Wu Yunxi(Victoria) 2022 graduate of SCIE, studying at Hongkong University The four-year high school life was so wonderful and short. Four years ago, SCIE was just a small school in Shuiwei village. Although the environment was far worse than the current campus, it made students feel very comfortable and warm. After I entered the school, […]
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Harper 2022 graduate of SCIE, studying at University College London “Causes formed in the past will be manifested as effects in the present.” I was taught by this saying at a well-being session before the finals at Grade 10. However, it was not until three years later, when my application season came to an end,
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G1 Physics Enrichment is a fun and engaging course that involves making projectors from scratch. Everyone participates in crafting projectors from raw materials including cardboard, lenses, paper, straws, etc. The goal of this course is to enrich students with knowledge in physics, and to build student’s leadership and communication skills. Our teacher provided us with
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The results of the 2023 UK Chemistry Olympiad (UKChO) have been announced and our school has performed exceptionally well. Out of the 87 students who earned awards, 39 students were awarded the Gold Medal, 35 students were awarded the Silver Medal, and 13 students were awarded the Bronze Medal. We are pleased to see such success, and we
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To celebrate World Book Day in April, SCIE Library hosted the SCIE World Book Day event on April 20, 2023. Although the morning weather was slightly gloomy, it didn’t stop me from participating in an event I’d been eagerly awaiting. My English teacher, dressing as Forrest Gump, also constantly reminds me of today’s activities with
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On April 17, 2023, the Cambridge Assessment International Education hosted the Cambridge Outstanding Learner Awards Ceremony in Shenzhen to recognize the exceptional performance of students in the 2022 international exams. A total of 51 individuals from Shenzhen College of International Education were presented with the Cambridge Outstanding Learner Award, and students from SCIE were recognized
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On April 8th, 2023, parents of SCIE graduates hosted parents of current students for a major, information-sharing event in Guangzhou, also known as Yangcheng or “The City of Rams.” Over the past few years, this annual meeting has become a tradition for the parents of former students to answer questions and solve problems for the
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Patricia Class of 2022, studying at University of California, Davis I had been a slow adapter since I was a child, and after I came to SCIE with great joy, I can’t help but doubt myself for a long time. I felt that I could not do anything here, and I was not good at
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“Just finished drama rehearsal…” It was not until half past ten at night that my roommate pushed open the door. Clusters of cool wind seeped from the balcony, smoothing the milky mist that had been rarely seen over the weeks. Upbeat trembles before the inspiring gala were hidden in the mild darkness. “Is it for
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March 30th, the drama and music departments joined to present the Arts Extravaganza in the Halo Theatre. It was an evening of drama, music, song and dance, and a programme to support the school’s charity week. The student performers were drawn from G1, A1 and the Arts Academy programme. Many were drama students, but some
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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
