中文课程Chinese Courses

　　语文

　　Chinese

　　语文课程通过汉语拼音、识字写字、阅读、口语交际等内容，使刚入学的儿童得到全面的语文启蒙教育，同时为培养儿童语文学习的兴趣、能力、习惯等方面打好基础。

　　Through the Chinese Pinyin,literacy and writing,reading,oral communication and other contents,the Chinese course enables the newly enrolled children to receive a comprehensive Chinese enlightenment education,and at the same time lays a solid foundation for cultivating children's interest,ability and habits in Chinese language learning.

　　数学

　　Mathmatics

　　数学课程的基本出发点是促进学生全面、持续、和谐地发展。强调从学生已有的生活经验出发，让学生亲身经历将实际问题抽象成数学模型并进行解释与应用的过程，进而使学生获得对数学理解的同时，在思维能力、情感态度与价值观等多方面得到进步和发展。

　　The starting point of the Math course is to promote the comprehensive,sustainable and harmonious development of students.Starting from the students'previous life experience,it lets students experience the process of abstracting practical problems into mathematical models,explaining and applying them.Thus,it enables students to gain an understanding of Math,and at the same time,elevate and shape their thinking ability,emotional attitudes and senses of value.

　　语文阅读

　　Chinese Reading

　　根据儿童的认知和心理特点，以及儿童阅读能力和素养发展的要求，制定中文分级阅读标准，确定必读和选读书目，利用阅读课和学生阅读互动，培养学生的阅读兴趣和习惯，提升阅读素养，为终身阅读、学习能力的培养奠基。

　　‍According to children's cognitive and psychological characteristics,as well as the requirements of children's reading ability and literacy development,teachers formulate Chinese graded reading standards,determine required and optional reading items,and use reading lessons to interact with students'reading to cultivate students'reading interest and habits and finally to improve reading quality and lay the foundation for lifelong reading and learning ability.

　　科学

　　Science

　　科学课程以“科学知识+动手实践+创新能力”为培养目标，结合各学段学生年龄特点和认知水平，开设动植物、航空航天、物质科学等不同主题。开展以探究和实践为主的趣味性科学活动，在体验式活动中激发学生的学习兴趣、保持探索力。在爱科学、学科学、用科学的过程中不断培养科学思维能力，促进创新能力的发展。

　　The Science course focuses on scientific knowledge learning,hands-on practicing and creativity cultivating.Based on studies of the students’age characteristics and cognitive ability,different themes such as“animals and plants”,“aerospace”and“physical science”are explored.This course encourages the students to explore and experiment in interesting scientific activities to arouse their interest in learning and to maintain their ability of doing research.In the process of loving,learning and using science,they are also developing their scientific thinking abilities and creativities.

　　书画

　　Chinese traditional calligraphy and painting

　　书画课程通过艺术实践的方式提升儿童对中国文化的认识、审美高度以及艺术表现能力。尝试运用笔墨来表现汉字和中国画中的文化意蕴。蕴自然之灵，凝艺术之智，养浩然之气，积渊博之才。

　　Through artistic practices,the Chinese Traditional Calligraphy and Painting course deepens the children's understanding of Chinese culture,sharpens their aesthetic perceptions and promotes their artistic expressiveness.In classes,students are taught to express the cultural implication of Chinese characters and Chinese paintings with brushes and ink.This course aims for the students to take in the spirit of nature,gain the wisdom of art,harbor a noble spirit and expand knowledge spectrums.

　　体育与健康

　　Physical Education

　　我校体育课程积极响应教委提出的聚焦教会、勤练、常赛的体育教学理念，不断完善“健康知识+基本运动技能+专项运动技能”体育教学模式，体育课不仅学习人教版体育与健康内容，还会重点学习武术、游泳、高尔夫、网球、冰球、跑酷、攀岩、橄榄球等体育项目，使学生尝试不同体育项目，让学生找到适合自己的运动特长，同时掌握1至2项终身受用的体育技能。

　　In response to the Education Committee’s proposal that the PE courses should focus on teaching,diligent practice and regular competitions,PE teachers constantly improve the physical education teaching mode of"health knowledge+basic sports skills training+special sports skills training".The content will also includes martial arts,swimming,golf,tennis,ice hockey,parkour,rock climbing,rugby and other sports,so students can try different sports,to find their own sports specialties,and at the same time master 1 or 2 life-long sports skills.

