Dear primary school parents and families,
亲爱的小学家长们：
It has been another eventful and action-packed two weeks in the primary school at Haileybury Tianjin. The second round of the CCTV competition took place at our school on the 21st of March. Our primary school students participated in the second round and due to the large number of entrants, the speeches were delivered in our classrooms again. In round two, our students spoke for 60 seconds on the ‘My Dream’ topic without the usage of notes or palm cards. After the speeches, they were also asked some questions by the CCTV judges. Our students had spent many weeks preparing for the second round by writing speeches and practising in and out of the classroom. A significant amount of time was also allocated at assembly on Fridays for the purpose of giving our students stage practice. I am pleased to announce that many of our students have progressed into round three which is also the Tianjin final. The Tianjin final will take place on the 4th of May and all our students are already guaranteed a third place Tianjin final award if they enter. There are three parts in round three. The first part is a prepared speech on the topic ‘This is the Special Me’. In this part, students should create a prepared speech and speak for a total of one minute on the topic. In the second part, lower primary school students will be given two pictures and upper primary school students four pictures to describe and to create a story therewith. The third part is an impromptu question and answer segment where students respond to a question from the judges for a total of 20 seconds. The question will relate to the lives of our primary aged students such as studying and hobbies however students may need to think creatively such as ‘If you were a dolphin, how would you introduce yourself’? Each student will receive an accumulative score from these three parts and the top 50 in Tianjin will progress into the fourth round (May 11th). The fourth round is a debate where participants are given 5 minutes to prepare on a specific topic. Contestants will battle it out and the debate will last for a total of two minutes. The winners of this fourth round will be eligible to enter into the national finals. We hope that those who have progressed into the third round will continue and we trust our students will shine even brighter this year.
对天津黑利伯瑞国际学校小学部来说，这是内容丰富而充满活力的两周。中央电视台的第二轮比赛于3月21日在我校举行。我们的小学生参加，由于参赛人数众多，我们在教室里进行了第二次演讲。在第二轮中，我们的学生以“我的梦想”为主题进行了60秒的演讲，期间没有使用笔记或手卡。演讲结束后，中央电视台的评委们也向他们提出了一些问题。我们的学生花了很多时间为第二轮的演讲做准备，包括写演讲稿和在教室内外练习。星期五的集会也分配了大量的时间来给学生进行舞台练习，所以我很高兴地宣布，我们所有的学生中有很多同学已经进入了第三轮(5月4日)，也就是天津市的决赛。所有进入第三轮比赛的学生，将至少获得天津赛区三等奖。第三轮分为三个环节。第一个环节将进行以“这就是特别的我”为主题的命题演讲。在这一部分中，学生们应事先准备好演讲稿，并就主题发表一分钟的演讲。第二环节，低年级的学生将获得两张图片，高年级的学生会得到四张图片，他们将对其进行描述并创作一个故事。第三环节是一个即兴问答，在这个环节中，学生将就评委提出的问题进行回答，计时20秒。问题将涉及到小学生的生活，比如学习和爱好，但是学生可能需要进行创造性的思考，比如“如果你是海豚，你会如何自我介绍?”每名学生将从这三个环节中获得一个累计总分，天津市的前50强将进入决赛的第二部分。决赛第二部分(5月11日)是一场辩论，参赛者有5分钟的时间准备一个特定主题。随后将进行2分钟的辩论。决赛第二部分的获胜者将有资格进入全国总决赛。我们希望那些已经进入决赛的学生会继续前进，我们也相信我们的学生今年将会继续光彩夺目。
Sophia Yang from year 1 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Kris Wang from year 1 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round three
Angel Du from year 2 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Elsa Huang from year 2 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
David Wang from year 3 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Jennifer Sun from year 3 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Rina Zhang from year 3 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Renae Jia from year 3 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Julianna Wei from year 4 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Jim Li from year 4 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Amy Wang from year 5 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Angel Yang from year 5 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Penelope Weng from year 6 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Martina Tian from year 6 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Aisha Liu from year 6 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Cary Ye from year 6 spoke well in round 2 and has progressed into round 3
Haileybury has long had a policy of cooperating and collaborating with the parents’ community of our school. Feedback from our parents is continuously gathered through our weekly academic reporting system and these comments are reviewed. Adjustments and improvements to teaching and learning are also constantly made through this system. Parents, however, bring to the school more than just their comments and observations - they also bring their skills, talents and networks. On Friday the 22nd of March, Ms. Guo, the mother of Alex Wan (Year 5 Green student) presented on the ‘History of Western Art’. The students were fascinated at various well-known paintings such as Jacques-Louis David’s painting of Napoleon and Andy Warhol’s modern creations. I am positive that these students now have a greater appreciation and understanding of western art. Ms. Jenny Jiao (a relative of year 6 yellow student Joey Jiao) also gave a presentation on disease prevention and food hygiene which has resulted in our students becoming more conversant on how to stay fit and healthy. We trust that the mutual collaboration between the school and its parents’ community will continue and that we will also keep on learning from each other.
