Confucius Institutefor Scotland’s Schools Chinese New Year苏格兰中小学孔子学院中国新年活动

Confucius Institute for Scotland’s Schools Newsletter苏格兰中小学孔子学院简讯

Spring 2013 春季版

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CISS Chinese New Year 苏格兰中小学孔子学院中国新年活动

Supporting teachers of Chinese in Scotland – Working in Partnership 对苏格兰汉语教师的支持——合作伙伴关系

Promoting Chinese culture对中国文化的促进

Chinese in the Early Years 汉语在幼儿中的推广

Chinese in the Primary School 汉语教学在小学的开展

Chinese in the Secondary School 汉语在中学的开展

Launch of the three new Confucius Classroom Hubs 三所新孔子课堂的启动仪式

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So much has happened since the first one, as schools across the country embrace Chinese language and culture for the first time or deepen their engagement. The examples we’ve highlighted in this newsletter show just how motivating this can be for our young people and this was also demonstrated at the impressive Gleneagles Youth Summit, organised by SCEN in November. Here at CISS we’ve been building on our portfolio of support services for teachers, for learners and for hub co-ordinators. We’ve held three hub network meetings and are working at class, school and Local Authority level, as well as reaching out to schools outwith the hubs, wherever we can. We’ve also made links across our host institution, the University of Strathclyde, spreading the word to students, lecturers and senior managers. In December we hosted our first CISS Board Meeting in Tianjin, linked to Glasgow by way of videoconference. From Tianjin, we went to Beijing to attend the 7th Confucius Institute World Conference – a wonderful insight into Chinese culture and an opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues from some of the 400 Confucius Institutes around the world. As this newsletter goes to print, a group of 30 Headteachers has just returned from a visit to China. The trip was successful in strengthening links between Scotland and China and gave schools in both countries the chance to work more closely together.

Sarah Breslin, Director, Confucius Institute for Scotland’s Schools

欢迎阅读第二期苏格兰中小学孔子学院简讯。在第一期上，我们已经了解了很多内容，如全国各地的学校都在学习中国的语言和文化，其中有些学校是第一次开展，有些学校是继续深化交流。本期，我们重点介绍这种交流给我们的年轻人带来了多么大的激励，这一点在苏格兰中国教育网主办的格伦伊戈尔斯峰会上给人留下深刻的印象。在苏格兰中小学孔子学院我们已经建立了针对教师、学生和孔子课堂合作者的一系列支持服务。我们已经召开了三次中心网络会议，并且正在班级、学校和地方政府层面开展工作，在孔子课堂网络以外的那些学校，我们也竭尽所能地辐射服务。我们还通过我们的主体机构斯特拉思克莱德大学建立了很多的连接，将信息发给学生，讲师和高级主管。在去年12月份，我们在天津和格拉斯哥进行了视频连线，召开了第一届董事会议。从天津启程，我们去北京参加第七届世界孔子学院大会，通过与全球400多所孔子学院中的一些院校的交流，我们深入了解了中国文化，获得了与同行交流经验的机会。在这篇通讯付梓的同时，一个由30名校长组成的代表团刚刚结束在中国访问。这是一次成功之旅，加强英中联系，为两国的学校带来更多密切合作的机会。

苏格兰中小学孔子学院英方院长，萨拉·布莱斯林。

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Welcome to our second CISS Newsletter

