WAB China Studies Department (2020/2021) ES Chinese New Year Celebration To continue the traditional of celebrating the Chinese New Year via a series of cultural activities, the EY will have jiaozi making, Chinese traditional games, paper cutting, calligraphy, lantern making and Chinese tangram puzzle board cards making this time.

EY UOI: How We Express Ourselves Day trips to 798 Art Area, where students did treasure hunts to observe paintings, sculptures and art displays to explore the connection of arts and human expressions.

EY UOI: How We Express Ourselves Chinese culture artworks exhibition at EY building Chinese Calligraphy workshops on March 12 Planning Day Trip to 798 Art Area

ES Students Celebrating Chinese New Year without a temple fair Students will do many types of cultural learning to celebrate the Chinese New Year within their classes.

SG1: How We Express Ourselves Mr. Crook shared the WAB history and WAB story for students to learn about WAB.

Junior Grade 1: Friday, Sept. 18th Students are learning the Unit of Who We Are, they visited the Chinese Five Elements Exhibition and did the activities to learn how Chinese people see the world.

ES Languages Moon Festival Celebration Friday, Sept. 25; Monday, Sept. 28, Tuesday, Sept. 29 Chinese auspicious symbols and moon cake model design workshop

Grade 1 UOI: How the World Works Inquire about light: Shadow Puppet Show at ES on campus for students to learn and practice.

Grade 1 UOI: Where We Are in Place and Time – By sharing our stories we can connect to other people. Mr. Michael Crook did a presentation to G 1 students and shared the WAB founding stories at the old factory.

Grade 3 UOI: How the World Works Transdisciplinary theme: How the world works An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment. Central idea: The surface of the earth has formed over time and is still changing.

Grade 3 UOI: Sharing the Planet Human behavior and natural events affect the balance an ecosystem Field trips coming up for students to explore Heiqiao Park where via re-allocation of villages, a national park with eco-system balance was created for the people nearby. Trip dry runs are done, will do the trip next year.

Organic farmers will be invited to WAB to share their experience of organic farming, while a trip to the Organic Farmer Market is in the planning stage.

Grade 4 Day Trip for UOI Monday to Friday, Oct. 19 to 23 In combination of two UOIs, a new field trip is developed this year for G 4 students to learn in the real world about sustainable development and environmental protection. Visit Velux.

Grade 4 UOI: How the World Works - The design and constructions of structures is dependent on many factors. Day Trip Planning to visit: Water Cube, Bird Nest, Parkview Green, Drum and Bell Tower.

Grade 4 UOI: How the World Works - Designs and constructions of structures dependent on many factors. Students will visit Water Cube, Olympic Museum and the outskirt of Bird Nest.

Grade 5 Visited Chinese Five Elements Exhibition Tuesday, Oct. 6th All five Grade 5 homerooms came to the ES lobby to learn about the Five Elements. They were divided into 3 small groups to rotate among three workshops to learn about the Chinese Five Elements from different aspects.

Grade 5 China Studies Guandi Village Residential Trip Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 14th-Oct.16th All Grade 5 students will join the Guandi Village trip for three days to engage with Chinese local community with WAB Mission as the trip focus.

Grade 5 PYP Exhibition

New Day Trip planning to visit the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art New Day Trip planning to visit the Red Brick Art Museum

Grade 5 PYP Exhibition. The Red Brick Art Museum Visit, April 15th, 16th Students will explore the design and planning of how to display an exhibition.

Grade 5: Performing Arts Biegu drum performance preparation with Chinese expert

New Project：Bring the Outside World In Grade 4 UOI Exhibition at WAB In combination of two UOIs, a new museum style exhibition is developed this year for G 4 students to learn about the Beijing city development. The location is ES Lobby. The contents include a big map of Beijing 1949, and lots of data from Beijing City Planning Museum. This is the new project this year to try to bring the outside resource into WAB when students cannot go on day trips to visit various museums in this special time.

New Project：Bring the Outside World In Grade 4 UOI: Who We Are Central Idea: Our body relies on interdependent systems to function properly. China Studies will set up three workshops at ES campus for Grade 4 students to learn and explore: Chinese Tea Culture; Traditional Chinese Medicine; Chinese Taiji, all led by China Studies staff and experts.

