Goal: Establish the best school along the riverbank of Jing-Mei River.

Besides sophisticated holistic education, we provide the students a passageway to success.

1. Best school on the riverbank of Jing-Mei River Here, we have the best learning environment a parent could ever want.
 　　Behind the school, we have a natural forest park. Jing-Mei River has a rich ecosystem for natural observation. Not far away, the old street of Shengkeng provides students with numerous historic stories. Our school is one of the few schools in Taiwan that can provide both natural and cultural  experiences to the students. Our campus is big and every corner is a natural learning platform.

2. Rich resources for education
Besides a great learning environment, we have even better teaching  resources. Our school has different special classrooms designed to suit different learning styles with an emphasis on multiple intelligence. Being one of the leading schools on digitalization, we also continuously expend our digital equipments, redesign our computer rooms and set up multi-media classroom and teaching platform on the web.

3. Young, professional and passionate teachers
Teachers are the most important resource of our school because we believe that only professional teachers can educate excellent
students. 60% of our teachers have their Master's degrees. With an average age of 34.5, our teachers have 9 years of teaching experience on average. They are at the top of their peek performance and their teaching is nothing less than excellent. To elevate their professional skills, teachers are encouraged to take courses on a regular basis. We have monthly workshops for each subject and general seminars 3 times each semester.

4. Solid and thorough curriculum
Solid knowledge is the foundation for students' future development. We have long focused our effort on teaching and encouraged teachers to develop and digitalize refined teaching methods. We want our students to learn as much as possible and build a solid foundation in these three years in junior high school.

　(1)Chinese: emphasis on writing, web teaching to enhance reading  skills.
　(2)English: emphasis on grammar, competitions between classes.
　(3)Math: web teachers at home.
　(4)Natural Science: with our own teaching materials.
　(5)Social Sciences: geology, history, civics, digitalized special  classrooms
　(6)Information Science: emphasis on both the software and the hardware, field trips
　(7)Physical Education: professional coaches and trainers
　(8)Activities: creative and energetic Boy Scout and Girl Scout
　(9)Arts: professional music, visual art and performing artists stationed in school

5. Active after-school tutoring and scholarship
To help needy students, we have the following programs actively implemented: home tutoring service, stipends for crisis area, providing resources for the under-privileged students and families to achieve higher goals. The Parents Association is actively involved in the after school study session. With the parents, teachers and students effort, we have as proud tradition of sending our students into fine senior high schools. In 2005, almost 42% of the students entered public senior high schools. Students who participated in the after school study sessions had scores as high as PR99, with 284 total points. Last year, we had students entering prestigious top senior high schools like Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Taipei First Girls High School and the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University. We also actively locate scholarships for students in need.

6. Holistic Education
Develop curriculum unique for our school and to renovate new teaching methods:

Make English learning fun:
End of the year English singing contest, English cheerleading contest on the school's anniversary.

Reading projects:
Fund raising for each incoming class's reading project, platform for web writing class, workshop for reading volunteer-teachers, volunteers reading in classes, 100 Good Books Book Drive, automatic check-out system for the library, application for the Reading Project for the Country School sponsored by the Administration of Education.

Teaching Farm:
Community volunteers, making our teaching farm available to the community, allowing community members to attend our farming courses.

Public art, the Green Corridor:

The students used discarded bricks and tiles and transformed an abandoned corner on our campus into a series of public art.
▲A Tree by the Sky (public use: park bench)

▲Who's Going to Catch the Moon for Me? (public use: illumination at  night)

▲Peeing Boy in Shengkeng (public use: wash basin)

▲Another View Point (public use: flower vase)

Beautiful Home---Action on civic education:

▲Old Memories Never Fade:
Students collected old photographs, saved precious historical documents, and re-established local history.

▲Time Travel:
Reporting---Students studied the impact of the modern Tofu industry on the environment. Interviewing---Students interviewed senior citizens and wrote local oral history.

▲eMap of the Old Street:
Students used their math skills to measure the Old Street, investigated the usage of houses on the Old Street, made identification cards for the merchants, and explored the nature of the Old Street.

▲Story-telling of the old houses:
A walking history lesson: Teachers lead the students into real settings to talk about the old ways of life and made students realize that with every turn of the corner in our community, there are touching stories to be told.