苏格兰中小学孔子学院中国新年活动2013年2月8日，斯特拉斯克莱德大学

为了迎接蛇年的到来，苏格兰中小学孔子学院给斯特

拉斯克莱德大学师生们组织了令人兴奋的活动，此项

活动还开设了活动室和中餐。大学里的很多员工都参

加了庆典。霍普勋爵（Lord Hope）大楼前的草坪成

了舞台，锣鼓，舞狮和太极拳轮番上场表演。当天快

结束的时候，许愿树上挂满了上百条对即将到来的新

年的祝愿。

我们也和稻田艺术馆合作举行了2013中国年活动的启

动仪式。来自孔子课堂的小学生们聚集在商业广场，

参加蛇年游行，观看粤剧表演，参观中国孩子带来的

传统艺术展览

8 February 2013, University of Strathclyde

To welcome the year of the snake, CISS offered staff and students at the University of Strathclyde an exciting programme of events and drop-in workshops, as well as a Chinese buffet. Many colleagues from across the University participated in this celebration. The front lawn of the Lord Hope building became a stage for drummers, lion dancers and Taichi. By the end of the day, hundreds of wishes for the forthcoming year were hanging from our Wishing Tree!

We also worked in conjunction with Ricefield Art Gallery to launch “Takeaway China 2013”. School pupils from Confucius Classroom Hubs around Scotland participated in a snake parade in the Merchant Square, where there was also a Cantonese Opera performance and an exhibition of folk art by Chinese children.

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CISS Chinese New Year

对苏格兰汉语教师的支持合作伙伴关系2013年1月24日 爱丁堡（Thistle）宾馆

在1月24日，48位代表参加了由苏格兰学历管理委员会

（SQA）和苏格兰中小学孔子学院在爱丁堡蓟（Thistle）宾馆

组织的活动。

上午讨论了关于2012年普通话中级一级和二级，以及高级和更

高级的主要评估人的报告。同时还对新设立的“为生活和工作

学习语言奖”和新的更高级考试做了综述和介绍。

下午讨论了国家四级和五级的需求，重点是附加价值单元。另

外，会议还提供了国家5级普通话的文本样本。与会人员进行

了非常有价值的讨论，帮助澄清了观点，分享了教学理念。参

会教师都非常满意，希望这只是这类交流合作的开端。

“真是让人享受的一天！这是对所有普通话教师做出的巨大贡

献。再次对您精彩的教学理念和其他所有这一切表示感谢！”

苏格兰中小学孔子学院项目发展官吉美乐·詹姆斯

Working in Partnership24 January 2013, Thistle Hotel, Edinburgh

On January 24, 48 delegates attended this event, organised jointly by SQA and CISS at the Thistle Hotel, Edinburgh. The morning session looked at the Principal Assessors’ reports from 2012 for Mandarin Intermediate 1 and 2, as well as Higher and Advanced Higher. There was also an overview and introduction to the new Languages for Life and Work Award and the new Advanced Higher exam.

The afternoon was an opportunity to consider the requirements for National 4 and 5, with an emphasis on the Added Value Unit. In addition, examples of texts suitable for use at Advanced Higher Mandarin were provided. Valuable discussion ensued to help clarify points and offer a chance to share ideas for teaching. We very much hope this will be the first of such joint ventures, as it was well received by the teachers who attended.

“Really enjoyed the day! This is a great contribution to all the Mandarin teachers. Once more, thank you for the wonderful teaching ideas and everything else!”

Meryl James, Professional Development Officer, CISS

Supporting teachers of Chinese in Scotland

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“Where there is a compression, there will bea resistance”

21 February 2013, University of Strathclyde

On Thursday 21 February, CISS and Ricefield Art Gallery hosted an exciting lecture by Chinese artist Ying Sheng Yang. He delivered an interesting talk on Chinese art in recent history, with a particular focus on the Cultural Revolution. At this time, art was used solely as a propaganda tool by the Chinese authorities. Individuality in art was completely repressed. But as Chairman Mao once said, ‘where there is compression, there will be a resistance’. After the fall of the Gang of Four, the new leader Deng Xiao Ping opened China to the world for the first time since 1949 and art in China began to change rapidly. Ying explained that as the political atmosphere in China has changed over the years, so too has art. In the late 1980s Chinese art hit the international stage and the scene in China changed forever.

