Guangdong University Affiliated Elementary and Middle School was founded in 1970, located at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, in the beautiful environment of the campus of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. This year is the 50th anniversary of the school, after 50 years of school precipitation, the school continues to move forward, has won the first batch of national STEM education seed schools, the Ministry of Education's National Research Top 100 Schools, the National Primary and Secondary School Dance Education Traditional Schools and other titles.
Strong foreign language teaching, Guangwai Elementary School's new students, soon after entering the first grade, English classes are taught in full English ~ the beginning of the third grade, students also have the opportunity to learn a second foreign language: Spanish, Korean, French, etc. may be exposed to. In addition to this, there is a foreign language class and a school-based English drama program. This adds up to 7-8 English-related classes a week. Activities to educate people, "small activities every week, big activities every month" is a true portrayal of Guangwai Elementary School. The big activities include the annual Choral Festival, Sports Festival, English Festival, Reading Festival, New Year's Day Arts Festival, June 1 Celebration, etc. There are also several major ceremonies, including the opening ceremony for the new students of Grade 1, the formation ceremony of Grade 1, and the graduation ceremony of Grade 6, all of which are done in a very professional manner. Art and physical literacy, Guangwai attached to the primary school of Wu Yuai, principal once jokingly said: "children who do not have any hobbies and interests, in the future, when they are old, can only climb the Baiyun Mountain, or dancing square dance". Therefore, the school insists on providing students with more professional and systematic training in arts and sports, and implementing the "project into the classroom". According to the characteristics of students of different grades, the school has opened a chorus, dance, wind music, paper cutting, Chinese painting, basketball, soccer, tennis, table tennis, badminton, martial arts and other arts and sports characteristics of the curriculum, and strive to create excellent clubs, enhance the students' aesthetic appeal, and enrich the cultural life of the campus. In recent years, Guangwai attached to the primary school of arts and sports clubs frequently into the urban stage, and repeatedly won awards, by Baiyun District as "a school a product" characteristics of the school. The burden of schoolwork, in general, Guangwai attached to the primary school students' schoolwork pressure is not great. The school requires elementary school students daily, the amount of homework in each subject of language, mathematics and English can not exceed half an hour. Homework does not require a parent's signature. Wednesday is no homework day.