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It was great to meet so many parents at the Student-Led Conference last Wednesday. Feedback

from our students and staff showed they also found the day enjoyable and satisfying. 很高兴上周三

在学生会议室能见到这么多的家长。从我们学生和员工的回馈中可

以看出您在那天很开心很满意

This year’s conferences and those coming up next year play a big

part in teaching your children (our students) to set goals, take risks

and practice communicating their thinking to the people most

central in their lives.

今年的各种会议都把未来这一年中如何教你们的孩子（我们的学生）

作为重要的讨 论议题。使学生们树立目标，承担风险，以及教他

们在生活中练习与他人交流思想。

Another enjoyable day for us was Saturday’s Summer Fair with fun

for everyone. We have just completed our final assembly for this

year and it was wonderful to see the great effort put in by Year 3

and year 4. Putting on an assembly not only gives a class the

chance to showcase the activities and learning taking place in their

c classroom but is a visible lesson to the whole school of the IB

Learner’s Profile in Collaboration, Risk Takers and Caring.

另外周六的“夏季展”也是很有意思的，每个人都很开心。

我们已经完成了今年最后一次集会，能看到三，四年级付出了

很大的努力。参与全校集会不仅仅给这个班级机会展示

他们的活动和学习课堂参与，而且是对整个学校里IB学

习者都是很好的一课。这包括了如何合作，如何做一个

风险承担者及如何关心他人。

As this is the final PYP

newsletter this year, I take the opportunity to thank you for all your

support. I am sure you will enjoy your summer break as much as I

will mine. See you next school year!

这是今年PYP的最后一封信，我要用这个机会感谢你们所有的支持。

我确信你们会跟我一样很享受这个暑假。下学期见。

PYP Coordinator:

Ariel Schatenstein

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Greetings to our Parents and families,

Where has this school Year gone? In our classroom we have

recently been busily preparing for our assembly, which was held

on Monday the 17th of June.

各位家长，

你们好，本学期即将结束。近几日，我们一二年级的学生为6月17日的集会忙碌的准备着。

In our assembly, we show-cased our

reading, writing and musical talents. We

hope some of you got to see and to hear

our awesome stories, singing and dancing.

此次集会中，学生将展示读，写和音乐方面

的能力，欢迎家长参加。

We all contributed in creating a big yellow

school bus and we drew our faces to go in

the window. We used this as a back drop for

our assembly items. It looked great!

由老师带领学生制作了一辆黄色的校车模型，将各自的画像贴在窗口的位置（如图），我们将在集

会后期向各位展示。

Ms Lily, the children and I. would like to take this opportunity to

thank you all for supporting us over the year. It has been an

absolute pleasure to teach such wonderful kids, and I will miss

them all very much when I head back to New Zealand in a few

weeks.

我和Lily老师借此机会向各位家长对我们工作的支持和帮助表示衷心的感谢，能给这些优秀的孩子

教课的确是让人很开心的一件事，一二个星期之后，我就要会新西兰了，我会很想念这些孩子们

的。

Kind regards to you all.

祝好

Helen Saunders

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What’s Happening with Year 3 and 4

Welcome back from the Dragon Boat Festival! Hope everyone has had a good break and ready for our last stretch of learning before the summer break. Over the next few weeks, Year 3 and 4 will be undergoing assessments in all areas of the curriculum to see how much progress the students have made during the year. Students have made significant achievements in reading, writing and mathematics. All the children have enjoyed the specialist classes and the learning that has been made is commendable by those specialist teachers. This has being shown in our class with the visual presentation skills in relation to art; the increased motor skills and teamwork that has been developed through PE; the development of spoken Mandarin and cultural enrichment with Chinese. Music and ICT has also played a great part in developing technological skills and the appreciation of Music. I am always struck by how children can learn in such a short time, once they have mastered a concept and I am looking forward to seeing the end product of one year’s hard work, great effort and determination from all the students. 端午假期之后，我们已进入这学年的最后一段。在剩下的

