A Book Fair To Remember
In January 2015, Keystone organized a book
fair in association with Project Roundabout, a
charitable organization. Hundreds came to buy
used books, secondhand toys and other items that
were collected, sorted, and checked for quality by
the Project themselves. Close to RMB100,000 was
raised through the fair and donated to a couple
of charitable causes supported by Roundabout.
Keystone Academy is closely associated with
Project Roundabout via the school service learning
program, which sees several of our students
volunteer at their Shunyi shop every weekend.
The Campus Weekend Tradition
On the weekend of 15-17 May 2015, middle school students and
teachers took over the school grounds after hours. Campus weekends
are a middle and high school tradition at Keystone Academy. These
special weekends, which come twice or thrice in an academic year,
bring all middle and high school teachers and students together
through a whole range of activities that involve fun, learning,
teamwork, bonding and relaxing. It breaks from the routine of
boarding life, and also presents middle school day students an
opportunity to experience school life after hours. Weekend activities
are a part of the school residential program, and these special
campus weekends are a celebration of life on campus.
Malcolm Speaks at
Harvard’s China Education
Symposium
In May 2015, Head of School, Malcolm McKenzie
spoke at Harvard University’s China Education
Symposium about access to education. At this
prestigious forum, Mr. McKenzie presented the
school’s scholarship program that makes the
Keystone model and ambitions accessible to
the best and brightest students irrespective of
their background. This is the mission of a world
school such as Keystone, and the symposium
delegates could not agree more when Mr.
McKenzie said, “Students and teachers would
be knowledgeable about the world… They
would, therefore, apply their learning to change
our world for the better and to address the great
challenges of our time. A deep sense of public
purpose, of learning to serve, would be systemic
in such schools. Above all, perhaps, they would
develop a positive instinct for difference, and a
desire to learn from otherness.”
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