Thursday, January 31, 2013
The Medfield Jazz Band will travel to China in April. Fundraising efforts are underway to help offset costs.
The Medfield High School Jazz Band has received another sizeable donation toward funding its trip to China in April. Last week, Medfield Police Officer Chelle Manganello stopped in to see Medfield Music Director Doug Olsen and delivered a $1,000 check from the Medfield Police Association for the Jazz Band’s music trip to China in April. (Manganello serves as the association’s treasurer.) On Saturday, Feb. 2, the Jazz Band will hold a concert -- Jazzin' for China -- at 7 p.m. at The Center at Medfield to cap off the China fundraising campaign. Tickets are on sale at Lord’s until midday Saturday for $50 each, and will be sold at the door if still available. Earlier this month, the Medfield High School Alumni Association also made a $1,000…
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Medfield High School Alumni Association has made a donation to help support members of the MHS Jazz Band who are heading to China in April.
The Medfield High School Alumni Association has donated $1,000 to help with the Medfield High School Jazz Band music tour and cultural exchange trip in April. The jazz band will hold a fundraising event on Saturday, Feb. 2 at The Center at Medfield to support the band's trip. Tickets are available at Lord's and can also be purchased through Network for Good. Cost is $50 per person, or a discounted $45 per person if a table for eight is purchased (limited availability). Online convenience charges will apply. The jazz band China trip features several days in Bengbu, which has hosted a student and staff exchange with Medfield Public Schools for the past four years. The band will share American Jazz with Bengbu music students, and in return…
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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 …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
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 …
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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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Thursday, September 22, 2011
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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Thursday, July 21, 2011
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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Friday, February 4, 2011
MHS freshman Katrina Simon accepted a "Hi" and a handshake from First Lady Michelle Obama during a trip to Washington D.C. for a "100,000 Strong Initiative" rally.
For one Medfield High School student, a recent trip to Washington, D.C. included a visit to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, an elevator ride to the top of the Washington Monument, a visit to Howard University and oh, yes … a handshake and a "hi" from First Lady, Michelle Obama. Medfield High freshman student, Katrina Simon was one of a select few who were invited to share the stage with Mrs. Obama during the First Lady’s Jan. 19 appearance at a “100,000 Strong Initiative” rally. Simon is a member of Medfield High School’s Asia Society and was one of 10 students whose families played host to Chinese exchange students last fall. The “100,000 Strong Initiative”, announced by the President during a November trip to China, seeks …
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