Guhua Elementary School

Guhua Elementary School traces its origins to 1905, when its predecessor, Shuaimang Public School, was founded during the Japanese colonial era; it became independent as Guhua National School in April 1952 after relocating to Guhua Village. Almost the entire student body is Paiwan, and the school has been designated an “indigenous key school” since 1998. Its most distinctive feature is Taiwan's first campus-based traditional Southern-Paiwan “turtle-shell house” (龜甲屋), built from stone, wood, bamboo, and thatch, where students hold immersive Paiwan-language conversation practice and traditional song sessions. The school also runs a self-developed 12-volume local-culture curriculum funded by the Council of Indigenous Peoples, drawing on the Shiwen tribal community's expertise in traditional song, dance, mother-tongue instruction, pandanus-leaf weaving, bow-making, and scabbard carving.

古華國小前身「率芒公學校」創立於明治38年（1905年）日治時期，民國41年（1952年）4月遷至古華村後獨立設校。學生幾乎全為排灣族，自民國87年（1998年）起被列為原住民重點學校。校內最大特色是全台第一座傳統南排灣族「龜甲屋」，以石材、木頭、竹子與茅草搭建，學生在其中進行排灣族語會話與古謠傳唱等沉浸式學習。學校並自編獲原住民族委員會補助的12冊在地文化教材，結合率文部落在傳統歌舞、族語教學、月桃葉編織、製弓、刀鞘雕刻等技藝的專長。