New Project: Bring the Outside World In Grade 5 Performing Arts UOI: How We Express Ourselves Learning Chinese National Tangible Cultural Heritage “Beige Drumming” Grade 9 students group initiated this project and recommended it to Grade 5. Grade 5 students are learning it and will perform this at the WS assembly.

New ES Exhibition for Multi-Grade Levels: SG1, G 3, G 4 and G 5. Theme: Sustainable Development The exhibition includes grand date of China Development, and a special focus on the sustainable development of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Online Learning New China Engagement Initiative China Engagement Online Teaching for three weeks for ES

Week 1 and 2: EY: 12 Zodiacs JG1: 12 Zodiacs and Chinese gongfu

SG1: Chinese Spring Festival - customs and celebrations Level 1 Grade 2: Chinese Spring Festival - customs and celebrations Level 2 Grade 3 Chinese auspicious symbols Grade 4 Chinese Tea Culture Grade 5 China World Heritage “Biegu” learning.

Week 3: EY: Chinese Lantern Festival Legend JG1: Chinese Lantern Festival Legend, and Lantern Festival Celebrations SG1: Chinese Zodiacs and Lantern Festival Grade 2: Chinese Spring Festival - customs and celebrations Level 2 Grade 3 Chinese Lantern Festival customs and lantern riddles Level 1 Grade 4 Chinese Lantern Festival customs and lantern riddles Level 2

MS MS Students Celebrating Chinese New Year without a temple fair Students will do many types of cultural learning to celebrate the Chinese New Year within their classes.

MS Chinese Language Thursday, Sept. 24th Beijing Youth Daily and WAB Branch Project MS Students journalists did two training with Beijing Youth Daily Editors.

MS Chinese Language Beijing Youth Daily and WAB Branch Project Going Well. This month, two programs will be published.

MS students Making Moon Cakes Monday, Sept. 28 117 students MS students participated in the moon cake making during Chinese Language time.

MS: MS Students Science trip to Zoology Museum Students of all three grade levels joined the science trip to China Science Academy Zoology Museum led by Chinese scientists with hands on experience, such as dissecting insects and making specimens of samples.

New China Engagement Unit: MS Grade 6 PHE Classes and Lion Dance:

Starting from Nov. 18th, all Grade 6 PHE students will start a new unit on Lion Dance for three weeks.

Grade 6 PE finished their Lion Dance Unit and students learned quite a lot about the tradition and each group performed their own lion dance performance for the assessment.

New China Engagement Initiative Grade 6 Drama Planning on a two-day shadow puppet workshop on campus for G 6 drama. Planning on a shadow puppet exhibition at HUB for G 6 drama

Grade 6 Performing Art: Shadow Puppet Exhibition and Workshop A special shadow puppet group will set up a two-day workshop at WAB, working with G 6 students together to learn about this cultural heritage. Students will develop their own plays based on the learning.

New Project Bring the Outside World In Grade 7 PE New Unit: Planning to learning Chinese Powerful Drumming and Dragon Boat competition For the first time, Grade 7 PE students will learn Chinese Powerful Drumming Dance and Chinese Dragon Boat Competition on campus for China Engagement.

New China Engagement Initiative Grade 7 PHE Grade 7 PE students will learn Chinese Powerful Drumming Dance and Chinese Dragon Boat Competition on campus for China Engagement. Planning in progress, starting from May 2021. Grade 7 PE: Chinese Drumming Students will start a new unit on Chinese Powerful Drumming, which is China National Intangible Cultural Heritage.

MS Grade 8 PHE Classes and Taiji: Monday, Sept. 14th to Oct. 9th Students followed the Taiji Master and studies 24 styles of Taiji Martial Art duiring their PHE classes for three weeks, some students did a Taiji performance at the WS National Day and Moon Festival Assembly.

Grade 8 Humanities: “China Studies and Me” Unit Students did trip research, planning, background knowledge inquiring and interviews to learn about China Studies Residential Trips.

