From a country sub-branch to the rooted small school of Erlin
Siangtian Elementary School began in 1953 as a sub-branch of Erlin Elementary, meeting in a village hall in Siangtian Village. In 1963 it became a school of its own. Today it remains a small rural campus — small enough that every child is known by name.
When a typhoon destroyed the teacher dormitory beside the school road, we did not rebuild. We turned that ground into a rice paddy. Each year, our students plant and harvest two seasons of Koshihikari rice with a local mill — the same rice that, in 1980, made Erlin famous as Taiwan's home of Koshihikari. The fields are not next to school. The fields are the school.
香田國小起源於民國 42 年(1953)的「二林國校香田分班」,在民眾集會所開課;民國 52 年(1963)獨立設校。今日香田仍是一所迷你型偏鄉小校——小,意味著每一個孩子都被認得、被看見。
校門口馬路旁的教師宿舍被颱風吹倒後,校方決定不重建,改闢為水稻生態田,與在地碾米廠合作,種植一年兩期的越光米。1980 年,二林鎮成為全台越光米栽培成功的起點,被譽為「越光米的故鄉」——對香田的孩子而言,農田不在校園旁,農田就是校園。
- Location · 校址
- 526 彰化縣二林鎮香田里儒林路 10-1 號
- School District · 學區
- 香田里全境・外竹里部分 (Siangtian Vil. · part of Waizhu Vil.)
- Age Range · 招收
- Grade 1 – Grade 6 (一年級至六年級)