春暖花开之时，我们迎来了2022-2023学年的春季学期。WLSA上海学校分别在宝山校区、政熙校区举办了2023年春季新学期WLSA上海学校开学典礼。
2023春季学期之初，WLSA上海学校收到了来自Mr. Tony Little的鼓励、叮咛与祝福。
1Tony Little校长开学演讲
Mr. Tony Little于2018年起担任WLSA上海学校的外方校长。在此之前，他在英国著名的男子学校——伊顿公学担任了13年的校长。
以下为Mr. Tony Little开学演讲文字翻译：
大家好，很高兴能有机会与你们交流。学年已经过半，我希望你们都度过了一个愉快的假期，并为下学期做好了准备。在我们谈到未来之前，先让我们来庆祝一下你们在上一个学期所取得的成就。
这是一个充满挑战的时期，特别是近些年，我们受到了疫情的严重影响。但你们表现出了非凡的性格和韧性，取得了今天的成就，成为了这个阶段最好的自己。
这一切都来之不易。我看到世界各地的学校，不乏有线上教学松懈、线上授课效果不佳的例子。更需要注意的是，在疫情解除后，不少学校还没有回到正轨。学校需要把这些工作都做好，我们每个人都肩负责任。
春季学期已经到来，这是学年中非常繁忙的一段时间。夏季的毕业生们需要努力学习，为AP考试和A-LEVEL考试做最后的准备。对你们来说，这段时间将会非常紧张，也将发挥重要的作用。你们一定会全力以赴。我相信大家都明白取得好成绩的重要性，所以也无需我多言。
但就算你们处于最后的冲刺阶段，也需要在生活中保持平衡，需要在学习和社交生活之间找到平衡。为了保证心理健康，你们有责任照顾好自己，并以平衡的态度去生活。不要把所有重心都放在取得学术成就上。如果没有意志、毅力、渴望和饱满的精神去将你所取得的学术成就付诸现实，那学术成就本身就是毫无用处的。
那如何做到平衡呢？你们可以通过体育运动或其他活动参与到学校生活中来，也可以多关心朋友，或者向老师寻求帮助。一定要注意有效地分配学习时间，不要过分倚重学习。这是非常重要的。没有比平衡的生活更为重要的事。我这样说是因为当我回首往事时，我意识到我花了很长时间才真正理解这一点。当我像你们这么大的时候，我和我所有的朋友一样，面对着大学入学考试的压力和找工作的压力。现在回头看，我才意识到那些真正成功的人是很早就能想清楚这一点的人。
我祝愿所有参加考试的同学在最后一个学期的期末考试中一切顺利，也祝愿学校的其他同学日进有功。需要记住的是，你们要建立一个健康、积极、包容的生活态度，不要只专注于一件事。
我祝愿你们能成功实现WLSA的使命，这一使命一直以来都是希望我们所有的学生都能够为我们的全球社区做出贡献。你们需要考虑自己的家庭、家乡以及祖国，但你们也有能力思考得更加深远，并把自己视为世界公民，这其实正是我们每个人所处的状态。这意味着你们要倾听并试图理解他人的观点，而不仅仅是发表自己的观点或演讲。这也意味着你们要包容差异，与那些与你们的背景和思想截然不同的人和谐共处，而WLSA为你们实现所有这些目标提供了绝佳的机会。
我真诚地祝愿你们获得成功，并在获得成功的道路上获得满足和幸福。
祝大家好运。
Hello. It's very good to have the opportunity to speak to you all. Here we are at the halfway point of the school year. I hope you've had a very good break and are ready for this next semester. But before we turn to the future, let me just for a moment celebrate what you have achieved over this last semester.
It’s been a challenging time as so often in recent years, particularly with the effects of the pandemic. But you've shown remarkable character and resilience to achieve what you have achieved and to reach the stage you're at now.
I don't say this lightly. I see schools all around the world. There are far too many examples where teaching has been slack, and online education hasn't worked. More to the point, after the pandemic all clear has sounded, the schools haven't got back into the swing of things. It is hugely important that school communities do this and each and every one of us has a part to play.
So we move on to the spring semester. This is a very busy period during the school year. Final preparations for those of you who will leave school in the summer, for your AP exams, for a level. It's a very tense time sometimes for students, and it's important. You will work hard. You know the significance of achieving good grades. It doesn't need me to spell it out to you.
But even to those of you who are in your final hectic term, it is also the case that you need to keep balance in your life. A balance between study and social life. Mental health issues are real. We all have a responsibility to look after our own mental health by taking a balanced view of life and not becoming obsessed by academic achievement. Academic achievement is no good at all if you don't have the will and the character and the desire and the freshness of spirit to make something of your achievement.
So how do you do that? Well, you do it by staying involved in other activities in school through your sports or other activities, by looking after your friends, by asking teachers for help, by being careful that you allocate time effectively to your work and not obsessively. I can't stress how important this is, that the balance in your life is the most important thing. I say this partly because as I look back, I realized it took me a long time properly to appreciate this. When I was your age, I felt the pressures of academic life of university entrance, of getting a job intensely as did all my friends. And now we look back and we realized that the people who have truly succeeded have been those who from an early age were able to keep things in perspective.
I wish you every possible success with your final work in your final term for those of you who are taking your exams, and I wish continuing success for every other student in the school. Take note now, build a healthy, positive, all embracing attitude to life, and don't be fixated on one thing.
I wish you every possible success as you strive towards the WLSA school mission which was created to be and still is that all our students should become people who can contribute to our life as a global community, that you think of your family, your town, your city, your country, but you have the capacity to think broadly and see yourselves as citizens of the world, and this is an active state of being. It means listening and trying to understand other people's points of view, not just shouting or making speeches. It means accommodating difference and being prepared to come alongside people of very different backgrounds and ideas. You have a remarkable opportunity in WLSA to achieve all these things.
And I genuinely wish you every possible success, every possible satisfaction and happiness as a consequence of the way you go about achieving success.
Good luck.
2贾博校长开学演讲
贾博校长首先祝贺大家以坚强的毅力度过了困难的2022年，并祝愿大家新的一年取得新的成就。同时，他叮嘱大家，在这个特殊的历史阶段，要时刻准备好应对两大挑战：
一是要准备好应对人类历史上前所未有的挑战。在人工智能时代，随着ChatGPT等划时代产品的诞生，纯粹的学术学习不足以应对需求，我们更需要具备强大的意志、品质和能力。教育与学校也将会被重新定义，WLSA的GIP课程实际帮助我们的学生提升能力，在过去的五年中，有超过一百位校友提及GIP课程对于自己能力提升的帮助。
二是当前的世界正处于特殊的历史阶段。WLSA希望培养真正对于世界有积极影响力的国际公民，当下更需要大家具备跨文化理解和沟通能力。我们希望通过教育为世界嫁接更多桥梁。
3同心协力，踔历前行
随后，学校的各位老师在分会场欢迎全体同学，向大家提出了新学年的期待和目标，各年级的学生代表也做了发言，部分年级同学还精心制作了视频，全方位展示了大家的寒假生活。
新学期伊始，期待WLSA上海学校全体师生能够“同心协力，踔历前行”，收获属于自己的成就。