Ying himself is from a famous art town, Suining, in Jiangsu province. He is one of the original child artists involved in painting a selection of scrolls which are now touring Scottish schools as part of “Takeaway China 2013”. If you would like to display the scrolls in your school, please contactkatie.hawkins@strath.ac.uk

This talk received great feedback:

• Plenty food for thought• Really big success • Fascinating• This evening was very exciting, a rich experience, thank you so much. I now feel I can convey information about China to pupils with more depth and structure• Found this talk really interesting. Very personal start on events which made it all the more poignant. Would really like to get an opportunity to see the paintings on tour

PromotingChinese culture

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对中国文化的促进2013年2月21日, 斯特拉斯克莱德大学

在2月21日星期四，苏格兰中小学孔子学院和稻田艺术馆主持

了一场激情澎湃的演讲，由中国艺术家杨迎生主讲。他就中

国近代艺术发表了非常有趣的谈话，其中对文化大革命特别关

注。在这一时期，艺术的唯一作用是中国官方的宣传工具。艺

术中的个性被彻底压制。但是正如毛主席曾说过的那样，“哪

里有压迫，哪里就有反抗”。“四人帮”倒台之后，新任领导

人邓小平自1949年以来第一次向世界敞开了中国的大门，中国

的艺术也开始迅速改变。杨迎生解释说随着这些年中国政治气

氛的改变，艺术也发生了变化。19世纪80年代末，中国艺术登

上了国际舞台，国内的景象也焕然一新。杨迎生出身于著名的

艺术之乡——江苏省睢宁县。作为本土儿童艺术家之一，他参

与绘画的部分画卷正在苏格兰的学校做巡回展出，这次展出也

是“2013苏格兰中国文化节”的一部分。如果你想在你的学校

展出这些画卷，请联系

katie.hawkins@strath.ac.uk

这次演讲获得了极大好评：

• 思想的盛宴

• 巨大的成功

• 令人陶醉

• 这是一个让人兴奋的夜晚，一次丰富的经历，真是太感谢

你了。我现在觉得我能向小学生们更深的更有结构的传达

中国的信息。

• 发现这次演讲真的非常有趣。对于各种事件从非常个人化的

角度出发，针砭时弊。真的很想去看看那些巡展的画作。

汉语在幼儿中的推广 “红包” 南兰纳克郡 百合岸边幼儿园

南兰纳克郡 百合岸边幼儿园的孩子用了一周的时间了解中国的

新年。他们穿上传统服装，唱中文歌，扎灯笼，用十二生肖装

点教室。更为重要的是，他们学会了将苏格兰文化和中国文化

进行比较。他们最感兴趣的事情之一就是按照中国农历新年的

传统，过年时大人会给孩子一个叫做“红包”的红色信封。信

封里装有一些钱，庆祝孩子又长大了一岁。今年，百合岸边幼

儿园里的小朋友从他们的校长玛格丽特吉尔莫那里收到了他们

的第一个“红包”。不过里面并没有钱，而是一个漂亮的中国

结，孩子们可以用它来做游戏，然后挂在他们的房间里，作为

一个装饰品以及好运气的象征。孩子们非常喜欢它！

孔淑茗，北兰纳克郡孔子课堂

“Hong Bao”, Lilybank Nursery, South Lanarkshire

Children at Lilybank Nursery in South Lanarkshire spent a week learning about Chinese New Year. They wore traditional costumes, learned Chinese songs, made paper lanterns and decorated the classroom with the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. More importantly, they learned to compare Scottish and Chinese cultures. One of the things they found most interesting is that traditionally, at Chinese New Year, Chinese adults give young children a red envelope “Hong Bao”. This envelope contains money and celebrates the fact that the child is one year older. This year, at Lilybank Nursery, children received their first “Hong Bao” from the Head Teacher, Mrs Margaret Gilmour. The envelopes did not contain any money, but they did contain a beautiful Chinese knot, which the children could play with and then hang in their houses as a decoration and as a symbol of good luck. The children loved it!

