Private NanShan Senior High School

Shanghai era

• Mr. Chun, Tsao
• Mr. Tieh-Wu, Hsuan

Taiwan era

• Mr. Hsiung-Hsiang, Lin
• Mr. Chung-Chi, Lin
• Mr. Sen-Chi, Cheng
• Mr. Chi-Chuan, Sun
• Mr. Ji-Guang, Wang (current)

Shanghai era

• Mr. Chung-Chieh, Ying

Taiwan era

• Mr. Chung-Chieh, Ying
• Mr. Yu-Chi, Huang
• Mr. Pin, Tsao
• Mr. Yu, Chang
• Mr. Wen-Hua, Chang
• Mr. Chi-Chuan, Sun
• Mr. Ji-Guang, Wang
• Mr. Ming-Chen, Tsai (current)

Visions:

• To build a school with aesthetic culture.
• To nurture the Nanshan student equipped with sufficient abilities to face the challenges of the future
• To nurture students who have the courage to handle one's duty in the modern era and the wisdom to solve the problems of the future "有膽識擔當時代責任、有智慧解決時代問題"
• To nurture students with morals and values to last a lifetime

Quality targets:

• Optimism
• Continuous improvement
• Righteousness
• Gratefulness

Policies:

• Fresh
• Fast
• Usefulness
• Simplicity[6]

NSSH holds many annual events. These include:

• Nanshan GO Competition (Weichi)
• Karaoke competition
• Sports Day
• Star's Night: celebrities are invited to hold a concert
  

  NSSH Star's night in 2011
• CEEC/CAP/TCe Bless-For-Test Activities
• Nan Shan Model United Nations Conference
• Nan Shan Basketball Invitational Cup (once every four years)
  

  Mayor starts the NSSH Cup by tossing the ball to the air
• School Rally and English Day
• Clubs showcase
• Chinese, English, Hokkien speech, writing contest
• 3-day TOP English camp (Y7 and 10)
• "Easy" Scout camp (Year 7)
• Inter-class singing competition (Y7 and 10)
• Hong-Lu-Di Trip/Trip-Of-Forming-House (Y7)
• "Intermediate" Scout camp (Y8)
• Inter-class dance competition (Y8 and Y11)
• Inter-class recorder competition (Y8)
• 3D2N junior high graduation trip (Y8)
• Graduation ceremony (Y9 and Y12)

Graduation ceremony in 2015–16, J3

• Last Night Party (Y12)
• 2D1N midterm camp (a.k.a. Cao Mountain Camp) (Y9)
• "Iron Man" scout camp (Y9)
• 2D1N mountain boot camp (Y10)
• Peking University Day (Y10 and 11)
• 1D rifle training camp (Y11)
• 4D3N senior high graduation trip (Y11)

Every March, NSSH holds an entrance test open to all Year 6 students. Students who meet the criteria may be accepted into NSSH. The school separates its students into 4 different groups at entry.

This class is usually thought to be the best class in the school as a result of the extra emphasis placed on mathematics and science by the Taiwanese education system. Students in this class have weekly lectures with famous professors or scientists. Students from this class usually perform the best academically although they might be slightly lacking in English. The school also sends students from this class to participate in the AMC8 Test and JHMC math contest.

In Year 8, students from this class are expected to form groups of up to three people to work on a science project and enter the National Science Fair Competition.

The bilingual elite class is usually the most competent in English. The school provides over 6 hours of oral and grammatical instruction in English. This class is also the only class which has two tutors, one foreign and one Taiwanese.

This class is the most knowledgeable regarding traditional Chinese language and literature. This class spends more time learning ancient Chinese poems, stories and novels.

This class tier was originally named as "The Normal Classes". Generally, students from these classes do not do as well in academics as compared to the other classes. However, to discover these students' greatest potential, the students go through special classes such as video directing, music and aesthetics. The school also tries to push them to join the "Invention Fair" held in Taiwan.[7]

When students enter Year 9, they will be separated into two groups of students, with more sub-groups.

