The Primary School Attached to Xi¡¯an Jiaotong University (PSAXJTU) is a modern school with a deep-rooted culture. Its predecessor was the Primary School Attached to Nanyang Public School which was founded in 1897 in Shanghai. In 1956, PSAXJTU was moved from Shanghai to Xi¡¯an together with Xi¡¯an Jiaotong University (XJTU) and changed its name to its current one. The school has reached its present size after several expansions. It covers an area of 9334 square meters. (30623 square feet)
    The school provides various stages for its students to show their talents, such as the book bar, the reading experience column and display window for self-created works, and many others, making it a centerpiece for culture exchange. The rich campus network resources such as the ¡®Digital Library¡¯, the ¡®Young Pioneers Club¡¯, the ¡®Blogs¡¯, the ¡®Class Forum¡¯, and the ¡®Class-Family Forum¡¯ build a platform for school, teachers, students and their parents to communicate and make progress together.
    Student-centered approaches are adopted in class instructions, which can be exemplified by the multifaceted evaluation mechanism for students¡¯ work. Students are evaluated in terms of background, form, learning phase, styles and efficiency so that they will be able to have a clear, objective understanding of themselves, thus leading to a well-rounded, healthy developmental improvement for students. The school attaches great importance to curricular development for various subjects, especially in the teaching of English. PSAXJTU was one of the earliest primary schools in Shaanxi Province to offer English classes starting from first grade. A great many foreign teachers have been invited to our school to guide our students in English. Under the guidance of affective education theory, they explored the daily primary school educational mode which is full of interests feature based on stimulating children's interests.
    A diversified group of extra-curricular activities and competitions such as ¡®Classical Poems Reading¡¯, ¡®Speech¡¯, ¡®Essay¡¯, ¡®Painting¡¯, ¡®Chinese Calligraphy¡¯, and ¡®Web-page Design¡¯ have been launched in order to activate the students¡¯ interest in hands-on work and to motivate their creativity. More social clubs such as the swimming team, aero-modeling group, game of go team, school orchestra and choir, dance team, Judo team, Student Poetry Society and other community activities are open to students to expand their knowledge and to develop their individual identity thus improving their comprehensive skills set. In doing such a wide variety of student activities, the teachers and students both can strive to reach their full potential.