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Community Time

Note: The Week Ahead states that both Y9s and Y11s must go to the Auditorium on Wednesday, which is an unlikely arrangement. Please wait for further notice.

Important Events

New Notices

Uniform and Phone Use Clarification

• Students must be in full uniform for all classes.
• Students must leave the boarding house in formal uniform each morning (not PE kit).
• Students can leave PE class and go directly to lunch and then get changed (but must be in formal uniform for the Whole School Assembly).
• Students can leave P6 in the PE kit.
• Students must be in either a formal uniform or PE kit until 7 pm in the evening.
• Mobile phones are not permitted outside the boarding house at any time, including CCAs.

Monthly Health Activity

• The purpose of the competition is not only to have fun and compete, but also to show that exercise is very important for physical health, in addition to the positive impact of exercise on mental health. We welcome everyone to challenge themselves and enjoy this activity.
• Time: September 26th, 12:25-13:40
• Location: Gym
• Activities: basketball / shootout / skipping
• Rule: The person who shoots, jumps rope and kicks shuttlecock the most in 1-minute wins.
• In this competition, in addition to the prizes for the winning participants, we have also prepared a variety of participation awards, looking forward to the active participation of teachers and students.
• If you are interested in organizing or helping to organize a health event, please email Brittany Zhang.

From Student Government

• This is the Student Government Suggestion Box of 2023-2024.
• We encourage everyone to propose any ideas or suggestions you have regarding your life on the Songjiang campus, including food, infrastructure, parties, academics. etc. If possible, please propose 1-2 solutions while raising the advice, this will be very helpful in increasing the speed and possibility of resolving the issue.
• Your name and year group are not required to be filled out in the form, and even if you do fill out your name, it will only be kept to us and will not be reported to the school's officials. It's just for us to reach out to you when we need you to clarify something or when we want to follow up the on suggestion that you proposed. Thank you!

Note: Microsoft reminds you that when you submit this form, the owner of the form will see your name and email address even if you choose not to enter the information. Fill the form at your own risk!

On this Day

Past Weekend:
September 23: Celebrate Bisexuality Day
September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa; Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973)

September 25

• 844 – A Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and started a raid that was eventually repelled by the city's Muslim defenders.
• 1790 – Peking opera was born with the introduction of Hui opera to Beijing by the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" in honour of the Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday.
• 1890 – The Sequoia National Park was established to conserve giant sequoia trees in the logging-affected area.
• 1983 – In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
• 2005 – Typhoon Longwang, the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit China in the 2005 Pacific typhoon season, formed just north of the Mariana Islands.

Births and Deaths: Harald Hardrada (d. 1066); John Lymburn (b. 1880); Marian Breland Bailey (d. 2001); Wang Bingzhang (d. 2005)

Fetched from Wikipedia.

In the News

• A ceasefire is announced following Azerbaijan's military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
• Canada accuses India of being linked to the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, causing a diplomatic crisis.
• Evika Siliņa takes office as Prime Minister of Latvia.
• In Hanoi, Vietnam, a fire at an apartment building kills at least 56 people.

Ongoing: Nigerien crisis; Russian invasion of Ukraine; Sudan war
Recent deaths: Stephen Gould; Horace Ové; Brereton C. Jones; Lionel Morgan; Kevin Neale; Gita Mehta

Fetched from Wikipedia.

Promoted Contents

Fill this form to advertise a CCA, a club, or an activity.

• Unlingable: Linguistics club. Contact Tiffany Guo.
• Peer Pao: Peer mentoring. Contact Frank Zhou.
• Pomelo Bay: Charity educational club. Contact Gloria Guo or Azuo Zhao.

Delicious Dinings

Daily Inspiration

We are desperate for your help! Fill this form to share your inspiration in any form.

Tips of the Day

How to communicate with people from war-torn countries?

1. Recognize the entire person: Keep in mind that these are people with complex lives. They have families, joys, hobbies, heartbreaks, and disappointments just like you.
2. Show patience and respect: Respect the individuals you are dealing with, even if you get annoyed at times (for example, trying to communicate with someone who does not speak your language), remember to remain patient and respectful.
3. "Are you comfortable talking about it?": It's greatly appreciated to want to know about the situation. However, some questions may be very sensitive to people, who escaped from the war zone. Before asking anything, make sure that the person doesn't mind talking about it.

