人勤春来早，奋斗正当时。料峭春寒挡不住春天的脚步，我们又迎来了一个崭新的新学期。2月21日，上海美达菲双语高级中学全体师生齐聚足球场，举行了“新学期、新起点、新征程”2021—2022学年第二学期开学典礼。

Early spring is a time of striving for the better. Coldness can not stop the footsteps of spring, and it is time to usher in a brand-new semester. On February 21, all teachers and students of Shanghai MacDuffie Bilingual High School gathered in the football field to hold the opening ceremony of the second semester of 2021-2022 school year.

Opening Ceremony

MACDUFFIE STUDENT

主持人尤佳琪、赵德尊同学宣布开学典礼正式开始。经过寒假的休整，上海美达菲全体师生提振精神，鼓足干劲，如同盛开的迎春花，呈现出勃勃生机。一年之计在于春，春天是一年的开始，是所有目标和计划的起点，提出新的要求，定下新的目标，播种新的希望。在新学期，上海美达菲将进一步营造良好的校园环境和学习氛围，树立团结和谐、积极向上的校风、班风和学风。

Host You Jiaqi and Zhao Dezun announced the opening ceremony. After the winter vacation, all the teachers and students of Shanghai MacDuffie refreshed their spirits and refilled their energy, just like the blooming winter jasmine, showing full vitality. Spring is the beginning of the year. Spring is the starting point for all goals and plans. New demands are made, new goals are set, and new hopes are sown. In the new semester, Shanghai MacDuffie will further create a good campus environment and learning atmosphere, establish a united, harmonious, and positive spirit across the campus.

上海美达菲升旗手孙立、刁怀瑾同学在全体师生奏唱的国歌声中，将国旗冉冉升起，全体师生心怀对寒假的美好记忆，对未来的无限憧憬，共同开启新学期新篇章。

Sun Li and Diao Huaijin, flag-raisers of Shanghai MacDuffie, raised the national flag in the national song sung by all the teachers and students. All of them kept good memories of the winter holiday and infinite longing for the future, and jointly opened a new chapter of the new semester.

接着，上海美达菲校长王东焕为开学典礼致辞，向全体师生致以新学期的问候与祝福，对优秀的老师和同学加入到上海美达菲这个大家庭表示了热烈的欢迎。

Then, Mr. Wang Donghuan, the principal of Shanghai MacDuffie, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony, extending greetings and best wishes to all the teachers and students of the new semester, and extended a warm welcome to the excellent new teachers and students joining the big family of Shanghai MacDuffie.

王校长对美达菲学子们提出了“学习+运动+活动”的三点希望：

Principal Wang put forward three hopes of "study + sports + activities" for Shanghai MacDuffie students：

1.合理安排时间，多做多问多练

Arrange your time properly, do more, ask more, practice more

2.坚持运动，至少参加一项体育运动

Stay active and participate in at least one sport

3.积极参加课外活动，挖掘自身潜能全面发展

Actively participate in extra-curricular activities to tap their potential for all-round development

在这三方面学校也提供了全方位的支持。新一学期，学校的足球场、篮球场、排球场、网球场、羽毛球馆、乒乓球馆、健身房和游泳馆运动设施每天都可以使用。同时学校也鼓励同学们根据自己的特长和兴趣创建属于自己的社团，激发潜能。

The school also provides all-round support in these three areas. In the new semester, the school's football field, basketball court, volleyball court, tennis court, badminton hall, table tennis hall, gym and swimming pool can be used every day. At the same time, the school also encourages students to set up their own clubs according to their strengths and interests to stimulate the potential.

新学期、新起点、新征程，上海美达菲秉承着“怀中国心，做世界人”的办学理念，围绕着美达菲传统的六大核心价值观：“集体”、“正直”、“尊重”、“创造力”、“领导力”、“卓越”这六大核心价值观，不断在传承中发展、创新，会在后续不断推出了一系列为学子们量身打造的特色活动，引导美达菲学子成长为精英人才，实施文体教育的同步发展，为之全面成长保驾护航。

In the new semester, a new starting point and a new journey, Shanghai MacDuffie adheres to the school philosophy of "international vision with a Chinese heart", centering on the six core values of MacDuffie: "community", "integrity", "respect", "creativity", "leadership", "excellence", developing in the inheritance and innovation unceasingly, will continuously launch a series of tailor-made activities for the students, guide the students to grow into elite talents, with stylistic synchronous development of education, implementation of the escort for the overall growth.

良好的开端是成功的一半。在新的学年里，希望美达菲学子能够以饱满的热情进行学习和工作，以积极的心态面对困难和挑战，有优异的成绩回报家庭和社会。在上海美达菲，每一位同学都将成为有理想、有知识、讲原则，具有正确的人生观、价值观、是非观的优秀人才！

A good beginning is half done. In the new school year, we hope that the students of Shanghai MacDuffie can study and work with full enthusiasm, face difficulties and challenges with a positive attitude, and repay their families and society with excellent results. In Shanghai MacDuffie, every student will become an outstanding talent with ideal, knowledge, principles, values and outlook of life.

怀中国心、做世界人

每一个美达菲学子都怀揣着自己的梦想

既要仰望星空，又要脚踏实地

新一学期，同一起点

我们一起蓄势待发！

谱写与上海美达菲的故事

International vision with a Chinese heart

Every MacDuffie student has his own dream

Look up at the stars and keep your feet on the ground

A new semester, the same starting point

Together we are ready to go!

Compose a story with Shanghai MacDuffie

文章转载自：【上海美达菲学校】