这几周中，3/4年级将对学生的各个科目进行评估。这一年当中，学生们在阅读，写作和数学方面都有很大的进步。

而在副科方面，孩子们也都愉快的学习到了很多有用的知识，通过美术课，学生们学习了视觉表达技巧; 通过体育

课，学生提高运动技能和增强了团队合作开意识，随着中文的学习，学生们的语言技能得到了进步，同时文化修养

也随之增强。音乐及计算机课上学习到的知识，也能被用来灵活的表达他们的思想。我总是很关注孩子们能在这么

短的时间内学习学习到多少东西。一旦他们付出很多努力掌握了一个概念以后，我就很期待看到他们是如何灵活运

用的。

Participation with the Local

Chinese Department Some of our students took part in a fashion show with the local Chinese Department. It was an auspicious occasion with local government attending. Rebecca, Elliot, Helmi and Jude should be commended for their patience and participation. All were very tired and hungry from waiting around, but they still managed to put on a good show. 国际儿童节之前，国内部组织了隆重的庆

祝活动。当地政府领导出席了这次活动。

我们的一部分学生参与了由国内部组织的

一个节目--时装秀。Rebecca, Elliot,

Helmi and Jude应该得到表扬。虽然很辛

苦，但他们仍然表现出色。 Unit of Inquiry – Working together on How to

save our planet. Transdisciplinary: Sharing the Planet Central Idea: When interacting with natural habitats, human make choices that have an impact on other living things. We are currently looking at, how human activities impact the environment. What are the positives and negatives to having a better standing of living? How does this impact the environment? Are living things adapting to the changes to the environment? 跨学科：共享地球

中心思想：当人类活动与大自然栖息地交互，人类选择影响其他物种。

目前，人类活动是如何影响环境的？什么是有益生活方式和对环境有害

的生活方式？这些如何影响环境？是否其他物种也像人类一样采用改变

环境的方式生存？

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Sharing of News/Poetry Recital This is always received with a lot of intrigue and interest from the students. It develops good oral presentation and questioning skills. Helmi’s book on different sports activities evoked lots of discussion. It has also been wonderful to see the increase in confidence of Bella and Isabella, our two new students, when sharing their news. Our weekly poetry recital, where children choose their own poems each Friday is also developing good oral and presentation skills, enjoyed by all the students and is increasing confidence. 学生们总是跟我聊起很多有趣的事。这个一个很好的方式，既

提高了学生们的口头表达能力，也提高了他们提问的技巧。

Helmi的书是有关不同体育运动的，这引发了大量的讨论。当

我们与Bella and Isabella分享他们趣闻的时候，我总是很开心

的看到她们两个不断增加的信心。我们每周五都有诗歌朗诵，

孩子们选择自己的诗作来朗诵。这个既提高了他们的口语，也

增加了他们的演讲技巧。学生们都很喜欢，他们的信心也与日

俱增。

Football Competition with the

Local Chinese Department Some of our students took part in a friendly football match with the local department; it proved to be a fun event. Thanks to our PE Teacher, Lisa Grimm, a competitive edge was shown by both teams and good sportsmanship. 我们的一些学生与国内部的学生踢了一场友谊赛。

感谢我们的体育教师，Lisa Grimm，感谢双方的小

运动员。大家都表现出其各自的竞争优势及良好的

体育道德。

As a teacher at this time of the year, one of the things I most enjoy about teaching is looking back over the past year with my students individually and getting the children to assess and evaluate just how far they have come, in terms of learning and personal growth. The expressions on most of my students faces are both memorable and touching, when they too realise what they have achieved; how far they have grown in confidence and have become good citizens. Our classroom is a community and Year 3 and 4 have shown all the traits of the IB learner profile and more. Co-operation, respect and a caring attitude are part of our class culture. I am very fortunate as a teacher that my students fully enjoy learning and are constantly seeking to absorb more about their world. A big thank you to all the parents for your support with your child’s learning. Kind Regards

Merelita Barton.

