Changhua Girls' Senior High School

Changhua Girls' Senior High School

School motto: ：Honesty, Diligence, Dignity, Patience
Present Principal	Kong Jian-Kuo
School	Public
Time of Founding	1919
Location	Taiwan，Changhua County
Number of Students	1904
Number of Staff	139
Environment	Downtown
Area	36949 m²
Address	No.62, Guangfu Rd., Changhua City, Changhua County, 500, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

The school entrance

National Changhua Girls’ Senior High School (CHGSH), founded in April 1919, is a high school in Taiwan, nurturing numerous members of the Taiwanese elite in various fields. The school is located at the downtown area in Changhua City, within an easy reach of commute. Currently, there are 45 classes with 1,904 students and 139 faculty members.

Principals of the school

Japanese Colonial Period

Since 1919

Under Japanese rule, six Japanese were assigned as principals of the school.

After the Retrocession

Since 1945, the school has been led by fourteen principals and all of them have been women, except the present principal, Kong Jian-Kuo.

• Chou Ze Lan (丑澤蘭 December 1945~May 1946)

• Huang Jun (黃 濬 June 1946~February 1947)

• Huang Fu Gui (皇甫珪 March 1947~June 1950)

• Lin Shi Ge (林詩閣 July 1950~August 1950)

• Fu Xiao Fong (傅曉峰 August 1950~January 1953)

• Wu Zi Wo(吳子我 February 1953~February 1956)

• Huang Dong Sheng (黃東生 February 1956~June 1957)

• Ye Shu Ren (葉淑仁 June 1957~June 1959)

• Shen Ya Li (沈雅利 June 1959~August 1966)

• Jing Sheng Ran (景生然 August 1966~September 1968)

• Bu Qing Kui (卜慶葵 September 1968~August 1979)

• Xie Yu Ying (謝玉英 August 1979~January 1992)

• He Yu Qing (賀玉琴 February 1992~January 1998)

• Chen Yue Qiong (陳月瓊 February 1998~January 2000)

• Xiao Hui Lan (蕭惠蘭 February 2000~July 2004)

• Kong Jian-Kuo (孔建國 August 2004~ present)

Characteristics

• The school has had many names, becoming the National Changhua Girls' Senior High School in 2000.
• To promote the creed of “learning in serving,” students, teachers, alumnae and parents are encouraged to do volunteer services.
• The school has a variety of clubs including a marching band and well-developed honor guard clubs which perform on different occasions. The school also has outstanding speech contestants in Chinese, English, and Taiwanese they send to speech contests every year.
• The school's foreign language courses are taught by foreign teachers. Educational tours to Japan are also held every year (see below, Changhua Girls' Senior High School (Visits to and from Japan)).
• Science education is also the focus of our education. The school encourages its female students to do scientific research, helping to achieve gender equality.
• The school's alumnae are scattered throughout Taiwan and overseas, and there is an alumnae association.

Facilities

• The school boasts a fine natural environment with big green trees. The school makes efforts to plant vegetation and beautify the campus. It has "Blackies" (Malay Night Herons) living with us.
• The school maintains a healthy environment and was chosen as the model school of environmental protection by Taiwan's Department of Environmental Protection.
• The school has a well-equipped library with a Video On Demand (VOD) system, set up to facilitate students’ learning at any time and to provide special programs as well as movies every month.
• The school dormitory can accommodate 500 students comfortably.

Annual events of note

October

College visits for the second years
Target practice for the second years in Cheng-Kung Hill
The performance of school band and honor guards in Double Ten Day

December

Anniversary celebrations and sports meet

January

Year-end banquet

May

School Carnival, held biennially

June

The exhibition of students’ clubs
Graduation

Visits to and from Japan

2004

• In May, 71 teachers and students visited Hashimoto High School in Wakayama Prefecture and Prefectural Shingu Senior High School in the Fukuoka Prefecture.

2005

• In January, the Director of Education Committee of Japan, visited Changhwa Girls’ Senior High.
• In May, 114 teachers and students from the school visited Himeji Nishi Senior High School in Hyōgo Prefecture and Osaka Prefectural Kitano High School.
• In August, ten staff who were principal, teachers, and students' parents visited Changhwa.
• For five days in September, principal Kong went to Japan for the Educational Communication Conference. On September 9, principal Kong visited Matsumoto Agatagaoka high school in Nagano Prefecture.

2006

• In May, 155 teachers and students visited the Director of Education Committee of Japan and Prefectural Shingu Senior High School and Seishoukai High School.

2007

• In May, 153 teachers and students visited Himeji Nishi Senior High School in Hyōgo Prefecture.
• In December, two officials from Japan National Tourism Organization and one official of Educational Bureau visited.

2008

• In May, an official from Japan National Tourism Organization's publicity department came to visit. That same month, 190 teachers and students visited Hashimoto High School and Prefectural Shingu Senior High School.