HIST PRIMARY CAMPUS NEWS and INFORMATION Bulletin 12, Week 4, Semester 2, 2018-19

　　天津黑利伯瑞國際學校小學部主要校園新聞和信息

　　Dear primary school parents and families,

　　親愛的小學家長們：

　　It has been another eventful and action-packed two weeks in the primary school at Haileybury Tianjin. In March, teachers will be working diligently to improve student academic outcomes across all subject areas. Many methods and policies are being employed to achieve this objective. One of the ways this is being achieved is through the presentation of open classes by our senior teachers. On Monday the 4th of March, physical education teacher Ms. Lily Wei gave a demonstration class with her year 5 green class. It was impressive to see many of our year 5’s swimming well and using conventional freestyle stroke and technique. We sure do have many avid and proficient swimmers in the primary school. On Tuesday the 5th of March, Chinese calligraphy teacher Ms. Rachel Zhang gave a demonstration class titled ‘Tower Shaped Words’ again with the 5 green class. The audience was impressed with the beauty, finesse and control of our students in their Chinese character writing. Primary school Chinese teacher Ms. Rosie Jiang and primary school Maths teacher Ms. Amy Sun also gave demonstration lessons to a combined year 3 class on Thursday the 7th of March. Ms. Jiang’s lesson was titled ‘The Clay Pot and the Iron Pot’ and Ms. Sun’s lesson was titled ‘The Zero Quotient’. The children were captivated by the educational and lively presentations from our seasoned practitioners. Many of our senior primary school teachers have been at Haileybury Tianjin for nearly 5 years and during this time, they have developed effective teaching practices and procedures which were put on show during these demonstration lessons. I am sure much was learnt simply through observing our senior teachers in action. The English program in the primary school has also been progressing well. As mentioned in the last bulletin, our Reading Buddy Program has started. This semester, we are lucky to have the support of around 50 middle school students who are providing intensive English support to primary school students from years one, two and three. They are reading from the popular Oxford Reading Tree, Biscuit and the Step into Reading series. Teachers and students have already commented on how smoothly these sessions have been. They have also noted the many smiles that have radiated from the faces of our children when they accomplish the honourable feat of reading a book in their second language. Our primary school students are blessed to have the assistance of our middle school students and the school will continue to support this important program because reading plays an important role in language acquisition.

　　在天津黑利伯瑞國際學校小學部，又有很多有意義的事情發(fā)生。今年3月，教師們將努力提高各學科領(lǐng)域?qū)W生的學業(yè)成績。為了實現(xiàn)這一目標，老師們將采用許多方法和措施。實現(xiàn)這一目標的方法之一是通過骨干教師的公開課堂展示。3月4日星期一，體育老師魏麗老師在5年級的游泳上進行了示范課�？吹轿覀兾迥昙壍暮芏嗤瑢W游泳都很好，使用傳統(tǒng)的自由泳姿勢和技術(shù)，真是令人印象深刻。在黑利伯瑞國際學校小學部，我們確實有許多熱愛和精通游泳的同學。3月5日星期二，中國書法老師張悅老師又在5年級進行了一次題為“塔形的字”的示范課。我們的學生在漢字寫作中的美感、技巧和控制力給老師們留下了深刻的印象。3月7日，星期四，小學語文老師姜老師和小學數(shù)學老師孫老師也給三年級的同學上了示范課。姜老師的課叫“陶罐與鐵罐”，孫老師的課叫“商中有零的除法”。孩子們被我們經(jīng)驗豐富的老師們的教育和生動的陳述所吸引。我們的許多骨干小學教師已經(jīng)在天津黑利伯瑞工作了近5年，在這段時間內(nèi)，他們制定了有效的教學計劃，并在這些示范課程中進行了展示。我相信，通過聽我們的骨干教師的課，我學到了很多東西。小學英語課程也進展得很順利。正如上一篇公告中提到的，我們的閱讀伙伴計劃已經(jīng)開始。本學期，我們有幸得到大約50名中學生的支持，這些中學生從一年級、二年級和三年級開始提供強化英語支持。他們正在閱讀牛津受歡迎的閱讀樹，餅干和步入閱讀系列。老師和學生們已經(jīng)評估了這些課程的順利程度。他們還注意到，當我們的孩子完成了用他們的第二語言讀一本書的光榮壯舉時，他們臉上散發(fā)出的微笑。我們的小學生有幸得到中學生的幫助，學校將繼續(xù)支持這一重要項目，因為閱讀是語言習得的一個重要方面。

　　Swimming teacher Ms. Lily Wei gave an open class with her year 5 students

　　Art teacher Ms. Rachel Zhang presented an open class on Chinese calligraphy – shown here with Alex Wan from year 5