▲The Old Street Talks:
Surveys for the merchants and visitors: Students discovered with surprise that 92% of the visitors considered Shengkeng a large and un-organized night market.

▲Art in Action:
On 2004, December 10th and 2005, June 30th, the first and only Shengkeng Community Development---Street Performance were held. Freshmen from our school took photographs, did sketches and conducted interviews for the event.

▲The Great Scroll of Art:
In 2004, 196 students collaborated and created a Chinese watercolor painting of over 200 meters, deplecting the Old Street.

▲Holiday learning walks:
Community volunteers took our students on nature walks during holidays: Da-Chi Mountain pathway, Heaven Lake pathway, Paw-Chi-Luen pathway and Jingmei riverbank.

▲Beautiful Home Picture book:
Through story writing, with 9 pictures and 23 sentences, students imagined the future of Shengkeng. 2005 Taipei County Essay Writing Award Honor---The Old Street and the  old tree:
Through on site survey, we discovered a large tree surrounded by venders. Sticks supported the branches and many Zong-ze were hanged on the tree. A large stove was set up underneath the old tree. Let's think of a way to give the old tree a new life!
2006 Taipei County Essay Writing Award First Prize---Wandering the Old Streets: Through survey of 5 old streets north of HsinChu, students conducted interviews with local administrators and learned from their experiences on how to renovate Shengkeng.

7.Joined the Information-Education Fusion Project sponsored by the Administration of Education
 We established Computer Software Audio and Visual Teaching Website. Once you tab into the school website, you can choose and learn as number of computer software. We also established Knowledge Sharing
Platform to teach our curriculum one lesson at a time through our website. We promote digitalized and multi-media teaching to encourage motivation and proficiency for learning

8.Build a network of community teaching resources
We activate the whole community to educate our students by building a network of local schools and organizations. All the local resources were put together and we built a platform to share our resources and knowledge. We help our community members to enter into the era of life-long learning. Our partners include Shengkeng Elementary School, Teacher Training Center of Huafan University, Wenshan Community College, Taipei Story-telling Association, History Center of Tungnan University, Shenkeng  Farming Association, and Shengkeng Public Library.

9.Awards
Classrooms in the Community won the Taipei County Renovation Award---Social Issues, Special Honor, in 2005
Students won Taipei County Writing Award, First Prize, in 2006. Our school won National School Management Award---InnoSchool, Curriculum and Teaching Honor, in 2006.
Teaching Expedition won Teaching Excellence ilver sponsored by the Administration of Education in 2006.

10.Invitation for Thesis Publication in academic institutions

2004.08.14
National Taipei Education University, 2004 Social Science Curriculum and Teaching Conference

2005.04.30
Taipei County, Classrooms in Community Conference

2005.05.13~14
Taipei City Education University, International Conference for
Theories and Actions for Social Reconstruction: Awakening,
Empowerment, and Action

2006.6.3~4
National Taipei Education University, 14th Conference on Curriculum and Teaching, Workshops and Research

11.Goals and vision
2006 is termed the year of Quality teaching in Shenkeng Junior High School. Our goals are improved teaching and efficient learning. Through teachers professional development assessment developed by the Administration of Education, we will promote teachers' teaching skills. We will have school administrative analysis to provide better understanding of how to improve our work.
Our philosophy on success: only when the students are successful, then we can say that the teaching is successful. Only when the school is successful, then we, as a team, can say we are successful. We need to make each hour a success. Our first priority should be motivating the students. The 9th graders should be study for senior high school entrance exam. The 8th graders should learn through multiple teaching methods. The 7th graders should build the foundation of learning.

Changes and competition made the business world see the
facts---quality control is not enough. To occupy a place in the world economy and market, we need to capture the most important element in business---the soul of the business.
                                                ──Denis Waitley,1995

Quality control for teaching is not enough. We must think: What will be the competitive edge for our students in the future? We believe that the sum of competitive edge lies in the accumulation of learning in every hour of every school day. Therefore, we must insist upon excellent teaching. Our teachers' devotion will become deep-rooted memories for each and every alumnus. When they look back on their school years, they will realize that we cared. This is more valuable than everything else. This is the soul of our school---the best school on the Jingmei riverbank.