Scholarship Alcanta International High School

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AIC campus introduction Co-produced by PDP2 Jude Yao and PDP3 Bobby

MORE OFFERS ARE COMING!!!
Congratulations to Chole and Sylvia.
They have recieved offers from their dream school, LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science).👏

The importance of focus.
---- Chrys Hill. Director
I was reading an article in the newspaper recently about education and at the end of the article was a comment section where people wrote responses to what they had read. One of the comments that someone posted grabbed my attention:
“Kids who once could sit and focus, just can't anymore. They now fidget from needing more and more stimulation. This brave new world is all over the map.”
I guess that every generation has some concern about the one that follows; this is a response to the nature of progress and change. I remember that my father would not buy a TV set for our home until my three brothers and I had completed High School. If he was still alive I wonder how he would cope with the contemporary world of home computers and cell phones that connect us to the world. The distractions that students of today have to navigate are many times more complex than the threat of the black and white flickering TV that my father feared would disrupt our lives.
To meet this challenge in today’s world is no small thing. Computer games and social media are designed by experts to be distracting and attention grabbing. Nothing about them is by accident. They are programs that are made to capture our attention and to flick us from one stimulating moment to the next, in a stream of stimulation that has us constantly seeking the next exciting buzz.
It also has to be said that IT devices are wonderful sources of information with the ability to calculate mathematical problems, to translate many languages and bring us a vast amount of information. No matter, whether people are accessing useful information or playing games for fun, the world of IT is constantly a source of stimulation.
The dilemma is how do teachers (and parents) compete with this addictive assault on our senses. The importance on being able to direct sustained attention on “everything” is challenging but it is an essential skill and carries with it responsibilities. The challenge is that it requires the ability to select what is important. What is for now and what is for later? Getting this wrong can be downright dangerous. The inability to focus and sustain attention can rob us of relationships, deep knowledge, career accomplishment, peace of mind, and high test scores.

DP CORNER
---- Steve Mcnutt
IB DP Exams are just around the corner and students have nearly finished all of their major assessments. Mock exams will be held in the week of March 14 and the actual IB DP exams begin in early May. I appreciate all of the efforts that our students have made to be successful students and we expect that all of them will remain focused on doing their very best. I encourage them to obtain their goals and reach their potential on the May 2016 exams.
An IB Diploma is a key to the future. Successful IB DP candidates will join a select group of IB DP alumni around the world. More importantly, however, the Diploma Program has given students the opportunity to develop academically and personally. When I speak to former DP students of mine, they all say that the IB program helped them immensely to prepare for university. They feel that they have a distinct advantage over students who did not take the Diploma Program in high school. It clearly made their adjustment to the rigors of university academics much easier. I believe that the AIC graduates this year will say very much the same thing about their IB experience.
According to the International Baccalaureate Organization website, students doing the IB DP Program gain the following advantages. They will:
• be encouraged to think independently and drive their own learning；
• take part in programs of education that can lead them to some of the highest ranking universities around the world；
• become more culturally aware, through the development of a second language；
• be able to engage with people in an increasingly globalized, rapidly changing world.
At AIC, we have been proud to offer students this program. I am convinced that all students who take the program will continue to reap rewards from it in the future.
Best of luck to all of our students on the upcoming mock exams. Study hard and always strive to do your best.

