海归学校图书馆联合世界各地50所国际学校图书馆所举办的2021/2022年“熊猫图书奖”活动已闪亮开幕。该项目旨在让学生们接触到各种各样的儿童作家，从而尝试新的小说类型。
该项目为学生们提供多元化的阅读体验，鼓励大家积极阅读由国际学校图书馆老师们精心挑选出来的优质书籍。对不同的年龄层次，我们推荐了不同类别的书籍。每个类别由大约10本书组成。同时，我们将邀请学生们在春节后投票选出大家最喜欢的“熊猫图书”，得票最多的书将赢得今年的奖项。获奖作者将获得由中国的熊猫图书指导委员会所颁发的“熊猫图书奖” 卷轴。
“熊猫图书奖”指导委员会表示：“熊猫被选为这个项目的吉祥物，是因为它在中国人民心中有着特殊的地位，是和平与友好的象征。”
从上个月开始，海归的图书馆老师们就开始通过阅读活动来推广“熊猫图书”。中学图书馆和小学图书馆通过组织“熊猫读书卡”活动，鼓励学生尽可能多地阅读推荐书籍。在幼儿园，我们的图书馆老师洪老师和Mr. Hart还在图书馆里举办了熊猫图书朗读会。
我们的图书馆里已经有很多“熊猫图书”，随时可供借阅。一些中学教师和学生已经开始阅读了，让我们看看他们是如何评价所读书籍的：
“我喜欢好看的鬼屋故事，因为鬼屋故事实际上是关于各种奇奇怪怪的人。Noemi Taboada收到了一封来自她新婚表妹的信，邀请她前去拜访。当Noemi到达时，她发现了一个令人毛骨悚然的房子，住了多疑的一家人；他们不信任她，她也不信任他们。作者Silvia Moreno-Garcia埋下了一个又一个令人心惊胆战的线索，扣人心弦地揭开了这个家庭及每个人的秘密……”
——Ms. Marquardt，高中地理老师
“Home is not a country 使用了一个独特的形式来讲述整个故事，它用诗歌来表现主人公的内心独白。意识流的运用很好地塑造了主人公Nima，她总是觉得自己与祖国有着强烈的联系，虽然她很小就移民到了美国。这本书讨论了许多主题，如信仰、欺凌、家庭等，但最令人印象深刻的是贯穿全书的问题——我们从哪里来。本书对这一问题进行了深入的讨论，强烈推荐你来阅读这本优秀的书。”
——韩滢，G11学生
“A Place at the Tables讲述了很多关于不同文化的故事，让我们了解那些和我们不太一样的人，以及他们在被区别对待时的感受。”
——Aaliyah Cao，G9学生
“我读的这本叫The Mars Challenge。在这本书里，谈到了登录火星的种种困难，以及为什么我们还不能成行。读完之后，我了解到了很多关于火星和人类太空技术的知识。而且这是一本漫画小说，读起来非常有趣。“
——Isaac Loeppky, G6
期待收到更多关于“熊猫图书”的书评，而且我们迫不及待地想知道今年哪些书会获奖!
Liaising with other 50 international school libraries around the world, OCAC libraries are pleased to announce the start of the Panda Book Awards programme for 2021/2022. The purpose of this programme is aiming to expose our students to a variety of children’s authors and get them to try out new genres of fiction.
This programme provides our students with a diverse reading adventure and encourages young people to read quality books carefully selected by school librarians from international schools. There are different categories which cater to different age level. Each category consists of about ten titles. Students reading the Panda books will be invited to vote for their favourite Panda book after Chinese New Year. The books which receive the most votes, will win the award of this year. And the winning authors will be contacted and be sent with their Panda Award Winner scroll from the Panda Book Steering Committee in China.
“The panda was chosen as the program’s mascot as it holds a special place in the hearts of the Chinese people and is a symbol of peace and a token of forging friendly ties” (The Panda Book Steering Committee).
Since last month, our OCAC librarians have started to promote the Panda books through reading activities. Secondary library and Primary library encourage students to read as many Panda books as possible by organizing a Panda reading card activity. In Early Years, our librarians Ms. Hong and Mr. Hart lead Panda book read-aloud sessions in the library.
Panda Books Posters, created by Ms.Tian, Mr. Zhou and Ms. Selenge,
A pile of Pwanda books is already in our libraries and ready to be checked out. Some Secondary teachers and students have started to read a panda book. Let’s look at what did they say about the book.
“I love a good haunted house story, because haunted house stories are actually about haunted people. Noemi Taboada receives a letter from her newly-wed cousin, pleading for a visit. When Noemi arrives, she finds a creepy house filled with a suspicious family; they distrust her and she distrusts them. The author, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, builds chilling clue upon chilling clue, before the house, the family, and all their secrets are revealed in a gripping conclusion.”
——Ms. Marquardt, Geography teacher in High School
“Home is not a country uses a unique form other than using paragraphs to tell the whole story. But using poets to present the protagonist's inner monologue. The use of stream of consciousness nicely builds up the main character Nima, who always feel strong connections with her home country even she has immigrated to the US when she was young. The book discussed many themes such as beliefs, bully, family and so on. But the most impressive one is the question all the way through the book --Where do we come from? The book has deeply discussed this question and I really recommend you to come and read this excellent book.”
—Catherine Han, G11
“A Place at the Tables teaches a lot about different cultures and let us understand how those that aren’t so much the same as us will feel when being treated differently.”
—Aaliyah Cao, G9
“The book I’ve read is The Mars Challenge. In this book, it talks about all of the difficulties for going to Mars and why we can’t go yet. After I read it, I learned lots about Mars and human’s space technology. Even though it is about all of these stuff, it is a graphic novel, which makes it very interesting.”
—Isaac Loeppky, G6
We look forward to receiving more reviews about the Panda books and we can’t wait for knowing which books will be the winners for this year!
为了更好地满足海外归国就业人才子女接受中西融合教育的需求，在苏州工业园区管委会的大力支持下，中锐教育集团与中新集团合作创办了苏州工业园区海归人才子女学校（简称：OCAC-Suzhou）。这是首家为海归人才子女、华裔华侨子女以及有意愿接受国际教育的中国学生而特别打造的学校。
OCAC-Suzhou提供从幼儿园到高中十五年一贯制的中英文双语教育。以中国国家课程为纲领，以国际文凭IB课程为结构，以融合创新课程为特色，培养主动进取、全面发展的终身学习者。学校致力于开发学生创造、创新、创艺的潜质，使他们将来能与各国青年合作解决21世纪的世界性问题。
