The college spring 2014

A Year of Change

Spring 2014

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Like a Rolling Stone Dulwich on IceA Dulwich Choir Performs with Superstars The Community Celebrates

Generation SafeHow Can You Minimise the Risks and Maximise the Rewards of the Digital Age?

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Front Cover: An ice sculpture in the courtyard. Photo by Matt Kelly.

Contributors: Catherine McCaw, Mark Taylor, Laura Bell, Zoe Smith, David Mans-field, Jack Harman, Emily Edge, Simon Herbert, James Townsend, David Archer, Hayley Townsend, Li Lin, Camilla Ojansivu, Kevin Huntley, Paola Morris, Maureen Huang, Tina Schmidt, Shelly Kozak

Editors: Cynthia Maclean, Kasia Baran, Mark Scott

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News & Events ........................................2

From the Headmaster’s Desk .................6

eSafety at Dulwich ..................................8

Mastering Maths ...................................10

The Role of Languages .........................11

Sports .....................................................13

Charity ...................................................16

Global Harmony ....................................17

Student Artwork ...................................19

A Winter on the Ice ...............................22

University Counselling ..........................23

Behind the Scenes .................................24

Friends ...................................................25

Connections ...........................................26

Snapshot ................................................29

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News & Events

The Year of

Change

In February Dulwich College Beijing was proud to host the first International His-tory Bee and Bowl. Twenty-five Senior School students joined peers from other international schools to spend the day in round after round of group and individual competitions. The questions covered eve-rything from Alexander the Great to the

StarCraft strategy video game.

Our students were a credit to the school throughout the day, setting the highest standards of courtesy, good humour and sportsmanship. We can also take pride in their results.

DCB students came first in the Varsity and Junior Varsity team events, and Silvia Shen and Alex Jin won the Junior Varsity and Varsity individual events. Nineteen of our students qualified for the regional championship to take place this June in Hong Kong.

Catherine McCaw, Head of History

This school year has seen some amazing changes on campus, with our new wing, thea-tre and ice rink. And the changes don’t stop there – next year, across the road from our Legend Campus, we will be building a new Early Years Centre, to provide our youngest Dulwich students with a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Dulwich Hosts the First Beijing International History Bee and Bowl

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Twenty-four students, parents and teachers had a once in a lifetime expe-rience in March as they performed live on stage in Shanghai with one of the world’s most iconic rock bands, The Rolling Stones. The choir, dubbed the Dulwich International Singers, per-formed ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’, one of the Stones’ most well-known songs, with Mick Jagger in front of a 15,000 strong crowd at Shanghai’s Mercedes-Benz Arena – the only stop in China on the group’s ’14 on Fire’ world tour.

“It was an opportunity we could not pass up,” said director of music and performing arts for DCI, Shane O’Shea,

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“We had to convince them that our singers were up to the job and make sure some of our students could be involved but it was a fantastic, never-to-be-forgotten experience and the

choir was superb.”

Congratulations to all who performed on a memorable night in Shanghai!

Earlier this year Dulwich College organ-ised the first Dulwich College Science Art Photo competition open to students and staff across the Dulwich network. Over 140 photographs from all campuses entered the contest in five different categories (Animals in Action, Man in the Environment, Living Plants, Science at Work and Microscopes and Telescopes) and three age groups: 12 –14, 14+ and staff.

Over 30 photographs were entered from Dulwich College Beijing and there were 7 outright winners. Angelina Yang came first in two categories, Sophie Li and Aisha Taylor came first in other under 14 groups. Wilson Wong and Sky Wang each won a category in the over 14 competition. Teachers Cindy Colson and David Archer won two of the staff categories. Congratulations to all the winners. We are looking forward to the sec-ond annual competition next year.

Mark Taylor, Head of Science

Dulwich Science Art Photo Competition

Photos by: Angelina Yang (top left), William Wong (top right),

Aisha Taylor (bottom left).

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News & Events

Children are often fascinated by the idea of space and rockets and the Reception classes were no different this year. Following our stu-dents’ interest, both Reception groups in Legend Garden undertook a space topic – blasting off to various different planets and worlds (both real and imaginary).

It was fantastic to see how well the children guided their own learn-ing, wanting to discover how rockets worked, why there were space stations, why people ‘float’ in space, amongst many other lines of exploration.

Teachers used various texts to support our learning and the Koalas Class loved Whatever Next by Jill Murphy. Our room was full of chil-dren clambering around in ‘space boots’ and ‘space helmets’ before blasting off to different planets and going on space picnics. Not only were the children’s imaginations on full throttle but their knowledge about planets and our solar system was interesting to see. This was especially evident when they travelled around the whole school ask-ing people they met about their favourite planets, explaining which ones would be hottest or coldest, for instance, depending on their relative distance from the sun!

Laura Bell, The Koalas Class Teacher

Koalas in Orbit

DIMUN ReturnsThe fourth annual Dulwich International Model United Nations (DIMUN IV) conference was held at Dulwich College Beijing from 14th - 16th February 2014. Model United Nations is a unique opportunity for students to expand their knowledge of world affairs and improve their public speaking skills through research, discus-sion, and debate with other international students who share the same passions. At DIMUN IV, Key Stage 3 delegates debated a total of 32 topics in 8 different committees, ranging from the implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty, environmental recovery in postcon-flict zones, to the issue of the Korean peninsula.

This year, 11 schools with a total of over 200 partici-pants took part in this student-led conference. For the DIMUN IV opening ceremony, we were honoured to have Yene Assegid, as the keynote speaker. Yene is the Executive & Transformational Leadership Coach and a founder of everyONE (www.everyonesworld.org), a humanitarian organisation based in Ethiopia; supporting the livelihoods of over 10,000 boys and girls affected or orphaned by AIDS; as well as several disad-vantaged communities affected by poverty and physical disability. Her inspirational speech set a fantastic tone

for the conference. The whole event was organised and supported

by experienced Key Stage 4 and 5 Chairs and the

DIMUNITE press team led by the Secretary-

General, a Year 13 student JinJu

Choi.

Yene Assegid addressing DIMUN delegates


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On Thursday 27th March 2014, a group of children from Years 5 and 6 travelled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the FOBISIA music festival. The children were cho-sen based on their musical ability and enthusiasm.

The children were part of a choir or orchestra, with some also participating in drama activities. The theme was ‘Music from the Movies,’ so the orchestra per-formed music from Pirates of the Carribean, Harry Potter and many more. The choir sang songs from a range of films also, including an excellent medley of songs from Mary Poppins.

