【家長信】黑利伯瑞國際學校致小學生家長的一封信

 　　Dear primary school parents and families.

　　親愛的小學部家長們，

　　It has been another busy and action-packed two weeks at the primary school in Tianjin. Our primary school mid-semester exams were held on the mornings of the 25th and 26th of October. All students from years 1-6 completed exams in English, Chinese and Mathematics. These exams were between 60 -90 minutes in length depending on the age of the students and the subject matter being examined. Leading up to the examinations, teachers had been working industriously to prepare students for their exams and students completed revision tasks and worksheets across the core subjects of English, Chinese and Mathematics. We are currently in the middle of our first semester in Tianjin and despite the cold temperature outside, the staff and students all felt the heat from the added pressure of these examinations. Students were relieved after the exams and many of our students performed exceptionally well. Exams not only examine subject content but also examination technique such as time management, so it is important for students to master this from an early age. You will receive your child’s academic reports and grades soon so keep your eyes open for them.

　　在最近的兩周中，所有老師們都在為學生的考試忙碌著。我們的小學中期學期考試是在十月二十五日，二十六日上午舉行的。所有1-6年級的學生都完成了英語、語文和數學考試。根據學生年齡和學科，考試的時長在60到90分鐘之間。在考試前，老師們為學生的考試做了充足的準備，學生們完成語文，數學，英語核心學科的復習任務。我們目前正處于學期的中期(我們的學年從9月開始)，盡管外面的溫度很低，但是我們的老師和學生們在教學和學習的活動中都展示出了極大的熱情。學生們在考試后都松了一口氣。許多學生表現得特別好。考試不僅考查學科內容也考察學生們對時間的管理能力，讓學生從小掌握這種能力很重要。您很快就會收到孩子的學術報告和成績，請您持續關注。

　　All students from years 1-6 participated in English, Maths and Chinese exams

　　The year 6’s and the year 5’s all had their exams together in the first-floor library

　　Our year 1 students underwent their first exam under the supervision of Becky Li

　　Our year 4 students worked hard prior to the exams

　　Mr. Rosenfield supervised the year 3 English exam

　　A parent-teacher meeting was held on the 2nd of November. Like how parent-teacher meetings are conducted in Australia, parents were invited to speak to their homeroom teachers as well as their core subject teachers concerning the progress of their children. With the mid-semester exams and half of the semester completed, teachers were able to holistically convey to parents concerning the progress of their children. Teachers took the opportunity to show parents student work from tests, exams, exercise books and workbooks. They also detailed to parents on how they can assist their children with their studies. Judging by the cordial and frank conversations which were had on the day, it is safe to say that many parents were very pleased with the progress of their children and by the education provided by the school. We will continue to listen to the suggestions and advice given by our parents and we look forward to collaborating and cooperating with you to ensure that your child continues to improve every day.

　　家長會在十一月二日舉行。類似于在澳大利亞的家長-教師會議的方式，家長們被邀請來學校，和班主任，主科老師談談他們孩子的進步。隨著期中考試的結束和整個學期的過半，老師借此機會從考試、測驗，練習本和練習冊中向家長展示學生的學習。他們會詳細的闡述他們如何幫助孩子的學習。從當天親切坦率的談話來看，可以肯定地說，許多家長對他們的孩子的進步和學校提供的教育感到非常高興。我們將繼續聽取父母的建議，我們期待著與您繼續合作，讓您的孩子繼續每都有進步。

　　Lower primary school English teacher Mr. Williamson enjoyed speaking at the parent-teacher meeting

　　Upper primary school English teacher Ms. Sanchez talked to parents about their child’s progress at the parent-teacher meeting

　　Upper primary school English teacher Mr. Swerdfeger clearly detailed to parents their child’s situation at the parent-teacher meeting

　　Lower primary school English teacher Mr. Rosenfield talked to parents concerning their child’s progress at the parent-teacher meeting

　　Lower primary school English teacher Mr. Webb elaborated to parents about their child’s progress at the parent-teacher meeting

　　Upper primary school English teacher Mr. Fang enjoyed talking to parents concerning their child’s progress at the parent-teacher meeting

　　On the morning of Friday the 26th of October, all of our primary school students participated in a physical examination which was held in the school gymnasium. ‘A healthy body is the capital for revolution’ is a well-known idiom. It speaks of the necessity of a healthy body as a prerequisite for accomplishing any meaningful work. Our students participated in various physical tests and measurements such as eyesight, height, weight, and lung capacity. Judging from the tests, it may be that some of our students may need to start wearing glasses as they had trouble reading the eye chart. At Haileybury, we believe maintaining a healthy body is critically important if students are going to excel in their academic studies. Results from the physical examinations will be available soon so please contact your homeroom teacher for more information.