Golden Rule
---- David Cao
It was 6pm on one of the stormy days in July, 2015. I left school as usual, and bumped into one of our cleaners just out of the main gate. She was in a hurry back to the school. As she was supposed to finish her work at 4:30pm and to be at home at this time of the day, I said hello to her, and asked why she was coming back to school. “I went back home. As I closed my windows at home, it suddenly occurred to me I might not have closed the corridor windows at school. I can’t remember. So I come back to have a check. You know, we are having a storm tonight, the corridor could be flooded if the windows are not closed.” She replied. “You could have called the people at the college to help you. You don’t have to come back in such a bad weather to check the windows.” I said. Then she explained it was her job to make sure windows are closed and that’s what you do at home, anyway – closing windows when you leave your house. Seeing her rushing into school, I started to ponder over the conversation. I could not help but feel conflicted in my thoughts. One part of me was feeling some embarrassment, a lingering thought leftover from practical experience in dealing with issues related to proper use of lights, air-conditioners, printers, internets and facilities at AIC. The other part of me was pleased. We had people who are not our employees, but who care about AIC as much as most of our community members do.
How come a cleaner, who is, knowledge wise, less educated than most of us, is able to treat AIC as she does her home? What she did reminded me of one of the well-known ethical principles in Chinese culture: “Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss." The cleaner she is not well-educated and she does not know how to preach the principle, but she is able to act upon it. She knows the Golden Rule.

The Golden Rule is an ethical principle that is well-accepted by different cultures, religions and ethnical groups across the world. It suggests a general orientation toward others, an outlook for seeing our relations with them. The most familiar version of the Golden Rule says, “Do unto others what you wish others to do unto you.”It is parallel to the Chinese version: “Do not do unto others what you do not wish others to do unto you.”The most familiar version goes beyond the negative formulation of not doing what one would not like to be done to themselves, to the positive formulation of actively doing good to another that, if the situations were reversed, one would desire that the other would do for them. It emphasizes the needs for positive action that brings benefit to another, not simply restraining oneself from negative activities that hurt another. Having said this, both versions are equally applicable in guiding our ethical orientation. The essence of the Golden Rule is caring and putting ourselves in the shoes of others. Caring is one of the IB Learner Profile attributes which requires students to “show empathy, compassion and respect towards the needs and feelings of others, and to have their personal commitment to service, and act to make a positive difference to the lives of others and to the environment.”

The cleaner has set us a good example of caring about our community, why don’t we learn from this experience and contribute more positively to the growth and well-being of our community. Let us do things in a way that it makes exemplary IB practitioners.

University Placement of DP2 Graduating Students
Feifei XIAN (Translation)

Our DP2 graduating students have begun their university applications since September under the guidance of Mr. Bob Darwish, one of our school directors who has abundant experiences in university applications and a close relation with top universities worldwide. The application deadlines, documents required and offer letter issuance time vary from university to university and from country to country. The offer letters received by our students so far are mainly from Spain and UK— normally UK universities make a decision earlier than those in other countries. So if you have not heard from your dream university, just relax. The process will go as far as March or April next year.

The places our students have been offered are as follows:

University College London
University of Exeter
University of Bath
University of Bristol
King's College London
Cardiff University
University of Edinburgh
University of Strathclyde
Newcastle University
Goldsmiths, University of London

In addition, Vivian DAI has already attended the interview of University of Cambridge and Jean ZHANG will go for the interview in December. Marthens, Elaine, Young Joo and Sophie LIU have taken the entrance examination of University of Oxford. The admissions decisions of these two universities will be announced in February 2016.

Dear, Elaine and Mirallam have conquered Spain and been accepted by IE University.

Alcanta International College is an accredited IB school that offers one-year Pre-DP programme and two-year IB Diploma programme and admits students aged from 14-17 years old. The language of instruction of the school is English. The teachers are from United States, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and China.

AIC is the only IB school in south China that accepts both Chinese students and international students. Now our international students account for 20% and they represent more than 20 countries. Every academic year, we will offer 10 full scholarships for talented international students from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

China is the leading economic body in the world and the IB education is a world class and international education, thus we strive to make AIC an international school welcoming different cultures, backgrounds and ideas. We also want to provide a chance for international students to learn more China and receive high-standard world education. That is why we provide full scholarship for international students.

If you are interested in our program and our school, we may go further to talk more about establishing a partnership that includes student exchange programme and mutual short-term visit or other cooperation that might benefit both of us.

For more information of our school, please visit our official website: www.aicib.cn/ www.aicib.org or contact us via email to [email protected]

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