On the morning of the 29th, the G1 students took the bus to Huizhou Avernus Ecological Park for a camping trip. It was already noon when buses arrived at the camping site. After a brief refreshment, the staff organised a lunch for the students after a short opening ceremony. At lunchtime, students were worried about […]
On the SCIE Language Day of 2021, teachers and students conducted a variety of activities led by the Language Faculty: more than a dozen students and teachers from different language backgrounds shared and recorded their own language learning experiences and stories. The team edited a short film and shared the colourful language learning environment of
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On Friday, September 10, all G-level art students were given a unique opportunity to visit the ongoing 2021 Art Shenzhen Gallery and enrich themselves with this valuable learning experience. With excitement and spirit of inquiry, students embarked on a journey of artistic discovery. The art exhibition has brought together 72 top galleries and professional art
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Preaching，Teaching，Disabusing Past，Present，Future —— My feeling about Teachers’ Day It’s already the end of summer, but the weather is still hot and muggy. Every time I go out, the sun shines fiercely and my perspiration comes down like raindrops. Nevertheless, the unceasing autumn rain, the rustling maple leaves, all reveal the arrival of autumn. Autumn is
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When I walked into our new campus, that wall immediately attracted me. A huge wall, about ten meters high, stands beside the teaching building. Colorful “stones” inlaid among them, scattered all over the place. This is a formal rock-climbing wall with easy, hard and competitive trails. The top of the wall is installed with three
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Previous Next Student A: “Teacher, can I buy a bottle of water please?” Teacher:”Nonpass.” Student B: “Teacher, my phone was dropped to the sewer.” Teacher: “…….” Student C: “Teacher, when can we reach the point? I am dying.” Teacer: “Don’t give up. Fish balls, ice cream and drumsticks are nearly there.” Please guess what activity
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Whether your child is heading to new school for the first time or is a seasoned student, they sometimes have a tough time making the back-to-school transition. As with any new or unsettling situation — like starting school for the first time or entering a new grade or new school — give teens time to
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What a topsy turvy year! With so many challenges and moving to a new campus in the middle of the Oxbridge application cycle, our student accomplishments are all the more remarkable. SCIE means striving to be the best with ‘Students in a Challenging InternationalEnvironment’. This year our student body really has shown resilience, sense of
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As the semester is approaching an end, all G1 physics students were given a particular task that would draw a meaningful end to the school year – the Mousetrap Car Project. As an iconic STEM contest integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the project is very popular worldwide. With only a simple mousetrap as the
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SCIE has been fortunate to be able to host internal CPD face to face. There have been a range of exciting activities to support the training of all SCIE staff. There has been training taking place for both current middle leaders and aspiring middle leaders. Interactive sessions have included looking at high performing teams, learning
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