New China Engagement Initiative Grade 8 English

“China Studies and Me” unit, Students’ trip planning, background knowledge inquiring and interviews.

New Day 9 Initiatives for MS PE: Dragon Boat Racing at WAB Learning with Chinese professionals at Duck Lake Science: Working with China Science Academy Led by China Science Academy researchers, students visited China Zoology Museum with hands on experience of insect dissection and sample making, exploring nature at Olympic Forest Park.

Drama and Acrobatic: Led by Chinese Acrobatic Experts Students enjoyed a full learning and practicing session of juggling hats, balls, plates, sticks and hulas.

WAB MS Branch of Beijing Student Press Association, Beijing Youth Daily Our WAB student journalists have done quite a lot of learning of journalism with Beijing Youth Daily experts and did a lot of interviews and writing to publish their work, including Duck Lake Interview with Mr. Michael Christiansen.

Grade 6: Chinese Shadow Puppet Exhibition and Workshop for Performing Arts Students learned the history of shadow puppets and techniques of playing shadows with Chinese traditional performing arts experts and composed their own performances.

Grade 7: PHE class started the traditional Chinese powerful drumming for their PE dance unit.

Grade 7 Chinese poetry unit: learning with Chinese scholars about poem translation and Chinese calligraphy.

Grade 8: Students organized the first WAB students dragon boat teams with the training of Chinese local experts.

MS Chinese Language: Chinese language students went on field trips in Beijing including: • Laoshe Museum; • Guanfu Museum; • Hutong Area • Forbidden City and • the Old Summer Palace

• Drum tower

HS HS Day 9: Thursday， Sept. 24 Chinese Moon Festival Celebration Activities: Moon Cake Model Design, Moon Cake Making, Chinese Costume Photo Shooting

HS Grade 9 and IB DP Science with Ditan Hospital Thursday, Sept. 24 HS Grade 9 students and Grade 11 and 12 IB DP Science students attended the presentation by Dr. Wang Linghang (Director of Infectious Disease Department, Ditan Hospital) about Covid- 19 and gained the first-hand knowledge of this pandemic.

HS Dance Curriculum and China Engagement Grade 12 IB DP Dance: Oct. 21 to 28, Chinese Daizu Dance Workshop with Chinese expert. Grade 10 Dance: Nov. 17 to Dec. 2, Chinese Yizu Dance Workshop with Chinese Expert Grade 9 to Grade 12: Oct. 23 Master Dance Workshop with Chinese expert

HS Chinese A Students and Beijing Youth Daily Friday, Oct. 23rd Chinese Language A students will attend a Master Workshop with Beijing Youth Daily Chief Editor on news writing.

HS Students Luochuan Culture Heritage Group met the Luochuang expert. Research and detailed plans have been laid out for the student project.

HS Dance Curriculum and China Engagement New Planning Grade 12 IB DP Minority Dance learning: Dai Peacock Dance and Mongolian Dance program finished. Grade 10 Dance: Nov. 17 to Dec. 2, Chinese Yizu Dance Workshop with Chinese Expert

HS Students Celebrating Chinese New Year without a temple fair Students will do many types of cultural learning to celebrate the Chinese New Year within their classes.

New China Engagement Initiative HS Grade 9 to 11 China Studies Day Trip Week in the week of May 10-14, 2021 Planning on multiple day trips during the week led by HS teachers in groups, with students choosing different trips for each day.

New China Engagement Initiative Grade 9 Science Unit on Olympics Planning on campus presentations from Olympic athletes and/or engineers involved in the Olympic stadiums for G 9 students.

HS Dance, Chinese Classical Dance workshops Led by famous Chinese dancer, Aidi Sun, Grade 9, 10 and 11 dance students did a full day workshop of classical Chinese dance and learned a lot about this tradition.

Grade 9 HS Humanities: Trip to National Museum of China and Dongjiaominxiang Whole Grade 9 students will visit National Museum of Chinese History section, followed by a tour led by Mr. Michael Crook of the Dongjiaomingxiang (old legation street) to learn about Chinese modern history (1840-1949)

New Initiative: HS China Studies Trip Week May 10th to 14th In planning, Twenty New day trips initiated by HS teachers, will take place during the week of May 10 to 14, and students will sign up for trips with different themes to explore Beijing.

