周一见!来自徐涛校长和Andrew校长的新年寄语 Principal's Letter

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经历了线上的学习和寒假的调整,

同学们下周一返校了!

20-21第一学期,

我们一同经历了荣誉与挑战,变化与成长,

我们一同沉淀着朝阳凯文独特的自豪感。

 

在返校之际,

请查收徐涛校长和Andrew Leale校长的新年寄语,

聆听叮嘱。

我们双手合十,

衷心祝愿小蓑羽鹤们,

新学期成长为更好的自己,

期待属于你们更多的精彩。



徐涛校长寄语



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亲爱的同学们:


欢迎大家在度过了一个充满意义的寒假之后重返校园。


我们都知道中国人的春节是特别的,它伴随着中国农历节气【立春】一起到来,庆祝春节就是庆祝春天的到来。


我们常常说:“一年之计在于春,一天之计在于晨。”借着这生机勃勃的季节,我也想鼓励同学们在新的学年成为更有活力更好的自己。


我有这样三个建议给到大家:


第一是如何制定自己的目标。很多同学在制定目标的时候,往往以提高学习成绩来激励自己,但我却要鼓励大家在目标制定中,去关注优秀习惯的培养,而培养优秀习惯时又要避免设置太大的目标,可以尝试去设置微习惯。那些微小的习惯更容易达成,同样可以让我们成为更棒的自己。一个好习惯的养成需要至少60天的时间,如果太宏大其实是不容易完成的。在微习惯的制定法则中,将目标设定为小到你不可能完成不了,这样就可以达到每天进步一点点。这就是和大家分享的第一点:制定目标的时候多关注好习惯的养成,而设置目标的时候,从小小的微习惯开始。


第二是鼓励大家成为阅读者。如今,我们要特别去平衡网络化的碎片阅读和整本书的阅读。阅读不单单是语文这门学科的任务,它更是学习所有学科需要的基本技能。阅读的时候要选择那些有质量的碎片内容,但同样不能忽略整本书的阅读。因为整本书的阅读会让我们的思考更具创造力,也就有更多空间去提升创造性和批判性的思维。


第三是鼓励大家投身课堂以外更大的社区生活。我们知道一个人的成长有两部分,固然有学术课表的一部分,但也有离开课表归你自己管理的那一部分,那是更大的生活课堂。所以当我们更好的规划自己,投身于更大的生活课堂和生活资源时,我们才会成为一名更均衡的学习者。不要轻视那些课堂外的时间,那里同样有很多学习的资源,这些课外的学习资源会让你成为一个更丰富的自己。


新的学年我们一起加油,一起做更好的自己。


Dear students,

 

Welcome back to school after a meaningful winter vacation. We all know the Spring Festival is a special festival for Chinese, because it refers to the 24 solar terms of spring. 


We often say, “A year’s plan is made in spring, and a day’s plan is made in the morning.” In this vibrant season, I want to encourage all of you to strive hard to become vibrant and better yourself in the new semester.

 

Here I have three suggestions for you:


The first one is how to set goals. 


When many of you set goals, you often focus on improving your academic performance to motivate yourselves. However, I would encourage you to focus on developing good habits. In this process, you must avoid setting too big goals. Instead, you may try to develop micro habits. Since micro habits are easier to finish, it will be easier to make us better. The formation of a good habit takes at least 60 days. A big goal is not easy to insist on in such a short time to format. The rule of micro-habit is to set the goal as small as you can that you cannot fail to complete it, so that we can make progress every day. This is the first point that I want to share with you. When setting goals, we should pay more attention to the formation of good habits, and when developing good habits, we should start from the small habits.


The second is to encourage you to be a reader. 


Nowadays, we must balance fragmented reading on the internet and traditional reading of a whole book. Reading is not the task of the Chinese curriculum; it is a basic skill required by all subjects. When we read, we should choose high-quality content for fragmented reading, and at the same time, read whole books too to make a balance. Because reading a whole book makes us think more creatively and gives us more space to develop creative and critical thinking.

 

The third is to encourage you to engage in a larger community outside of the classroom. 


We know that there are two parts to one’s development. Of course, there is an academic and class schedule, but there is also another part that is off the schedule, which is under your own management, which is called life.  When we put ourselves into daily life and get use of life resources, we will become holistic learners. Don’t underestimate the time you spend outside class. There are many resources for learning that will make you a better person.


In this new semester, let’s hands in hands, shoulders by shoulders, to be better ourselves.