Sources to get news about Ukraine.

Created by an Ukrainian high school student. Shared anonymously.

The School Inspires

Poem of the Week

Thinking of my Brothers on a Moonlit Night
Written by Du Fu. Translated by Xu Yuanchong.

War drums break people’s journey drear;
A swan honks on autumn frontier.
Dew turns into frost since tonight;
The moon viewed at home is more bright.
I’ve brothers scattered here and there;
For our life or death none would care.
Letters can’t reach where I intend;
Alas! The war’s not come to an end.

Posted by China Daily. Shared by the school.

Philosophical Quote of the Week

There's no such thing as neutral education.
Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.

— Paulo Freire

Shared by Polemia Club.

Regular Notices

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• Menu This Week

Package Pick-up

• Time: 15:45-16:00, Tuesday; After 15:00, Friday
• Location: Student Life Office
• Please be aware that your package will be checked by SLO staff to ensure safety.

From Wellness Center

• Since the beginning of this school year, we have conducted 2 fire drills. In order to enhance everyone's fire awareness and the ability to respond to fire, we prepared posters of fire knowledge for everyone to learn. We hope to arouse the attention of fire safety. Fire Safety Poster
• Wellness Center satisfaction survey

The School Recommends

Thus Spake the C4C Department

In Celebration of the 74^th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China.

Article Recommendation of the Week

In the film Into the Spider-Verse, the mature Spider-Man is the all-powerful but lonely superhero. Across the Spider-Verse, however, brings together a group of more than 280 "youthful" Spider-Men who experience conflict, ambivalence, stress, and grow in warmth, choice, and responsibility.

The film is animated with strong colors and multiple art styles. The most obvious is the color; each Spider-Man has his own color palette, and the ever-changing colors create and express their moods and interests. Through animation, a variety of art and design is combined, allowing the parts of the live-action movie that would be impossible to realize to be brought to life in the artistic medium of animation. The story content does not aim to save the world like traditional superhero movies, but challenges the tradition that my life is my destiny. The protagonist has a superhero side, but is just an ordinary high school student when he takes off his robe. He has a warm family and the troubles that should come with that age; he dares to challenge authority and shows the bravery of youth to the fullest. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility; as for the final ending, let us wait and see.

At a time when people are getting tired of superhero movies, Across the Spider-Verse is a new perspective from "big" to "small". This movie leaves a lot of questions to be answered by the next Spider-Man movie. We love Spider-Man as a hero, deep down, more or less because he has inspired, comforted, and lost himself in the darkness, and that's what makes Across the Spider-Verse so touching and compelling. In the face of "inevitable fate," choosing to disobey, to follow your heart, to break free from the constraints of the past is the only way to write a new story. Miles is Miles, he's not Peter, he's not anyone else, he's Spider-Man in a whole new sense.

Published by ISSN 1671-2374 Issue 2023-7. Shared by Parent Volunteers of the Library. Translated by DeepL and Albert Tan.

Remedios Varo: Artist of the Week and the Last

Varo creates fantastical landscapes featuring meticulous motifs drawn from her strict Catholic upbringing, expansive knowledge of the sciences, and her passion for alchemy and the occult.

A part of the surrealist movement, the Spanish-born artist creates intricate images using both traditional painting techniques and inspiration drawn from magical practices. She includes palettes referencing alchemical reactions for the elixir of life and often depicts female figures performing acts of magic. It is as if she is an alchemist herself, combining and balancing delicate symbols on her canvas; the whimsical quality of which earns her the nickname of one of the "three witches" in Mexico City, where she based the majority of her creative career.

Shared by Jessica Cai from the Art Appreciation Club.

Surrealism and the East – Painting the Essential: Exhibition of the Week and the Last

Collaborative exhibition between West Bund Museum, Shanghai Museum, and the Centre Pompidou in France

Painting the Essential discusses one of the most important movements in 20th century art, Surrealism, in the light of the oriental influences that inspired it. Contrary to many other exhibitions that address cultural influences overwhelmingly from the perspective of only one culture, here, the Pompidou’s surrealist masterpieces appear alongside the Shanghai Museum’s collection of Qing Dynasty works, each entering into dialogue with each other and with the audience too.