太行（Taihang）
Editor-in-Chief: Ariana Gao
Masthead: Evangeline Zhao
Arts and Music
The Student Art Exhibition
Evangeline Zhao – The student in the IGCSE visual art class has put out the final sketch works for mid-term examination, which include at least 2 still lives and a piece of a drape each. The teacher, Mrs. Marina supplied dozens of models for random chose on the big day. The process of sketching lasted for 2 periods.
The wall of sketches surely was magnificent. Mrs. Marina had all of the students out of the classroom and appreciated them.
Mrs. Marina Comments on Student Work
Ariana Gao – After the mid-term exam, visual art students’ art works were posted in the corridor on 5th floor in the lab building.
The RFC Highlight got a chance to interview the teacher----Mrs. Marina.
‘It’s a chance for students to show their efforts. They can see what they need to prove and correct the mistakes by comparing their drawings with others. I hope they can realize they still need to work harder and put their hearts into art.’
‘I think it’s meaningful. Students can look back at their work when they grow up. It’s not just a drawing, is more of a memory and sign of the period of being a greenhorn.’ Said another art teacher Mr. Liu.
Mrs. Marina was also considering about posting some art works on the school newsletter. Watch this space for latest news!
Musical Gala Coming this Christmas
Tina Ding – The school musical gala is coming soon, it’s a yearly event that a lot of students pay their efforts organizing and preparing. We had a preliminary selection of the songs, hosts, bands and dances during the last week of November.
“Dark pineapples” is a band formed with five boys. They are preparing the song “Can’t take my eyes off you” and was looking forward to playing the song on the gala, also showing their hard works and talents to the whole school. There was also a peculiar performance showed in the preliminary election. It was a dancing team with a traditional instruments orchestra. They were preparing an ancient Chinese style music and dance called “The red lotus memory”. Their purpose is to spread the traditional Chinese dancing and music to the school and show their respect for the traditional Chinese culture.
Interview with Mr. A by William Zu
RDFZ Chaoyang is about to hold a grand gala around Christmas. Let's hear what Mr. A has to say.
Q: How do you feel about the gala?
A: I think it's great that students have taken it upon themselves to organize a music component and I think it's especially great that there is going to be a drama component since we have so many talented actors and actress in our classes.
Q: How did you prepare for it?
A: Well, a numbers of other teachers and myself are preparing a song to perform, this happened rather informally.
Q: What sort of music do you play?
A: I play Rock & Roll, Blues, and Country on guitar. But Reno is a much better guitarist than me so he is going to be handling the guitar.
Sports
Talented Athletes around the School
Sophia Zheng – Fiona is a rhythmic gymnast from national first level athletes of China. She began to practice eurythmic when she was five years old by chance, then she persisted in practice because of interest and love. Because of the courage from other companion and great perseverance from herself, so she achieved her goal and had great achievement in eurythmic.
Alexandra is one of the Chinese athletes of running. She was chosen in the school track team in junior school. I used to admire the person who running like a wind, after I communicated with her, I changed my mind because she told me how hard to practice it and how many times she wanted to give up. She won many races and the strenuous training strengthened not only her muscles but also her will.
Hiking the Great Wall
Carrie Chen – It was a rare sunny day in a long period of smog weather. After every class had made their class flag, the “Great Wall hiking” activity had officially begin.
Despite the pretty view alone the way, the difficulty of climbing an undeveloped Great Wall cannot be despised. The brick of the road and the wall had become bumpy after years of erosion. The slightest little bit of inattention can lead to a sprained ankle. But everyone did finish the challenge with the help from his or her friends.
Most people enjoyed the day even they kept shouting ‘My leg hurts a lot!’ After all, we are all looking forward to the next school outdoor activity.
Basketball Finals
Michael Miao – The huge stadium was all in silence, an atmosphere of tension, the finals of the middle school affiliated to the RDFZ basketball game is about to start, the Taihang team and Kunlun team were itch for a try. As the referee’s whistle, the game began. Fans were are excited even a bit lost of control.
Final score is locked in the 37:41, Kunlun team relied on the excellent tactics and Cai Ziqi’s excellence, defeated the Taihang team to four points.
National Track and Field Day
Andrew Gong – The sports meeting in RDFZ Chaoyang Branch School was held in autumn on September 30.
Different teams walked through red squares along the runway, include students in junior and senior high school which in Taihang House, Qilian House, Kunlun House and Hengduan House, youthful passion shone in their face when they sang and danced to the audience.
When the tournament began, all players were prepared and the excitement watered the nervousness away. Races started one by one: 100 m dash, 400 m, 1000 m run, standing long jump, throw the shot, tenth jump…etc.