　　Chinese teacher Ms. Rosie Jiang gave an open class titled ‘The Clay Pot and the Iron Pot’

　　Maths teacher Ms. Amy Sun gave an open class on the zero quotient

　　Lower primary school English coordinator Mr. Nathan Williamson can be seen assisting Brandon Liu in year 1

　　Middle school teacher Jelena Stankovic can be seen assisting year one students Varya Koneva and Aaron Cheng

　　Year two students Tager Li and George Li are reading to Lucas from middle school

　　Year two students Joy He and Joy Li love reading to Mary at Reading Buddy

　　Our afternoon club program has started, and it continues to uplift the hearts and minds of our students. Our students have been keen on participating in the many clubs and activities provided by our own teachers such as chess, soccer basketball, ballet/dance, CCTV training, drawing, swimming and Chinese calligraphy but they have also been given the chance to participate in fee paying clubs such as tennis, golf, piano, drums, acting, modelling, dance, taekwondo and robotics. At Haileybury, we believe it is important that our students excel not only in the core subjects of English, Maths and Chinese but that they also develop their natural talents and extra-curricular abilities so that they can become well rounded individuals who are able to thrive in the outside world. Who knows? Maybe the next Steve Jobs or Yao Ming is sitting unpretentiously in our classroom. Additionally, our students were given the opportunity to sharpen and develop their leadership skills by volunteering to become student leaders. Student leaders assist by supporting teachers, managing students and organising school-based activities. On March the 4th, aspiring student leaders were asked to deliver a speech on the stage on why they should be elected as student leaders. On the 11th of March, the student leaders for this new semester were formally announced at assembly. It is my honour to announce that 20 new student representatives have been elected. The student prefects for each grade are listed below. We wish all our new leaders every success as they begin their new responsibilities.

　　我們的下午活動課項目已經(jīng)開始，它繼續(xù)鼓舞著我們學生的心靈。我們的學生一直熱衷于參加我們老師提供的許多俱樂部活動，如象棋、足球、籃球、芭蕾舞/舞蹈、希望之星英語培訓(xùn)、繪畫、游泳和中國書法，但他們也有機會參加校外課程，如網(wǎng)球、鋼琴、高爾夫、架子鼓、表演、模特、舞蹈、跆拳道和機器人。在黑利伯瑞，我們相信，我們的學生不僅在英語、數(shù)學和語文等核心科目上表現(xiàn)出色，而且還培養(yǎng)他們的天賦和綜合能力，使他們成為能夠在世界上蓬勃發(fā)展的全面的個人，這一點很重要。誰知道?也許下一個史蒂夫·喬布斯或姚明正坐在我們的教室里。此外，我們的學生有機會通過自愿成為學生來提高和發(fā)展他們的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)技能。學生通過支持教師、管理學生和組織校本活動來提供幫助。3月4日，準備充分的學生被要求在講臺上發(fā)表演講，討論他們?yōu)槭裁匆�被選為學生代表。3月11日，大會正式宣布了新學期的學生領(lǐng)導(dǎo)。我很榮幸地宣布選出了20個新的學生。我們祝愿我們所有的新學生在開始他們的責任時取得成功。各年級的學生領(lǐng)導(dǎo)如上。

　　Could Mark Yan from year 6 be the next Michael Jordan?

　　Mr. Rosenfield umpires and teaches the soccer club

　　Could Coco Li from year 6 be the next Maria Sharapova?

　　Could Stephanie Wu from year 6 be the next Annika Sorenstam?

　　Dance is offered as part of our afternoon club program

　　Year 6 students Lucy Liu and Penelope Weng enjoy writing Chinese characters in calligraphy club

　　Many students enjoy learning about the game of chess with Mr. Jason

　　Swimming is offered in our afternoon club program

　　Year 5 student Ryan Du campaigned well to become a student leader

　　Year 5 student Bob Zhang spoke well at the student leader elections

　　Year 6 student Mary Ou outlined why she should be elected as a student leader

　　English proficiency continues to be a core competency at Haileybury so we have continued to give our students opportunity to use and express themselves in English. One of the ways this is being achieved is through our active participation in English competitions such as the national CCTV Star of Outlook competition. We have not eased off in our preparation for the second round. On Friday the 8th of March, 5 students participated in another mock CCTV round 2 competition on the ‘My Dream’ topic. The students were Kong Zi, Dora Xu, Jim Li, Jinny Guo and Penelope Weng. It was a closely fought contest with very little separating the 5 students. In the end, the mock competition was won by Penelope Weng followed by Jinny Guo in a close second and Jim Li in third. The three winners all received an honourable Haileybury participatory certificate and Penelope also received a soccer ball. Round two of the CCTV competition will take place on Thursday the 21st of March inside our school campus. Students will be given 60 seconds to answer the ‘My Dream’ topic without the usage of any notes or palm cards. They will then be asked questions by the judges on the topic for another 30 seconds. Students are also able to perform a talent show during this second round, but the talent performance must be closely related to the topic of their speech.

