy. The winter jacket features the name "Wuling" in English in the back.

School Bag

Although the school authority urges the students to carry a school bag, most students uses their own bag. The school bag is dark green oblique horizontal sticky bag, can be store as large as a B4 size printed documentt, size 35 × 23 × 9 cm. The front school bag features a yellow "Wuling" in Chinese at the front, and the school badge in between the Chinese characters.

Floor Plans

There are 11 major buildings in WLHS. There is no dormitory nor swimming pools in WLHS, which is very different from the rest of the high school in Taoyuan.

Yu-jing Building

Sitting in the left to the school gate, the Yu-jing Building is a 6-storey building (including an underground parking space for faculties). From the first (ground) to the third floor sits the principal's office, academic affairs office, military instructor's office, academic affairs office, meeting room and the office of Teacher's Union. In the fourth and the fifth floor sits the homerooms, most of them are belongs to 12-graders.

Chong-de Building

Chong-de building is a rather-new building in the Wuling High School, it is located in the back of the Yu-jing building. Just like the Yu-jing, Chong-de building is also made up by 5+1 floors. On the fifth floor above ground sits the Ji-ching Hall and Classroom for Indigenous Taiwanese Cultures.

Ji-qing Hall and Classroom for Indigenous Taiwanese Cultures

The word Ji-qing means "to play Biangqing" in Chinese. Traditionally, the musical instrument Biangqing is used in the China's ritual and court ceremonies. Ji-ching Hall is the classroom for traditional Chinese and traditional Chinese musics. The Classroom for Indigenous Taiwanese Cultures was completed in 2016, it is the classroom of which pupils could learn about the various kinds of Taiwanese indegenous people. Both of the two classrooms are located in the 5th floor of Chong-de and Yu-jing.

The Grand Mirror

The Grand Mirror is located between homeroom 105 and 106, in Chong-de building. The mirrors serve an important role in Chinese traditional spiritual believings; according to a widespread myth, the Grand Mirror is calm down the spirits of whom committed suicide in Wuling.

Science Building

The classrooms which located in the Science building are the Earth Science Laboratory, Chemistry Laboratory, Physics Laboratory, Group Research Project Laboratory (for STEM class students, will finish construction in 2016) and an Audio-Visual classroom.

Mei-yu Building

The classrooms which located in the Science building are the Art Classroom, Technology Classroom, Health Classroom, Home Economics Classroom, Audio-Visual classroom, Piano Room for MTC, Cooking Classroom, Concert Hall, a Meeting Room and the homerooms of 121, 221, 321.

Tsu-qing Building

The Tsu-qing building is covered in yellow mosaics. In the first floor sits the School Store, Resource Classroom for Talented Students and Counselor's Office. In the second floor sits the homerooms of STEM classes (301, 201, 101) and LTCs (120, 220, 320). In the underground floor sits the table tennis practicing room. The tsu-qing building is the one of the oldest building in WLHS.

Ming-dao Building

Located between the Gymnasium and the Student Activity Centre, Ming-dao building contains the homeroom of class 109 to 119.

Gong-yi Building

A two-storey building in the far side of the school campus. The ground floor is the Computer Science Classroom, the floor above is the Classroom for Gong-yi Classes.

Student Activity Centre

A badminton court that could also be used as the place of school assembly.

Gymnasium

Built in 1978, the Gymnasium is the oldest building in Wuling.

Library

In the back of Chong-de, the Library is a two-story building.

K-Centre

Also as known as the Guang-shi Hall. The Guang-shi Hall was the oldest building in WLHS which could be tracked back to 1955 when the school was created. In 2014, the Guang-shi Hall suffered a structural damage, after that, the building was reinforced and changed its name to the K-Centre.

Extra-curricular Activities

School Varsity Teams

The mascots of WLHS varsity teams are kiwi fruits.

Football Team

The WLHS football team practices Futsal, as a result of the lack of players to play traditional 11-player football.

Basketball Team

Constituted by the girl and boy basketball team.

Volleyball Team

Constituted by the girl and boy volleyball team.

Baseball Team

Started in 2012, the baseball team is the newest varsity team in WLHS.

Picket Honor Guard

Founded in 2004, consist of picket team doing their daily duty and honor guard performing in grand ceremony.

Literature and Arts of Wuling Youths

The Literature and Arts of Wuling Youths (武陵青年文藝, or 武青文藝) is the official school publication of Wuling High School. The LAWY is published on the April Fool's Day every year, the contents are mostly poems and other student artworks.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 高級中等學校校別資料(不含進修學校)99.12.30
  2. ↑ "Australian envoy surprised by time Taiwanese students spend studying". Focus Taiwan.
  3. ↑ "Taiwan crowned International Biology Olympiad champion". Want China Times. 2014-07-14
  4. ↑ "Taiwan teen diplomats set for Down Under tour".Taiwan Today
  5. ↑ 聯合新聞網. "桃園百人5A++ 武陵預估門檻4A+1A++ | 文教 | 聯合新聞網". Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  6. ↑ "Round 2 of Ministry of Foreign Affairs English contest held". By Dimitri Bruyas, The China Post, October 29, 2007,
  7. ↑ "Taiwan bags three gold, two silver medals at Physics Olympiad". Want China Times.aaaa

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