Players raced for glory, struck with all their strength, student reporters also did their duty——write letters for players, and encouraging students to participate in the competition.
In this sports meeting, players and non-players all showed their charisma and strong fighting spirit. The spirit of constantly go beyond ourselves deeply imprinted in the minds of each student.
Electives and Clubs
The Magic Club
Diana Zhang – According to Miss Cindy “The establishment of our magic club was a great success thanks to you all.”
Our club is an innovation because it not only makes a good combine with the theory and practice of magic, but also extends the territory of magic into science, occultism, psychology in order to make people learn the truth of magic.
Recently we are contacting a committee to take part in a magic show. All of our members hope it will be well carried on, as well as the future of our club.
The Student Yearbook
Jackie Xia – A yearbook is a book which record some wonderful times. It contains lots of memories that you will treasure for the rest of your life. As our head teacher said: “Beautiful memories make a man young.”
But nowadays, yearbooks are ignored by many people. It becomes a big challenge for us to sell more yearbooks.
When you leave this school, you can take nothing but memories, so get a yearbook, for your wonderful youth. Less than 100 RMB, then you will have a priceless treasure of your whole life. Contact Florence Qian for more information.
Learn French to Become a Unique Student
Robert Fu – Attracting students to be keen on exploring foreign culture and languages is one of an international school's tasks, so Mr. Paul from the English department set up French elective for students who are interested in learning French language and culture.
In this elective, students learn to speak basic French and some French customs. They are also trying to adapt to new grammar and pronunciation rules.
The French elective welcomes more students to attend to enjoy this beautiful language and enlarge their experience.
The Psychology Club: How to Read Minds!
Xenia Wei – Due to the structure of our organization, we do research based on our everyday life. We observe students and record, then draw the conclusion.
Our club contains core members and common members.
Core members, which have deep understand and mostly take the AS Psychology. They are responsible for the essay writing and doing research in a high standard around our school. And common members, assist the core members to build their research. Until now, we have 61 members in total. We welcome everyone who is interested in the psychology – come and join us!
Academics
By Florence Qian, Lisa Wang, Andy Yang and Sherlock Cheng
Interview with S2 student Louise
Last week, S1 students took their first Mid-term exam, the test results were quite satisfactory. Correct learning methods have to be passed on, only in this way can students enhance their fruition of study.
“I think I should focus more on the application of knowledge, not just on memorizing the textbook.” said Senior 2 student Louise, who possesses superb study habits and excellent time management. Louise is one of the school
prefects and she got 5 As and a couple of A stars in this Midterm Exam. She deems that she could have done better in maths, chemistry and physics. “I didn’t have enough time to finish every question meticulously. Had I answered the questions more carefully, my grade would have been higher.” If you would like to improve your study skills, you may start to master the correct study habits, make a more effective time management and make greater efforts from now on.
Midterm Exam Results
Mid-term exam is a constructive way to
demonstrate our academic ability and efforts we made. After Mid-term exam, we
gained a better understanding of how well we have mastered the knowledge, thus can we
locate and make up the deficiencies.
In our recent research, we found that there are 30% students who got low grades in our class because there are too much new knowledge to study these days.Also there are about 40% students who got low grades in some subjects because of their failed time
management low grades in Mid-term exam.
It is nevertheless true that there are about 20% students who got good grades in each subject. Those students always have an efficient study plan in advance and finish their homework on time. They seldom do something in hurry, because they have good time management. They may only study 2 to 3 hours everyday, however, they study much more efficiently than other students. Time is unique and everyone wants to make the most of his or
her time. Actually, the most important point is that time management is not necessarily about getting lots of things done, because much more important than that is making sure that you are working on the right things, the things that truly
need to be done and can possibly make a difference.
1. Write things down
2. Prioritize your list
3. Plan you week
4. Learning to say no
5. Continuously improve yourself
6. Think about what you are giving up to do
7. Identify bad habits
8. Keep a goal journal
9. Don’t be a perfectionist
10. Avoid “efficiency traps”
Natural Science
The results of the mid-term examination had come out, some of us got fantastic grades while some didn’t, especially for science subjects. It’s true that the some science subjects are tricky indeed, but we are intelligent enough to improve our marks with suitable methods.
First of all, no way is the best one that if it does fit you well. You need to consider the current circumstance of your learning. For most of the students, language is the biggest gap.
They haven’t been adapted to courses that taught in English, which make it hard for them to grip the main idea teachers talk about. If you are suffering from language problem, just speak it out. Your dear classmates and teachers would gladly help you with that. And you wouldn’t lose face at all for doing that, in contrast, it’s a reveal of courage.