On the first day, the children had the chance to watch the Malay-

sian Philharmonic Youth Orches-tra rehearse. This was followed by a visit to the Petronas Towers and the Kuala Lumpur Aquarium.

After the excursions, the children had a busy time rehearsing in preparation for a final concert on the Sunday.

The Alice Smith School hosted and spoiled the children and accompanying adults with deli-cious food each day. Children tried many local dishes, enhanc-ing their Malaysian experience! It was a fantastic opportunity for our students, and they all thoroughly enjoyed it! Many of them didn’t want to leave!

Zoe Smith, JS Teacher

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Earlier in the term, Jan Latta, the wildlife photogra-pher and author of the True to Life series, gave Key Stage 1 children a wonderful presentation about endangered animals. She talked about her experi-ences tracking endangered animals to photograph them for her books and the children were fasci-nated by her stories. They loved seeing the video clips that she had made of the various animals and were inspired by her passion to ensure that these creatures do not become extinct.

We will be ensuring that Jan Latta’s series of books is in our libraries in both Legend Garden and RMC but if you would like to order her books for your chil-dren, Jan’s series of of books is available in both Legend and RMC libraries.

Sharing Wildlife Photography

Maths? It’s Magic!This term saw Marcus’ Marvellous Mathemagicians from the University of Oxford return to DCB.

Who are they? Marcus’ Marvellous Mathemagicians (M3) are a group of current maths students, junior research fellows and PDRA’s at the Univer-sity of Oxford, championed by Professor Marcus du Sautoy, the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. Maths is brought to life through intriguing lectures and workshops, including ‘How the Fish got its Spots.’ The visit was stimulating and engaging for all student participants.

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From the Headmaster’s Desk

I can remember being put in detention because my teacher saw that my mum had helped me with my maths homework. I was

12. I felt hugely aggrieved, not least because I had tried for 45 minutes to do the ridiculous problem to no avail before she helped me. Homework used to be an individual affair that built in discipline and reinforced the lessons taught during the day. All that is still valid but homework should be so much more. My mother never felt quite so secure about helping

me after that!

At the other extreme, a number of years ago, as a history teacher, a parent of a girl I taught would regularly correct in red ink his daughter’s homework before she submitted it, marking all the spelling mistakes and suggesting how to improve the work. Now on one level I thought this was helpful (it saved me the job!!) but the child seemed quite fearful of making mistakes and so was not very creative in trying new ideas and experimenting,

which is an essential part of learning. I had a long chat with the father, who agreed he was so worried about her making mistakes that he was perhaps not helping his daughter to grow in taking responsibility for her own learning. He pulled back and her confidence began to blossom. She ended up reading History at Cambridge!

There were plenty of progressive educa-tionalists who used to argue that home-work was not a helpful way of supporting

HOMEWORK?How can parents help their children with

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learning. In fact the academic research has shown quite consistently over the years that parents helping their children does not have a very significant positive or negative effect on learning outcomes. In addition, many studies report that par-ents often feel unprepared to help their children with homework and that their efforts to help frequently cause stress to both the student and the parent.

The consensus view, with which we would agree at DCB, is that there are some conditions under which parental involvement can really enhance home-work. That is what we might call interac-tive homework in which:

• Teachers do not expect parents to act as experts regarding content or to attempt to teach the content.

• Parents serve as mentors and moti-vators to their children’s learning at home.

• Parents ask questions that help stu-dents clarify and summarize what they have learned.

Two celebrated academics, Good and Brophy, in a book called ‘Looking in Classrooms’ (2003), provided the follow-ing recommendations regarding parent involvement in homework:

‘Especially useful for parent-child rela-tions purposes are assignments calling for students to show or explain their written work or other products completed at school to their parents and get their reactions … or to interview their parents to develop information about parental experiences or opinions relating to top-ics studied. Such assignments cause students and their parents or other family members to become engaged in conversations that relate to the academic curriculum and thus extend the students’ learning. Furthermore, because these are likely to be genuine conversations rather

than more formally structured teaching/ learning tasks, both parents and children are likely to experience them as enjoyable rather than threatening.’

Resilience – don’t give up!At Dulwich we recognise that a number of things are important for learning to take place. One is hard work and never giving up. We call that resilience. Stu-dents who stick at a problem and commit to answering it, will learn. Parents need to tread the line of encouraging students to ‘keep at it’ whilst at the same time not stepping in too quickly to ‘bail’ a student out. Neither should parents be concerned if students make mistakes. Often the best learning happens when a student fails to grasp something and has to work hard at understanding the work.

Homework, therefore, needs to be a personal challenge but parental support can ensure the student stays focused.

Independent learningAnother really important aspect of learn-ing is taking responsibility oneself or independent learning. A student may well be set a piece of work that requires research, or that is difficult. The student will do well to ask for help from any

source to aid improved understanding – from the internet, from friends (social media can aid learning!), from a teacher or older students, or from their parents. If the student ‘uses’ their parent as a learning resource, that is a great skill and one we would encourage. In response parents need to support children by being a learning resource, not doing the homework for them.

The same thing goes for tutors brought in to support students outside of the classroom. When a tutor aids the learn-ing by acting as an extra resource they can make a difference, but when they simply serve to keep the student on task and to repeat work done in class, they can actually stop students from learn-ing off their own bat and hence cause problems down the line. Many students who are too tutor-dependent can end up underachieving or even failing to com-plete courses in higher education as they have not developed the resilience and independence needed to be a successful learner.

So please help your children with their homework – but do it in the right way!

David MansfieldHeadmaster

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Before you read this article, take your phone or your iPad out of your pocket and look at it for five seconds. Marvelous,

isn’t it? Now, for the first time in human history, we have all the information in the world ready and available at our fingertips. This is an overwhelming concept, so let us contemplate it again. Our phones can access all the information on the planet at the click of a button. Has your head stopped spinning yet? If it has, let us now consider how we frame this momentous technological achievement for our children and how

best to empower them to use technology in an ethical and responsible manner. This eSafety question has been placed firmly at the centre of an important whole-school initiative here at Dulwich College Beijing. We are now a college that understands the risks and rewards of the digital age and how best to empower our students.

