Wednesday 29 April 2015

Another MUN event in Shanghai


We have a very active MUN Club in Hangzhou this year, largely thanks to the vigorous leadership of Emily Duncan. Last weekend we visited Shanghai again to attend a one-day conference hosted by Dulwich College Shanghai, the inaugural Shanghai International MUN (SHIMUN), organised by two outstanding young Dulwich students - Pan Ling Wan and Johnnie Yu. 

Many thanks and congratulations are owed to Pan Ling and Johnnie and their admin team for setting up such a great event inside the space of barely three months!

And we are naturally rather chuffed that our Adam Guo (prominently featured in the middle of this slideshow!), the representative of Djibouti, was acclaimed as the 'Best Speaker' in the General Assembly.

The other members of our delegation were Emily Duncan, Flora Xiao, Enrique Chuidian, Natalie Chak, Katherine Ye, Lauren Mok, Tippy Pei, Dominic Law, and Sabrina Chan. MUN newcomers Chee Ling Wu and Stephanie Wu helped out in admin roles, and Jacky Tam took photographs for the conference press team.



There are also some pictures from Sunday, when we took advantage of some spectacular early summer weather to stroll around the French Concession (ending up at the delightful Garden Books) - after having a very big lunch




Slideshow by Mr Murphy



The music is generic iTunes/iPhoto "slideshow music", so hopefully not infringing anyone's copyright.



Monday 27 April 2015

Science Fair


Here are some images from our recent Science Fair, held just over a week ago on a gorgeously sunny day which felt like the cusp between late spring and early summer. 

This impressive exhibition was the culmination of a week-long Science-led 'Inter-Disciplinary Experience' in which our students had buddied up with an opposite number from our Chinese host institution, Greentown Yuhua Middle School, to work in pairs on self-devised projects which combined science with another subject discipline - such as music, art, maths, or English literature.




Filmed by Mr Murphy



The music here is Birdland, composed by Joe Zawinul and performed by his band Weather Report. 

(And in the first half of the film there is an unnamed groove laid down by our very own African drumming troupe.)




Monday 20 April 2015

Fashion Show


Last Friday, students put on their own catwalk fashion show in the theatre, as the climax of our week-long Design IDE. Hangzhou Motu Creative Company staged the event for us, and modelling consultant Ms Annie Jiang coached our models in the art of the flouncy walk and the moody pose. [Some fun stuff from rehearsals the day before can be seen here. And the whole show is now posted here.]



Filmed by Mr Murphy



Saturday 18 April 2015

The art of the catwalk....


On Thursday afternoon, students took over the Library to practise strutting their stuff for the catwalk show of self-designed clothes that would be the climax of our week-long Design IDE the next day. Modelling consultant Annie Jiang put them through their paces. 


[If you are narcissistic - or masochistic - enough to want to see even more of this, there is a 'complete' version here.]




Filmed by Mr Murphy




Tuesday 14 April 2015

Mr Murphy - caught reading



To publicise the 'Caught Reading' photo competition my Library Committee is running at the moment, I made this little slideshow of pictures of myself reading a number of books during the recent Easter vacation. I really will read pretty much anywhere! In a cafe, in a bar, in an ornamental garden, in the shower.... in the middle of a marathon?!



A slideshow by Mr Murphy



The music is Hey Now by the jazz pianist Red Garland and his Trio




Friday 3 April 2015

Maths in the open air


On our last two days before this year's Easter break, students went out to two nearby scenic spots in Hangzhou, the Xixi Wetlands Park and the Bagua Tian, to practise their maths with a number of practical challenges. We were lucky that Spring was just blooming... although the weather did turn a bit grey and drizzly on the second day, down at Bagua Tian (it was difficult to work out the height of the adjacent mountain using trigonometry when its upper half was completely obscured by low cloud!).

There was added motivation for these tasks this year, because our Maths teachers had threatened to quit teaching and find new jobs if students couldn't reassure them that mathematics is useful in the real world!




A slideshow by Mr Murphy



The music is Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.







Oh dear - it was rather naughty of me to use the Dave Brubeck piece! It is of course still under copyright, and thus the slideshow is blocked by Youtube in some countries.

Here is a revised version with a classical Chinese erhu piece, 蝉院鐘声, accompanying it (which I am pretty sure is not copyright-protected - or not aggressively so).






You can see a film made by some of last year's students during the same activity here.