Shuming Kong, North Lanarkshire Confucius Classroom Hub

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Chinese in the Early Years

汉语在小学的 推广了解中国和中文 北兰纳克郡,克拉科斯顿小学

在冬季学期，我想将重点放在让学生们理解他们作为国际

公民这一角色。我问他们想学习哪个国家，他们异口同声

地说，“中国!”

学习中国源于一本伊丽莎白•辛格•亨特写的小说，叫做《

特工杰克•斯塔沃尔特：走失熊猫之谜》。我们在班里建

立了秘密特工总部，还有秘密特工徽章、包和手表。我们

从全球保护部队总部获取每日任务。这些任务分为“在上

海风景画里找出来”——这样我们就知道要去找哪些建筑

物，“在一个六岁中国孩子的日常行为里找出来”——这

样我们就能和那里的人融合到一起。

我们探索了字母表和不同读音的汉字，学习了日常问候，

像“早上好”和“你好吗？”。孩子们真的被吸引住了，

学习进展非常好。

如果你正在考虑向婴幼儿或者已经上了学的孩子介绍中国

的话，我会说去干吧！这些经验对小学生的自信心、读写

能力的发展和理解他们在全球一体化社会当中所处位置都

有积极的影响，语言和文化在适应现代世界的挑战所扮演

的角色亦是如此。

下面这些是小学三年级最喜欢的主题：

• 读《特工杰克•斯塔沃尔特》的故事

• 写汉字

• 了解上海和北京

下面这些是他们所说的话：

• 我们扎了灯笼，感觉在上面写汉字非常有趣。

• 我们做了中国龙。

• 当我们长大了我们就能用中文了。

北兰纳克郡 克拉科斯顿小学 保罗 坎培尔

Learning about China and Chinese, Clarkston Primary, North Lanarkshire

During the winter term, I wanted to focus on developing the class’ understanding of their role as global citizens. I asked what country they would like to study and the unanimous decision was China!

The context for learning about China was the novel ‘Agent Jack Stalwart: The puzzle of the missing panda’ by Elizabeth Singer Hunt. We created secret agent headquarters in the class, as well as secret agent badges, bags and watches. We got daily missions from the Global Protection Force headquarters. These ranged from “find out about the landscape in Shanghai” so we knew what buildings to look for, to “find out about the routine of a six year old in China” so we could blend in with the people there.

We explored the alphabet and the characters associated with different sounds. We looked into common greetings, such as “Zaoshang Hao” for “Good Morning!” and “Ni hao ma?” for “How are you?” The children were really engaged and learning progressed well.

If you are thinking about introducing Chinese to infants or further up the school, I would say go for it! The experience has had positive implications for the pupils’ confidence, literacy development and understanding of their place in a globalised society, as well as the role that language and culture have to play in meeting the challenges of the modern world.

This is what Primary 3 liked best about the theme:

• Reading the story of Agent Jack Stalwart!

• Writing Chinese words.

• Learning about Shanghai and Beijing!

And here’s what they said:

• We made lanterns and it was very fun writing the Chinese letters on them.

• We made Chinese dragons.

• We can use Chinese when we’re older!

Paul Campbell, Clarkston Primary, North Lanarkshire

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Chinese in the Primary School

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Apprendre le chinois en français! Irvine Royal Academy, North Ayrshire

Irvine Royal Academy had its second Confucius Showcase at the beginning of February to celebrate the year of the snake as well as to promote and share the good work done by this secondary school and the 6 associated primary school pupils to promote Chinese language and culture. It certainly was a superb afternoon with fan, snake, dragon and ribbon dances, acrobatics, ICT presentations and more!

On the Monday of that special week, S1 pupils were taught French with a Chinese twist! They learnt lots of interesting facts about their favourite Chinese action movies’ actors like Jet Li, Jacky Chan, Gong Li… all in French. Then they had to use their Franco-Chinese brain cells to participate in a 15 question quiz; every question being related to China. For example, they had to answer: “Comment dit-on au revoir en chinois?” or “What is 一，二，三，四 in French?” Very easy questions for S1 pupils in Irvine Royal Academy as they are all learning French and Mandarin!

