Welcome to SCIE
In 2020, SCIE moved into a brand-new purpose-built Antuo Hill Campus for a larger capacity and a better environment. Compared to the previous ShuiWei Campus, the new Campus is two times larger.
The new Campus equips with cutting-edge teaching technologies, extensive supporting infrastructure, a wide range of sporting facilities, comfortable accommodations, and lush plantings covering the Campus.
Observe from a distance or above that the new Campus of SCIE sits on a large platform that solidly holds academic dissemination for teachers & students and the value and dignities of education.
On January 31st, 2018, the new Campus’s construction officially began. After two years of complex work and dedication, experiencing difficulties, including violet tropical typhoons and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the structure of the Campus was ready on the 27th of 2020. A few days later, students and staff moved into the brand-new Campus without delay, marking a great beginning of a new journey.
SCIE’s Campus can be separated into four different sections: Aster building, Boreas Building, Selene Apartment, and Gallant Dormitory, along with facilities like Halo Theater and Gallant Gymnasium. On the exterior, a moat lies around the Campus creating a water-surrounding environment, which in Chinese stands for the name of the previous ShuiWei Campus. Joining it is a stream that flows inside the Campus, being the home of two lovely mascot turtles.
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Aster building and Boreas building (known as A block and B block) are where students have their lessons and study. These two buildings consist of 85 classrooms and offices, dozens of tutorial rooms, 32 science laborites, 10 musical practice rooms, and 4 musical Classrooms. Besides, art studios, drama studios, dancing studios, and design studios are located in these two buildings. A two-floor library connects two academic buildings on the fifth and sixth floors.
The Halo Theater locates on the ground floor, right between Aster building and Boreas Building. The Theater has 750-seats-capacity and is installed with high-standard lighting and audio equipment. From the control room, technicians can view the entire stage, allowing them to adjust combinations of lights precisely and accurately. The Halo Theater plays an essential role in holding special events, including assemblies, concerts, performances, and even graduation ceremonies. Recently, the Theater had a significant update to have the capability of online streaming via social media.
You may find various sports facilities around the Campus. The multi-purpose Gallant Gymnasium is one of the most invested facilities on the Campus. The entire Sports Hall can transform between different layouts within minutes, providing more diverse sports events for students. The Astro Pitch for football is right above, while students also can go to gyms for the finest exercises. The final piece of the puzzle is two sets of running paths. The short straight track for sprinting is on the roof of the Boreas Building. Meanwhile, a half-kilometer-long circuit called “Skywalk” loops around the Campus, an excellent place for long-distance running.
Selene Apartment and Gallant Dormitory provide accommodation for staff and students. Currently, both building still has excess capacities for future usage. In the past, supplying meals for SCIE was always a challenging task to be done. Thus, the school decided to bring an Alumni-operating cafeteria to better understand demand as an advantage for past students. Hill Cafeteria and Ann Café provide an incredible variety of flavors.
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