Our commitment to eSafetyEighteen months ago, DCB made signifi-cant investment in ‘Generation Safe,’ an outstanding and highly regarded school self-evaluation programme aimed at

assessing how we educate our stu-dents, staff and community about online safety. Staff members were trained by the eSafety expert, Robyn Treyvaud of Cybersafe Kids (Australia), and our PSHE curricula were adapted to incor-porate the key messages and practices learned from this training. The school also committed to a series of parent workshops aimed at sharing our exper-tise and resources with the wider school community. The workshops covered areas such as social media, online iden-tity, cyberbullying, safe searching and privacy. We also shared our policy docu-

– Putting online welfare at the heart of Dulwich College Beijing

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ments and responsible user agreements.

The Challenge of Social Media and Online Identity Our students are now communicating to each other and the wider world through channels we could have only dreamed of: Weibo, Facebook, WeChat, Twit-ter, Instagram and Skype are but a few of the many social media networks in which young people like to reach out and express themselves. This online identity is a huge part of their lives now and we encourage our children, through lessons, tutorials and assemblies, to protect this identity at all times.

We encourage students, both on and off campus, to consider the images they use online. For younger students, we encourage the use of Avatars (small animated characters which are preferred to pictures of themselves) whilst chat-ting on social media networks. The older students we encourage to use group photographs or partial photographs of themselves. In addition to imagery, how we are dressed and appropriate body language also form part of the discussion about online identity.

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The Impact of Online IdentityThe impact of online identity cannot be overstated. Dulwich students have tremendous aspiration, which can be damaged by a singular ill-considered comment online or embarrassing photo-graph. Our objective is to educate them so that an online mistake does not come back to haunt them as they approach higher education and professional life.

The graphs above clearly show how year on year, universities and employers are increasing the number of online searches of prospective applicants.

Key eSafety Messages for our Stu-dents – the ‘Basic Rules of the Road’• Embrace their world – the Internet is a

wonderful place where one can find, dis-cover and explore. It is also a place of risk.

• Encourage balanced use – one of the most frequently asked questions from parents is ‘how much time should our children be spending online?’ This is an incredibly difficult question to answer and our consistent response has been that each family is differ-ent and has a different idea of ‘bal-anced use.’ Use your instincts, talk to your children about what they think is reasonable. Once you have an agree-ment, stick to it and be consistent!

• Monitor use as well as you can – this is most successful when you and your child have entered into a clear agree-ment about permitted/forbidden sites.

Jack HarmanEarly Years ICT Coordinator

Useful websiteswww.commonsensemedia.com - a great site for parents featuring eSafety guidelines and resources

www.kidrex.com - a safe search engine for younger children

www.symbaloo.com - a site that allows parents and children to choose appropriate websites for their children to visit and then create a page of buttons for them to click that takes them straight there

http://stopbullying.tumblr.com - Cyberbully information

http://thehealthteacher.com/good-reads-for-parents/- a great site full of articles about positive prevention of cyberbullying


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Can you make a regular octagon with just 5 folds in a piece of A4 paper? Is the sum of 3 even numbers

always even? These are examples of problems children are working on in their Maths lessons in Junior school at Dulwich College Beijing!

New SkillsDCB has developed a unique approach to learning and teach-ing Maths, designed to develop confident and competent math-ematicians, ready to problem solve in an ever-changing world.

One of the key features of the Junior School curriculum is to develop the ability to apply knowledge and skills in different contexts. While solving cal-culations, understanding numbers and learning facts all have a central role in the Maths curriculum, they contribute to the defined objective of ‘using and apply-ing.’ This concept includes skills such as making decisions, analysing, enquiring and reasoning; skills that not only enable high level mathematical thought but are also essential across the curriculum in all areas of learning.

Using and ApplyingCentral to the concept of ‘using and applying’ is problem solving: a skill that is often talked about in regard to the whole Junior School curriculum. Nowhere is this more evident than in Maths. The aim of a creative curriculum, such as the one in the DCB Junior School, is to use new

skills creatively and in new situations. Teachers look for opportunities in les-sons to present children with problems to solve. These activities may require finding different possibilities, trying out different strategies or looking at things from different perspectives. They require perseverance, the ability to confidently rise to challenges, as well as clear, logi-cal and systematic thought and the ability to collaborate with others.

Another example is the use of Maths in every day life, equipping children to use these techniques outside the classroom. Teachers look for opportunities to make links to real world situations. There are also formal and informal links to other curriculum areas, so that it does not exist in isolation. Parents can support this at home by looking for opportunities in ‘real life situations,’ such as asking children to work out the change when shopping together or reading train and bus timeta-

bles.

Numerical LanguageWord problems can also be useful for supporting another key feature of our Maths curriculum: developing the lan-guage of Maths and refining methods of communicating information. Teachers often see children who are very quick in number work and calculations but have not yet acquired the language necessary to fully engage with them. This is important so that children can answer questions in class or tests and is crucial to a child’s develop-ment of critical thinking.

If children have the vocabulary to com-municate, for example about division, or numerical difference, then progress in understanding these areas can be acceler-ated. This can present a particular challenge for children where English is an additional language. Parents can support this at home by practicing vocabulary related to different

Mastering Maths: Finding your Bearings with the Junior School Maths Curriculum

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I love languages. I love everything about them; from the cultural insights to the engagement with people, the humour, the tones, the

nuances and even the challenges they bring.

I once marked a boy’s French exercise book and he had written: ‘Ma mère est très gentille et mon père est sympa. Mon frère m’énerve parce qu’il est très fruits de mer.’ This means, for those who have not studied French, ‘My mother is very nice and my father is friendly. My brother annoys me because he is very seafood.’ What? What on earth was he trying to say? It took me a while to realize that he thought his brother was selfish but had looked up shellfish by mistake. Even dictionaries have their risks.

So, language has its dangers and its challenges, as any foreigner getting a taxi in Beijing will tell you. But, in the end, the gain is worth the pain. Our students know this because so many of them come from

dual or multi-lingual backgrounds. In Early Years, with its enhanced Mandarin programme, the little ones are proving to be amazing language learners. I do think how wonderful it is that my youngest son, currently in Reception, can sing Happy Birthday in Korean, Chinese and English, thanks to the friends in his class. It does mean a huge delay with blowing out the candles but goes down a treat with his English grannies when he phones them on their birthdays.

Our Chinese teachers at Dulwich face challenges on a daily basis and the job they have in not only teaching the tones in Chinese but also the characters is not to be underestimated. My children have now overtaken me, even my five year old, and love it when a waiter or shop assistant fails to grasp the word that I have tried to say so clearly. And when I finally make myself understood, the Chinese person repeats the word back to me as if I have a serious learning issue. Just a slight change of tone leading to all

The Role of Languages

学一门语言，就是多一个观察世界的窗户。 To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.