Students meeting certain criteria who wish to finish their high school academics in NanShan are named Straight-Uppers. They generally have a less stressful academic life because they do not have to take the CAP test, which determines the Senior High School that a student goes to. The school tries to push students to begin learning the Year 10 and 11 curriculum before the end of year 9. Straight-Uppers are separated into four different tiers according to their performance at the Year 8 End-Of-Year evaluation. The highest tier requires the student to be in the top 15% of the cohort to qualify, while the lowest criterion requires the student to be in the top 80%.[8]

Students who wish to take the CAP test and leave NanShan at year 10 or simply couldn't qualify the straight uppers are named the Leavers. The leavers tend to be at two extremes—on one hand containing the best students confident of entering schools better than NSSH, while on the other hand containing students that may not even meet the criteria of a Year 8 student.

When students enter Year 10, they are separated into two types of classes; one type containing the students continuing from Year 9 in NSSH, and the other type coming from other junior high schools. The first type finishes the Year 12 curriculum earlier and starts its reviewing process faster, while the second type will follow the regular speed and curriculum of other senior high schools.

When students enter Year 11, students need to choose their major. There are two choices, the social group and the science group. Straight Upper students are often expected to choose the science group.

Students of Year 12 are expected to commit themselves fully into the preparation of the College Entrance Test. After the end of the first semester, following the end of college entrance test, the school will offer courses such as training to become assistance staff in the Ironman Camp for Year 9 students. Many Year 12 students choose to join TTAT, a volunteer group formed by Year 12 students and Nanshan alumni to serve in school activities. However, those who fall short on their college entrance test might take a second chance which is the comprehensive test in the summer. Students choosing this path will have to study hard for the whole of Year 12.[9]

NSSH also has a vocational department. Two types of students are admitted, either students continuing from Year 9 or students from other junior highs. Two kinds of vocational educations are offered, one being computing and the other being data processing. These students have more lab experience classes such as circuit board assembly among others. However, these students are usually very weak when it comes to academics.

Due to the rather short years house system was introduced and the significant changing rate of house members every year, not many houses traditions were carried on. Still very few were present. For example, the White Snow House was considered to be a "steady house" which they won star prize every year, but not being winner's house for a single time, just like Arsenal F.C.; Yellow Stone house was considered a strong force, winning two top prize in 3 years duration (2013–14,2015–16), however, they did not even hit top 6 in the most recent year.

The Purple Light house was the representative of the scout club, generally. The first (Fu, 2012–13) to fourth (Yang, 2015–16) term house leaders were all scouts, however, the fifth term house leader wasn't, that is, these traditional are changeable, and generally has many exceptions. It is more like a psychological edge on "what our predecessors used to achieved, so we shall do the same".

Purple Light House in Castle Fight (2015-16)

8 houses, grouped to battle A and battle B with 4 houses on the same battle field, will have to attack each other via the water balloon. The houses have to use bamboo sticks and ropes to construct a "castle tank" with two catapults on it. When the fight starts, two houses will be granted to attack, the other two will defend. The House Leader and the Deputy House Leader will sit on the two seats beside the House symbol flag. The attacking side will have two Suppliers reloading the catapult, and four Attackers executing attack by launching the water balloon to the defending side. If the house leader or flag were hit, the attacking side wins point. 60 seconds per round, and after that, attack and defending team switch role. The game is decided on best-of-three, and the score will be calculated to the aggregate house final-reward.

The castle is very big, and thus required 30-35 people lifting it. The house leaders and the deputy house leaders surely needs courage to be on it. They have to keep the flag up since if the flag was hit and then fallen down, the house loses the round immediately.

There are two bike riding competitions per year. The 18 K bike ride is basically a scavenger hunt, which requires a squad to follow the routine that school assigned, and enter a museum mid-way to finish the assignment. The scores are based on assignment performance unless a squad uses way over time. The house result will be the aggregate of all its associated squad. The 36 K bike ride is a combination of speed race and GPS hunt, whereas school doesn't provide maps and directions, but coordination. Each squad has to pass their assigned check point, or else the score will not be admitted.

In 2017 NanShan Straight-Upper Cup 18 K Bike ride compete, the seven students from Hwa Chong Institution were invited to join since the compete were held on the exchanging week. Leon Lee, Yu Han Lee, Chong Hui Feng and Max Wu joined squad 78 under the command of replica 15-16 Purple Light House Leader, Pin Yang, and eventually finished mid-table while Choon Wee Yeo, Derek Tay and Siu Ho Hin joined their respect buddy's squad. It is however yet to be confirmed if such activity will become tradition of the exchanging program. The 18 K compete is very important as it will be the major determination of the list of House Leader Squad and Deputy House Leader Squad.