在每年的这段时间中，作为一名教师，我最高兴的事情之一就是回顾过去这一年当中我的每个学生的学习

和他们的个人成长过程。他们每个人的进步都是令人难忘和让人感动的。他们不断进步的成绩，不断增加的

信心，能在将来变成对社会有意义的人。我们是3/4年级的学生，IB教学体系的学习者。合作，尊重和关怀的

态度是我们班文化的一部分。我很幸运，作为一名教师，我的学生们能够充分享受到学习的乐趣，并不断寻

求吸收更多的知识。非常感谢所有家长的支持与您孩子的努力学习。

亲切的问候来自

Merelita Barton

Sports Day Sports Day was a successful and fun event, enjoyed by all students, staff and parents! Thank you Ms Grimm for a wonderful day! Congratulations to all the students

who took part! 我校运动会

成功举办。所有学生，教职员工和

家长都很享受！感谢 Grimm女士带

给我们这个美好的一天！感谢全体

学生的参加！

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UNIT OF INQUIRY

Over the past few weeks, Year Five and Six have embarked on two big projects. The first is one related to our Unit Of Inquiry (UOI) which is centred around the challenges, risks, and opportunities that children around the world

face. 在过去的几周内，5/6年级已经完成了两大题

目。首先是一个有关单元目标（UOI）的，它是围

绕着全世界小朋友面临的问题的，包括挑战，风险

和机遇。

We looked into a few examples from Russia, USA, Cambodia and various countries in Africa. Students compared the challenges, risks, and opportunities that those children face, to those that they personally face. They almost immediately started devising a plan to help a chosen charity and settled on fundraising for a monetary donation.

我们调查了来自俄罗斯，美国，柬埔寨和很多其他

非洲国家得一些例子。学生们对比他们自己面对的

挑战，风险和机遇与那些孩子们所面临的。

Due to the personal connection that Elin (and certainly the rest of the class as well) feels with India, we chose the orphanage that Eric came from. The students made candles, organised games and prizes, made skoobies and twisted their parents’ arms to bake for them! We sold these items at a mini fair and

made a whopping 2000 RMB!! 由于Elin及班上其他的

同学同情印度，我们选择来自孤儿院的Eric.学生们自己

制作了蜡烛，组织了各种游戏和设置了奖品，还在家长

的帮助下制作了点心。我们把这些东西卖给了一个小型

贸易会，赚了2000人民币。

Huge thanks to the Year Five and Six students for their enthusiasm and dedication in this project! Even bigger thanks go to the parents of these students; since without your support and encouragement, the

goal would not have been accomplished! 非常感谢五年

级和六年级的同学在这个项目中的热诚和奉献。更加的

感谢这些学生的家长，如果没有你们的支持与鼓励，这

个目标不可能达成。

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LITERACY

Our second big project is the compilation of a newspaper for Literacy. Students practiced writing an article, before interviewing via Skype a reporter in America about what it is like to work for a newspaper

and what the requirements for articles are. 我们的第二个大项目是识字报纸上的汇编。学生练写了一篇文

章，在采访前记者通过Skype在美国是什么样子的工作为报纸和文章的要求是什么。

We then brainstormed the general topics found in newspapers, before deciding on specific article ideas. Each student was required to choose two articles to write for their English Literacy assessment. They

were then given the freedom to choose minor tasks or writing in their mother tongue. 然后，我们集思广

益，在报纸中发现的一般性主题，才决定在特定的文章思路。每名学生需要选择写两篇文章对他们的英语扫

盲评估。然后，他们被给予自由选择小任务，或用自己的母语写作。

Continuing to work on editing and layout over the upcoming weeks, we hope to complete the newspaper

by the last week of school. 继续在未来几周的编辑和排版工作，由上周的学校，我们希望能够完成报纸。

MATHEMATICS

In Mathematics, we have worked extensively on fractions, looking initially at proper- and improper fractions, along with mixed numbers. Students have played games related to equivalent fractions and explored addition of mixed numbers, using their multiplication and division skills.

在数学中，我们已经做了大量工作零碎，

最初在寻找适当的假分数，以及混合数

字。学生们有关等值分数和带分数的探索

除了玩游戏，用他们的乘法和除法的技

能。

OUTING TO LISHAN

We went on an unexpected adventure when we took

to the Lishan mountain on Thursday 13 June! 我们去

了一个意想不到的冒险，当我们把骊山6月13日（星期

四）日！

Once we had taken the cable car up the mountain, the search for a place to sit and paint a scene from nature began. Thank goodness for Ms Fiona, who asked where there might be a nice place to sit. She was told that we could walk “ten minutes” up the

mountain to a pavilion. 一旦我们采取了缆车上山，寻

找一个地方坐下来绘制场景从大自然中开始了。谢天谢

地，女士菲奥娜，谁问那里可能是一个不错的地方坐下

来。有人告诉她，我们可以步行上山的“10分钟”一个

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Xhis had acquired more book resources for literacy, teaching and for

the library in general. We are expanding our resources to fill the

needs of our students. A widely range of reading materials was been

donated recently by the Local Department during the Children’s day

showing the good relationship between our department and theirs.