　　英語水平仍舊是黑利伯瑞的核心能力，因此我們繼續(xù)為學生提供使用英語和表達自己的機會。實現(xiàn)這一目標的方法之一是通過我們積極參與英語比賽，如中國中央電視臺《希望之星》比賽。我們在星期五的集會上為第二輪的比賽做準備。3月8日星期五，5名學生參加了另一場關(guān)于“我的夢想”主題的模擬中央電視臺第二輪比賽。學生有Kong Zi、Dora、Jim、Jinny和Penelope。這是一場勢均力敵的比賽，比賽成績幾乎沒有將5名學生的名次分開。最后，模擬比賽中Penelope贏得， Jinny第二名，Jim第三名。三位獲勝者都獲得了黑利伯瑞國際學校榮譽證書，Penelope也獲得了一個足球。中央電視臺第二輪比賽將于3月21日星期四在我們學校校園舉行。學生們將有60秒的時間回答“我的夢想”主題，而不使用任何筆記。然后，評委們將在30秒內(nèi)就這個話題提問。學生們也可以在第二輪表演一場才藝表演，但才藝表演必須與他們演講的主題密切相關(guān)。

　　Kong Zi’s dream is to become an inventor (year 1 student)

　　Jim Li’s dream is to either become a doctor or a teacher (year 4 student)

　　Jinny Guo’s dream is to build a house made out of candy (year 5 student)

　　Penelope Weng’s dream is to make a homework machine for students (year 6 student)

　　Ms. Sanchez and Mr. Webb questioned each presenter

　　Mr. Rosenfield and Mr. Jason announced the winners of the CCTV round two mock competition

　　The winners were Penelope Weng (1st), Jinny Guo (2nd) and Jim Li (3rd)

　　The primary school parents’ association meeting was convened at our school on Friday the 8th of March. The parents’ association committee comprises of one parent representative from each of the 12 classes in primary school as well as senior staff from our school. Meetings are convened regularly to inform but also to discuss and deliberate about school matters. Before the meeting, the 12 members of the committee were invited to join our primary school assembly in the morning because the day coincidentally also happened to be International Women’s Day. As all members were females, each member was given a rose to commemorate the occasion. International Women’s day started in the early 20th century in countries such as America, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Russia but it was not until 1975 that the United Nations officially recognised the day and made it into a world-wide celebration. The day marks the progress and the advancement of the rights of women around the world. After the assembly, the committee made their way to a conference room where they were joined by Mr. Brian Gao, Ms. Vivian Jia, Mr. Xu, Ms. Amy Sun and Ms. Rachel Zhang. Ms. Zhang and Ms. Sun gave presentations on Art and Maths before opportunity was given for discussion. After the formal discussions, delegates then headed to the canteen where they shared lunch together. The meeting was another example of the mutual collaboration and cooperation between the school and its parents’ community. The school will continue to work together with the parents’ community to ensure that our students continue to improve every day.

　　小學家委會會議于3月8日星期五在我校召開。家長委員會會議由小學12個班的家長代表各一人和學校領(lǐng)導(dǎo)共同參加。定期召開會議，大家一起討論學校事務(wù)。在會議開始前，12名委員會成員被邀請在上午參加我們的小學集會，因為碰巧那天也是國際婦女節(jié)。因為所有的成員都是女性，所以每個成員都得到一支鮮花來紀念這一時刻。國際婦女節(jié)始于20世紀初，在美國、奧地利、德國、丹麥和俄羅斯等國舉行，但直到1975年聯(lián)合國才正式承認這，使之成為全世界的慶�；顒�。這標志著全世界婦女權(quán)利的進步。會后，委員們進入了一個會議室，高校長、賈主任、徐主任、張老師和孫老師參加了會議。張老師和孫老師在討論之前就藝術(shù)和數(shù)學教學進行了介紹。在正式討論之后，代表們前往食堂，在那里他們一起分享午餐。這次會議是學校與其家長們相互合作的另一個例子。學校將繼續(xù)與家長合作，確保我們的學生每天都在進步。

　　Each of the 12 members from our parents’ association committee received a rose to commemorate Women’s Day 2019

　　The 12 parents’ association committee members are posing with the primary school English teachers and head of primary Ms. Vivian Jia

　　Mr. Brian Gao and Ms. Vivian Jia convened the primary school parents’ association meeting

　　Three of our primary school parents’ association committee members

　　Ms. Amy Sun presented on Maths teaching at the parents’ association meeting

　　On Wednesday the 6th of March, the primary school participated in a whole school fire drill. Fire safety is something that we don’t often think about but being uninformed or ill-prepared can have some very disastrous consequences. Fire disasters cause the deaths of many Chinese people every year. Moreover, many billions of yuan are lost due to fire damage each year. The whole school participated in this fire drill and it only took a short amount of time for the whole school to evacuate onto the school oval. It was pleasing to see many students taking the fire drill seriously as they were seen running to the evacuation location in a brace position. We hope we never have to encounter a serious disaster at our school but with regular disaster prevention drills taking place at our school each year, we trust our school will be ready even when disaster strikes.