　　外语课程Foreign Language Courses

　　综合英语

　　Comprehensive English

　　综合英语课程是一门英语作为外语的语言课程，设计符合学生年龄特点和语言水平的教学大纲，全面培养儿童的听、说、读、写四大基本语言技能及综合语言运用能力。学生在学习的过程中，不仅能够享受语言学习的乐趣，而且能够感受到自己的英语水平日益提高，从而收获一种成就感。

　　The Comprehensive English course is an ESL(English as a second language)course.Designed the teaching syllabus in accordance to the students'age characteristics and language levels in each specific stage,it aims to cultivate the children’s listening,speaking,reading and writing skills respectively and at the same time to build their ability of comprehensive application of these skills.In the process of learning,students can not only enjoy the fun of language learning,but also feel their English improving steadily.Eventually,they gain a sense of achievement.

　　语音

　　Phonics

　　语音学习以自然拼读为主，使用瑞格叔叔、牛津自然拼读等系列教材，通过歌曲、游戏、故事等，帮助学生学习英语字母的发音规则，鼓励学生发现字母与语音的关联，运用最简单的发音规则，让学生轻松的看字读音，听音拼词，并初步建立语音意识，为后续的英语学习打下坚实的拼读、拼写基础。

　　Phonics learning is mainly based on phonics,using a series of textbooks such as Uncle Rigg and Oxford Phonics,through songs,games,stories,etc.,to help students learn the pronunciation rules of English letters,encourage students to discover the relationship between letters and sounds.Thus they can use the simplest pronunciation rules to easily read and pronounce words,listen to sounds and spelling words,and initially establish phonological awareness,laying a solid foundation for spelling and spelling for subsequent English learning.

　　拼写与写作

　　Spelling and Writing

　　英文写作课程紧跟教学主题，以学段特点为导向，拼写课中会学习字母书面体和手写体的书写、大小写的区分、高频词以及简单句子的临摹。写作课循序渐进地进行题材写作的学习，学习的写作体裁包括日志和信件、说明文、议论文，记叙文和描写文。同时学习一些常见的修辞手法如比喻、象征、拟人、夸张、反问等。

　　The course closely follows the teaching theme and is guided by the characteristics of the school period.In the spelling class,students will learn the writing of letters in both printed style and handwriting styles and the distinction between upper and lower case,high-frequency words and the copying of simple sentences.Genre writing such as procedural writing,journals,letters and expository writing,persuasive writing,narrative writing and descriptive writing will be gradually included,and practiced along with several writing techniques such as simile,metaphor,personification,hyperbole and rhetorical questions.

　　英文阅读

　　English Reading

　　英文阅读课程是一个以适合学生认知发展的读本、短文或书籍为载体的主题式学习过程，课程设计根据不同学段的发展特点，课程形式与能力培养也各有侧重。采用教师示范法、自拼阅读法、整词阅读法和语言历程法等教学法，培养学生的阅读兴趣与技巧，通过多样化的文本阅读和赏析，提高孩子的文学素养，培养孩子的文学鉴赏力和批判思维。

　　The English reading course is a thematic learning process based on reading books,essays or books suitable for students'cognitive development.It adopts different course forms to address different capacity-building needs.Teacher’s modeled reading,the phonics method,the whole word approach,the language experience learning,etc.are techniques used to develop students’reading interest and skills.And through reading diversified texts,the course aims to improve students’literary accomplishment,and build their literary appreciation and critical thinking abilities.

　　科学与科技

　　Science and Technology

　　科学与科技是一门将科学、科技内容学习和英语语言学习有机整合的创新课程。科学、科技内容是英语语言学习的素材，英语语言是交流科学、科技观点的工具。根据不同学段学生的认知特点，螺旋形开设生命科学、物质科学与工程技术等内容，三年级起增加信息科技基础知识和编程语言学习。结合真实情境，在创设的良好英语交流的学习氛围中，鼓励学生发现并积极运用自身经验表达、物化自己的想法，从而达到解决问题的目的，培养学生的创新意识。

　　Science and Technology course integrates science,technology learning and English language learning.In this course,English is used to teach science and technology and to communicate ideas.In accordance to the cognitive characteristics of students in different stages,this course gradually includes life science,physical science and engineering technology as learning themes.Basic knowledge of information technology and programming will be included from Grade 3 on.In classes,students are encouraged,in real life contexts,to use English to recall and apply previous experiences to express and objectify their own ideas,and eventually they will acquire creativities and problem-solving ability.