Chinese proverb – anonymous.

topics covered in class and also by encour-aging children to talk about relevant topics in their home language.

CalculationsNumber work and calculating remain central strands of the Junior School Maths curriculum. Parents often ask about the methods used for written calculations, as they may be different to traditional teaching methods.

In the first years of the Junior School, teachers will often start with ‘expanded methods.’ These encourage children to partition a number to show the value that the digit in the number represents. In these methods, the numbers are pulled apart and expressed as a sum with the values of each digit. Such methods can help children to fully comprehend how the calculation works before moving on to the shorter algorithms.

ExplanationsOne of the best ways to support children in their written calculations is to ask them to explain the methods they are using in class. Teachers will always select meth-ods that are appropriate to their level of understanding. This is another way of getting children to explain their thinking and is vital in the learning process. The ultimate goal of teaching written methods is to equip children with a range of strate-gies so that they can confidently select and apply the most efficient technique.

Learning opportunities are designed to be engaging, meaningful and, most importantly, to challenge children to think. Whatever stage children are at in their mathematic journey, a positive attitude is the vital basis on which children can build and learn.

Emily EdgeJunior School Maths Coordinator


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that confusion! Fortunately, there is more to learning a language than the merely functional. Our Head of Chinese, Ms. Liu, says, ‘Teaching languages is more than obtaining excellent results. It is a combination of culture, history, society, life style and living experiences. Our educational philosophy is to offer such a beautiful combination and constantly remind students to appreciate the rich-ness of Chinese culture and diversity.’

We take our language learning seriously at Dulwich, as we should with children from 45 different nationalities. German was introduced for native and non-native speakers last year and is proving a great success. Mrs. Lemm-Markus, our Head of German, talks about the native German programme, ‘Research is very clear about the importance of bilingual children’s mother tongue for their overall personal and educational development. When they develop a solid foundation of their mother tongue, they build stronger literacy in the school language.’ Fol-lowing feedback from parents, we also introduced a Dutch language and culture club for native speakers and Ms. Grant, Head of Junior School, is delighted with

as well as 14 guards who attend the les-sons almost on a daily basis. This project has had a huge impact on the guards’ confidence when speaking English to students, parents and teachers. In one of the initial trial lessons one of the head guards came in to see what the project was about and he said to the guards, “This is an opportunity you will not get anywhere else, make the most of it.” This stuck in the minds of the people in that room; it showed the guards the impor-tance of attending the lessons, and the students were filled with a passion and motivation to commit to this project.

There are many. questions about lan-guage that continue to fascinate me. Does the language we are speaking develop from our thoughts or is it the other way round? On one point there is agreement: our language, our culture and our identity interconnect and language learning is a stimulus that engages the brain and aids overall cognitive ability. Powerful reasons to keep promoting languages and language learning at Dulwich.

I shall finish with words from Ms. Tosi, our Head of EAL (English as an Addi-tional Language), who also supplied the quotation at the start of this article. ‘Language shapes the way we think. Being bi-lingual or multi-lingual in today’s society truly does build bridges to other worlds. It is inspirational to walk our hallways and see students of incredibly diverse backgrounds communicating with each other through shared languages.’

If you are currently a language learner, I hope this short article has served as an incentive to continue. If you haven’t started, take the plunge and remember ‘little and often.’ I must finish now - I need to work on my tones.

Simon HerbertHead of Senior School

its popularity. We were lucky enough to find an experienced Dutch teacher (also a DCB parent) to take this class.

So, does the international context help with language acquisition? Undoubtedly. Our students never cease to amaze us and our ‘Third Culture Kids’ are grow-ing up aware that linguistic opportunities abound. Ms. Lucron, our Head of Mod-ern European Languages, comments that two students in Year 13, who have studied French for only 18 months, are now conducting 95% of the lessons in the target language. Merveilleux! Some of our Korean IB CAS students trans-late the weekly College newsletters and Chinese-speaking students are busying themselves with translations of Early Years documentation.

Perhaps the most impressive project of all is that introduced by Leanne Robinson (Year 13). She decided to start an Eng-lish programme for the security guards at school. Her words speak for themselves: ‘The project started off with myself as the coordinator, 12 student teachers, and 8 guards. We now have a leadership team of 4 students, over 25 student teachers


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Sports

It has been another fantastic term of sport for the Dulwich Beijing students. The season culminated with the Varsity Basketball teams

in action at ISAC and ACAMIS and the Key Stage 3 Volleyball teams battling it out at the ISAC finals.

The Basketball teams have all shown great dedication throughout the season. The Boys Varsity played the Varsity teams of WAB and ISB as well as some tough matches with local Chinese Schools and did well to finish 3rd at the ACAMIS finals in Tianjin. A special mention goes to Falco Wang and Joe Howland for their leadership as co-cap-tains this season. The Girls Varsity team won ISAC in style under the guidance

of Mr. Anderson. At JV level both Girls’ and Boys’ teams were beaten finalists but should be proud of the development they have made under the tutelage of Mr. Burns and Mr. Parekh.

DCB’s Key Stage 3 Volleyball teams showed outstanding form, making 5 of the 6 ISAC finals. This is a real sign of the commitment and progress the pupils have made in volleyball this year.

Despite the all round success, it was the Under 14 Boys Volleyball team who stole the headlines, winning in impres-sive style. Captained by Will Herbert, the team displayed great togetherness throughout the season and with the explosive spiking talents of Ben Wong and

Nathan Turner always looked dangerous in attack. The boys are also proud winners of the ISAC Volleyball Final in all three years of competing and will look forward to transfer-ring these skills into the Varsity programme next year. Congratulations to Mr. Archer.

There was excitement in the pool this term as Dulwich went head to head with WAB in a school gala. This was followed by DCB swimmers going up against the best talent in Asia in the Asian All Star event at ISB. Bryan Chiew, Cecilia Taller-ini and Peter Mayer all showed fantastic ability in their races alongside Swim Cap-tain Mathew Mayer.

James TownsendDirector of Sports

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In April both Varsity football teams competed against teams in the Beijing community in the ISAC finals.

The boys took to the field in the group stages and claimed victories in all three games. A 1-0 win against the Canadian School of Beijing, 2-0 versus THIS and then a 4-0 win against TIS sent them through to the next round as group win-ners. The goals came from Jan Vlcek (2), Binny Ashelew (2), Brandon Wang, William Wong and Paddy Koy.

