“Blue Alien Cop” – Student Agency in Action!
“藍(lán)色外星警察”——我們?cè)谛袆?dòng)!
A project which lasted over a year ended this month with the planting of 4 beautiful cherry trees, thanks to last year's Year 3’s, and Ayden Kripalani.
隨著4株漂亮的櫻桃樹(shù)的栽種，一個(gè)持續(xù)了一年多的項(xiàng)目在本月完美收官。這一切要從去年還是三年級(jí)的Ayden Kripalani說(shuō)起。
Early in 2019, Ayden brought a book that he had written himself to school and shared it with the class. It was about Billy, and an evil blue Alien Cop. There was only one problem - the book had no illustrations. Ayden asked the class to help him illustrate his story, and so the project began.
2019年初，Ayden將自己寫(xiě)得一本書(shū)帶到學(xué)校與全班同學(xué)分享，這是一本關(guān)于Billy和一位邪惡的藍(lán)色外星人警察的故事書(shū)，但有一缺憾——這本書(shū)沒(méi)有插圖。Ayden請(qǐng)全班的同學(xué)們一起幫助他完善這本書(shū)，于是項(xiàng)目開(kāi)始了。
There was much discussion about what Billy and the Alien should look like. The class all drew pictures, and voted to choose the characters. Then they each chose a page to illustrate, and they all worked as a team. It was challenging making sure Billy and the Alien looked the same on every page!
對(duì)于Billy和外星人警察究竟該是什么樣子，引起了大家的爭(zhēng)論。于是全班同學(xué)將自己的想象畫(huà)出來(lái)，投票選出了人物。隨后，他們各自選擇故事書(shū)的一頁(yè)為它配上插圖，他們以一個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)的姿態(tài)凝聚了起來(lái)。要知道，讓每一頁(yè)的Billy和外星人看起來(lái)都一樣是極富挑戰(zhàn)性的。
When the illustrations were finished, Ayden and the class decided they would like to publish the book, and to sell copies to raise money to buy cherry blossom trees to beautify the school.
配好插圖后，Ayden和全班同學(xué)決定出版這本書(shū)，并將銷(xiāo)售所得用于購(gòu)買(mǎi)能夠美化校園的櫻花樹(shù)。
The class proof-read the draft of the book carefully, and made changes to improve it. They then made a digital copy, and got a quote for how much it would cost to print.
班主任仔細(xì)閱讀了書(shū)的初稿，并給予適當(dāng)?shù)臐?rùn)色后，同學(xué)們制作了一份電子稿，并得到了印刷成本報(bào)價(jià)單。
They approached the Principal for permission for their project, and borrowed seed money to cover printing costs. They had to get more than 80 orders to pay the school back. They created posters, and advertisements to put up in the hallways, and ran a book promotion campaign at a whole school assembly, where they took book orders. Luckily, nearly 100 people booked a copy, and the printer was given the go-ahead.
他們正式向校長(zhǎng)申請(qǐng)項(xiàng)目許可，并成功獲得用于支付印刷費(fèi)用的“貸款”，這意味著他們至少需要得到80多份的訂單才能還清債務(wù)。制作海報(bào)、廣告張貼在走廊上，在學(xué)校集會(huì)上進(jìn)行圖書(shū)推銷(xiāo)活動(dòng)，一切都是為了更多地接收購(gòu)買(mǎi)訂單。令人高興的是，有近100人預(yù)定了這本書(shū)，開(kāi)始印刷吧!
When the books arrived, the class divided into groups to deliver the books to classes and count the money. It took a lot of checking, and mathematical thinking, to make sure the money was counted accurately, and to calculate how much profit was made after the load from the school was repaid.
當(dāng)書(shū)印刷完成，全班分成小組將書(shū)分別送至有預(yù)定的班級(jí)，并開(kāi)始結(jié)算金額。這需要他們仔細(xì)核對(duì)并使用數(shù)學(xué)計(jì)算，以進(jìn)賬無(wú)誤，還需要確認(rèn)當(dāng)還清學(xué)校“債務(wù)”后有多少盈利。
The Year 3 ‘finance team’ then put the profit in the school safe, until we returned to school after Covid-induced restrictions were lifted. When we were finally allowed back onto the campus, in August 2020, Ayden and a small Year 3 team worked with Miss Xixi to choose which type of trees they wanted to buy. Finally, in November 2020, they went to a nursery, and chose 4 strong young trees – and Year 3 (now Year 4) went down to watch them being planted.
直到疫情限制解除我們回到學(xué)校前，三年級(jí)的“財(cái)務(wù)團(tuán)隊(duì)”一直將盈利額放在學(xué)校的保險(xiǎn)箱里。當(dāng)我們回到校園，在2020年的8月，Ayden和來(lái)自三年級(jí)的一個(gè)小組，與Xixi老師一起商量要種哪一種樹(shù)。較后在2020年11月，他們?cè)谝粋€(gè)苗圃園中選擇了4顆結(jié)實(shí)的小樹(shù)——三年級(jí)(現(xiàn)在的四年級(jí))一直密切關(guān)注直至它們被栽種起來(lái)。
In order to celebrate the end of this year long project, the students helped the whole PYP write special wishes on ribbons, which they hung on the trees, along with plaques to commemorate this event.
為了慶祝這為期一年的項(xiàng)目結(jié)束，同學(xué)們將整個(gè)PYP在彩帶上寫(xiě)下的愿望、祝福彩帶系在了樹(shù)上，并掛上了特制的紀(jì)念牌。
Ayden and all of his class are very proud of these trees, and they hope they will grow healthy and strong to bring many years of pleasure to EtonHouse students when they flower.
Ayden、整個(gè)班級(jí)都為這些樹(shù)感到自豪，他們希望這些樹(shù)茁壯成長(zhǎng)，當(dāng)它們開(kāi)花時(shí)，為伊頓的學(xué)生們帶來(lái)更多的快樂(lè)。
