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News IGCSE Learner Awards Congratulations to DCB’s 2019 IGCSE cohort for achieving historic results! Our students and staff worked very hard, and it showed! Ninety-two Year 11 students took 880 IGCSE courses, with 97.7% of all grades averaging A* – C (or 9 – 5) and 78.6% of all grades averaging A* – A (or 9 – 7). There were 26 students with all A* – A grades. Special mentions go to the following students for receiving Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards: • Justine M for Top in World in Mathematics • Andrew H for Top in China in Economics • Heather L for Top in China in World Literature And Outstanding Pearson Learner Awards: • Jessica T for the Highest Marks Internationally in History • Andrew H for the Highest Marks Internationally in History 220 Students, 8 Schools, and Plenty of Broadway Hits at Dulwich Festival of Music From Wednesday 13 November until Saturday 16 November, DCB was tasked with hosting the annual Dulwich Festival of Music (DFM). This year, over 220 Senior School students signed up to take part, coming from eight schools across the Dulwich network: Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong, Dehong Shanghai, Dulwich College Suzhou, Dulwich International High School Zhuhai, Dulwich College Seoul, Dulwich College (Singapore), Dulwich College Yangon, and of course, Dulwich College Beijing. The theme for this year’s festival was Broadway – meaning that all the pieces performed had come from a Broadway musical. We had a range of music from classic old-time musicals including Sweet Charity, The Wiz and Kiss Me Kate, as well as more recent hits like We Will Rock You, Wicked and Hamilton. The students focused on one group throughout the festival, either choir, big band, rock bands or orchestra. The festival culminated in a Gala Concert on Saturday, where each group showcased the performances they had prepared, finishing with everyone on stage for the finale – a medley of songs from My Fair Lady. It was a very busy few days, but a highly rewarding musical experience for all the staff and students involved. – Nina Haynes 22 beijing.dulwich.org
News Enterprise Fair with a Spooky Spin After weeks of preparation from both our Year 10 and 11 STEM students, the 2019 DCB Enterprise Fair: Halloween Edition opened its doors on two days late in October to a brand-new audience of students, teachers, parents and the wider community. The fair buzzed with a raw Halloweenflavoured energy, with many student entrepreneurial projects and food projects, including tattoos, custom USBs, custom keyboard protectors, soaps, the Tech Thirteen Terror (our popular homegrown haunted house), a pumpkin carving experience, and DCB's very first Smash Brothers Tournament. Various external vendors also made a showing, including Doko and Fella's, as well as internal service projects such as MSP (Myanmar School Project) and MIT (Masters in Technology), in addition to our game stalls. Through this event, our enterprising students benefited from a huge amount of first-hand design, marketing, sales and event coordination experience, and funds raised go directly into supporting future Business and STEM projects at school. We, the team behind the Enterprise Fair, would like to personally thank every single individual who bought our goods, who screamed (often very loudly) at the haunted house, who played in the Smash Tournament, who cut into any pumpkin. Without you, this event wouldn’t have been anywhere near as much of a success. We’d also like to thank our vendors, our volunteer teachers, the Operations Team, our student and teacher organisers, our haunted house acting team, our Smash Commentators Mr Royters and Mr Douglas, and our special partner, Electricats. – Isaac L, Year 11 Zongheng Cup – International School Chinese Debate Tournament On 26 – 27 October, the annual Zongheng Cup International School Chinese Debate Tournament took place at Dulwich College Beijing. The tournament was cohosted with Debate Asia and attracted 332 students and 53 teams from 19 schools, including Dulwich College Beijing, International School of Beijing, Tsinghua International School, Keystone Academy and Beijing City International School. After some strong competition and thoughtful debate, Leon L and Jason C were chosen as “Excellent Debaters”. And congratulations to Year 10 students Sally C, Leon L , Joanna J and Tracy L for achieving first place in the 14-16 age group, and Chloe H, Ryan R, Endora Y, Eva C (Year 9), Jason C and Jiaying G (Year 8) for achieving third place in the under 14 age group. What was unprecedented was the involvement of student leadership in the planning process. Kevin M co-organised this event with the Chinese Department teachers. A sincere thank you to all volunteers for their devotion and efforts, and we look forward to next year’s Chinese debate. – Kevin M (Year 12) and Ms Gong (Chinese teacher) The College Magazine (Beijing) 23
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