　　10月26日星期五上午，我們所有的小學生都參加了在學校體育館舉行的體檢。俗話說，“身體是革命的本錢”，健康的身體是完成任何有意義工作的先決條件。我們的學生參加了多種的身體檢查，如視力、身高、體重和肺活量。從測試結果來看，我們的一些學生可能需要開始戴眼鏡，因為他們在閱讀時有些困難。在黑利伯瑞，我們認為，如果學生想在學業上取得優異的成績，保持健康的身體是極其重要的。體檢結果將很快公布，所以如果您有需要，請聯系孩子的班主任。

　　All our students took eye-sight tests

　　Coco Yang from year 2 had her height measured

　　Rain Biao from year 5 had his chest measurement taken

　　Lung capacity was also tested during the physical examinations

　　Angel Du from year 2 had her weight taken

　　Emma Ye from year 3 had her sitting height measured

　　This year we have three new international teachers who have joined our primary school English teaching team. Mr. Rosenfield is one of our new English teachers at Haileybury. He teaches English to Years 2 and 3 and physical education to students in upper primary. Mr. Rosenfield was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois in the U.S.A. But as a child, he lived for a year in both Israel and Scotland which resulted in an interest about foreign countries and cultures. Throughout his childhood, Mr. Rosenfield attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, founded by the progressive American educator John Dewey. Critical thinking and creativity were stressed over rote learning. This has instilled Mr. Rosenfield with a lifelong love of learning and a desire to instil these values in his own students. Mr. Rosenfield went on to attend Pomona College in Claremont, California, one of the most selective liberal arts colleges in America. Mr. Rosenfield graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Developmental Psychology and a minor in history. Among other professional experiences, Mr. Rosenfield taught English for more than 8 years at schools in South Korea. These experiences have imparted Mr. Rosenfield with a good understanding of the difficulties ESL learners face. Mr. Rosenfield tries to teach quite complex material in as clear, simple and natural terms as possible. He also believes in the importance of a sense of humour to overcome language barriers and to instil fun and creativity in learning. Mr. Rosenfield is happy to be at Haileybury and looks forward to a fun and successful year of teaching and learning with his students.

　　今年我們有三名新的國際教師加入了我們的小學英語教學團隊。Rosenfield先生是我們黑利伯瑞新來的英語老師之一。他教英語2年級和3年級，還有一部分體育課。Rosenfield先生在美國的芝加哥、伊利諾斯州出生長大。但當他還是個孩子的時候，在以色列和蘇格蘭都生活了一年，也培養了在其他國家生活和學習其他文化的興趣。Rosenfield先生在孩童時代就讀于芝加哥大學實驗室學校，該校是由美國進步教育家約翰·杜威創辦的。批判性思維和創造性使Rosenfield先生終生熱愛學習，并渴望將這種特性傳授給學生們。之后Rosenfield就讀于加利福尼亞克萊蒙特的波莫納學院，這是美國選擇性的文科學院之一。Rosenfield先生畢業于伊利諾伊大學厄本納-香檳分校，獲得學士學位，主修發展心理學，輔修歷史。在其他職業經歷中，Rosenfield先生在韓國的學校教了8年多英語。這些經歷使Rosenfield先生對ESL教學有了很好的理解。Rosenfield先生試圖以清晰、簡單、自然的形式教授復雜的材料。他還認為，幽默感對于克服學生語言障礙、灌輸學習樂趣和語言創造力具有重要意義。Rosenfield先生表示他很高興來到黑利伯瑞，并期待和他的學生一起度過一個充滿樂趣和成功的學年。

　　We welcomed Mr. Saul Rosenfield to the primary school this year

　　Mr. Rosenfield is currently teaching year 2 and 3 English as well as upper primary physical education

