亲爱的曼校社区家人们:

首先，感谢曼校社区的各位家长给予学校各项工作的理解和支持！

开学至今，每当困难来袭，我们曼校的全体教职工们和学生们都展现出了团结一心，互助互勉，共克难关的精神。这些精神一次又一次地深深感动着我，同时也持续鼓励着我和曼校管理团队尽我们最大努力确保学校正常教学秩序，最大程度地降低疫情对我们孩子们的学习生活的影响。尤其在本周，学校开展了线上线下相结合的混合式教学模式，曼校的中学生们都能够持续保持良好的学习状态，留校的小学生们也都在宿管老师们的精心呵护下度过了非常愉快的一周。

本学年家委代表的第一轮选拔已经结束，下周新当选的家委会成员将会闪亮登场。希望本届家委会及新当选的家委会代表们能给我们带来新气象，为家校共建注入更多的活力。一直以来，曼校管理团队都非常愿意倾听来自家长和学生们的声音，希望能够与大家一起携手，建立互助友爱的曼校终身学习社区。

希望大家通过曼校周刊一起感受精彩的曼校学习生活。

祝大家周末愉快！

小学荣誉集会

很遗憾，本周我们无法举行每周一次的小学荣誉集会。但是，我们仍然想庆祝和表彰在网课期间践行曼校价值观的学生们。

十一月的曼校价值观是“坚韧”，而每周的曼校美德是“耐心”。

一个有韧性的学习者总是尽最大的努力，即使面对挑战，他们也不会放弃。当我们在日常的生活中践行耐心这一良好的品德时，我们更容易继续努力，坚持不懈。你能想出其它方式来表现韧性吗？

恭喜下列同学荣获本周曼校价值观“韧性”和曼校美德“耐心”奖状：

学前班 - Alex and Noah

1年级 - Anna

2年级 - Clementine

3年级 - Hanyang

4年级 - Ruby

5年级 - Louis

6年级 - Eva

Pringle寄宿楼 - Cici L

在此我还想借此机会表彰一下小学部教职工在本周展现出的韧性和耐心。在疫情封控期间，教师们为学生开展了高质量的在线课程，表现出了极强的适应力和奉献精神。同样地，Pringle的驻校员工和小学助教们在照顾好住校的小学生们和支持他们的在线学习中都彰显了这种精神。非常感谢我们的小学部团队！

敬请欣赏本周在线学习的精彩瞬间！

致以诚挚的问候

Ms. Neil小学校长

CCA（增益课程）—小学记者

我想与所有家长和学生分享《小学记者报》的首次增刊。在小学记者CCA课上，3、4年级的小学生们写下了他们的问题，向新员工和新学生了解他们在曼校的经历。小学记者们随后采访了自己选定的员工或学生，并用麦克风和iPad记录下他们的回答。然后学生们将他们的采访写成新闻报道。

下一刊报纸将在几周后出版。学生们会报道万圣节派对、小学拔河比赛、校内体育比赛和学生会等。

Miss Chalmers

小学记者CCA老师

10月27日，曼校12年级学生Max得到通知，他在今年刚刚结束的英国高级数学测评中获得了全球金奖。这个比赛由英国数学协会组织，赢得比赛将为Max以后参加更高阶更有挑战性的英国奥林匹克数学竞赛铺平道路。在学习支持中心，Max接受了老师的采访，他介绍说自己非常热爱数学和科学，并得到了数学和科学老师的很多帮助。曼校的数学老师董飞老师，Marion老师（我们的校长）， 还有Copley老师，都给予了他很多支持。他特别提到，自己已经提前一年在学习进阶数学的课程，非常感激老师在课外时间解答他的问题。

Max说他希望未来可以在大学学习数学或物理。他还没有决定到底选择哪一个科目，但是现在他最喜欢的领域是纯数，量子物理学，天体物理学和化学工程。他现在在看天体物理的大学教材，如果有问题，曼校的物理老师Harbinson 可以帮助他解答，因为这是Harbinson自己的大学专业。

Max希望在将来继续参加一些数学和科学竞赛。但是，他会做一个合理的竞赛计划。同时，他会考虑别的方式来强化学习并提升自己的大学升学背景。在学习支持中心的老师推荐后，Max对做一个EPQ（项目式学习认证）很感兴趣。他也希望能够获得科研经验，完成一份5000单词的科学论文。学习支持中心将帮助他联系天体物理实验室，这样Max可以去收集自己EPQ所需要的实验数据。我们预祝Max在今后两年取得更大的成功！