The semi final proved a real test of character, and after leading 1-0 from a Harry Roh goal, we were pegged back

by a Harrow thunderbolt. The 1-1 draw at full time led the teams to the dreaded penalties. With a combination of calm nerves and good for-tune, Dulwich emerged as victors, winning 4-1, and reached the final. The final itself was a close encoun-ter against the German school but late second half goals from Jan Vlcek sealed a 2-0 win for Dulwich.

The Girls team travelled to Harrow and looked confident in the round robin format, winning 1-0 against Harrow, 3-0 against the German School, 7-0 against THIS and finishing with a 0-0 draw with

TIS. This meant the girls were overall winners of the round robin on the day without conceding a goal. It was a fan-tastic achievement for the girls who took a slightly younger squad to the event and showed real quality in possession and predatory finishing in front of goal.

Well done to both teams for their hard work and determination.

James Townsend

In March, seven students from DCB (Jeremy Yau, Wilson Wong, Ben Wong, Martin Li, Nicholas Li, Michelle Yeo and River Kim)

ventured to the warmer climes of Kuala Lumpur to take part in the FOBISIA Golf tournament featuring many schools from South East Asia. It was a great experience for everyone involved and

in particular for Ben Wong (Year 9), who led the team superbly and won the individual trophy by 15 shots. Results were as follows:

Ben Wong – Longest DriveBen Wong – Individual Boys WinnerBoys team – 2nd PlaceBoys and girls team – 3rd place overall.

The College is hugely proud of this fantastic success and everyone is looking forward to developing Golf further next year.

David Archer & Hayley Townsend

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Sports

Please introduce yourselfMy name is Bryan Chiew and I am a Year 11 student. I am a national swimmer for Singapore.

Who is your greatest sporting role model?My Sporting role models are Michael Phelps and Kosuke Kitajima. I admire these athletes due to their high work ethic and great all round swimming abilities as well as their well-liked personalities.

What is your best advice for budding athletes?When you feel like quitting in the middle

of training or get tired and feel like slack-ing off, think about what your idol or your opponents will be doing in that same situation.

What is your biggest sporting achieve-ment so far?8th Place in the Finals at the Fina World Cup Series last year.

What is your greatest sporting dream for the future?To be able to represent my country at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Please introduce yourselfMy name is James Zhao; I am a Year 10 student and my passion for basketball started when I first laid hands on a bas-ketball.

Who is your greatest sporting role model?Kobe Bryant is my greatest sporting role model. He’s a phenomenal basketball player with a killer instinct and a mental-ity to out work his opponents. I’ve picked up so many things through watching him.

What is your best advice for budding athletes?Work hard and stay dedicated. You can always improve, you’re never at the point

where you can’t get better. Put in the work and the results will follow.

What is your biggest sporting achieve-ment so far?I feel that my biggest sporting achieve-ment so far is being able to maintain my love for the game of basketball and stay-ing dedicated whilst humble.

What is your greatest sporting dream for the future?I have many; the greatest sporting dream of mine is becoming the best basketball player I could possibly be. I’ll face many obstacles on my way there but I believe if I keep striving and stay dedicated, my dream will become reality.

SuperstarsThis term has been seen some exceptional sporting performances at Dulwich College Beijing. Whilst no victory is possible without fan-tastic team spirit, in Superstars we celebrate some of the College’s top individual performers.

Bryan Chiew

James Zhao


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On Friday 21st March, the Dulwich community came together to enjoy 'Dulwich Distilled - 4 Pillars in

1 Night', an evening to celebrate the four pillars of a Dulwich education – academics, service, sports and the arts. We invited our IB students to exhibit their visual art pieces, a trio of American Olympic swimmers to share their myriad experiences and a capella singers from Yale University to entertain with their own take on popular classics. The evening was hosted by our CAS (Community Action Service) team. Below is a rundown of all the highlights.

IB ArtThe IB Art exhibition, which displayed the most accomplished work that students have produced throughout the two-year course, was a fantastic opportunity for students to exhibit the fruits of their labour. These particular students have dedicated themselves to focus their ideas and develop their confidence

with media, resulting in ambitious and thought-provoking artwork. The exhibi-tion included some conceptually sophisti-cated outcomes, alongside studio pieces of technical competence. They reflected a variety of Art disciplines including pho-tography, textiles, sculpture, painting and installation.

Olympic SwimmersOlympic swimmers Jason Lezak, Aaron Perisol and Kim Vandenberg arrived at Dulwich as part of a series of workshops they were delivering across Beijing. They discussed their personal journey to success including career highlights and Olympic memories. It was a great opportunity for the students to engage with inspirational figures.

Yale Alley CatsDCB’s Chamber Choir and a capella singing group ‘Take Note’ started the day by attending workshops with the visit-ing Yale Alley Cats. The Yale Alley Cats performed for the students and offered

them advice and performance tips. The visiting Yale students were thoroughly engaging and our singers really enjoyed themselves.

Following the workshops, DCB hosted a concert featuring performances by our Chamber Choir and ‘Take Note’, before a fantastic set from the Yale Alley Cats. The audience enjoyed the Alley Cats’ performance so much that they insisted on not one, not two, but THREE encores!

CharitiesOn the evening of the 4 Pillars event the CAS students represented two charity groups, Ping An Medical Foster Home and Guang Ai Orphanage, and were working to raise money by selling drinks and refreshments to a thirsty audience. Five hours and over 300 bottles later, we were pleased to announce that we had made over 1000 RMB to fund the medi-cal treatment of sick children.

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Bathed in golden light on stage, a choir of 230 singers accompanied by a 100-strong symphony orchestra brought the Forbidden City Concert

Hall to life with a live gala concert on February 18 as part of the International Schools Choral Music Society (ISCMS) Music Festival. Most choir members were students from international schools in China who shared the stage with internationally renowned soloists, conductors and composers.

Humble beginningsHosted by Dulwich College Beijing, the ISCMS Music Festival has come a long way since it was first held in a school concert hall seven years ago. From humble origins and relative obscurity, today it has grown into the largest international music society in the Asia-Pacific region.

Such is the event’s prestige that the ISCMS was able to attract many celebrities in the fields of singing, conducting and composition for this year’s festival. Heading the star-studded bill on Saturday was dual Grammy Award winner Chris-topher Tin, whose hit composition Baba Yetu is both the theme to American computer game Civi-lization IV and soundtrack for the Dubai Fountain, the world’s largest choreographed fountain at the base of Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper.

