上海市位育初级中学, Public junior high school in Xuhui District, China
Shanghai Weiyu Junior High School occupies a 11,600-square-metre campus on Fuxing Middle Road, where it has stood since 1953. The grounds hold a South Building and North Building for teaching, a red administrative block, an East Building with computer rooms, and a comprehensive building with multimedia classrooms and laboratories, plus a playground, table tennis room and volleyball hall; built area is 8,880 square metres.
Founded in 1943 as Weiyu Middle School on Fuxing Middle Road near Xiangyang South Road, the school moved to its current Fuxing Middle Road site in 1953. In June 1998 the junior and senior sections split: the high school moved to Huajing, while the junior section stayed at the original site and became Shanghai Weiyu Junior High School, with Long Shiming as its first principal. In 2013 the former Changle School was reorganised as Shanghai Weiyu Experimental School under the same principal and unified management.
The school's extracurricular groups include volleyball and bridge, both named Shanghai traditional sports programmes; its volleyball team has repeatedly won the municipal middle-school championship, and its bridge team took the national junior title four times running. Its Red Cross society, founded in 1981, earned the school a National Red Cross Model School designation in 2008. A Hawaiian guitar ensemble formed in 2004 performs and competes around the city.
The campus stands on Fuxing Middle Road near Xiangyang South Road, where the school has operated since 1953. It is a working school: visitors are not admitted during school hours, so the grounds can only be viewed from the street.
The school's astronomical observatory, built in 1993, is one of the largest observation facilities among Shanghai's junior high schools. Its Hawaiian guitar ensemble, formed in 2004, performs and competes around the city, and the Red Cross branch dates from 1981.
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