中学艺术课程

本周，GCSE和A-level艺术与设计课程的学生们参加了模拟考试。学生们需花10-15个小时完成他们的最终创作。他们正在努力创作令人惊艳的艺术作品。

GCSE（10-11年级）

艺术与设计考试由两部分组成，这两部分加在一起就是GCSE的总成绩。GCSE考试有四个考核目标，学生们需要在4个方面展示他们的能力。

A-level（12-13年级）

A-level艺术与设计考试也由两部分组成。与GCSE艺术考试相比，A-level考试中第1部分要求学生进行个人调研（论文），以指导和帮助学生进行艺术探索。

中学数学课堂——学生们应该做什么？

1. 积极做数学题目

学生们应该“撸起袖子”独立完成数学作业，而不是看着别人帮他/她做题或者在他/她面前做题。

数学不是独立存在的学科。为学生创造一些机会相互讨论数学问题，完善和批判性交流彼此的想法和理解对于数学的理解和掌握是至关重要的。学生们可以在同伴协作、小组学习或课堂演示中进行交流，互相取长补短。

小学部落活动：拔河比赛

上周五，小学生们参加了本学年第一个大型部落活动——拔河比赛。所有小学生都穿着所在部落的T恤来到学校，在比赛期间他们与各自的部落成员们坐在一起加油呐喊。这场比赛精彩纷呈，看到学生们（和教职工）全力投入比赛当中，真是让人激动不已！在此，恭喜Edinburgh部落取得最终胜利！让我们来看看比赛结果：

1. Edinburgh

2. Lomond

3. Nevis

4. Balmoral

中学部落比赛的风采

本学年第二场中学部落比赛异常激烈，这是一场对学生们力量、团队合作和相互沟通的绝佳考验机会。

10月26日星期三，中学生们聚集在三楼中庭，与部落伙伴们坐在一起，兴奋地等待着第一场比赛的开始。放眼望去，坐席上一片又一片明亮的紫色、蓝色、绿色和橙色海洋！在这次比赛中，每个年级的中学生们都参加了男女混合比拼。勇敢的7年级学生们首先出战，为接下来的比赛打开了局面。

比赛十分胶着，看到学生们走出自己的舒适区真是太棒了！当高年级开始比赛时，Nevis部落展现出了明显的优势，他们在这场比赛中取得了最终胜利！

场上两组比赛同时进行，场面十分热闹精彩！在此我要特别提及，新的部落队长们表现真是太出色和给力了！他们为同伴们加油鼓劲，组织队伍比赛，还跑去捡球——部落队长们，你们太棒了！

校庆日表演海选

在过去的三周里，中小学生们为争取在曼校日大舞台上表演的机会，积极参加了学校的海选活动。学生们选择了风格各异的表演乐器和演奏曲目，这让表演艺术组的老师们印象深刻。在学校的城堡大厅里，这些学生都信心满满地展示着自己的表演。台下的老师和同学们都被演奏的乐曲所深深震撼。恭喜以下学生们入选曼校日的表演者之列，请各位表演者留意排练安排。

中学部：

Michael Yang (Y10), 

Greg Huang (Y10), 

Olivia Zhong (Y10) 

and Lander Meng (Y10)

Michael Zhang (Y11)

Audrey Cui (Y9)

Star Jiang (Y10)

Tina Huang (Y11)

Sydney Cui (Y7) 

Greg Huang(Y10)

Richard Cheung (Y10)

Ella Xia (Y8)

Anna Qiang (Y13)

Karmen Li (Y11)

Sarah Huang (Y10)

Sunny Zhang (Y8) and Ella li (Y8) 

Becky Sun (Y7) 

Sally Pan (Y7)

Vincent Yan (Y8)

Esther Tung (Y12), 

Harvey Zhang (Y10) 

and Andy Zhang (Y12)

小学部

Cici Luo (Y6)

William Xia (Y6)

Mike Chen (Year 6)

Elsa Pyun (Y5)

Grace Huang (Y5)

Adamson Ren (Y3)

Abbie Ai (Y3)

聚焦曼校师资

本周很荣幸向您介绍的是我校体育老师, 也是我们7年级其中一位班主任的Michael Alberts老师！请跟着我们的采访一起来了解他吧！

你还在哪些地方生活过？

除了我的祖国南非以外，中国是我第一个也是唯一一个生活过的海外国家。

你觉得中国与你生活过的其它地方有什么不同？

中国整体上文化氛围很浓。我来自一个多元文化的国家，能体验到中国文化让我受益良多。中国的人口比南非多得多。我来自南非的一个小城市，所以搬到一个人口稠密的大城市对我来说是一个巨大的变化，这让我拥有了更多的机会。

