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Stay Connected Here are some highlights from our WeChat account: Discovering Keystone: Beauty Lies in the Details Bigoli into Bridge With this post our readers learned how to make a bridge out of pasta with our Middle School Design teacher, George Baxter Appreciating Chinese Art This was one of the first posts just before school opened for its very first semester. It appeared on 6 August 2014. It gave a first glimpse of the campus, the classrooms, and its facilities, which was much anticipated by Keystone families. This post was read over 2600 times, which is twice the number of subscribers we had at that time. We are What We Read In this 31 October post, we told our readers how our students learned and appreciated various Chinese art forms. Unlike Western paintings that often attempt the precise depiction of real-life objects, Chinese painting focuses more on reflecting a sentiment, and depicting a state rather than reproducing visual reality. Stories from Classroom Walls In this interesting post that appeared on 6 September 2014, we gave readers a peek into Keystone’s bilingual Libraries through book recommendations from staff and students. Some teachers picked out their favorite textbooks, others could not pick just one. 68 The Keystone Magazine As we waited for school to open, we focused this post on how our teachers were preparing ahead of students’ arrival. Primary school Chinese homeroom teacher, Shi Mei, said her classroom walls, though decked in traditional Chinese style, were only 60% complete. Only her students’ work could make it whole.