SMS sent in NSSH straight Upper cup during MRT City Scavenger Hunt

Students will be given a treasure booklet with 40 CPs, with questions or quests on each of the points. They will be instruct with the first CP they have to go, and then they need to move to the spot and complete the mission, then call HQ for the next checkpoint they have to go. HQ will send SMS to each squads every thirty minutes to inform the scoreline, and usually players need to move along with MRT, walking outside the station and explore near the station to complete a quest, thus, it is very entertaining.

The camp will be divided into two major parts. The first part of the activity is Skyline Day, whereas students experiencing many high-altitude facilities such as islands in the sky, Rappel wall, and so on.[20] The second part of the activity is Mountain scavenger hunt, which school provides a GPS and much coordination, basically the mountain version of MRT city scavenger hunt. However, this time squads have the option to play some emergency missions when they pass the event area, completing them will result in major scoring bonus.[21]

This camp is the finale battle of the entire school year, whereas two Houses are formed into a Consortium. As for year 2015–16, there are Human Consortium, Elf Consortium, Orc consortium and Dwarf consortium. The many activities include The journey: The Lord of the Rings which requires a consortium which has 14 squads in total to co-operate. Some squads ride bikes in the entire Yilan City, mountains and by the seashore to find the missing sequences which can convert as 5 points; some squads stay in the house castle to defend intruder, and of course some intrude others; some squad explore to the Doom's day Volcano to fight the Hurlocks, while the elite squad of the house challenge for jackpot games and earn gadget rings to become multiplier in scoreline. There are some side activities as well such as canoe building, kayaking, House Marathon and Caoling historical trail, which requires everyone to walk 8.4 km, climbing an about 400m tall mountain. The house annual final result is announced on the last day of the activity.[22]

Consortium system was quite flawed as sometimes houses in same consortium suffer interest conflicts. For example, in the 2016 Iron man camp final, Orange Flower House and Purple Light house were formed as Human Consortium. On the House marathon contest, the orange flower house' member intentionally friendly fire and took off the main castle of Purple Light House, and that creates an angry reaction from the Purple Light House. Finally, in the second night's campfire, the invader of Orange House officially apologized to the Purple Light House's leader and stops the consortium from collapsing. However, this surely affected the outcome as Purple Light and Orange Flower both failed to earn a Star reward.

Each house contains six to seven squads, and each house has the following positions:

• A House Leader who also is the Captain of his/her squad
• A Deputy House Leader who also is the Captain of his/her squad
• Six to seven Captains

Each squad contains four to six members, with following positions:

• Captain
• Deputy Captain
• Head of equipment
• Head of academics and secretary

Notably, members' amounts are not fixed. For instance, in 2015–16, Purple Light House only consisted five squads and 26 members because some of the members were kicked out of the straight-uppers list.

NanShan High School boys' basketball team (often referred to as NanShan Leopard) is one of the most famous teams in the High School Basketball League (HBL). In 2016 the team received its 7th title in HBL and this remains its most titles honor. (Song-Shan Senior High school has five as the closest competitor after a 74–62 win in the final against reigning champion NanShan.)[23]

For reference please check Nan Shan High School boys' basketball team.

In 1979 Nanshan co-operates with China Telecom women's basketball team and established a girls' basketball team, which was often referred to as "The Lil' Telecom". The best result of the team came from Year 2000 in which the team finished with title. However the next year China Telecom decided to end the co-operation and the team no longer existed.

On Dec 5 1014, China Telecom signed a co-operation with Nanshan again and girls' basketball team was re-established and names as NanShan Sheep. The first year of the team participated in the highest tier, and they finished in fourth place despite having only nine Year 10 students. It was predicted that the team had much potential.

In November 2016, in order to unite the mascot of NanShan, the sheep was officially replaced by the leopard, so both boys' and girls' team are now represented by leopard. NanShan girls' basketball team advanced to the semi-final despite mutual injuries, but lost consecutively in the semis and third placement game, finishing fourth.

