Students from Bengbu Excited about Exchange Program

Students tell Medfield Patch they are excited to be in Medfield.

  Last week, Medfield middle and high school students welcomed five students and three teachers from China as part of its cultural exchange program with its sister school in Bengbu, China.  After a welcoming ceremony on Friday, the students told Medfield Patch they were excited to be in Medfield. "I'm excited because the people are warm and they're glad to see us," Windy Ye said. "I'm very excited to be here because of the great culture and this great country and the great people and they're very good to me," Angl Lee said.  Rose Wang was also excited. "The people here are very warm-hearted and they're very kind to us," Wang said. "I think it's just like home. I think Medfield is very beautiful."  The students are part of a cultural …

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Students From China Visit for Three Weeks

The Medfield Public Schools are hosting eight students and three teachers from China as part of its Mandarin language program.

There's a new kid in town.  Well, actually eight new kids. On Monday, eight students and three teachers were welcomed into the Medfield school system as part of a three-week exchange program between Medfield and its sister city Bengbu, China. They arrived late last week and will be fully engrossed in Medfield living for the next three weeks. They will stay with host families, take classes in the schools and provide tutoring to Medfield students taking Mandarin, participate in extra-curricular activities, and visit sites around the town and state to help them learn first-hand about life in America.  The purpose of the exchange program, said Superintendent of Medfield Public Schools Bob Maguire as he introduced the exchange students to the …

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Bengbu to Medfield: Medfield’s Newest High School Seniors

Former Medfield High School teacher Richard DeSorgher welcomes foreign exchange students from Bengbu High School #2 in Bengbu, Medfield's sister city.

Three high school seniors from Bengbu High School #2, jet-lag and all, have just spent their first week in Medfield and in the United States, anticipating their first day of school in Medfield High School on September 4.  The three students, YangXinyi, Zexin Jiang (know as Kaven) and Tianxu Shi (known as Tony) are the first students taking part in the growing Bengbu, China- Medfield year-long student exchange program. All three students will spend the year here in Medfield, staying with local Medfield families and attending Medfield High School as seniors.  They arrived over a day late, on top of the 14-plus hour flight from Shanghai, where their arrival was delayed after a flock of birds were caught in the plane’s engine.   The students …

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Medfield Students Leave Thursday for Chinese Exchange Program

Nine Medfield students – six from the middle school and three from the high school – leave today for Bengbu, China, where they will spend nearly three weeks utilizing their Mandarin immersion classes.

Nine Medfield students and two Medfield administrators are heading to China today for a three-week cultural exchange visit in Bengbu, China, and an experience of a lifetime. “This is an amazing opportunity for all of us to learn more about the Chinese culture,” said Tracy Allen, a guidance counselor at Blake Middle School, who, along with Maura Batts, a language teacher at the high school – who started the district’s Mandarin language program after immersing herself in the language during a one-year sabbatical – will chaperone the trip. “This is an important program because of the prominence of China in the global economy, and it will also spread cultural awareness,” said Allen. “I think Chinese is a language that more and more people will…

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Medfield's Mandarin Teacher to Incorporate Chinese Culture into Language Instruction

Hong Li will be teaching Medfield students how to speak, write and enunciate the Chinese language while focusing on the modern culture of China.

Hong Li has 17 years of experience teaching English to Chinese speaking individuals but will spend this year teaching Medfield students Chinese as the school district’s mandarin teacher. “Ms. Li was the teacher that we had a number of conversations back and forth with our private school in Bengbu [China] and she’s been hired this year to teach Chinese for us and she’s teaching at the middle school in grades six, seven and eight and at the high school,” said Bob Maguire, Medfield Superintendent of Schools. Li passed the Mandarin Test of Teachers in China and is excited to work with Medfield students and teach them about the Chinese culture and the various components that make up the Chinese language. “I love teaching and I love kids,” Li …

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Blake Middle School Academic Year in Review: China Trip

This is part four of a seven-part series that takes an in-depth look at Blake Middle School’s 2010-2011 academic year; goals for 2011-12 academic year; a new bell schedule; personnel changes; China trip and the transition to a new principal.

Editor's Note: Medfield Patch will provide a summary of Robert Parga’s end of the year report for Blake Middle School and take an in-depth look at goals for the 2011-12 academic year; Blake’s upgrades in technology; the school’s China Trip; A new bell schedule and personnel changes. We will conclude the series with the transition from Parga to Nat Vaughn as Blake Middle School principal. This is part four of our seven-part Blake Middle School series. For three weeks beginning in the middle of October, nine Medfield students and two teachers will visit Bengbu, China as part of Medfield's China Exchange in the China School Exchange Initiative program. “Moving forward, another big step in our partnership with the school in Bengbu will be …

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