On Aug. 2, 2015, 15 teachers and students of three schools of Jiading District, including 4 students and 1 teacher of Shanghai Jiading No. 1 High School, went to Hauraki City of New Zealand for a 12-day study and exchanges. Teachers and students from three middle schools of Hauraki City of New Zealand came to Shanghai on Sept. 12, 2015 for 12-day return visit and exchanges. With these activities, teachers and students of China and New Zealand mutually experienced culture of foreign countries, established deep friendship and opened their international vision.
In the visit in Aug., the teachers and students first arrived at a pearl town on the South Island of New Zealand -- the Queen Town for visit and tour. The teachers and students had a ship tour of the Milford Fjord, boarded on a steam ship with a history of 100 years, experience the thrilling drift in a launch, and finally bought souvenirs at the Queen Town with crowded shops for their families and friends. The trip to the South Island presented the fresh and beautiful natural scenery of New Zealand. Then the delegation arrived at Hauraki City on the North Island, to study and make exchanges at Paeroa High School, Hauraki Plains High School and Waihi High School of the local area. The students visited the campuses, learned Maori in the local classroom, and made traditional handicrafts; they also entered their gymnasium and music classroom, quite attracted by the robust and vigorous postures and fine-sounding music of New Zealand students. In the study and exchanges, the students had a deep feeling of the difference between China and New Zealand in classroom teaching, courses and systems, widening their vision, which led them to reflecting and comparing the courses and teaching methods in China.
The delegation of Hauraki City of New Zealand arrived at Jiading at the end of September. Guided by the teachers and students of Jiading No. 1 High School, the New Zealand teachers and students visited the campus of the school; they went to the specialized geography and history classrooms and Joy Care Center to experience on various facilities; in the fantastic Science and Technology Gallery of the school, the New Zealand teachers and students operated in person and enjoyed themselves so much as to forget to leave. In the reception, the students demonstrated good classroom conduct and conversation ability with the New Zealand delegation, receiving good appraisal from the New Zealand teachers and students. The return visit by the New Zealand teachers and students further deepened the friendly relationship between Jiading No. 1 High School and the friendly schools of Hauraki City for mutual learning and promotion, benefiting a lot to teachers and students.
Such exchange visit activities between Jiading District and New Zealand have been lasted for over ten years, and in these activities, the teachers and students of Jiading No. 1 High School established deep friendship, exchanged on education concepts and cultural traditions of each other, and experienced different ways of life, achieving a lot.