　　数学

　　Mathmatics

　　此课程为英语授课，帮助学生熟悉数学学科语言，以形式多样的教学活动和学科练习培养学生的数学思维和逻辑思维。

　　This course is taught in English to help students become familiar with the language of mathematics,and to cultivate students'mathematical thinking and logical thinking through various teaching activities and subject exercises.

　　体育

　　PE

　　此课程为英语授课，持续提升学生体能素质，并学习和练习旱地冰球、羽毛球、瑜伽等体育项目。

　　Taught in English,this course aims to continually strengthen the students’physical fitness.Sports such as ice hockey,badminton,and yoga will be taught.

　　音乐

　　Music

　　音乐课程主张是恰到好处的美的教育，是有温度、有深度、有宽度、有高度的教育，通过表演、戏剧、世界艺术赏析等特色课程，及中国京剧、古诗新唱等中国传统文化课程，进行中西文化的融合，互相渗透，为打开学生多元化的艺术世界；关注学生个性化发展，定期开展丰富多样的双语艺术活动，为学生搭建展示自己的平台；同时，也为学生提供了专业化的艺术社团，双语合唱团、舞蹈团、交响乐团、行进管乐团、京剧团、双语戏剧团，掌握演奏、演唱技能，让学生得到全面发展。

　　The music course embraces a“just right”aesthetic education,which is an education of warmth,depth,breadth and height.The curriculum aims to achieve an elegant integration of Chinese and Western cultures through our specialty courses(e.g.,acting,drama,world art appreciation,etc.)and Chinese traditional culture courses(e.g.,Beijing Opera,creative singing of ancient poems,etc.),so as to open up a diversified artistic world for students.The music program values the individualized development of students and hosts bilingual art festivals regularly to build platforms for students to show themselves.Meanwhile,the school provides students with professional art clubs,such as bilingual chorus,dance club,symphony orchestra,marching band,Beijing Opera club and bilingual drama club.In these clubs,students should be able to master performing,singing and acting skills,and develop in a well-rounded manner.

　　法语

　　French

　　法语课程植根于法国驻华使馆的法文课程班体系，四年级起开设法语作为第二外语必修课，全面系统的培养学生法语听、说、读、写能力，同时简单了解法国国家文化及概况知识，培养学生多语思维和国际理解力。

　　The French course is rooted in the LabelFrancÉducation course system of the French Embassy in China.From the fourth grade,French is offered as a compulsory second foreign language course,which comprehensively and systematically cultivates students'French listening,speaking,reading and writing skills,and at the same time enable students og have a basic understanding of the French culture and customs,and furthermore to develop students'multilingual thinking and international understanding.

　　美术

　　Visual Arts

　　美术课程通过游戏化的授课方式，引导学生感知身边的美，使用不同艺术手段和材料进行艺术创作，通过细节增强视觉信息的阐述和意义，对生活中的物品进行装饰和美化，创作出有形式特点和情感的作品，全面培养学生的审美感知、艺术表现、创意实践和文化理解能力。

　　Through a gamified teaching method,this course allows students to perceive the beauty in life,create art pieces with different artisitic means and materials,enhance the presentation of visual information through details,decorate and beautify common things in everyday life,and produce artworks of formal features and feelings.The art course comprehensively develops students'aesthetic perception,artistic expression,creative practice,and cultural understanding.

　　社会实践

　　Social Studies

　　社会实践课程包含班会、劳动、生活技能、社会认知等内容，旨在增加学生对社会的认知，培养学生的独立思想及动手能力。

　　This course includes class meetings,labor work,life skills and social cognition,etc.The course aims to increase students'social cognition,foster independent thinking and the ability to practice.

　　项目学习

　　Project Studies

　　以任务为指导开展多类型的团队项目或个人项目，在完成项目的过程中培养学生的实践探究能力、综合语言运用能力、团队协作能力、逻辑与批判性思维。

　　In this course,students carry out various types of task-oriented team projects and individual projects.In the process of fulfilling tasks,the course aims to cultivate students'practical inquiry ability,comprehensive language ability,teamwork ability,logic and critical thinking ability.