A. Campus buildings:
The Huang Family Qianrang Estate, a precious gem on our campus, built in 1897 and renovated in May 2004, is currently open to the public and has been visited by many local citizens and nearby elementary and middle school students, and has now become a community literature and history education center. Teaching about local historical buildings has also become an integral part of school-based curriculum.
B. Public art:
The public arts on campus was designed concurrently with campus building and landscape design with the aim to establish a cultural and artistic undertone to our school through a holistic design and planning which takes the visual and environment into account. Apart from public art installations, the identification system and direction signs are designed all together to add an aesthetic touch to our campus. The installation work was led by Chris Lin, the artist in residence at the time, in 2007. In terms of achievements in this regard, we are unmatched by any other schools in Taipei.
C. Student clubs:
The 31 clubs formed in our school follow the principle of reaching a balanced development in the Five Ways of Life. As such, clubs are of various kinds including academic, scientific, arts and culture, and sports clubs to suit students’ interests. With such approach, the weekly club classes are students’ favorite part of the curriculum. Clubs of basketball, soccer, table tennis, badminton, folk dance, go, recorder, the school choir, and the school string orchestra have all reached excellent performances.
D. Boosting teachers, faculty, and students’ health:
We aim to develop an integrated multi-layered, strategized, and evaluated health boosting program with implementation strategies on both the educational level and policy level. Strategies on the educational level mainly are raising teachers, faculty, and students’ awareness, knowledge, attitude, and values in health through the intervention of curriculums, activities, and mass media, so they can form good health and lifestyle habits to enhance their physical, mental, emotional, and social health.
E. Feature programs:
The Dragon Exercise--Long Men alumni’s shared memory—is a fitness exercise we choreographed aiming to build students’ physical fitness. Performed on important occasions, the exercise has received recognition and praise from parents and the society. PE classes at Long Men are follow the sports seasons model where various kinds of sports rotate in years: 7th graders learn the Dragon Exercise, swimming, and table tennis, 8th graders learn volleyball, swimming, and basketball, and 9th graders learn badminton, swimming, folk sports, and experience stand up paddleboarding. Interclass competitions are held at the end of the sessions for each sport and Spirit Award is given, making the competitions the best way for classes to gel.
A six-volume self-complied teaching material for integrative learning area combining scout education, home economics, and counseling is a complete set of three-year teaching material and evaluation complied collectively by teachers and students at Long Men. Based on this innovative approach of teachers and students compile textbook content collectively, the interdisciplinary integration training ignites students’ motivation in self-directed learning. Teachers also spilt students in groups where each student is an expert of a particular area, and through guiding them to experience, put things into practice and reflect, students develop the ability to take the initiative, engage the public, and seek the common good.
Having the Huang Family Qianrang Estate and the local culture of everyday life as the inspiration of our interdisciplinary course design, we established the following feature programs particular to Long Men: Sketching and Oil Painting of Historical Buildings, Getting to Know Historical Buildings in Da’an District, Introduction on the Cultural History of Historical Buildings, English Guided Tours of Historical Buildings, Research and Discussion on Sustainable Historical Buildings, and Lantern and Lantern Riddle Making for Long Men Lantern Festival.
G. School of Quality: Rewards and recognitions received since our establishment:
2006 School Year: Health-promoting School Program Seed School selected by the Ministry of Education
2008 School Year: Campus Management Quality School Award
2009 and 2017 School Year: Student Learning Quality School Award
2011 School Year: The leading middle school in Taipei Education 111
2012 School Year: Administrative Management Quality School Award
2015 School Year: The national-level leading middle school in School-based PE Curriculum selected by the Ministry of Education
2016 School Year: Teaching Quality School Award
2016 School Year: Excellent Teaching Golden Quality Award by the Ministry of Education: Long Men’s Interdisciplinary Curriculum
2016 School Year: Evaluation on Junior High School Special Education Implementation Performance—First Prize
2017 and 2018 School Year: Health-promoting School Program Excellent School selected by the Ministry of Education
2018 School Year: Resource Integration Quality School Award
2018 School Year: Health-promotion School International Certification Silver Award
2013 and 2019 School Year: Taipei City Transportation Safety Golden Wheel Award, 2020 School Year: National Road Safety Golden Safety Award—High Distinction Award
2020 School Year: Reading Cornerstone School Award
2021 and 2022 School Year: The R&D Hub of Marine Education Innovative Curriculum and Teaching selected by the Ministry of Education
2016 and 2021 School Year: ISA Award—Foundation Level
2014, 2018-2020 School Year: ISA Award—Intermediate Level
The 11th and 12th Three Good Campus Awardee