NanShan High School Fans Group (Mandarin: 南山中學粉絲應援團, often referred to as NSSHFans）is a fanpage and in-real-life group on Facebook. It was founded in 2010, and the founded logo was "我 (Heart symbol)南山"(I love Nanshan), then it was changed to a puzzle style to symbolize the unity of NanShan-ers. The responsibility of the group is to "Unite the power of NanShan-ers" and it is a non-profit organization in the purpose of offering a platform for graduated students and in school students and staff to communicate. It normally shares the post of NanShan High School and relative news, but it also holds different activities, such as "The Uniform Day", "HBL gathering" and "Rescue our MIDTERM!" activity.[24][25]

As the result of holding "The Uniform Day",[26] NanShan Fan's group's predecessor—Nan Shan Fan's page was built. Soon it became more relevant in more topic, sharing different posts and held different kinds of activities.

Starting from 2011, due to graduated students have insufficient news from school, NSSHFans started to recruit volunteers from school in order to provide a broad picture of the entire school community. They even established a committee in school to discuss activities with the students.

NSSHFans is the first unofficial group created and the first platform for everyone to have an equal chance to speak.

The administrators of the group are former NanShan students.[27] The group prompt to side with students more, but also have a policy to not obey or against the school. When students and school have communication problems, the group will collect the suggestions from the students and submit it to the school authority.[28]

NanShan Fans group product an annual video named "NanShan HBL Theme Video". The first episode was made in 2010. The video collects the visual of students and teachers cheering for the school team in order to courage the Leopards to play nice in game. That episode starts with principal's encouragement and ended with the press to the coach and players.

The video was published on February 25, 2011. It was not only played in the network platform, but also co-operated with the sections in school to play in NanShan's TV channel. It earned a great amount of notice and praise.[29]

Nanshan High School has a model United Nations club, and they hold an international MUN named NSMUN annually. They also send many students to various conferences to debate with MUNners from different schools.

Besides basketball, NanShan also has a soccer team, badminton team, handball team, baseball team, etc. Note that clubs and teams are different as school team is the one which represents the school in contests. Badminton, soccer and baseball team are recruited by team scouts, while the basketball team and handball team are recruited before the player entered NSSH.

NanShan mainly focuses on sending students to the national spelling bee contest and speech contest. Recently a new diplomacy contest also attracted the school's attention, following up with an English debating team. The debate team advanced through regional into national final in the first year of establishment. The school also pushes students to participate in scientific contest or math contest, while the participants are mostly from the first tier class.[30]

• Graduation club: A special committee for students to discuss affairs relative to graduation including ceremony, yearbooks, gift, songs, etc. Each class elects four delegates.

There are a variety of selections of CCA in day and night time, some are sports such as soccer, badminton, basketball, table tennis and aerobics; some are linguistics such as French, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, German, Arabic, and Adv. English; some are computer-relative such as Scratch, C++, Python, Arduino, and Web Design; some are music relative from ukulele to violin; and there were a lot more in existence. These activities are apart from clubs and generally use night time of 5:40 dismissal night which means students have to volunteer to stay at school in order to take the lesson they are interested in.

NanShan has several ally schools around the world. Generally, every July, the school organises trips to Canada (Toronto), the West Coast in the US and England. About 20 students are allowed to go on each trip. Prior to the trip, students need to attend pre-trip briefings and pass a test. These trips are usually like normal ESL trips (during which students go to a school campus, attend lessons for half a day, then go for outings after that). It costs a lot to go for these trips. Hence, most of the students prefer not to go because of the cost and also because the trip would take up the majority of their summer break.

Every August, the school nominates a few MUNners (students who participate in the Model United Nations) to take part in PKMUN, GLEMUN and similar events. Normally, it lasts eight days - four days for the conference and four days for outings. These events take place either during regular class time or during the summer break.

HCI-NSSH 2016 Singapore NSSH Official group photo

Nan Shan Senior High School sends students to Hwa Chong Institution every August as part of an exchange program that started when two schools became ally schools (2004).[32] Every November, the school sends students to Japan and Peking, and in every March, to New Zealand. These trips are more of a sightseeing nature, rather than school-oriented programs.

Nan Shan has two inbound exchange programs per year as of 2016: with Queensland in September and Hwa Chong Institution in November. Currently, the Hwa Chong program is the only one that is two-way (inbound and outbound). These programs are all organized by the school's CCA department.[33]