In October, Suzhou is full of the sweet scent of Osmanthus. There is a group of busy children walking in a hurry in the quiet campus.

他們要去哪里？他們要去做什么？讓我們尋著那匆匆的腳步去一探究竟吧。

 Where are they going? What are they going to do? Let's follow their steps to find out.

Transdisciplinary Theme—How we organize ourselves

原來，這是蘇城外國學(xué)校獨具特色的PYP課程。本次探究活動的中心思想是：政府系統(tǒng)和政府決策對社會的影響。

It turned out that this was a part of the UOI course of Soochow Foreign Language School. The central idea of this unit is: the influence of government system and government decision-making on society.

孩子們對“系統(tǒng)”這個概念還不清晰，如何去理解呢？于是老師便引導(dǎo)大家思考下身邊的“系統(tǒng)”，與此產(chǎn)生聯(lián)系幫助他們?nèi)ダ斫狻跋到y(tǒng)”的中心思想。

However, children were not familiar with the concept "system". Teachers guided them to think about the "systems" around them, helping them find the connection between real life and abstract concept to better understand the central idea. 

五年級的學(xué)生們化身“小記者”，在校園里展開“破題”之旅——采訪學(xué)校各職能部門，詢問其職責(zé)范圍，理清學(xué)校組織框架，明白學(xué)校系統(tǒng)是如何運作的。

As a result, the students in Year Five turned into "little reporters" and started a journey of "problem solving" on campus by interviews of all functional departments of the school, sorting out the organizational framework of the school, and finally got to understand how the school system works.

第一站去哪呢？當(dāng)然是總校長室。自信開朗的“小記者”勇敢的敲開了總校長室的大門，他們特想問一問，平日里和藹可親的校長，整天都在忙什么呢？

So where was their first stop? The principal's office, of course. The confident and cheerful "little reporters" bravely knocked on the door of the principal's office. They wanted to ask what the amiable principal was busy with every day.

你瞧，他們嚴肅認真的樣子，還真有“記者范”。

Take a look of their serious "reporter style". Time to ask questions.

還別說，“小記者”憑著敏銳的觀察，

問的問題還真五花八門！

With keen observation, the "little reporters" asked a variety of questions.

總校長李春雷先生耐心細致地解答了“小記者”們提出的每一個問題，并對大家提出了期望。

As the general principal of Soochow Foreign Language School, Mr. David Li responded to the reporters with patience.

“小記者”們經(jīng)過此次采訪，對校長的工作有了大致了解，不由感嘆到：看來，要管理好一所學(xué)校還真不是那么簡單的事呢！

After the interview, the litter reporters were impressed about the duty of a principal and the difficulty to manage a school.

接著，同學(xué)們還采訪了醫(yī)務(wù)室，了解到醫(yī)生阿姨要24小時值班，隨時應(yīng)對學(xué)生的突發(fā)疾病，保障在校學(xué)生的身體健康；走訪了人力辦，總務(wù)處，小學(xué)項目處等相關(guān)部門人員，通過采訪，孩子們了解了部門之間的聯(lián)系和主要職責(zé)，也感慨老師們工作的不易。

The students also interviewed the nurses at the school infirmary and learned that they are on duty 24 hours a day to deal with any sudden injury of the students, and ensure the health of the students at school. They also visited the human resources office, general affairs office, international exchange center, admissions office, library and etc., through which the children learned that it was not easy to be a teacher and the effective operation of a system requires each position to play a role. 

特別是保衛(wèi)處的保安叔叔，通過采訪，“小記者”們才真正知道了保安叔叔可不僅僅是“看看門”這么簡單，他們負責(zé)的可是全校師生的安全，嚴格執(zhí)行學(xué)校制定的安保制度，全天候執(zhí)勤，時刻為我們保駕護航。

They were particularly impressed by the security guards. Beyond simply guarding the gate, they are responsible for the safety of the entire school staff and students all the time.

教室里的孩子們也沒有閑著，他們根據(jù)平時對校園的觀察，結(jié)合自己合理的推測初步構(gòu)建出蘇城外國語學(xué)校的組織架構(gòu)圖，等小記者們回來分享他們的采訪所得后，將他們的心目中的蘇城外國語學(xué)校用各種形式表現(xiàn)出來。

The children in the classroom were also busy working on the organizational chart of Soochow Foreign Language School according to their daily observation and speculation. When the little reporters came back and shared their findings, they presented the school system in their eyes in various forms together.

帶著這樣的認識，同學(xué)們將繼續(xù)深入本單元的探究。把校園當(dāng)成課堂，自發(fā)探究，循序漸進，讓自己成為學(xué)習(xí)的主導(dǎo)者。以開放主動的活動形式，培養(yǎng)交流溝通的能力，呈現(xiàn)出IB學(xué)習(xí)者的風(fēng)采。

With this understanding, they will continue to explore this unit. In Soochow Foreign Language School, we take the campus as the classroom and let students become the owners of their learning.

which develops their communication and social skills and demonstrates the IB learner profile attributes. 

中文撰稿：劉忠義 

 英文翻譯：胡倩雨   

攝影：宋柏霖 小學(xué)部老師

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