你在深圳过周末最喜欢的活动是什么？

我喜欢的周末活动丰富多样。如果周末有固定比赛，我的首选是打橄榄球。如果没有比赛安排，你一定会在沙滩的阳光下看到我的身影，亦或是在海里冲浪或者游泳。周末我一般不会宅在家里，有机会我一定是选择户外运动，包括远足、冲浪，或四处游历了解和享受神秘的中国文化。

你一直以来的梦想都是当老师吗？

教学一直是我的热情所在，因为教育者对我们社会下一代的发展有着重大影响。毕业后我发现我也想成为一名教师，是因为我曾在一位老师的培养下，才成长为如今的我。

介绍一下你的隐藏才艺或没人知道的秘密？

我不确定我是否有隐藏的才艺，或者说我可能有，但我还没有找到它。不过，我是一个有天赋的运动员。我喜欢烹饪，所以我想我可能会成为一个好厨师。我也喜欢尝试新事物，或许有一天，我会发现我的隐藏才艺。

如果你可以任意挑选五个人共进晚餐，你会选择谁？

这真是一个很有挑战的问题，因为我比较喜欢热闹，我要是邀请的话，一定会邀请超过5个人，但我现在一下子想不全所有人的名字。我的脑海里立即能想到的五个人是：丹·卡特，因为他是我儿时的橄榄球偶像。莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥是我最喜欢的演员。音乐家和偶像鲍勃·马利。思维卓绝的阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦。喜剧演员凯文·哈特，他一定会让晚餐趣味横生。

你在曼校的一天是怎样的？

我通常以一杯咖啡开启在曼校的一天，然后开始清晨我需要做的准备工作。每天早上到曼校后，我有20分钟时间跟同事碰面，聊一聊当天的安排。上课前我会先跟学生们做活动，周中每天的活动都各不相同。接着是1-6节课程，中间有午餐时间。之后我将开始对曼校球队的培训或参加与我相关的会议。在回家之前，我会与同事交流教学心得，获得相关反馈，以此结束在曼校充实的一天。

请你分享一句你一直以来所信奉的名言？

是的，我的座右铭是“思想胜于物质”。这是我过去克服挑战和未来可能遇到挑战时所秉持的信念。

请你分享最让你难忘的教学经历？

我有几次难忘的教学经历，但其中最让我印象深刻的是我教过的一个学生，我帮助他充分发挥了他的潜能。他来自南非最差的经济和社会背景，但他靠着矢志不渝的坚持精神成为了一名成功的商人，让自己和家人过上了更好的生活。这对作为老师的我和他周围的人来说都是一种莫大的激励。

希望您喜欢我们的周报，2022年11月18日下期见！

Message from Head of School

Dear MIS family,

I would like to thank all parents of the MIS community for your understanding and support for the school’s work!

Since the beginning of this term, all MIS staff and students have shown solidarity, mutual help and encouragement when challenging times come. These spirits have deeply touched me again and again, and continuously encouraged me and the MIS management team to do our best to deliver normal teaching and minimize the impact of the epidemic on our children’s learning and life. Especially this week, the school has launched the online and offline hybrid teaching, during which the Seniors students have maintained a good state of study, while the Juniors students who stay at school have had a wonderful week under the good care of their house parents and tutors.

The first round of MISPA election in this academic year has ended, and the newly elected members will make their debut next week. I hope that this year’s MISPA and newly elected members will bring more vitality into the home-school communication. The MIS management team is always happy to listen to the voices from our parents and students, and hopes to join hands with all of you to build a lifelong learning community of mutual support and friendliness at MIS.

I hope you can enjoy the wonderful learning and life at MIS through this week’s MISsive.

Wish you a lovely weekend!

Juniors Assembly

Unfortunately, we were unable to have our weekly Juniors assembly this week. However, we would still like to celebrate and recognise the students who have demonstrated our MIS values, during this online learning period.Our new MIS value for the month of November is 'Resilient' and the weekly focus word (virtue) is 'Patience'.A resilient learner will always try their best and will not give up even if they are faced with a challenge. When we practise patience, it is easier for us to keep on trying our best and be resilient. Can you think of any other ways to show resilience?

We would like to congratulate the following students for demonstrating patience and resilience this week:

EY - Alex and Noah

Y1 - Anna

Y2 - Clementine

Y3 - Hanyang

Y4 - Ruby

Y5 - Louis

Y6 - Eva

Pringle - Cici L

I'd also like to recognise the resilience and patience that the Juniors staff have shown this week. The teaching staff have shown resilience and commitment to delivering high quality online lessons, whilst being in lockdown. Equally, the Pringle resident staff and our TAs have demonstrated this in their commitment to supporting the online learning programme and looking after our Pringle students at school. I am extremely thankful for our Juniors team!