黑利伯瑞长期以来一直奉行与学生家长社区合作的政策。我们通过每周的学术报告系统不断收集家长的反馈，并对这些评论进行审查。通过这一系统，我们不断地对教学和学习进行调整和改进。然而，家长们带来的不仅仅是他们的评论和观察——也为我们带来了他们的技能、才能和很多知识。3月22日星期五，5Green班的学生——万宗翰的妈妈郭女士在《西方艺术史》上发表演讲。学生们对雅克·路易斯·大卫的《的画》和安迪·沃霍尔的《现代创作》等许多著名的绘画作品非常着迷。焦女士是6 Yellow班的学生Joey的家长，她做了一个关于疾病预防和食品卫生的演讲。我相信我们的学生在演讲后对如何保持健康有了更深入的了解。我们相信，学校与其家长社区之间的相互合作将在未来继续进行下去，我们也将继续相互学习和成长。
Ms. Guo (mother of Alex Wan from 5 Green) gave a presentation on ‘The History of Western Art’
The grade five students were intrigued by Andy Warhol’s modern creations
Ms. Jenny Jiao gave a presentation on disease prevention and food hygiene
Ms. Jenny Jiao gave advice on how to stay fit and healthy
Merit awards have been given out to outstanding students at assemblies on Fridays for nearly two years now. The practice of giving out merit awards to high achieving individuals is a practice that also occurs in many Australian schools. Every week, two students from each class in the primary school are given the awards by their homeroom teachers. The program seeks to encourage and reward students for high academic achievement and virtuous behaviour. Every week, it is pleasing to see many smiles illuminating from the faces of our students when it is announced that they are the award recipients of the week. The awards boost the self-confidence of our students and the giving out of the awards will continue to play an important part in our weekly assemblies. Our 20 new student leaders have also started their new responsibilities. The student leaders have been organised into different groups based on the different days of the school week and each leader serves once a week on a rotating basis. Some of their responsibilities include manning the school gate in the mornings, monitoring the cleanliness of each classroom, making sure that students are walking orderly and assisting teachers with miscellaneous duties. It has been great to see our students serving the school community punctually, diligently and respectfully. Through their self-less work and dedication, our student leaders are helping to ensure that the primary school continues to operate smoothly and safely.
近两年来，我们都会在星期五的集会上对优秀学生颁发荣誉奖项。向成绩优异的个人颁发奖励的做法在许多澳大利亚学校也很常见。每个星期，小学部的各个班级都会选出两名学生并由他们班主任为其颁发奖项。该计划旨在鼓励和奖励学生良好的学习成绩和良好的行为。每周，当我们宣布本周的获奖者时，都能看到笑容在他们脸上点亮。这些奖项提高了学生的自信心，而颁奖环节也将继续作为重要的组成部分出现在每周的集会中。我们的20位新也开始了他们的新职责。学生领导们根据每周不同的日子被分成不同的小组，每位学生领导每周轮流任职一次。其中的一些职务包括在早上在学校大门值班、监控每个教室的清洁度、确保学生安静有序地行走，以及协助教师完成各种各样的任务。很高兴可以看到我们的学生能够准时、勤勉、恭敬地为学校社区服务。通过学生领导们无私的工作和努力，我们的小学部得以继续顺利安全地运作。
Lily Ma and Marvel Zhao from year one each received a merit award last week
Judy Zhu and Owen Liu from year 2 each received a merit award last Friday
Kitty Zhao and Jennifer Sun from year 3 each received a merit award last Friday
Jayson Guo and Daniel Xue from grade 4 have each received a merit award this semester
Jinny Guo and David Lin from grade 5 have each received a merit award this semester
Chris Liu and Coco Li from grade 6 have each received a merit award this semester
24 merit awards are given out every Friday to deserving students
Eris Wu and Rain Biao are the student leaders on Tuesdays
Rain Bao is watching over the year three eaglets as they walk to their classroom
A school song is a unique song which students sing at assemblies or at special occasions. School songs are important because they express a school’s values, priorities and expectations. ‘We are Haileybury’ is the name of our school song and it is sung wholly in English. The first verse is sung by males. Physical strength, courage, victory, honour, respect, determination and achievement are the core themes of the first verse. The second verse is sung by females. Knowledge, acceptance, skill, beauty, integrity, creativity and success are the core themes of the second verse. The third verse is sung together, and it speaks of pride, vision, compassion, high standards, love and friendship. On the 18th of March, all primary school classes participated in a school song singing contest to improve our students’ understanding and familiarity of the school song. Our students learnt the lyrics of the song and practiced singing the song prior to the contest as the themes and words in the song are relatively complex for our primary aged students. There were 7 judges in the contest and their role was to adjudicate on the singing of each class. Many of our classes sang melodiously and the contest provided an excellent opportunity for our students to not only learn more English but also to instil more school pride.
