In order to enrich the extracurricular cultural life of foreign employees in our school, the school offers Chinese courses for foreign employees of our school in their spare time to help them better adapt to life in China and have a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and history. Course Plan Hsk1-Hsk2 learn one topic in […]
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Recently, the results of the 2022 UK Chemistry Olympiad (UKChO) were announced. Sixty out of Sixty-three participants from SCIE performed well and achieved remarkable results. Among them, 39 students won the Gold Award, 15 students won the Silver Award and 6 students won the Bronze Award. Congratulations to all students! Award List UNChO Round 1
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As of April 6th, the offers of US universities and colleges obtained by SCIE graduates 2022 are as follows, 1 from Stanford University, 1 from University of Pennsylvania, 5 from Ivy League Universities, 71 from the Top 30 national universities, 134 from the Top 50 national universities, 9 from the Top 30 US Liberal Arts
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SCIE students participated in Canadian Computing Competition 2022; the event was online. And 10 students got the distinction certificates and ranked in the top twenty-five percent of the contestants. The Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) is a fun challenge for students with an interest in programming. Designed to be both accessible to students with some programming experience
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On March 31st, 2022, 2022 China International School Competetiveness Ranking is officially released by KingLead. Because there are differences in admission process between U.K. universities and U.S. universities, The China International School Competitiveness Ranking is divided into two directions, one is for enrollment to U.K. universities, another one is for enrollment to U.S. universities. ♦ Research Object Schools in China (except Hong Kong,
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The <Intermediate&Senior Physics Challenge Online> test results have been announced. A total of 11 students from your school participated in this competition, among which 5 students won Gold award, 4 students won Silver award. Congratulations to the winning candidates, and we sincerely hope that all the candidates will have a valuable harvest in this competition！
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01 Online Test Date Maths: March 19th (Saturday) English: March 20th (Sunday) Note: The specific test time will be announced on Friday (March 18th) on the home page of candidates. 02 Environment Requirements The candidate should attend the exams independently in a quiet and separate space with sufficient lighting. Public spaces like schools, libraries, cafes and
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Part 1: What is EEO? The European Economics Olympiad (EEO) is one of the largest economics competition in Europe for high school students. The competition was established in 2016 by the Institute of Economic Education (INEV) – a non-profit organization in Czech Republic. Throughout the years, it has become the biggest economics and finance competition
2021-2022 FBLA Business Competition Finals in China officially closed on February 27, 2022, SCIE students obtain numerous successful results. The team of Xitong Liu, You Peng, Le Ying won the 2nd place in china admitted to global finals, Congratulations to the all the participants ! No.1 About FBLA What is FBLA? FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) is the world’s largest
As someone interested in the economy and business before coming to SCIE, I have always heard of various famous business competitions, from the famous international business competition such as FBLA to SCIE’s own competition held by Business Practice Club Looking at the “cool” pictures: the contestants are all wearing suits, using computers to collect information,
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