　　All our new local and international primary school teachers have completed their demonstration lessons. Demonstration lessons are excellent opportunities for teachers to showcase their talents to others as well as for teachers to learn from each other. In this bulletin, we will focus on reporting the demonstration lessons of our international teachers. Mr. Saul Rosenfield gave an enjoyable demonstration lesson on the 22nd of October with his 3 green English class which focused on vocabulary and creating sentences. Mr. Rosenfield’s overarching goal was to get students to construct their own sentences rather than for students to complete the mundane task of filling in the blanks. The students showed that they were up to the challenge as they created many of their own imaginative sentences. On the 23rd of October, Ms. Paula Sanchez gave a demonstration lesson with her year 6 students. Her aim was to review present and past obligations (have to/had to) and to practice writing past obligations. After the students were modelled correct sentences, they had the opportunity to construct their own sentences. Ms. Sanchez followed the Haileybury teaching methodology of ‘I do, we do, you do’ which allowed her students to actively engage and construct their own learning. Her students were well-behaved and they enjoyed the lesson. Lastly, Mr. Jason Swerdfeger gave a demonstration class with his year 6 class on the 24th of October. Similarly, his lesson intention was to help students revise grammar and sentence building for their mid semester exam. He constructed a method for labelling the different parts of speech in a sentence and the students spent the period deconstructing sentences as well as unscrambling different parts of speech to create sentences. Mr. Swerdfeger has developed a good rapport with his students and they enjoy his positive energy he brings to his classes. Overall, it was great to see our new international and local teachers showcase their talents and I am sure much was learnt from observing them.

　　新加入小學部的教師們已經完成了示范課。示范課是教師展示教學技能的機會，也是教師相互學習的機會。在本次的公報中，我們將專注國際教師的示范課。10月22日，Rosenfield先生在3Green班上了一節公開課，整堂課的重點是學習詞匯和造句。Rosenfield先生的首要目標是讓學生自己構建句子，而不是讓學生完成填空的日常任務。這對學生們來講是項挑戰，但他們也造了很多自己的句子。十月二十三日，Paula Sanchez老師給六年級的學生上了一節示范課。她的目標是幫學生復習現在式和過去式。在學生模仿寫出正確的句子后，他們便可以獨立地造句子。Sanchez遵循了黑利伯瑞教師的“我做，我們做，你做”的教學方法，這讓她的學生能夠積極參與到學習活動中去。學生們在課上表現出色，并很享受這一刻。最后，Jason Swerdfeger先生在十月二十四日的6年級班上了一節示范課。同樣，為了更好的應對期中考試，這節課的目的也是幫助學生復習語法和造句。他將示例句子中的詞匯標注出詞性，幫助學生了解句子結構，并可以用不同類型的詞來造句。Swerdfeger先生和他的學生們建立了良好的師生關系，學生們很喜歡他上課時帶來的正能量�？偟膩碚f，看到新的國際和中方教師的教學技能，我感到很高興，我相信通過這些示范課，老師們也互相學習了很多。

　　Miss Sanchez gets up close with year 6 student Mark Yan

　　Ms. Sanchez followed the Haileybury teaching methodology of ‘I do, we do, you do’ which allowed her students to actively engage and construct their own learning

　　Mr. Rosenfield uses kinaesthetic ways to help his students cement their understanding

　　The students constructed their own imaginative sentences during Mr. Rosenfield’s demonstration lesson

　　Mr. Swerdfeger gave a demonstration lesson on parts of speech

　　Mr. Swerdfeger brings much positive energy and enthusiasm to his lessons

　　On the afternoon of Friday the 26th of October, a music fair was held in the primary school. The event was organised by Melody Guo who is our department’s music teacher and international English teacher Mr. Joshua Webb who shares a passion for music and the Arts. Originally, the event was planned to be held outside in the garden area behind our department but due to the cold weather outside, it was brought inside. There was a huge variety of musical performance presented and these were categorised into the five groups of piano, instrumental, dance, singing and band. The event was organised in a street or busking arrangement whereby the audience which included teachers, non-performing students and primary school leaders were given gold and silver tokens which they placed into the performers’ money boxes. The performers then collected the gold and silver tokens which they later exchanged for prizes. The first act of the afternoon was Mr. Webb’s Lion dance which brought much fun, excitement and a bit of terror to our students. The primary school was then amazed by the spectacular musical talents from an innumerable number of students. For example, the rock performance of Tom Sun on drums (year 6) and Harry Wang on electric guitar (year 6) nearly brought the house down. You would have been forgiven for mistaking Bobby Li for rapper Jay Z due to Bobby’s rap performance and his exceedingly cool costume. Amy Wang and Jessie Yan (year 5) performed a captivating piano duet. Elsa Huang and Judy Zhu (year 2) were dressed in traditional Chinese costume and performed a lovely song and dance routine and Kevin Hou from year 6 wowed the audience with his amazing street dancing abilities. Overall, it was an awesome, action packed, high adrenaline and talented display of musical talent and ability by our students. Many thanks to Melody, Joshua and Mr. Xu for their hard work and organisation of the event.