Andrew Leale校长寄语



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尽管我们都面临着出行限制,我仍希望大家度过了一个充满了天伦之乐、轻松愉快的春节。

 

在凯文繁忙的新学期开始之前。过去的几周,是师生们充实自己、恢复精神的宝贵机会。

 

新学期将带来很多机遇,激情和挑战。

 

对于我们的10年级学生来说,有一项最重要的挑战,它就是即将到来的iGCSE考试,而对于12年级的学生而言,无论是学术方向还是艺术方向,在明年进入大学之前还有一场期末考试。我们为他们的成就感到非常自豪,因为他们已经收到了来自全球一流大学的录取通知。我们期待在考试期间为他们提供帮助和指导。


我们也期待着新年的到来——我们的中学音乐剧《走进树林》定于三月底公演。我们的第一届夏季运动会将于5月底举行。我们将在下学期举行各种活动,如阅读、STEM、圆周率日和地球日。我们的中英文阅读集中于科学,数学和人文。

 

当我们进入新的“牛年”时,我想与你们分享一项英国传统活动——制定“新年心愿”,即在新年伊始做出承诺以在来年改善生活方式并且提高自己。我想鼓励大家在今年尝试这一传统活动。

 

进步多少取决于你们的反思——因为自己最了解自己,你们可以思考哪些因素可以帮助自己成为更好的学生。也许你们会决定每天减少30分钟的游戏时间,也许你们会决定每晚睡前留出20分钟的阅读时间——我在上学期末写了篇文章讨论定期阅读的好处,也许你们会对作业采取更认真的态度,确保在牛年期间按时完成所有作业。或者保证恭敬地对待父母,不要让坏心情影响他人。或者,你们可以改善校内的某些行为。

 

最重要的是,你们通过这种方式能够定期对自己进行反思。希望每天坚持一点点,你们就能够不断进步并在某天迷失自己的情况下迅速回到正轨

 

履行新年心愿很难,我自己也深有体会。所以,不要为自己设定任何不切实际的目标,在某一天迷失目标的时候也不要放弃,一定要做出承诺,并有明确的在你认为重要的地方做出改进。

 

我个人的新年心愿将是与你们进行更多地交流,确保我每天可以与你们讨论学习。在过去的12个月中,在线学习使得师生沟通更具挑战性,但是理解并享受所学知识对于提高理解力和智力有很大的帮助。

 

因此,我希望在接下来的几个月中与大家多多交流,并能听到在老师的帮助下你们学业进步的好消息。


祝大家牛年快乐。


I hope that you have all had a relaxing and enjoyable Spring Festival, filled with the pleasures of connecting with friends and family, despite the travel limitations we have all faced. 

 

The past weeks have been a valuable opportunity for students and teachers alike to recharge and refresh…..before we embark on another very busy term at CKWA.

And the term ahead promises a great deal of opportunity and excitement, as well as challenge.


Challenge, most significantly for our Grade 10 students as they look ahead to sitting their iGCSE examinations and to our Grade 12 students who, both within the scholastic and the talent track, will be sitting their final exams before moving on to university next year. We are so proud of their achievements already as they have received outstanding offers from great universities across the globe….and we look forward to supporting and guiding them through the examination period.


And we look forward to a great deal more too in the New Year – our secondary school musical – Into the Woods – which is scheduled for the end of March. Our first summer sports day at the end of May. Our celebrations of Reading, of STEM, of Pi Day and of Earth Day over the term as we focus on Reading in Chinese and English, on Science, on Maths and on Humanities respectively.


As we enter this new ‘Year of the Ox’ I want to share with you a tradition from the UK of making a ‘New Year’s Resolution’. This involves making a determined commitment, at the start of the New Year, to make one key lifestyle improvement in the year ahead. I would like to encourage all of you to embrace this tradition this year.

 

What improvement you make is down to you to reflect on – you know yourself best, and can think about what will help you to become an even better student. Maybe you will commit to reducing your gaming to a maximum of 30 minutes a day. Maybe you will decide to set aside 20 minutes for reading before bed each night – I wrote at the end of last term about the benefits of regular reading. Perhaps you will take a more responsible attitude to homework, making sure that every homework is completed on time during the Year of the Ox. Or pledge to be more polite and responsive to your parents and to not allow your moments of bad mood to impact on others. Or perhaps there is some aspect of your in school behaviour that can be improved.

 

Most importantly make your resolution something which you can measure yourself against regularly….hopefully daily, so that you can maintain the improvement and get back on track quickly if you miss one day.

 

I know from many years of experience that it is difficult to maintain New Year’s Resolutions through the whole year……so don’t set yourself any goal which is going to prove impossible…..and don’t give up if you miss your target on one day…….but do try to make a commitment and have a clear intention to make the improvement that you think is important.

 

My personal new years resolution will be to communicate more with you….to make sure that every day I get to speak with more of you about your learning. Online learning has made effective communication more challenging for all of you and all of your teachers at points in the last 12 months…but talking about your learning and appreciating the value of what you have been taught is important in cementing your understanding and enjoying the wisdom you are all developing.

 

So I look forward to speaking with you all in the months ahead and to hearing what you are learning with the help of your teachers…..and I wish you all a very happy and successful Year of the Ox.






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