In this spring season, we finally ushered in the long-awaited SUIS Qingpu Parent’s Support Group (PSG) meeting. Everyone gathered happily together in our Ancient Scholars House for the school to show its gratitude. This appreciation meeting was an important platform for the school and parents, aimed at thanking the PSG for its strong support for and cooperation with the school over the past year. At the same time, the meeting served to better promote home-school communication and enhance both home-school cooperation and the comprehensive development of students.
Principals Sunny Huang and Dr Adam Neufield expressed their sincere welcome to all the PSG committee members and thanked them for their continuing support for the school. Principal Huang also gave her feedback on her recent visit to Pate’s Grammar School in the UK, shared the results from the visit, and encouraged parents to work together with the school to build a beautiful campus.
Since 2019, the SUIS Qingpu campus has made great efforts to strengthen communication and interaction between the school, teachers and parents. To do so, an official Parent Support Group was set up in the very beginning. The PSG is an important group, one that links both home and school. During the last five years, parents have been supporting the school in a variety of ways, from parent lectures to parent open days, with various student activities, and at tea gatherings.
In order to thank the PSG for participating in school activities and making positive contributions to the development of the school, the school prepared a beautiful appreciation card for each PSG committee member.
Members of the school’s leadership and management team, teacher representatives and PSG representatives talked and laughed together, drank tea and enjoyed refreshments, shared about their parenting experiences, and talked about the future growth of their children.
From this informal setting, we then moved to the Grand Theater to enjoy several wonderful performances brought by students from our school team and three music teachers.
The performance began with the school orchestra providing the audience with a lively melody, the talented children warming up the atmosphere. The middle school chorus was cheerful, warm and pleasant. The High School’s Navase Dance Club and the Primary School’s Qingfeng Dance team each performed dance works with completely different styles. The students of the AI Programming Team moved their high technology to the stage, and the audience enjoyed witnessing a robot completing “Driving Test Simulation 2,” after which they erupted with a loud burst of applause. At the end of the programme, Nightingale Chorus members, wearing light blue scarves, sang aloud sweetly like their name sakes in the trees.
Primary School music teacher Meng Qianru, Middle School music teacher Sun Jing and High School music teacher Mr Michael Feigl together sang an emotional duet from the Broadway musical “West Side Story”, leaving the stage to waves of applause.
Hand-in-hand, cultivating flowers together, future blossoms are expected. At the end of the ‘thank you’ meeting, Assistant Principal Helen Liu Guixiang once again expressed her gratitude to the PSG for their continuing support, just like the words from the Nightingale Chorus’ song that day: We hope to see you again and again and again.