On the 18th of January, 2024. SCIE held the first academic communication activity with the students who graduated from SCIE as well in 2022. This activity is mainly focused on music composing majors. The topic is about sharing composed projects and introducing the diversity area in the music field. The sharer is Jason, who is […]
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On January 24, 2024, the University of Cambridge released its admission results. As of now, among the graduating class of 2024 at SCIE, 32 students have received preliminary acceptance offers from the University of Cambridge. Additionally, 16 students had previously received offers from the University of Oxford. Thus, the graduating class of 2024 at SCIE
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We are delighted to announce that SCIE won Staff Development and Wellbeing Award for the China Schools Awards 2024! These prestigious awards celebrate innovation, talent, and promise in international K-12 educational suppliers across China. The exciting crop of finalists represent schools and suppliers across China, in categories such as holistic education, pastoral care, employability, lifelong learning,
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Students of SCIE football team travelled to Chiang Mai, Thailand to participate in the 2023/24 FOBISIA Football Championship before the Christmas holidays. After a few days of fierce competition, SCIE girls’ team won the third place and the boys’ team ranked sixth. This article is the feedback from the students who participated in the tournament.
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The 18th Annual Global Forum on Human Settlements (GFHS 2023), as the associated conference of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) and the follow-up implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Summit, was successfully held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in December. The theme was “Green, Fair, and Intelligent Urban Transformation to
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On January 9, 2024, the University of Oxford announced its undergraduate admissions results. 16 SCIE students received conditional offers from the University of Oxford in the UK. SCIE still maintains the first position in Oxford admissions in China. The majors of SCIE students still remain diverse. The dominance of STEM fields continues, including Mathematics, Physics,
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When the bell rings, everything starts to have its own melody. The sound of bells slowly rings, and although there is no fluffy snow, it is still the most romantic and warm time of the year. Subconsciously, Christmas has always been associated with romance, and snowflakes as they danced with the magnificent symphony. However, the
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In December 2023, the Eleventh International Online JSFest 2023 Composition Competition concluded. SCIE school anthem “We Are All Together” (Symphonic Chorus Version), composed by SCIE alumni Benny Zhang (Class of 2018) and Arthur Zhao (Class of 2020), and arranged by Ms Chen Tingting, won the First Degree in the Composition Competition (Category arrangement – Professionals) . JSFest
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As of December 19, 2023, the Class of 2024 of SCIE has received some admission letters from US universities/colleges, which include Caltech, JHU, Cornell, Wellesley, Pomona, RISD, etc. Congratulations!
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At the Cambridge Outstanding Learner Awards Ceremony held on November 23, 32 students from SCIE won the awards. Among them, Gloria Wei gained the Top in the World for AS Geography and shared her learning experience and insights at the awards ceremony. This article is her speech. Before I offer just a few words, let
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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