　　3月6日星期三，小學參加了全校的消防演習。消防安全是我們?nèi)粘Ｉ�活中不�?jīng)�？紤]的事情，但如果不了解或準備不足，可能會造成非常災(zāi)難性的后果�；馂�(zāi)每年都會導(dǎo)致許多人死亡。此外，我們每年還因火災(zāi)損失數(shù)十億元。整個學校都參加了這次消防演習，整個學校只花了很短的時間就疏散到學校的安全區(qū)域。很高興看到許多學生認真對待消防演習，因為他們聽到警報聲就以正確的自我保護姿勢迅速跑到安全區(qū)域。我們希望我們不會在學校經(jīng)歷嚴重的災(zāi)難，但是每年我們學校都會定期舉辦防災(zāi)講座和演習，我們相信我們的學校會在災(zāi)難發(fā)生時做好準備。

　　Year 4 students evacuated in the brace position

　　Our students took the fire drill seriously

　　Primary school welfare director Mr. Xu checked that everyone was accounted for

　　Flying kites is a millennia year old tradition that many children from all around the world continue to enjoy. Last week, our primary school students made and decorated their own kites under the guidance and instruction of welfare director Mr. Eric Xu and Art teacher Ms. Rachael Zhang. After the kites were made, children were given the opportunity to fly their kites outside. Many of our students were elated when they saw their kites flying blissfully in the breeze. There is a saying in Chinese: Children come back early from school for the purpose of taking advantage of the east wind to fly kites. Kites have been flown by Chinese people for a long time and Chinese people believe the best way children enjoy Spring is by running in the Spring breeze without fear. Poetically speaking, we decorate our kites to individualise our own kites. We hold onto the kite’s string to release a Spring hymn and we fly kites at Haileybury to experience Spring’s warmth.

　　放風箏是一個千年歷史的傳統(tǒng)，來自世界各地的許多孩子繼續(xù)參與。上周，我們的小學學生在德育主任徐老師和藝術(shù)張老師的指導(dǎo)和指導(dǎo)下制作和裝飾自己的風箏。風箏制作完成后，孩子們有機會把風箏放在外面。當我們的許多學生看到風箏在微風中幸福地飛行時，他們都感覺很自豪。“兒童放學歸來早，忙趁東風放紙鳶”風箏一直為中國人所鐘愛，春風起，讓孩子感受春天的方式，便是走進春天，在春風里肆無忌憚的奔跑。放風箏，感受春天的途徑，拿起畫筆，描繪一只獨屬于自己的風箏，牽起絲線，放飛一首渲染春日的贊歌。

　　Kady Jin from year 6 is a keen artist and can be seen decorating her own kite

　　Andy Gao and Honey Liu from year 6 are painting their kites

　　Year 5 students were able to get their kites flying in the breeze

　　The primary school has made notable progress despite being only in the fourth week of school. Senior teachers have already given open classes, a parents’ association meeting has already been convened and we have continued to prepare our students for the national CCTV Star of Outlook English public speaking competition which will take place at our school next Thursday. We have laid concrete foundations for the rest of the academic year so let us continue to work together to ensure that every child continues to improve with each passing day.

　　盡管我們才開學四周，但黑利伯瑞國際學校小學部已經(jīng)取得了顯著的進步。骨干教師已經(jīng)開設(shè)了公開課，家長委員會會議已經(jīng)召開，我們繼續(xù)為學生們準備下周四將在我們學校舉行的中央電視臺“希望之星”英語演講比賽。我們?yōu)閷W年余下的時間打下了具體的基礎(chǔ)，所以讓我們繼續(xù)共同努力，確保每個孩子每天都在不斷進步。

　　Lift up your hearts and your kites at Haileybury!

　　William Fang (M.Ed, B.A/B.Ed, Grad Dip Ed. (Primary), B. Min (Hons.))

　　方士銓 (教育碩士，文學士/教育學士，教育研究生(小學), 神職學士(榮譽學士學位))

　　English Curriculum Coordinator - Primary School (Upper Primary)

　　Haileybury International School Tianjin

　　小學部英語項目課程負責人(4-6年級)

　　天津黑利伯瑞國際學校

　　15/03/2019