　　十月二十六日星期五下午，小學部舉行了一次音樂市集活動。這次活動是由小學部的音樂老師郭光宇老師和Webb老師一起組織， Webb老師熱愛音樂和藝術。最初，這一活動計劃在小學部后面的花園區舉行，不過由于天氣寒冷，活動改到室內舉行。演出的音樂種類繁多，分為鋼琴、器樂、舞蹈、歌唱和樂隊五部分。活動以街頭或街頭表演的形式舉行，觀眾包括教師、學生及小學部領導等，他們均可領取金銀代幣并將其送給演出者。下午的幕是Webb老師的獅子表演，它給我們的學生帶來了很多樂趣。學生們的音樂天賦也令觀眾們印象深刻。六年級的孫政陽的架子鼓和六年級的王皓然電吉他的搖滾表演幾乎讓全場沸騰。而李澤嘉的說唱表演和他非�？岬姆�裝會讓觀眾們把他比作說唱歌手Jay Z。五年級王沈樂和閆浩嘉表演了一段精彩的鋼琴二重奏。二年級的黃怡寧和朱怡菱穿著中國傳統服裝，演繹了一段可愛的歌舞表演。六年級的侯光政用他驚人的街舞能力征服了觀眾�？傮w來說，這是一次充滿熱情活力，才華橫溢的音樂活動。感謝郭光宇老師、Webb老師和徐主任的辛勤付出和組織。

　　The music concert was organised by Melody Guo and a lion (Mr. Joshua Webb)

　　Mr. Joshua Webb kicked off the event with a ‘Lion dance’

　　Did someone say Linkin Park? (Harry Wang and Tom Sun from year 6)

　　Is it Jay Z or is it Bobby Li from year 5

　　Amy Wang and Jessie Yan (year 5) performed a captivating piano duet

　　Elsa Huang and Judy Zhu from year 2 sang beautifully

　　Let’s dance (Kevin Hou from year 6)

　　Our year 3 students were brilliant

　　Lainey Deng from year 3 is rich

　　Patrick Tu shows everyone his earnings from his piano recital

　　Classical GuZheng music was also featured in the music concert (Angel Tu – year 5)

　　Year 1 student Sophia Yang sang a beautiful song at the music festival

　　Year 1 students Aimee Yang, Zoe Wang and Mia Wang show their earnings from their performance

　　Coco Yang and Judy Zhang from year 2 wowed our young audience

　　Lastly, we are also excited to announce that 4 students from Monash University will be coming to our primary school in a couple of weeks to complete their teaching practicums. Monash is one of the top eight universities in Australia and the collaboration between Haileybury and Monash is reflective of the high level of interest Haileybury has evoked in Australia as well as the elite partnerships Haileybury Tianjin has been able to forge in just five years’ time (Haileybury Tianjin began in 2013). We wish the student teachers every success as they embark on the exciting yet challenging task of imparting English language proficiency to Chinese students in China.

　　最后，我們也很高興地宣布，來自莫納什大學的4名實習生將在未來幾周內來到我們學校的小學部完成他們的實習活動。莫納什大學是澳大利亞排名前八的大學之一。天津黑利伯瑞國際學校(天津黑利伯瑞國際學校始于2013年)在5年的時間里就已建立起與其他學校的精英伙伴關系。我相信，這也反映了澳大利亞對我校的高度關注。我們也祝愿實習生一切順利，因為他們將開始一項令人興奮但又具有挑戰性的任務，即如何教授中國學生的英語。

　　Monash university is one of Australia’s best universities and 4 student teachers will be completing their teaching practicums at our school

　　Monash university students have been completing their practicums at Haileybury Tianjin for many years

　　Out of all of the universities in the whole world, Times Higher Education ranks Monash university at number 84

　　Five Monash education university students completed their teaching practicums in the primary school last year

　　Lift up year hearts and your cash 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 Tianjin International School

　　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

　　02/11/2018