Enjoy the photos of some of the fantastic online learning that is taking place this week.

Kind regards,Ms. NeilHead of Juniors

CCA – Junior Reporters

I would like to share with all parents and students the first addition of the Junior Reporters newspaper. Students in Junior reporters CCA in Years 3 and Years 4 have been writing questions to ask new members of staff and students about their experiences of MIS. The student reporters have then interviewed their chosen staff or students with microphones and iPads to record their answers. Students have then written their interviews up as a newspaper report.

The next newspaper will be published in the next few weeks. Students have been reporting on the Halloween party, Juniors tug of war, sports events within the school and student council.

Miss Chalmers, Junior Reporters CCA teacher.

On Oct 27, 2022, MIS student Max (Y12) won a Gold prize in this year’s UKMT-SMC, a math competition sponsored by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust, which paved the way for him to participate in British Mathematics Olympiad (BMO), an even more prestigious and challenging mathematics contest. During an interview in SSC, Max said that he loves mathematics and science and has received a lot of help from MIS’ Maths and Science teachers. He mentioned that Mr. Dong Fei, Ms. Marion Muetzefeldt (MIS Head of Sschool), and Mr. Copley provided a lot of support during his mathematics study. He particularly appreciated the fact that the teachers answered many of his questions when he is working on Further Pure Maths one year ahead of time.

Max said that he would like to study Maths or science in college in the future. He has not made up his mind about a particular subject of study, but he is thinking of pure mathematics, quantum physics, astrophysics, and chemical engineering as the most favourable fields of study. He is currently doing a lot of reading in astrophysics and getting a lot of help from Mr. Harbinson, who studied the same subject as his university major.

Max said that he is interested in participating in more maths and science competitions in the future. However, he would make a reasonable plan for competitions and he would consider other options to enhance his learning as well as to strengthen his college application. Max is seriously interested in doing an EPQ, as recommended by SSC, to gain some research experience and to finish a 5000-words investigation report on a scientific topic. SSC has promised to connecting Max to a research laboratory on astrophysics so that Max can collect data for his EPQ. We wish Max can achieve even greater success in the coming years.

Seniors Art

GCSE & A-level Art & Design students have been doing their Mock exams this week. Students spend 10-15 hours to finish their final pieces. They are working hard to produce the best work.

GCSE (Y10-11)

Art & Design is made up of two parts which will be added together to produce a final grade.

There are four assessment objectives in GCSE. Students need to show their ability in 4 areas.

A-level (Y12-13)

A-level Art & Design program is also made up of two parts. Different from GCSE art program, A-level requires the personal study (essay writing) in Part 1 of the exam which aims to guide and assist students in doing the art exploration.

Seniors Maths Classroom --- what should the students be doing?

1.Actively engaged in doing mathematics.

students should be metaphorically rolling up their sleeves and “doing mathematics” themselves, not watching others do maths for them or in front of them.

2. Solving challenging problems.

students should be investigating meaningful real-world problems whenever possible. Mathematics is not a stagnant field of textbook problems; it is a dynamic way of constructing meaning about the world around us, generating new knowledge and understanding about real world every day.

Maths is not a field that exists in isolation. It is essential that students have the opportunity to discuss mathematics with one another, refining and critiquing each other’s ideas and understandings. Communication can occur through paired work, small group work, or class presentations.

Y12 Parent Evening

Parents evening is such a fundamental part of school: so we have been so happy to be able to invite parents back to the campus to hold the parent meetings face-to-face, the way it should be. Year 12 is always a big change for students so it was particularly heartening to be able to discuss with parents the many successful starts experienced by our students so-far this term.

Clan Junior Tug of War

Last Friday, the Juniors participated in their first big Clan event of the academic year, the Tug of War. All the pupils came into school wearing their clan tops and sat with their clans during the event. The event was spectacular, and it was great to see the pupils (and the staff!) get into the spirit of things. On that note, congratulations to Clan Edinburgh for their victory. The results are as follows:

1. Edinburgh

2. Lomond

3. Nevis

4. Balmoral

Catch up with Senior Clan!

Our second event of the year was extremely competitive, and it was a great test of strength, teamwork and communication.

On Wednesday 26th October, our students gathered in the atrium and sat in their Clans, waiting for the first games to begin. There was a bright sea of purple, blue, green and orange! This competition saw our students compete in mixed gender teams amongst year groups. Our brave year 7’s were up first and set the stage for the rest of the competition.

