新学期校长寄语：成长于德威，绽放于人生 | Director's Welcome
来自校长的开学寄语
亲爱的苏州德威国际高中学生们，
我们满怀期待地迎来了2018-2019学年，欢迎你们开始新的人生旅程。希望你们在暑假得到了很好的休息与放松，带着满满的活力和乐观的态度迎接新的一年。
今年是学校建校以来的第七年，我们期望在过去六年积累的坚实基础之上，学校能够全方位地发展，更上一层楼。在此我要与你们分享学校新的愿景:
首先，我们希望在学校你们能感受到被理解，被接受，并能快乐地融入。希望我们的学校成为你们感到自豪的地方。其次，我们更希望我校成为一个能充分挖掘和发展你的潜力的地方，不仅在学术上，而且在文化，艺术、体育、语言、沟通及领导力等方方面面得到锻炼。我们希望你不仅可以进入最适合你的大学，而且进入大学后后劲十足，确保成功。即使离开大学后在工作中，也能继续对世界产生积极影响。
我们对学校的每一位成员都有着很高的言行标准要求与期望，我们鼓励并期望同学们能积极融入学校课内外的学习与生活，并发挥积极作用。你在学校能学到多少东西很大程度上取决于你投入与参与多少，你应该最大程度利用学校所提供的机会来培养你在课堂内外的兴趣和技能。越来越清楚的是，如果你要进入世界领先的大学，那么多参与联课活动是必不可少的。为此，所有学生现在必须每周参与最少两次不同的联课活动。 只有辛勤耕耘才可能有丰硕的回报，不论是在课堂上还是在课外，要尽可能抓住一切机会，开拓兴趣爱好，提升能力与技巧。
培养学生的英语语言和口语技能仍然是我们学校的重点。学校所有科目与课程均使用英语授课。同时，我们非常鼓励同学们在课外时间也能抓住一切机会锻炼自己的英语表达能力和口语技巧。正如我们所知，学生拥有娴熟的英语语言能力，在申请海外大学时将是一项极其有利的优势。所以我希望你们抓住每个机会练习和提高你的技能。今年我们将继续执行 “周五全天英语计划”，我们希望所有学生都遵守并积极参与。
今年你们还将看到我们更加关注我们的价值观及希望学生达成的目标。我们的价值观定义了我们对学校所有成员的期望，你们也将通过个别课程包括生活技能等的学习来加深理解。我希望我们共同的价值观不仅指导你们的校园生活，还督促你们成长为真正的成熟的年轻人。
同学们，新的学期已经开始了，我希望这一年对你们来说是硕果累累的一年，是积累宝贵经验的一年，亦是不断进取的一年。以梦为马，莫负韶华！
Campbell Douglas
Director’s Welcome
Dear Dulwich International High School Suzhou Students,
It is a pleasure to welcome you back to school for the 2018-19 academic year. We hope you have had some time to rest and relax over the summer break and have come back to face the new year with energy and optimism.
This is the school’s seventh year and we look forward to building further on the excellent foundations laid in the school’s first six years. To ensure this happens we spent the last 5 months reviewing our school vision and coming up with a statement that we think best defines what drives our school. After consultation with the school community at large we decided on:
Grow in Dulwich, Thrive in Life
Through developing, knowing, and caring foreach individual, we enable young people to thrive at university and beyond, sothat they make a positive difference in the world
First and foremost, we want our school to be a place where you are known, accepted, feel a part of and, happy to be at. We want our school to be a place where you are proud to attend. We want our school to be a place where your potential is fully developed, not just academically, but culturally, linguistically, and holistically, so that you not only make it into your university of best fit, but you succeed when you get there. We then want you to leave university and go on to have a positive impact on the world.
One of the more notable changes you will see this year, is that Co-curricular activities are now compulsory. We set high standards of participation for all members of our family and expect everyone to get involved and play an active role in school life. What you get out of your time in school is largely determined by what you put into it and you should make the best possible use of the opportunities on offer to develop your interests and skills both inside and outside the classroom. It is also becoming increasingly clear that if you are to access the world’s leading universities, then a highly developed Co-curricular portfolio is essential. To this end, all students must now be involved in two CCA activities per week.
Developing our students’ English language and Englishspeaking skills continues to be a key focus in our school. With all lessons conducted in English by our fully English-speaking staff, I hope you take every opportunity to practise and develop your skills so that you have a strong level of English, not just for the university application process, but for when you eventually go abroad to study. We will continue this year with our ‘English only Fridays’ and we expect all students to adhere to the rules for this initiative.
You will also see a sharper focus this year on our clearly defined values and aims for all students. Our values define what we expect from all members of our school community and as these are taught through your individual subject classes, in Lifeskills and tutor time, I hope you take onboard what these values mean and use them as a means to not only guiding your time in school, but in developing you as young people. As you know, we set high expectations for behaviour in our school and when these expectations are not met, we will be using the values to guide discussions around our expectations.
I am looking forward to a great year with our entire school community and I hope the year will be a productive one for you filled with many positive experiences, both inside and outside the classroom.
Best wishes for a wonderful start to the year,
Campbell Douglas
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