Having hosted festivals at prestigious perfor-mance venues in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Busan, South Korea, ISCMS founder and

director Shane O’Shea is proud of the progress the society has made over the past seven years.

Inspiring studentsTin, renowned as a celebrity composer, said he was inspired by students’ passion for music after rehearsing with them over three days.

“I love the students. I could chat with them all day. They are fun, full of life, and full of energy. They have very promising futures, and I hope I can inspire a few of them to stay involved in music on a professional level,” Tin told Metropolitan.

“I’m honestly blown away by the passion that the students themselves have for learning. I would have loved to have done something like this when I was a student myself.”

Tin’s latest piece, Temen Oblak, was written in Bulgarian specially for this festival.

Literally “dark clouds” in Bulgarian, Temen Oblak is about the struggle for independence in Bulgaria. Spiritually, it’s a mournful piece about death, deso-lation and oppression. The composition is based on a poem by Hristo Botev, a revolutionary soldier and poet who fought for Bulgarian independence from Ottoman rule.

“I wanted to expose the festival participants to a style of music that they might have never heard before, let alone sing. Bulgarian music is very

Global harmonyGuest Feature: This article was written by Li Lin and was originally printed in the Global Times on the 2014-2-24


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unique: unorthodox rhythms, harmonies, vocal techniques and more,” said Tin. “I wanted to give the students a fun chal-lenge, and at the same time open them up to a Western form of music that’s very different from classical music.”

Star soloistsAdditionally, performances by the three conductors and four soloists attracted much attention. Among the soloists were Dutch soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg and Timothy Parker, voice and cello teacher at Dulwich College Shanghai and a former member of the world-famous choir of St John’s College, Cambridge.

Works performed at the gala concert included not only masterpieces by clas-sical composers such as Night on Bald Mountain by Petrovich Mussorgsky and Nelson Mass by Joseph Haydn, but also students’ own compositions.

Every year each participating ISCMS school submits one student composer’s work to Karl Jenkins, a British composer and an ISCMS patron.

Jenkins decides the winner of the annual Jenkins Award, a foundation he estab-lished to encourage young composers to pursue their musical ambitions. The winner’s piece is also performed at the gala as part of the award.

Composers of tomorrowGordan Yam of Sha Tin College, Hong

Kong, was crowned this year’s Jenkins Award winner for his composition Rise of the Trolls.

For student composers like Yam and John Hui, the 2013 winner of the Jenkins Award from Dulwich College Beijing, the ISCMS festival plays an important role in fostering their musical talent.

The piece that Hui won the Jenkins Award with is called The Hollow Men - Part I, after the T.S. Eliot poem that it takes its text from.

“The poem is really grim, but it just seemed to resonate with me when I first encountered it,” said Hui.

“Amongst the gloom, I found the inspi-ration to add in an element of musical performance that would also express the emotional emptiness I felt from reading it.”

For Hui and other students in ISCMS, this organization has done a lot to shape their identity. Hui was 11 when he attended the inaugural ISCMS Music Festival.

“So much of my personal and musical development has occurred within and alongside ISCMS,” he said.

Every festival has been challenging in a different way, he recalled. For exam-ple, the first ISCMS in 2008 was his first experience with singing Latin.

He recalls that getting 500 people onstage for the fifth ISCMS in 2012 was a logistical nightmare.

And at the second ISCMS in 2009, he had to deal with his breaking voice.

“I’ve moved from soprano to alto, down to tenor, then stopped. Although it’s a pity I’ll never be able to say that I have sung in all four sections, I take great pride in my current tenor section,” said Hui.

“Perhaps we get poked at every once in a while by the stereotypically manlier basses; perhaps we get gut-wrenchingly high parts all the time; perhaps we are usually the smallest section in the choir; nevertheless, I am still willing to stand up for my section, because I know that when we cleanly hit that top G or A, it’s the greatest feeling in the world.”

Having turned 18 on the first day of rehearsals for this year’s festival, Hui was visibly shy when O’Shea told the choir and administration group it was his birthday.

He acknowledged their applause, how-ever, waving to his peers from the back of the concert hall.

But what better way for a choir to acknowl-edge the birthday of one of its members than to sing “Happy Birthday.” As the song resonated throughout the school’s concert hall, it brought smile to everyone’s face and gave Hui a memorable birthday indeed.


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The first season of the skating programme saw more than 100 children and adults participate in figure skating,

ice hockey, synchronised skating, beginners skating and public skating.

Dulwich Family Day On IceThe season was topped off with an event co-arranged with Time Out Magazine, Dulwich and Time Out Family Day on Ice, where children and students showcased their acquired skating skills to different pieces of music in front of an audience of about 200 parents, friends, staff and fellow students. The newly formed DC Synchronized Skating Team (DC Synchro) also performed a Broadway style number accompanied by yummy food and drinks served by the Friends of Dulwich and the Hilton Capital Airport. Families, children and participants thoroughly enjoyed the day.

DCB Competitive Skating TeamDCB Skating also has a budding com-petitive figure skating team currently con-sisting of five skaters, who have worked extra hard this season. They competed

with their choreographed routines at Skate Beijing 2014 in the China World Ice Rink April 18-20. This was the first competition for DCB Skating and we were thrilled to present the school there.

We are also very proud of Thalia Dudek (Year 11) and Erica Jin (Year 11) who both chose to do one of their IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) exams in figure skating!

Ice Hockey ProgrammesIn addition to a skating programme, DCB Skating also boasts an ice hockey pro-gram (run in conjunction with the expe-rienced team of coaches at Center Ice Hockey, Curtis Dracz and Tsuki Arinami). This season saw the beginnings of a Dul-wich College Ice Hockey Team as well as a strong Learn-to-Play program span-ning all age groups of the school. The ice hockey programmes will start up again in the winter season in November later this year. We look forward to welcoming even more ice hockey players and will again be offering ice hockey weekend and

classes as well as a school team.

In the off-ice season (April-June) we are offering ball hockey and off-ice hockey training as well as off-ice figure skating training.

In the new season starting in November 2014, we will again offer different levels of skating programmes ranging from beginners (TOT 1-4), intermediate (Pre-alpha, Alpha, Beta, Delta) to advanced and competitive (Figure Skating 1-10) as well as DCB Synchro (Synchronized Skating).