西安高新国际学校的图书馆有很多关于文学及教学的图书。我们试

图增加这些资源。儿童节当天国内部向我们捐助了很多各种各样内容广泛的图书，显示了我们与国

内部良好的关系。

For the next school year, the Xhis library will have a big change. We will start using our new

in-house Library system where students and guests can check the availability of

our library resource books and for easy check-in and check-out. Library cards

will be imposed when borrowing books and there will be a new drop box system.

Specifically labelled shelves will be seen also for easy access and students will

be trained more on how to use the library. We will also inform everyone about

the Library House rules and update all activities that the library will have for

every month. It will be an exciting new school year with a lot of activities and

more to learn each month.

明年图书馆会有一个很大的变动。我们将开始启用新的图书馆管理系统，学生们及

其它人可以很容易查到他们所需要的图书，并享受便捷的借还书制度。我们会教大家如何使用这种

新图书馆管理系统。每个月我们都会安排各类相关活动，以促进大家学习的积极性。

About an hour (and a thousand stairs) later we reached the pavilion, exhausted! Although there wasn’t much access to nature, the class managed to paint beautiful water colour

scenes from the top of the pavilion. 一千楼梯）大约一个小时

后，我们到达展馆，用尽！虽然没有太大的访问性质，管理类油漆

水色秀美场景从亭子的顶部。

After a total of about 3000 stairs, we can say that we learnt a great deal about stamina and the Chinese translation for “ten

minutes!” Nonetheless, a great time was had by all! 共约3000楼

梯后，我们可以说，我们学到了很多的后劲和中文翻译为“十大分

钟！”尽管如此，有一个伟大的时间！

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Thank you to all the Student, Teachers and Parents who helped and supported

the Library. Most especially to Mrs. Schultz for helping us since they started in

the school. Thank you also to all who assisted me in encoding books into the

system. Have a good Summer Vacation and we will see you in the next school

year!

感谢所有帮助与支持图书馆

改进的学生们，教师们及家

长们。尤其是Schulz女士，

从她来学校的第一天就开始

帮助我们了。祝大家渡过一

个愉快的暑假，下学期见！

We have finished our lesson with PYP and MYP will be finishing off their

activities this week. MYP 7 is doing Music mapping to determine the

migration of music and its influence from one country to another, while

year 8 made a video commercial about environment to understand the

impact of music on an audience or listener, as well they are comparing the

differences with their previous project radio commercial. Year 10-11 had their final assessment on

music composition and arrangement with the use of poetic lyrics; and family chords with the use of

different instruments focusing on Rhythm, Harmony and Melody.

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小学部的课程已经结束，初中部的课程这周也会结束。

7年级在做音乐地图，不同国家音乐的变化，8年级正在

做一个关于环境的商业广告片，这能帮助他们了解音乐

对于不同观众或听众的影响，然后他们也对比了与之前

的类似影片的不同。10/11年级最终考核的是音乐与诗

歌的混合与合成，与各类弦乐乐器的旋律，节奏和协

调。

For the next School year, Music will use a revised

curriculum which will enhance the student’s ability and

musical understanding. New enthusiastic units will be developing with in the IB framework to allow

for more exciting activities and games.

明年开始我们启用改进的音乐课程，这将增强学生的能力及对音乐的理解。改进的课程将仍然依照

IB的课程框架，但会更有趣，因为我们增加了更多的活动

与游戏

Thank you to all Parents and co-teachers in supporting

me and my students with all of our projects and activities

that we have learned throughout the year. I wish all my

students the best with their endeavours and their

continuing to keep up the good work that they have

started. I hope to see their success in the future years and

may all our learning help them achieve their dreams.

Have a great summer vacation!

