无锡市一中一贯以“突出育人、立足普及、广泛参与、坚持创新”为宗旨，通过举办各种主题突出、形式多样的校园活动，搭建起适合多种类型人才个性化发展的广阔舞台，并进一步优化我校的育人环境，努力形成一批特色品牌活动项目，一批面向学生的活动阵地，一批广泛开展活动并取得典型经验的学生社团，一个良好的学生活动运行机制，促进学生的全面发展，提高学校办学品位，在办学目标指导下，我校已形成鲜明的工作特色：
1、让学生走向书籍，在知识的海洋里增长见识；
2、让学生走向野外，在艰苦的环境中培养坚韧的品格；
3、让学生走向“舞台”，在五彩缤纷的活动中展示自我；
4、让学生走向人生，在“献爱心”的行动中懂得社会责任；
5、让学生走向世界，在文化交流中增强爱国热情。
    Wuxi No.1 Senior High School has been fully adhering to the guideline of cultivation, popularization, participation and innovation. By holding all kinds of campus activities with varied themes, we have set up different stages for the individual development of varied talents, and improved the cultivation atmosphere. Meanwhile, our school has formed a number of distinguished brand activities, a lot of student-oriented activities, plenty of experienced student associations, and an excellent operation organization to promote the all-round education of the students and raise the schooling level, and better instill the students with the idea of learning in happiness and happiness in learning. Our school has developed the following feature in the guide of the education purpose:
Let the students turn to books where they can get their knowledge widened;
Let the students go to the field where they can steel their personality in hardship;
Let the students stand on the stage where they can show themselves in activities
Let the students embrace the society where they can understand social responsibility in school activities with the theme of love;
Let the students turn to the world where they can enhance their patriotism in the cultural communication.