Games were very close, and it was amazing to see students step out of their comfort zones! When it got to the old year groups, a clear dominance was shown by Clan Nevis, and they were victorious in this competition!

With two games going on at a time, it was crazy, colourful and chaotic! A special mention to how wonderful and responsible our new Clan captains were! They were motivating their peers, organising teams and were also running to collect the balls – Good job Clan captains!

Merchiston Day Performers Auditions

Over the past 3 weeks, both Seniors and Juniors students have been auditioning for the opportunity to perform on the grand stage on Merchiston Day. The Performing Arts Department has been extremely impressed with the range of styles, instruments and songs chosen. At the Castle Hall, these students all performed with great conviction and determination. The audience consisting of teachers and students were overwhelmed with the music on display. Congratulations to the following students below who have been chosen as performers for Merchiston Day and please keep an eye out for the rehearsal schedule.

Seniors

Michael Yang (Y10), 

Greg Huang (Y10), 

Olivia Zhong (Y10) 

and Lander Meng (Y10)

Michael Zhang (Y11)

Audrey Cui (Y9)

Star Jiang (Y10)

Tina Huang (Y11)

Sidney Cui (Y7) 

Greg Huang(Y10)

Richard Cheung (Y10)

Ella Xia (Y8)

Anna Qiang (Y13)

Karmen Li (Y11)

Sarah Huang (Y10)

Sunny Zhang (Y8) and Ella li (Y8) 

Becky Sun (Y7) 

Sally Pan (Y7)

Vincent Tan (Y8)

Esther Tung (Y12), 

Harvey Zhang (Y10) 

and Andy Zhang (Y12)

Juniors

Cici Luo (Y6)

William Xia (Y6)

Mike Chen (Year 6)

Elsa Pyun (Y5)

Grace Huang (Y5)

Adamson Ren (Y3)

Abbie Ai (Y3)

Staff in the Spotlight

This week we are delighted to introduce you about our PE teacher and he is also one of Y7 Form Tutors Mr Michael Alberts. Let’s find more about him!

Where else in the world have you lived?

China is the first and only country I have lived in besides my home country, South Africa.

How do you find China is different from those where you have lived?

China overall is full of culture. I come from a country which is diverse with cultures and to experience a Chinese culture is educational. China is a lot bigger than South Africa in population. I come from a small city in South Africa so having to move to a big, populated city is an enormous difference for me. It allows for more opportunities.

What’s your favourite weekend activity in Shenzhen?

I have a variety of favorite weekend activities. My first choice would be playing rugby on the weekend when we have fixtured games. If there were no games scheduled, you would find me on the beach or in the sea either surfing or swimming. I will always be outdoors hiking, surfing, or enjoying Chinese culture.

Did you always want to be a teacher?

Teaching has always been a passion of mine since educators have a significant impact in the development of future people of our society. I understood this from having experienced a teacher to develop myself into the person I am today.

Tell us about a hidden talent or a top secret that no-one would know about you.

I am not sure I have a hidden talent or If I do, I have not yet found it. I am, however, a talented athlete. I enjoy cooking so I would like to think I am a good chef. I do enjoy trying something new all the time so maybe one day, I will find my hidden talent.

Which five people would you invite to a dinner party, dead or alive?

This is really a challenging question as I would either invite more than five or forget someone that should have been on my list. The five people that come to head straight away would be: Dan Carter as he has been my childhood hero for rugby. Leonardo DiCaprio is my favorite actor. Bob Marley as musician and icon. Albert Einstein for his mind. And Kevin Hart as the comedian to keep the dinner part entertained.

What does a typical day at MIS look like for you?

A typical day in MIS starts with a cup of coffee. It is my kick start to the early morning preparations I need to do. When I arrive at MIS, I will have 20 minutes to meet my colleagues and discuss the day's plan. I attend my form class where we have certain activities in place for different days of the week. It is then followed by the beginning of period 1 to 6 with a lunch break. I will start my ISL training or attend meetings where I need to be. I will finish my day at MIS with some feedback or discussion with fellow colleagues before heading home.

Do you have a motto or saying that really resonates with you?

Yes, my motto is “Mind over Matter.”  It resonates with past challenges I have overcome and future challenges I may experience.

Do you have a most memorable teacher moment?

I have several memorable teaching moments, but one that stands the most would be a student I taught and helped achieve his potential from coming from one of the worst economic and social backgrounds in South Africa to a successful businessperson with pure dedication and perseverance to make his life better for himself and his family. It was an inspiration to me as a teacher and others around him.

Hope you enjoy reading our MISsive and see you next time on Friday 18 November, 2022.

希望您喜欢我们的周报，2022年11月18日下期见！