感谢所有的家长及每个员工们在一年中对我们和学生的支持，

没有你们的支持，我们我们很难完成了所有的项目及活动。我

希望我所有的学生都能在自己努力下变得比以前好，并且继续

一直保持，我期

待着他们在未来

的成功。暑假快

乐！

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Y5-6 – During these weeks, students have discussed that all

living things offer explanations about the world around us.

Students have made some posters to show what they have learnt

in last unit. We also had a role play as the dragon boat festival

coming. We are going to learn what challenges, risks and chances

worldwide children have in this unit. Students will do some

research to see what difficulties children have in different

counties.

这几个星期，学生们讨论了我们周围的生物如何告诉我们这

个世界的变化。学生们做了一些画报来展示他们在这个单元

里学到的内容。在端午节来临之际我们还让学生表演了

一个节目。这个单元我们要学习世界各地的儿童所面临

的各种挑战，风险和机遇。学生将会研究发现各个国家

的孩子们所面临的不同困难

Y1-4 During these weeks, students have

earned the vocabulary about transport. We learn how to writ

e the character and Pin Yin in order .Then we will continue

to learn the activity about transport and other useful words

in daily life.

这几个星期，学生们学习了与交通工具有关的词汇。接下来我们将继续学习和交通工具有关的活动

以及其他日常生活中经常用到的词语。

Nursery/Reception-For these weeks, we have been learning about the animals. We learned some songsand Pinyin about animals.

At the same time, we made crafts and read stories about animal’s .We also obsdrved golden fish, turtle and

parrot’s growth and activities and discussed t

he problems happening in their life.

这段时间，我们一直在学关于动物

的知识。我们学了一些关于动物的

歌曲和拼音，同时做关于动的手工

和讲关于动物的故事。我也观察了

金鱼，海龟和鹦鹉的成长过程及他

们的活动，同时讨论了生长过程中

发生的一些问题

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We had a fantastic year of learning together in EAL

class. As we approach the end of another wonderful

year at XHIS, I would like to thank my parents for

all their support and contributions. I couldn’t have

done it without you. A big thank you to my students.

You brought my classroom to life, made learning

fun, but more importantly you have grown

academically and developed as life-long learners.

I am proud of the work you have done this year,

Steven, Aino, Jacob and Louis.

I wish for you all great success in your academic

future.

What Every Parent of a Primary School Child Needs to Know

Did you know your child may be a victim of summer reading loss? Students

can lose up to three months’ worth of reading progress over one summer

holiday period.

Make Summer Reading Fun!

Summer reading is different from reading during the school year. It should be less structured and much more informal. Summer reading should emphasize:

Student interest to keep students motivated to read.

Wide-reading to help students learn the meanings of new words

Scheduling time for reading on a daily basis throughout the summer helps support your child’s reading development. Make reading a priority this summer for yourself and your child.

Read to your child daily

Read a lot of different materials

Discuss what you have read together

Ask questions as you read

Encourage your child to write or draw a picture about what you have read. Happy Reading!

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SPORTS DAY

My first thought in the morning: “Is it raining?” But luckily

it wasn’t. We got a beautiful sunny Sports Day, with a lot

of good results and smiling faces.

The students competed in running short distance, long

jump, throwing, shot put, high jump and relay race. There

were also some funny games for the whole school to take

part in together. Those games included sack race, clothing

race, spoon race, three leg race and beanbag toss. The

parents tried very hard to beat their kids in Tug of War,

but the PYP students were too strong and won. They beat

the staff as well, unfortunately…

Even though we are a small school we have a lot of great

athletes. But most important, we support each other and

are happy for other people’s success. If you try your best

you have succeeded!

Thanks everyone for making this day special,

Lisa Grimm - PE teacher早晨醒来, 我问自己的第一个问

题是：“下雨了吗？”但幸运的是，这天晴好。运动会

成功举办。运动会上短跑，跳远，投掷，铅球，跳高

和接力赛，还有一些有趣的全校一起参加的游戏，包

括麻袋比赛，比赛服装，勺子比赛，三腿比赛和豆袋

折腾。父母们和教职员工也参加了与拔河比赛，但PYP

学生们最后还是赢了。虽然我们是一个小的

学校，我们有很多好的运动员。最重要的是，

我们相互支持，并乐于助人。如果你尽力了，

你就是成功的！ ？感谢所有参与者

Lisa Grimm 体育老师

Paparazzi?

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