校歌是学生们在集会或特殊场合下唱的一首独特的歌。校歌很重要，因为它们体现了学校的价值观和期望。“我们是黑利伯瑞”是我们校歌的名字，它完全用英语演唱。第一节由男性演唱。力量、勇气、胜利、荣誉、尊重、决心和成就是第一节的核心主题。第二节由女性演唱。知识、接受、技巧、美丽、正直、创造力和成功是第二节的核心主题。第三节是合唱部分，表达的是骄傲、远见、同情、高标准、爱和友谊。3月18日，小学部的所有班级参加了一次校歌演唱比赛，这次比赛提高了学生对校歌的理解和熟悉程度。由于这首歌的主题和歌词对小学生来说比较复杂，所以我们的学生在比赛前对歌词进行了学习并练习了如何演唱这首歌。比赛设有7名评委，他们的职责是评判每一个班级的演唱情况。我们的许多班级都唱的十分动听，这次比赛为我们的学生提供了一个很好的机会，不仅可以让他们学习更多的英语，还可以灌输更多的学校自豪感。
Our year ones sang well at the school song singing contest
Our year twos have learnt many new words from the school song
Our year threes sang tunefully at the school song singing contest
Our year fours sang beautifully at the school song singing contest
Our year fives sang harmoniously at the school song singing contest
Our year sixes sang vibrantly at the school song singing contest
The student adjudicators of the school song singing contest are pictured above
As mentioned earlier, we will be graced again with the visit of renowned Australian educator Mr. John Fleming next week. Mr. Fleming is a deputy principal at Haileybury Melbourne and has been teaching in Australia for over 40 years. Mr. Fleming is a steadfast advocate of the explicit teaching model which he has implemented across all of Haileybury’s six campuses. The explicit teaching model ensures that students are learning by moving concepts from short to long term memory. Haileybury achieves this through small class sizes, individual attention and pitching lessons to a high level. Explicit teaching also follows a simple ‘I do, we do, you do’ process. ‘I do’ refers to teaching, ‘we do’ is teacher-class collaboration and ‘you do’ is pitched at each student’s individual needs. Explicit Teaching focuses on exceptional student engagement, student motivation and the appreciation of progress. Mr. John Fleming will come into our classrooms to ensure that the explicit teaching model continues to be implemented in our sub-school so that every student continues to improve each and every day.
之前提到过，我们将在第7周再次接受澳大利亚著名教育家约翰·弗莱明先生的访问。弗莱明先生是墨尔本黑利伯瑞学校的副校长，在澳大利亚教书已经40多年。弗莱明先生是“直接教学法”的强烈拥护者，他已经在黑利伯瑞的所有六个校区里实行了这一模式。明确的教学模式通过让学生将概念从短期记忆转移到长期记忆中来学习。黑利伯瑞通过小班授课、个体关注和高水平的课程来实现这一目标。明确的教学也遵循一个简单的“我做，我们做，你做”的过程。“我做”是指教学，“我们做”是教师和班级共同完成，“你做”是针对每个学生的个人需要。明确的教学侧重于特殊学生的参与，激励他们做得更好，并欣赏他们的进步。约翰·弗莱明先生将进入我们的课堂，以确保在我们的子学校继续实施“直接教学法”，使每个学生每天都在不断进步。
Mr. Fleming gave a demonstration lesson to our year 6 students last year
Mr. Fleming is a renowned Australian educator and will come into our school next week to observe and give feedback
Lift up your hearts, breathe in the crisp fresh air and feel the warm morning sunrays as they pierce through your uniform when you man the gate at Haileybury!
William Fang (M.Ed, B.A/B.Ed, Grad Dip Ed. (Primary), B. Min (Hons.))
方士铨 (教育硕士，文学士/教育学士，教育研究生(小学), 神职学士(荣誉学士学位))
English Curriculum Coordinator - Primary School (Upper Primary)
Haileybury International School Tianjin
小学部英语项目课程负责人(4-6年级)
天津黑利伯瑞国际学校
29/03/2019