For more info about the skating pro-grammes and to sign up, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Camilla OjansivuDCP Manager and Head of Skating

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This has been a very busy year in the College Counselling office at Dulwich Beijing, with a lot of new initiatives and

programmes.

The newsletter, which includes informa-tion relevant to the application process, goes out every Tuesday. In addition, the Counsellors give presentations to parents and students every Thursday after school with number of them translated to Chinese.

We had two big CIS University Fairs at Dulwich in September and April, a first for the College, giving students and parents the opportunity to meet many University Admissions Officers in one short session.

To help students with the SAT we have formed a partnership with The Princeton Review who offer SAT courses at school with a substantial discount in price. The first 10 students to take the course saw an average score increase of 356 SAT points. This year, 54 Year 13 students completed the SAT examination and their average

score was 2037. Also, as an alternative to the SAT, both the PLAN and ACT were taken by Dulwich students this year.

We have had visits from a lot of differ-ent universities this year and over 200 Admissions Officers have been on our campus. This will help more universi-ties to get to know the Dulwich name. In addition it shows that universities want to come here and attract our students.

As always our parents were very sup-portive of Dulwich initiatives and it was pleasing to see that 25 of them were able to present to students about their careers during our annual Careers Day. In addi-tion to more traditional careers such as doctors and engineers, our students also met jewellery designers, creators of mobile apps and even a snow boarder.

We have had another succesful year in terms of university offers with 3 students being offered places at Ivy League Uni-versities. In addition students have been offered places at both Seoul National University and KAIST in Korea. Students have also been accepted in NUS-Yale in Singapore and Cambridge in the UK.

From the top 30 university in the QS World ranking, we received 70 offers and 157 offers from the top 60 Universities in the

World (excluding Japanese and Australian universities whose application decisions are not out yet). We are still waiting on nearly 150 university decisions and these numbers are expected to rise.

About half our students have now decided where they are going to study next year and the most popular desti-nations are UC Berkeley, The London School of Economics (LSE), Imperial College London and University College London (UCL).

As more offers come out we expect our students to obtain around US$2 million in scholarship offers with the most gener-ous universities being HKU and HKUST, both in Hong Kong.

As I hope the above makes clear, we have worked hard this year to provide students with every opportunity of acceptance into their desired university. Yet whilst the counseling team will con-tinue to support the student body, it is the hard of the work students that drive such fantastic results. If you have any ques-tions or feedback in regards to any of the initiatives mentioned, please pop in. Our door is always open.

Kevin HuntleyCollege Counsellor

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Can you introduce yourself? My name is Maureen Huang and I’m the Head of Human Resources Dulwich College Bei-jing. I have worked at the College for nearly 9 years. Prior to joining Dulwich, I worked for 9 years in finance and HR in two other Beijing International Schools.

What is your typical day at work like? A typical working day of mine starts with read-ing emails and replying to the most urgent ones immediately. Then, I need to attend different meetings scheduled to review pend-ing issues and action plans. Unplanned and casual meetings with teachers, admin staff and visitors can be another important part of

my daily activities. Their questions may be very challenging.

Doing overtime is not unusual for me because I have many deadlines to finish paperwork and reports. Yet, despite the stress, I enjoy my working life because I have a great HR team I can rely on.

What do you normally do on the weekend?My most relaxing time is chatting with my son after he comes home on Friday night from boarding school. On Saturday, I usually help my mum with the gardening and housework. I love reading books and I try to make my Sun-day a ‘reading’ day.

Behind the Scenes

Can you introduce yourself? My name is Paola Morris, Director of Busi-ness Administration and Bursar at Dulwich Beijing. I have worked at the College for just over six months now. This is my first interna-tional post, and I previously worked in similar positions for the University of Cambridge in UK and for the UK Parliament.

What is your typical day at work like? There is really no typical day in my work! My responsibilities include the oversight of Finance, HR, Operations, Purchasing and IT. I manage about 75 College staff and about 150 contractors (Catering, security, bussing and bus monitors, cleaning) with my Heads of Department. A lot of the work I do revolves around managing the school budgets and billing, payroll and HR procedures, plan-ning building and refurbishment works in the school, and in general looking after the non-

academic support services.

What do you normally do on the weekend? As I am still fairly new to Beijing, at the week-end I generally spend time visiting sites such as the Great Wall, Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, as well as all of the mar-kets like Yashow, Silk Market and XinYu-anLi. Now that the weather is warm I also go for long bike rides around the College, as I live nearby.

Do you have an interesting story or memory that you would like to share? My claim to fame is that I met the Queen once, when I was working in Parliament. It was only for a few seconds but I was very nervous and afraid I would get my words mixed up, so I rehearsed my lines several times in advance, but on the day she only asked for my name and my job title!

Behind the ScenesA lot of activity goes on behind the scenes to ensure that daily school operations run smoothly, and many individuals work very hard backstage, often unnoticed, to make sure that teachers can concentrate on teach-ing and students on learning. Today the College sits down with two of our support staff colleagues to find out about their jobs at Dulwich.


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We would like to thank all Dulwich parents, teachers and friends from our community for participating in the Friends of Dulwich Annual Dinner Dance Charity event held on Saturday, November 30th, 2013 in the Hilton Beijing Capital Airport Hotel.

It was a great evening for all those who attended the event and for the charity as well. Through raffle ticket sales, lucky dip envelopes, two private cash donations and the silent auction baskets we raised the brilliant sum of RMB 183,751 for Morning Tears foundation.

Morning Tears was founded in 1998 as a

non-political, non-religious and non-profit organisation. It is currently active not only in China, but also in Europe and in other parts of Asia. Morning Tears has been the recipient of several awards including the prestigious five-year China National Char-ity Award in 2010.

Children are the hidden victims when a parent goes to prison, and too often they lose everything. Morning Tears helps these children reclaim their lives. Through capacity-building and awareness-raising, they aim to break the downward spiral of intergenerational incarceration.

We hope that Friends’ support of Morn-ing Tears, and thereby the children, is more than just a donation, but shows that they are not forgotten or alone in the challenges they face on a daily basis.

We would like to sincerely thank you once again for joining the Dinner Dance Charity event and look forward to more great community events in the years to come so that we can also offer continued support in meeting the needs of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Tina Schmidt, Shelly Kozak,Friends of Dulwich

Charity Dinner Dance‘Touch of Africa’


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London

Work has started in earnest on the con-struction of the new science building, known as The Laboratory, at Dulwich College in London. This major project will provide much-needed improved science facilities, an auditorium and an exhibi-tion space. The space will house Ernest Shackleton’s boat, the James Caird, in which he completed his famous 800-mile journey across the Antarctic Ocean to seek help for his team stranded on Ele-phant Island in Antarctica. The founda-tions for the new building are being dug, as are two bore holes, descending to a depth of 124 metres, which will provide ground water for a Ground Source Cool-ing System.