Everybody enjoyed learning languages in a different and innovative way. They all participated in the activities and worked together for a better understanding of languages and the role they play in our modern world.

Virginie Cunningham, Irvine Royal Academy

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汉语在中学的开展法语学习与中文的融合！ 北艾尔郡 欧文皇家学校

二月初，欧文皇家学校举办了第二届孔子课堂汇报演

出，这既是为了庆祝蛇年到来，也是为了促进和分享这

所中学和其附属的六所小学的学生为促进中国语言和文

化所做的杰出工作。那天下午的演出非常棒，有舞蛇、

舞龙、彩绸舞、杂技、信息通信技术介绍等。

在那个特别周的周一，初一的学生们上了一堂中国式的

法语课。他们了解了很多他们非常喜爱的中国动作演员

的事情，像李连杰、成龙、巩俐等等，统统都是用法语

教的。然后他们得用他们的法中大脑细胞来回答15个

问题，每个问题都跟中国有关。比如说，他们需要回

答：“怎么用汉语说再见？”或者“一，二，三，四在

法语里是什么意思？”这些问题对于欧文皇家艺术学院

的初一的学生来说非常好回答，因为他们全都在学习法

语和汉语。

每个人都喜欢用与众不同的创新的方式来学习语言。他

们都参与到活动当中，共同合作，以获得对语言以及他

们在现代社会当中所扮演的角色更好的理解。

欧文皇家学校 维尔坎宁安

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江南style 珀斯和金罗斯地区 珀斯高中

五名高中生在纽卡斯尔市参加了第十届中国普通话演讲大赛，

本届比赛由英国文化协会组织，汇丰银行赞助。五名学生是托

马•沙阿（高一），卡梅隆•皮奇（初三），罗斯•克劳福德（

初三），康纳•莱基（初三）和格兰特•安德森。这五名学生参

加了团体赛，与其他十来所学校的选手同台竞技。他们奉献了

他们自己版本的《江南style》，叫做《珀斯高中style》。学

生们发现参与这种活动对提高他们用汉语交流的能力起到了非

常好的影响。除了给他们提供了和其他普通话学生交流分享表

演的机会之外，还帮助他们改善了发音和词汇。在歌曲刚开始

的时候，学生们显得非常害羞，但随着歌曲的进行，学生们渐

入佳境并自得其乐。最后，学生们说：“我们感谢能有机会参

加这样一场奇妙而愉快的比赛。我们感谢大家的热情和好评。

这也鼓励我们在课堂上利用‘额外’的时间付出更大的努力以

使我们的表演更加完美。我们真的很快乐。”学生们甚至用他

们的午休时间来排练，以确保能在正式演出之前完成这个至关

重要的准备，那个演出可是学生们那几天当中的一件大事。尽

管他们没能晋级下一轮，但他们仍然享受了一段愉快而难忘的

时光。

珮斯中学高中三年级 格兰特 安德森

Gangnam Style, Perth High School, Perth and Kinross

On Monday 10th of December 2012, 5 Perth High School students entered a competition in Newcastle, for the 10th Anniversary of the Mandarin Chinese Speaking Competition, organised by the British Council and sponsored by HSBC. Those 5 students were Toma Shah (S4), Cameron Peach (S3), Ross Crawford (S3), Connor Leckie (S3) and Grant Anderson (S3). The five students competed in the ‘Group’ Competition, there were roughly 10 schools in that category. They performed their own rendition of ‘Gangnam Style’, called ‘Po Si Gao Zhong Style’ which is ‘Perth High School Style.’ The students found that this activity had a good impact on their ability to communicate in Mandarin. It helped to improve their pronunciation and vocabulary, in addition to giving them a chance to interact and share a performance with other students of Mandarin. At the start of the song, the students were fairly shy, however, as the song progressed the students got into their stride and started to enjoy themselves. At the end, the students said “We appreciate the opportunity to take part in such a fantastic and enjoyable competition. We are grateful for all the enthusiasm and good comments. It also encouraged us to work harder in class using our ‘extra’ time to take the performance to perfection. We really enjoyed ourselves.” The students even used up part of their lunch time to ensure that vital preparation was completed for the big event in the days prior to the performance. Despite them not making it to the next round, they had an enjoyable and memorable time.

