Last week, the prefects launched a series of activities on campus aiming to fight against bullying, titled “Anti-bullying Week”. On Tuesday, the whole school contributed towards a “Sorry” Poster. During Wednesday’s PSHE session, all students and their form teachers discussed various topics concerning Anti-bullying, and on Thursday, the Prefects put up a Charity Shop and […]
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As autumn arrived, the temperature in Shenzhen dropped to 20 degrees Celsius. On a cool Monday morning, all SCIE teachers and students attended the November Flag raising ceremony. First, the National Flag was raised under the National Anthem with the help of Prefects. Then the Head Girl Rindy and Head Boy Travis of the Prefect
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“So hard to meet, Drink graceful wine to welcome thee. Ten cups without drunkenness, Only your very gladness and sincereness. Peace!” It is quite difficult to relate two cities as distinct as Shenzhen and Dunhuang together originally, but this week, SCIE became a cultural link between the two cities, impressing our students with the stunning
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Lights, music, fabulous performances and enthusiastic audiences! The Annual Music Department Concert has returned once again with high anticipation on the evening of November 13th. The marble stage has transformed into a grand staged fit for the occasion and ten performances of different styles presented some of the most memorable songs from our beloved musicals.
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Previous Next It was the last class before the lunch break. Everyone was excited about their lunch, looking forward for the PSHE class. As the bell ringed, Elaine came to our classroom with a lot of whiteboards. We were curious about what is going on next, and as we were discussing about the confusion, Elaine
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The Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards Ceremony was held in SCIE on October 26th, 2019. This year, SCIE students achieved excellent results in CIE examinations as always. In total, 40 students won the Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards: 20 of them got Top in the World awards, 19 of them got Top in China, and 1 student
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There are always some exciting dates to be remembered in SCIE. There’s the new year concert, which represents the highest level of our artistic performance; there’s the sports day, which shows our spirit of fighting until our last breath. The halloween party follows them. Everyone has the chance to express their most splendid personalities in
“Once upon a time…” When darkness makes up fairy tales… OPEN YOUR EYES, MIDNIGHT COMES… On 5th of November, the SCIE annual fashion show was held successfully. After the wonderful Halloween night, the SCIE campus was full of fashion again. As night falls, the playground gradually began to get lively. The hazy night added a
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Watched anxiously by about 20 students and their teacher, the delicate parachutes fluttered in the wind, before falling gently to the ground of SCIE. Again and again we held our breaths; with every tension follows a burst of cheers and laughter. This is a G1 physics class of compulsory class 1, a communication of innovation
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Previous Next The campus boiled up with excitement as the annual Food Fair began in the afternoon of Oct. 29. The autumn air is crispy and cool, but the atmosphere in SCIE sizzled with heat — not only the heat emitting out from pots and pans, but also the passion radiating from everybody’s heart. Dishes
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My essay is on the recent development of China’s mental health care system and how it can help address this question. Though, I actually parried the question raised by the prompt, and I did not in the end emphasise too much that more care should be devoted to the socially vulnerable. Rather, I intended to underscore the complexity and ambiguity in any employment of these two notions — “socially vulnerable” and “responsibility” — in the concrete working of society. Through my study I discovered that the train of legislative efforts made in the 1980s to 2000s to legally recognise, to enhance public knowledge of, and to erect new asylums for, “the mentally ill,” in fact coincided spatiotemporally with government efforts in putting new agendas of foreign policies and city development to work. Thus, the recent development of China’s mental health care, from scratch to full maturity, is not solely the consequence of “humanitarian effort,” but also of some other ulterior motives. In my conclusion, I hinted that any answer to this question would entail empirical investigation into the concrete working of social institutions, and depending on the nature of this “socially vulnerable” group, claims of “responsibility” may be leveraged as veils for other purposes.
Before starting my research I did not by then have a well-formed hypothesis, but I did have Michel Foucault’s intriguing study on madness in mind. Due to the rather peculiar nature of the object of my study, I was not able to apply the sociological theories (Marxism, Functionalism, e.g.) I learnt in class to my own research. I must thank my sociology teacher for his encouragement and provision of many textbook resources and classical studies done in the field of mental health care. In addition to that, he prepared a statement of the school for my application to conduct short interviews at a local mental health hospital — this application, however, though quite expectedly, sank into oblivion — without his help this project would be very difficult.
I made a documentary “The Definition” about the situation of elderly in Shenzhen to enter this competition. As I have some previous knowledge in filmmaking, learning from TBU studio, I though it would be meaningful if I combined my filmmaking skills with sociology knowledge. In the meanwhile, after learning the very first chapter of sociology, The Family, I found out that the situation of elderly in the UK is different from that of elderly in Shenzhen. For instance, elderly have the responsibility taking care of their grandchildren and dance in the park for entertainment is distinctive in China. Therefore, I decided to make a documentary to record the interesting culture.
I learnt a lot during the preparation for the competition. I learned a lot about how to carry out an individual primary research when I was filming “The Definition”, which helps a lot in my current sociology study. Also, I understood sociology theories better. For instance, postmodernism used to be only a vague theoretical perspective for me, yet it amazed me knowing that elderly people participate actively in public activities can be considered as view of postmodernism.
Most importantly, I realized filmmaking can make some impacts on people, portraying problems of society. Experience of BSA opened my eyes and led me rethink about my future major in college. I want use my skills and knowledge to help more people, so I will probably try a major with humanity and filmmaking combined instead of pursuing the dream of being an artist alone.
Learning sociology gives me a new perspective in seeing how the world works, and it also lets me care more about the vulnerability in the society. Thank you to my sociology teacher, Richard Driscoll, who gave me lots of inspiration such as filming the dancing in the park, which is interesting to British people, and recommenced lots of sociological books about the elderly.
By listening to his advice, “The Definition” eventually divides into two parts: one is about the elderly in nursing home and the other is about people dancing in the park. Also, there is many interviews in the documentary to give a more well-rounded perspective.
I would like to thank my Math teacher Michael Jin and my friend Franchaska, who helped me with the voice over. Also, thanks to my family members, especially my dear grandmother, who gave me lots of insights related to the issue of elderly.
I made this documentary just before the deadline, thus it’s not so perfect. I’ll probably elaborate some shots and reedit it in the future.
If you are interested, you can click the link below and watch it.
Teng Xun Video：https://v.qq.com/x/page/u0862usad2v.html
Bilibili：https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38188271?from=search&seid=10452775157822232568
