On Thursday, September 29th, the A2 drama students gave an “initial performance” of the devised pieces that will constitute part of their final A-level drama exam. The pieces were based on Henrik Ibsen’s famous play “A Doll’s House”, which shocked the audience when it premiered in 1879. The students devised the pieces in the style […]
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Stanford e-China endowed me with a lifelong thinking-into-action mindset—Design Thinking. Over the ten weeks,” Stanford e-China (SeC) exposed us to cutting-edge technologies touching the many corners of the global society: health tech, green tech, finance tech, artificial intelligence and on and on. Sitting in front of our small display screens, we travelled miles and miles
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http://www.scie.com.cn/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1664260332515966.mp4 During this period of online learning, the Characters Inc ECA has been meeting regularly. The aim has been to read through and cast this semester’s production of Arabian Nights. “There was no time to lose”, said SCIE’s Head of Drama, Nicola Howard. The play is seriously challenging, and we couldn’t afford to sit on
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University of Arts London is a collection of 6 prestigious and historic Art colleges in London . (Chelsea School of Art, Central St. Martin, Camberwell School of Art , London College of Fashion, Wimbledon School of Art and London College of Communication.) UAL are top 2 in the world for Art and Design (QS World
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Foreword Upon my first encounter with SCIE, the names of the two main buildings caught my sight in the blazing heat of mid-summer. Boreas and Auster, facing respectively the North and South directions. Between the abustle footsteps of students rushing to their classrooms and the turmoil of exam weeks, very few do notice their names
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Educational Information Institute of Hong Kong Professional Education Press announced HKPEP Top 100 Global International Schools in Education Competitiveness 2023. SCIE ranked 1st in Mainland China, 21st in the world. Based on the international common education indicators in UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, the evaluation panel adopted “Education Input – Process – Effectiveness” as the assessment structure. In the assessment, Educational Information Institute of HKPEP collected the data of a total
Money is not only a commodity for exchange but also a crystallization of human wisdom. You probably do not know that SCIE has a money museum, which has collections over 100 countries. SCIE money museum might be the first one in a high school. The Money Museum is located in the school library, it is
The graduation ceremony that I had been looking forward to a year ago still seemed to be arriving too fast when it actually approached. Last year I attended the seniors’ graduation ceremony as a volunteer, but this year it’s our own turn. It was rather sorrowful to think that I might have actually seen some
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Dear teachers, dear students, I am deeply honored to be here with you today to celebrate this wonderful day. Students of SCIE Class of 2022, let me congratulate all of you on your extraordinary achievement in this challenging and unprecedented situation, and on your graduation! The SCIE Class of 2022 are fortunate to have spent two years of their high school life
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Recently, two annual global competitions organized by the University of Waterloo: Chem13 and Avogadro exam came to a successful conclusion, and SCIE students once again achieved excellent results. Congratulations to all award-winning students! Although this competition happened to conflict with some of the CAIE international examinations, there were still 30 students who insisted on participating.
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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