PE: Dragon Boat Racing at WAB Learning dragon boat racing with Chinese professionals at Duck Lake

HS Students of National Intangible Culture Promotion Group This group of students has been a driven force for China traditional performing arts to integrate with WAB curriculum. So far they have made pptx. And videos to promote Chinese cultural heritage across the whole school: ES: Biegu Drumming MS: Lion Dance; Taiji; Chinese Powerful Drumming; Chinese Shadow Puppets HS: Dragon Boat

HS Dance Grade 9-12 focused on Chinese folk dance led by Chinese experts

HS students had dragon boat experience led by local Chinese experts.

HS Music: Grade 10 students learned traditional Chinese instruments with local musicians, including Pipa, Erhu and Chinese Zither. They also learn Beijing Opera percussion with opera experts.

Whole Grade 9 HS Humanities Trip to Tiananmen Area Led by Mr. Crook, the students and visited the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Dongjiaominxian (previous legation street) and students visited China National Museum to learn modern Chinese history.

Grade 12: Great Wall Graduation Photo Shooting

HS China Studies Day Trip Week May 10-14 A total of 19 new day trips all over Beijing for students to engage with China in the authentic experiential way: the trips include: • Food is Heaven, • Art at 798, • Community Service at Dandelion School, • Hutong and Qianmen Area Tour, • Olympic Stadium and Park, • China Science Academy Zoology, • Guanfu Museum and Panjiayuan Market, • Bike Tour Around Beijing 2nd Ring Road, • Farm and Village Fun Tour, • Old and New Summer Palace, • Forbidden City Explore, • Fragrant Hills Hiking, • Athletes Sports Workshop, • Organic Farm, • China Science Academy Fossil Restoration, • China Science Academy Bird Watching, • Great Wall Hiking and • China National Museum.

WS New York Times for Kids China and WAB Branch Tuesday, Sept. 29th Chief Editors from New York Times for Kids China came to WAB ES Second Floor Conference Room to lead the workshop of WAB students giving feedback about the newspaper. 21 students from WAS ES/MS/HS attended. Katarina leads this project.

New York Times for Kids China and WAB Branch Two WAB students’ articles and book illustrations were published via NYT. Got great feedback

Hybrid WS Assembly for National Day/Mid Autumn Festival Wednesday, Sept. 30th A very successful first time hybrid WS Assembly with staff, students and teachers participated to celebrate the Chinese National day and Moon Festival.

WAB Won Two National Awards WAB MS/HS students team won the 2020 World Model United Nation Award for “Best Team”, and WAB won the “Best Organizer” award.

Staff: Chinese for Staff programs going on led by China Studies: Total 41 staff in the programs so far: • Beginner Level: 22 staff • Intermediate Level: 13 staff • Advanced Level: 6 staff

New Project：Bring the Outside World In Chinese Culture Workshop Session 1 for Staff: • Chinese tea culture

New China Engagement Initiative for WAB Staff Chinese Tea Culture Workshops for Staff China Studies led 6 Chinese Tea Culture workshops in English, and two tea workshops in Chinese.

Awards: MUN Awards • WAB students actively participated in the local events and won “Best Team” in World Model UN Competition organized by the Chinese government；WAB won “Best Organizer” award as a school;

Postcard-Paintings Competition • WAB students won “I love panda” International Children’s Postcards- Paintings Competition award organized by the Chinese government; WAB won “Outstanding Organization Award” as a school.

WAB Students As Beijing and National Award Candidates: Two WAB HS student projects entered the award candidate groups for Beijing City and China National Level.

WAB Students Won Two Beijing Awards at 2020 Beijing Secondary School Students Social Field Work Challenge (organized by the Beijing municipal government)

WAB Grade 9 Students Group Project: China National Intangible Culture Heritage

Won 1st Prize

WAB Grade 12 Student Katarina’s Book Project: Won 2nd Prize

(These are the main China Engagement projects for 2020/2021.)