HIST PRIMARY CAMPUS NEWS and INFORMATION Bulletin 12, Week 4, Semester 2, 2018-19
天津黑利伯瑞国际学校小学部主要校园新闻和信息
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. 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.
在天津黑利伯瑞国际学校小学部，又有很多有意义的事情发生。今年3月，教师们将努力提高各学科领域学生的学业成绩。为了实现这一目标，老师们将采用许多方法和措施。实现这一目标的方法之一是通过骨干教师的公开课堂展示。3月4日星期一，体育老师魏丽老师在5年级的游泳上进行了示范课。看到我们五年级的很多同学游泳都很好，使用传统的自由泳姿势和技术，真是令人印象深刻。在黑利伯瑞国际学校小学部，我们确实有许多热爱和精通游泳的同学。3月5日星期二，中国书法老师张悦老师又在5年级进行了一次题为“塔形的字”的示范课。我们的学生在汉字写作中的美感、技巧和控制力给老师们留下了深刻的印象。3月7日，星期四，小学语文老师姜老师和小学数学老师孙老师也给三年级的同学上了示范课。姜老师的课叫“陶罐与铁罐”，孙老师的课叫“商中有零的除法”。孩子们被我们经验丰富的老师们的教育和生动的陈述所吸引。我们的许多骨干小学教师已经在天津黑利伯瑞工作了近5年，在这段时间内，他们制定了有效的教学计划，并在这些示范课程中进行了展示。我相信，通过听我们的骨干教师的课，我学到了很多东西。小学英语课程也进展得很顺利。正如上一篇公告中提到的，我们的阅读伙伴计划已经开始。本学期，我们有幸得到大约50名中学生的支持，这些中学生从一年级、二年级和三年级开始提供强化英语支持。他们正在阅读牛津受欢迎的阅读树，饼干和步入阅读系列。老师和学生们已经评估了这些课程的顺利程度。他们还注意到，当我们的孩子完成了用他们的第二语言读一本书的光荣壮举时，他们脸上散发出的微笑。我们的小学生有幸得到中学生的帮助，学校将继续支持这一重要项目，因为阅读是语言习得的一个重要方面。
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.
我们的下午活动课项目已经开始，它继续鼓舞着我们学生的心灵。我们的学生一直热衷于参加我们老师提供的许多俱乐部活动，如象棋、足球、篮球、芭蕾舞/舞蹈、希望之星英语培训、绘画、游泳和中国书法，但他们也有机会参加校外课程，如网球、钢琴、高尔夫、架子鼓、表演、模特、舞蹈、跆拳道和机器人。在黑利伯瑞，我们相信，我们的学生不仅在英语、数学和语文等核心科目上表现出色，而且还培养他们的天赋和综合能力，使他们成为能够在世界上蓬勃发展的全面的个人，这一点很重要。谁知道?也许下一个史蒂夫·乔布斯或姚明正坐在我们的教室里。此外，我们的学生有机会通过自愿成为来提高和发展他们的领导技能。通过支持教师、管理学生和组织校本活动来提供帮助。3月4日，准备充分的被要求在讲台上发表演讲，讨论他们为什么要被选为学生代表。3月11日，大会正式宣布了新学期的学生领导。我很荣幸地宣布选出了20个新的。我们祝愿我们所有的新在开始他们的责任时取得成功。各年级的学生领导如上。
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.
英语水平仍旧是黑利伯瑞的核心能力，因此我们继续为学生提供使用英语和表达自己的机会。实现这一目标的方法之一是通过我们积极参与英语比赛，如中国中央电视台《希望之星》比赛。我们在星期五的集会上为第二轮的比赛做准备。3月8日星期五，5名学生参加了另一场关于“我的梦想”主题的模拟中央电视台第二轮比赛。学生有Kong Zi、Dora、Jim、Jinny和Penelope。这是一场势均力敌的比赛，比赛成绩几乎没有将5名学生的名次分开。最后，模拟比赛中Penelope赢得冠军， Jinny第二名，Jim第三名。三位获胜者都获得了黑利伯瑞国际学校荣誉证书，Penelope也获得了一个足球。中央电视台第二轮比赛将于3月21日星期四在我们学校校园举行。学生们将有60秒的时间回答“我的梦想”主题，而不使用任何笔记。然后，评委们将在30秒内就这个话题提问。学生们也可以在第二轮表演一场才艺表演，但才艺表演必须与他们演讲的主题密切相关。
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.
小学家委会会议于3月8日星期五在我校召开。家长委员会会议由小学12个班的家长代表各一人和学校领导共同参加。定期召开会议，大家一起讨论学校事务。在会议开始前，12名委员会成员被邀请在上午参加我们的小学集会，因为碰巧那天也是国际妇女节。因为所有的成员都是女性，所以每个成员都得到一支鲜花来纪念这一时刻。国际妇女节始于20世纪初，在美国、奥地利、德国、丹麦和俄罗斯等国举行，但直到1975年才正式承认这一天，使之成为全世界的庆祝活动。这一天标志着全世界妇女权利的进步。会后，委员们进入了一个会议室，高校长、贾主任、徐主任、张老师和孙老师参加了会议。张老师和孙老师在讨论之前就艺术和数学教学进行了介绍。在正式讨论之后，代表们前往食堂，在那里他们一起分享午餐。这次会议是学校与其家长们相互合作的另一个例子。学校将继续与家长合作，确保我们的学生每天都在进步。
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，小学参加了全校的消防演习。消防安全是我们日常生活中不经常考虑的事情，但如果不了解或准备不足，可能会造成非常灾难性的后果。火灾每年都会导致许多人死亡。此外，我们每年还因火灾损失数十亿元。整个学校都参加了这次消防演习，整个学校只花了很短的时间就疏散到学校的安全区域。很高兴看到许多学生认真对待消防演习，因为他们听到警报声就以正确的自我保护姿势迅速跑到安全区域。我们希望我们不会在学校经历严重的灾难，但是每年我们学校都会定期举办防灾讲座和演习，我们相信我们的学校会在灾难发生时做好准备。
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.
放风筝是一个千年历史的传统，来自世界各地的许多孩子继续参与。上周，我们的小学学生在德育主任徐老师和艺术张老师的指导和指导下制作和装饰自己的风筝。风筝制作完成后，孩子们有机会把风筝放在外面。当我们的许多学生看到风筝在微风中幸福地飞行时，他们都感觉很自豪。“儿童放学归来早，忙趁东风放纸鸢”风筝一直为中国人所钟爱，春风起，让孩子感受春天的最佳方式，便是走进春天，在春风里肆无忌惮的奔跑。放风筝，感受春天的最佳途径，拿起画笔，描绘一只独属于自己的风筝，牵起丝线，放飞一首渲染春日的赞歌。
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.
尽管我们才开学四周，但黑利伯瑞国际学校小学部已经取得了显著的进步。骨干教师已经开设了公开课，家长委员会会议已经召开，我们继续为学生们准备下周四将在我们学校举行的中央电视台“希望之星”英语演讲比赛。我们为学年余下的时间打下了具体的基础，所以让我们继续共同努力，确保每个孩子每天都在不断进步。
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
15/03/2019