每一天都有Well-being——上海青浦区协和双语学校升旗仪式！November Flag Raising Ceremony: Wellbeing，Every Day
桂花飘香秋光润，书声满园笔墨芳。当下，是一年中气候最宜人的季节，也是历经耕耘之后，迎来收获的季节。11月14日，我们举行了由初中部主办的小、初、高三学部第三次联合升旗仪式。本次升旗仪式的主题是“每一天都有Well-being” 。
The fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus blossoms filled the air in autumn and the sound of books filled the campus. The most pleasant season of the year has arrived, and it is a time of harvest. On November 14th, SUIS Qingpu held its third combined Flag-raising Ceremony, hosted by the Middle School. The theme for this particular ceremony was "Every day is Wellbeing".
“Well-being” 的释义为 “幸福；生活安宁；幸福安康，指的是指身体和心灵上的舒心，愉悦。” 在本月的升旗仪式上，我们以Well-being为关键词，与全校师生一起分享、感受生活中那些美好的“小确幸”。
Wellbeing can be interpreted as "happiness and peace in life, with comfort and pleasure in both body and mind". This month, we used wellbeing as the key term to help focus our thoughts and discussions among our students and teachers.
初中部CCA社团的师生们用一段欢腾的舞龙，为师生们带来了火热的开场表演。两条长龙目光炯炯，变换出不同招式，这与同学们平时的辛苦训练密不可分。
The Middle School’s Dragon Dance CCA members gave us a fiery and exhilarating opening performance. The two long dragons looked upon us with bright eyes, and proceeded through a series of different moves, inseparable from the performing students’ dedication to their task.
“几度秋意浓，最是桂花香” 。每到金秋十月，校园里的桂花盛开，芬芳馥郁。桂花在东西方文化中都有着美好的寓意，在我校首届 “金桂节” 期间，闻桂香、品桂蜜、折桂枝、唱桂曲，摇曳多姿的桂花给我们全体师生带来了太多的大欢喜和小确幸。
For late autumn, the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus is one of the most important features of the season. Every golden autumn, its flowers are in full bloom and its scent so noticeable around the campus. Osmanthus has beautiful meanings in both Eastern and Western cultures. During our first "Golden Osmanthus Festival", we arranged many acitivities such as smelling osmanthus, tasting osmanthus honey, folding osmanthus branches, singing osmanthus songs, and observing osmanthus flowers, bringing great joy to all.
早在几周之前，六年级组的语文老师就带领学生一起在校园中赏桂、闻桂、摄桂、写桂。同学们的课堂由教室搬到了校园里的桂花树下，他们一边欣赏、感受桂花的美好，一边用自己独特的视角拍摄桂花照片，记录下生活中的这一份“小确幸”。之后，他们还发挥自己的中英双语特长，为桂花制作双语名片，以“桂”为意象创作双语诗歌。
来自6A班的胡恩硕和6E班的于范馨乐两位同学分享了参与这次桂花节的体验与感受。
A few weeks ago, Chinese teachers from Grade 6 led their students to appreciate, smell, photograph and write about osmanthus. Lessons were moved from the classroom to the osmanthus tree. While appreciating and feeling the beauty of osmanthus, they took pictures of osmanthus from their own unique perspectives to reflect on and record their ‘wellbeing’ in life. After that, they made bilingual posters about the flowers, creating bilingual poems accompanied by their unique osmanthus pictures. Class 6A’s Andy Hu and 6E’s Miley Yu shared their experiences and feelings after participating in the Osmanthus Festival.
在这次升旗仪式上，我们也邀请了黄莹校长和Adam校长一起为“G6桂花之影主题展”揭幕。
For this Flag-raising Ceremony, we also invited Co-Principals Ms. Sunny Huang and Dr. Adam Neufield to unveil the placard announcing the opening of the "Grade 6 Osmanthus Photo Exhibition".
小小的桂花，就能给我们带来如此丰富的Well-being，其实，只要我们有一颗热爱生活的心，一双善于发现幸福的眼，Well-being时刻在我们身边。来自小、初、高的师生也和大家分享了属于自己的Well-being。
A small osmanthus flower can bring us such rich wellbeing feelings. In fact, wellbeing will always be with us if we have hearts that love life and pairs of eyes that are good at discovering happiness. Teachers and students from the three divisions also shared about their own wellbeing experience.
小学部的每个年级都派出了代表来分享他们心中的幸福。对于刚成为小学生两个月的一年级的同学来说，幸福是大大的操场、可口的饭菜；二年级的小朋友认为幸福来源于学校可爱的老师、同学和叔叔阿姨们，也来源于各种各样丰富的活动；三年级的同学觉得，在青浦协和感受到了世界文化的多姿多彩，体验中华传统的无限魅力，享受学习知识的无限快乐；四年级的同学们在各式各样的课程中和老师们精彩的课堂上找到了自己的兴趣和闪光点；五年级的大孩子回顾在协和这五年的点点滴滴，感受到了感受着成长的幸福。
Each grade from our primary school invited a representative to share about their wellbeing happiness. For Grade 1 students, who have just recently become primary students, happiness is a big playground and delicious meals; Grade 2 children think that happiness comes from the lovely teachers and classmates in the school, from their aunts and uncles, and also from various activities; Grade 3 students shared that wellbeing comes from the diversity of world cultures, from experiencing the charm of Chinese traditions, and from experiencing the infinite joy of learning; fourth-grade students found their own wellbeing from their interests and the highlights in their wonderful classrooms with their teachers; Grade 5 children reviewed their past five years at SUIS Qingpu and shared with us the happiness of growing up.
初中部的郭子宸同学与大家分享了他创设Science Club的幸福体验，他一直以来对科学有着浓厚的兴趣，由他创设的Science Club在老师们的帮助下发展、成长，吸引着越来越多的成员加入，并已发表了两篇原创稿件。
Jason Guo, a student from Grade 9, spoke about his successful experience of setting up a Science Club - he has always had a strong interest in science. His Science Club has developed and grown through the guidance of his teachers and continues to attract members. What is more, the Club has thus far published two original articles.
在这个收获的季节，我校首届高中毕业班的同学也进入了大学申请的最后冲刺阶段，来自高三的学长黄峰麒同学为我们分享了他逐梦名校的故事。通过学长讲述自己耐心细致地准备申请材料和文书写作、如何与压力共处的故事，让大家感受到了他坚持自我，主动探索的幸福之道。
In this harvest season, high school students in our first graduating class, the Class of 2023, entered the final stages of the university application process. Grade 12 student Elvis Wong shared his thoughts about how to prepare application materials and essay writing patiently and meticulously, and how to co-exist while under pressure. Everyone was able to genuinely experience his particular method for maintaining wellbeing – to persevere in expoloring himself.
是的，每一天都有Well-being。Well-being需要在各种经历中感受，Well-being需要在互助友爱中体会，Well-being也需要在日常的学习生活中去创造。祝愿大家珍惜当下，发现自己的Well-being！
Indeed, there is a need to maintain wellbeing every day. Wellbeing needs to be felt from various experiences, needs to be experienced through mutual help and love, and needs to be created in daily learning and life. It is our wish and hope that you all cherish the moment and keep discovering your own wellbeing!