Walking through the SCIE campus early on a January morning, those with particularly good vision would have spotted, dotted amongst the greenery, not just our usual campus flora, but the heads of our G1 Art students deep in concentration. For the Art department Wednesday was no ordinary morning, and so instead of their usual classroom […]
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https://youtu.be/Ygtobx3e404 At 18:30 in the evening of January 11, the big show with the theme of “The Lost Part” officially kicked off at the outdoor basketball court. Lights concentrated on the stage, the background of the big show illuminated. Purple pieces of missing jigsaw puzzle and simple lines of the background stage reflected the creativity
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We are proud to announce that 9 students from SCIE has obtained Oxford conditional offers. A super achievement! Many congratulations to them!
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With the beginning of the new year, the school has started a new semester, and for G2 students, an important step is on the agenda: A-level options choice. In order to answer students’ and parents’ questions and help G2 students make the most suitable choices for themselves, the school held the A-level Options Day for
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On January 1st, 2022, 2022 China International School Brand Value Top 100 is officially released by KingLead. This is the 4th year that KingLead has released China International Schools Ranking Series. The ranking aims to find schools with profound brand accumulation or outstanding achievements and characteristics in brand construction, provide reference suggestions for the majority of families to choose schools, and help the construction and development
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In October, we had the honor to invite Mr. Shen, a jazz piano master majoring in pop music at Xinghai Conservatory of Music, offer series of lectures on jazz and blues music to our music classes. Mr. Shen, a former Modern piano tutor at the School of Music of Shenzhen University, now works at the
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Is it possible for high school students to become politicians and economists, analysing various economic issues and providing constructive advice to governments? The answer is positive! In October, economics students of SCIE participated in an interesting academic competition that has provoked much thought. What are the connections between deforestation in Brazil, environmental pollution in the
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– “I was looking at those old photos, And suddenly realized: We are all grown-ups now.” – “We grow together.” – “I was innocent and certain. Now I am wiser but unsure.” From poster memo made by Class of 2017 Previous Next Sunshine shadows boulevards, willow greets chirping birds. Theme as “Shuiwe ∞ Antuo Shan”, the Alumni
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Recently, XINHUANET and INSIGHT jointly held the 12th XINHUANET Education Forum·International Education Sub-forum, and released “the 2021 China Top 100 International Schools Report”. The targets of this assessment are schools that can provide international education models for their students. Including private international schools which set international courses in mainland for students to study in overseas
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Greatbay_SZ High School Top10 We are GreatBay_SZ, a group of secondary school students. We come from a range of high schools, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Guangdong and Hong Kong. As teenagers with diverse personalities and hobbies, science, especially synthetic biology is a common interest shared among us. We believe in a bright future and hope to explore and
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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