The whole College in London has been celebrating the success of former pupil Chiwetel Ejiofor, who recently won a BAFTA award for leading actor for his role in Twelve Years a Slave. At the time of writing, our fingers are crossed that this success may be repeated at the Oscars ceremony. Chiwetel Ejiofor was a pupil at Dulwich London from 1990-1995, during which time he acted in many Col-

lege productions, including taking the role of Jack/Ernest in The Importance of Being Earnest.

Other Old Alleynians have also enjoyed successes in the c rea t ive sphere recently. Jeremy Deller, at Dulwich from 1977-1984, is now recognised as one of Britain’s leading visual artists and was invited to create a special exhibition for the British pavilion at the 55th Interna-tional Art Exhibition in Venice – la Bien-nale di Venezia – which ran from June to November 2013. Asif Khan (a pupil from 1988-1998) is a noted designer and architect and created MegaFaces at the Sochi Winter Olympics, a giant piece of “inclusive architecture” which beamed 3D images of visitors’ faces on to the wall of the MegaFon pavilion to create a digital “Mount Rushmore”. Finally, the world of literature is represented by Tom Rob Smith (1987-1997), whose best-selling novel Child 44 is currently being filmed for release next year. His new book, The Farm, has also just been published to considerable critical acclaim.

Du lw ich Co l lege Shangha i was delighted to host a debating workshop led by UK-based organisation, Debate Mate.

One hundred and seven students from across the Dulwich group took part in a range of activities; learning to prepare and deliver arguments, work as a team and follow the rules of formal debate. As many students were debating for the first time, there was an emphasis on having fun while learning these important skills.

The workshop closed on Sunday with a competition in which teams debated one prepared motion and two impromptu motions after only 15 minutes preparation time. Students

Amazing Alleynians

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Shanghai

Saturday Horse Riding A group of excited students set off from Dulwich College Seoul for their first horse riding ECA session this year. When the children arrived at the riding club, they were pleasantly surprised to be greeted by a lazy Jack Russell terrier and a warm crackling fire-place.

With helmets and safety jackets all fitted, the young riders awaited introduction to their ponies, horses and instructors. For a good hour they rode with Nana, Coco, Kaka, Sylvie and Nike, learning to con-trol the horses’ walk, jog trot and canter around the arena. While their cheeks turned rosy and warm, students soon realised that horse riding is more tiring than expected!

On the way back to the College, the students were overheard complaining about how much they missed their ponies and horses already! Everyone was certainly looking forward to the next riding session.

Seoul

from Seoul and Shanghai debated the final motion, “This house believes China should prioritise improving the environ-ment over economic development,” with the Dulwich Seoul team winning the debate following excellent speeches

from both sides. Mr. Brian McDouall presented the trophy to the winning team, as well as prizes for Best Speaker, Best Question from the Floor and Most Improved Debater.

Staff and workshop leaders were impressed with the enthusiasm and tal-ent shown by the students during the workshop, and we hope to see regular Dulwich debating events in the future.


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Suzhou

Students at Dulwich College Suzhou have delivered more than four hundred rucksacks to a nearby migrant school. It was part of Operation Rucksack – a charitable programme run by students to help children who are less fortunate.

The project started in September 2013 as a House and Year Group competition in the Junior School, initiated and organ-ised by Junior School teachers Sarah Smith and Emma Ventham.

The chosen school was the Ming Xing School for children of migrant workers in the Ping Juang area of downtown Suzhou. A group of Dulwich students vis-ited the school and asked the pupils and teachers what they needed most. It was then decided by the group to put pencil cases full of stationery, coloured pencils, notebooks, a geometry set, a water bot-

tle, a Chinese shuttlecock and a skipping rope in each rucksack.

In the end Dulwich College Suzhou gave away 439 rucksacks, each valued at 150RMB, making a total value of 65,850RMB.

On Tuesday, 25th February, the ruck-sacks were handed over to the school by 23 Junior School students. John Todd, Headmaster of Dulwich College Suzhou, said, ‘This is a project that makes a real difference. Seeing the chil-dren’s faces when they received their rucksacks was magical, and a very valu-able learning experience for our own students.’

Elli, DCSZ Head Girl, said, ‘A small gift can make such a big difference. The chil-dren lit up when they received the ruck-

sack. We take things for granted.’

Michelle Cheng, ICT Teacher at the Col-lege, was the main contact with the Ming Xing School throughout the project and arranged the handover of the rucksacks. She said, ‘Dulwich College Suzhou has been working to support Ming Xing School for a number of years, mainly in service projects like building mainte-nance and school fees. The school was chosen because it’s easily accessible to our Junior School students, so they could help first hand.’

Th i s p rog ramme was he lped and sponsored by the Expat Association of Suzhou, Crowne Plaza and ACAMIS (The Association of China and Mongolia Inter-national Schools).

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Spring Festival was a fantastic time at Dulwich College Beijing. The week-long celebrations involved students of all ages and included ice sculpture, acrobats, and parent workshops, among many other colorful cultural events.

May the horse bring you fortune!

马上有财!


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Where could you possible find cavemen and cavewomen, Romans, Victorians, WWII children and 60’s flower children all at the same time? In Year 4? Not quite. In the Year 4 production? That’s more like it. The Year 4 production united this disparate bunch of merry charac-ters on one stage, delighting parents and students.

Time Travellers


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The Dulwich community came together to enjoy ‘Dulwich Distilled - 4 Pillars in 1 Night’, an evening celebrating the four pillars of a Dul-wich education – academics, service, sports and the arts. The IB Art exhibition was excellent, the Olympic swimmers inspiring, and the Yale Alley Cats (an a capella group) hugely entertaining and simply good fun. The event was catered for by our CAS students with all proceeds donated to charity.

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We were very proud to host the 7th ISCMS festival from the 19-23rd of February. The Gala Concert took place in the Forbidden City Concert Hall on Saturday the 22nd February at 7.30 p.m. The concert featured a choir of 225 singers, a 100 piece orchestra, coming from 25 International schools from around the region, and soloists from all over the world.

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By Joshua (Jae-ha) Chang, Year 12

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