Grant Anderson, S3 Perth High School

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Monday 3 December 2012, Hamilton Grammar School

South Lanarkshire Council launched its Confucius Classroom Hub on December 3 2012. What an evening! From the exciting lion dance which started proceedings, through to language demonstrations, calligraphy, guzheng playing, song, Taichi and dance. The audience of pupils, parents, staff and invited guests enjoyed an evening which concluded with Chinese snacks and green tea. The Chinese Language Assistant, Mai, has been and continues to be wonderful!

Friday 22 February 2013,Leith Academy

The City of Edinburgh Confucius Classroom Hub at Leith Academy was officially launched on 22 February, in the presence of the Consul-General of the People’s Republic of China in Scotland, Mr Li Ruiyou; the Vice-Convenor of Education, Children and Families, Cllr David Key and the Director of Children and Families, Mrs Gillian Tee. Invited guests were entertained to dragon and snake performances by primary school pupils to mark Chinese New Year, as well as to musical performances from pupils of the Edinburgh Chinese School. There was also a calligraphy workshop, a display of Suining Children’s Paintings and performances by Mandarin students who had reached the national finals of the British Council/HSBC in London. The launch provided a very auspicious public opening of the hub and we look forward to its development over the coming months and years.

Wednesday 13 March 2013,Bo’ness Academy

The opening ceremony for the Falkirk Confucius Hub at Bo’ness Academy took place on 13 March. The event was attended by over 100 people, including delegates from Tianjin Chonghua High School. Pupils from Bo’ness and associated primary schools put on an array of performances, including a dynamic play about China’s history and an impressive spectacle about Chinese food. There were also Taichi and Martial Arts performances.

Launch of three new Confucius Classroom Hubs

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三所新孔子课堂的启动仪式

2012年12月3日周一 南兰纳克郡,汉密尔顿文法学校

南拉纳克郡政府于2012年12月3日启动了它的孔子课堂的揭幕仪式。多

么美妙的一晚！从拉开序幕的舞狮，到后来的朗诵，书法，古筝演奏，

歌曲，太极和舞蹈，这一切都精彩极了。由小学生，家长，员工和特邀

嘉宾组成的观众享受了这个美妙的夜晚，最后大家还品尝了中国小吃和

绿茶。中国语言助教麦老师表现出色，将来也会继续闪光。

2013年2月22日周五 利斯学校

2月22日，爱丁堡孔子课堂在利斯学院正式成立揭牌。中华人民共和国

驻爱丁堡总领事李瑞佑应邀出席。爱丁堡市议会教育、青少年及家庭委

员会负责人大卫·基，市政府青少年与家庭事务局局长吉丽安·蒂，应

邀出席。嘉宾们欣赏了由小学生表演的庆祝中国农历新年的舞龙和舞蛇

表演和爱丁堡中文学校的小学生带来的音乐演奏。另外还进行了书法研

讨，睢宁儿童画展览和普通话演出，参演的学生已经进入了在伦敦进行

的英国文化协会暨汇丰银行全国总决赛。这次演出给中心的公众开放带

来了好兆头，我们希望在后续的几个月里，几年里，能够持续发展。

2013年3月13日周三 博内斯高中

福尔科克郡孔子课堂于3月13号在博内斯高中进行了启动仪式。此次活

动有超过100人出席，其中包括来自天津崇化中学的代表。来自博内斯

高中和附属小学的学生奉献了一系列表演，包括关于中国历史的动态展

示和中国食物的烹饪，都给人留下深刻印象。此外还进行了太极和武术

的表演。

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