This week, LFIS High School welcomes the fourth IB week, and we will continue to bring you a week of colorful themed activities. This year, we encourage students to think outside the box and push their limits. This week at IB week, we talk about creating a world of possibilities (breaking down barriers, redefining boundaries), and check out some of the best moments from these two days.

Day 1

Opening ceremony

At the opening ceremony, Teacher Donna led everyone to review the original intention of the establishment of IB week, as well as the theme of IB week in the past few years, and predicted some of the highlights of our IB week this year.

Learner profile challenge

This challenge uses a unique Monopoly game format, with students divided into 6 teams to challenge. By rolling the dice, step on the grid. In the grid, there is a Bonus, a Chance, and a Task. Find the first letter of the top 10 IB Learner profile and complete the spelling by completing the different boxes. The team that completes the top ten IB Learner profiles first wins.

Guest lecture by welfare Institute

Ms. Qian Yan from Zhangjiagang Children's Welfare Home gave the students a wonderful lecture about life in the welfare home. She reviewed the little warm stories of the welfare home, so that everyone realized that physical barriers or boundaries can not block social interaction, development, and learning.

"Breaking Barriers" project report

After the guest speech, the students began their own research activities, and they asked "What are obstacles? What are the boundaries?" Study in groups, and pick a "barrier or boundary" that you are interested in to learn more about and understand the reasons behind it. What policies, institutions, and equipment have helped remove these barriers and boundaries throughout history? Each group also brainstorms, thinking hard and designing a device that breaks down these specific barriers or boundaries.

Day 2

"Turning waste into treasure" artistic creation

On the second day of IB Week, we wanted to break the inherent "boundaries" of materials through art and have a related artistic journey. Mr. Luo Hanxin, a graduate student in film visual design at Beijing Film Academy, brought a unique introduction to the art of "turning waste into treasure" for students.

After the guest finished his speech, the students began to re-create their ideas for waste products. At the end of the corridor are stacked various kinds of waste and idle supplies collected by teachers and students. Students combined the theme, bold ideas, launched a series of diverse forms, far-reaching artistic creation.

Cross-faculty presentations

After the completion of the creation, the students brought their works to the playground, explained the meaning behind their works to the primary and junior high school students and teachers, and had interesting interactions with everyone, passing the concept of environmental protection to people around them.

Group A 

Our group's installation art is this flower pot. The first meaning is that we can reuse old things and transform them into useful things or decorations for ourselves. The second meaning is that flowers made of paper and plastic are lifeless and not fresh, so we should protect the environment and do not let the flowers lose their vitality.

Group B

Every year, between 4.8 million and 12.7 million tons of plastic waste are washed by rain and artificially discharged into the ocean. This waste will reduce the fertility of fish and shellfish, leading to the imbalance of Marine ecology, while plastic waste causes 1.5 million animal deaths every year. Our work "High Wall" is just an abstract form, the garbage on the sea as a three-dimensional sensory device to show. We want you to remember that what goes through the walls of this world is all around us, whether it's the best in the world or every piece of trash we pick up with our hands, and that no good thing ever dies.

Group C

The title of our work is The Tree. The whole of the tree represents the natural environment in which we live, and the branches and leaves are connected to the tree, symbolizing that humans and the environment are inseparable. Nature is our home and we cannot survive without it. The leaves may fall, which symbolizes that human's destruction of nature will only hurt us humans in the end, so that our future generations will "fall" from the natural environment like leaves.

Group D

The original intention of the work was to raise awareness about Marine pollution. The painting shows a whale with garbage in its mouth, with fishing nets and garbage behind it, and in front of it are the painful emotions expressed by the whale after it has been hurt. We want to show that the garbage and pollutants that humans put into the ocean will eventually have adverse effects on themselves.

Group E

our topic is Bring our green back. Green means Nature, and Black, which is similar to Back, means pollution. At present, the problem of environmental pollution in the world is aggravating, the loss of land nutrients, and the vegetation can not have a good growth environment. We create a process of environmental change, where people reuse waste to transform a land that was initially polluted into a clean, fertile land with grass and flowers.

Group F

We think about the context of "what happens to life if the ocean is polluted?" In this context, living beings use plastic bottles as rafts and cotton sails to find their homes. The interactive part of our design is to use white rope as a spray. Every teacher and student who visited our installation used "Spray" to help the drifter find his home.

The IB Week series is still underway, so stay tuned!