Jack的英国小留学生日记 l 这些课外活动可真有趣！

智澳教育是英国克利夫顿学院特许认可的报考招生咨询服务机构。

欢迎广大家长朋友前来咨询了解！

亲爱的读者们，大家好 !

本期想跟大家聊一下西方教育中的课外活动和体育竞技。

在欧洲和美国这些西方国家，学校不仅是学术研究的殿堂，也是体育竞技的赛场。学校内部经常会组织一些体育比赛，但大多数还是跟其他学校之间的对抗赛。体育竞技还有其他课外活动在西方国家学校的地位跟学术教育是同等水平。即使在学术教育上，学生也可以根据自己的兴趣选择喜欢的学科（除必修课程外）。我很喜欢这种竞争意识的培养，因为它鼓励我们去团队合作，促进学生的凝聚力，一起为共同的目标努力。我自己喜欢的课外活动是击剑，辩论，以及模拟联合国。

跟其他同学相比，我的运动天赋并不突出，没有橄榄球选手健壮的体魄，也没有板球运动员的耐心，所以在刚入学的很长一段时间里，我很抵触体育运动。但幸运的是，我接触到了击剑。击剑是一项很特别的运动：快节奏的步伐，敏捷的出击，获胜时飙升的肾上腺素…… 由此我爱上了击剑，这是一项速度与强度完美结合的运动，也不需要身体的直接接触。我平时培训的击剑俱乐部教练同时也是学校的教练，这样一来，我的进步更快了。

我觉得自己根本没有公开演讲的能力，直到最近两年这个情况才所有好转。两年前，我转学到布里斯托文法学校的时候，第一次发现了辩论的乐趣。这里的模拟联合国俱乐部是之前克利夫顿学院所没有的。出于好奇，我加入了“模联”。顾名思义，“模联”就是模拟联合国，每个成员会代表一个国家，为自己所代表的国家进行利益辩论。每次辩论的结果跟真正的联合国几乎完全相同。每个“模联”代表就某一主题写下决议和修正案，通过辩论决定决议能否被通过或拒绝。

我们学校的“模联”特别厉害，在秘书长Jay的带领下，总是能捧回大大小小的奖杯。参加“模联”大大增强了我的自信心，随着拿到的奖项越来越多，对于学校其他的演讲或者口语考试我也更胸有成竹了。

学校的课外活动不仅仅是为了乐趣，同时也在调剂着大家忙碌的课业生活。比如，击剑比赛就能消除我所有的烦恼和压力。活在当下很重要，毕竟我们只有一个童年，为什么不能多尝试一些新鲜事物，探索自己的兴趣呢？

敬请关注下周的文章 ！

Jack

英文版

In Europe and the US, institutions are a place of academic education but also sporting and extra-curriculum rivalry and competition within the school, but mostly between institutions. Sport and any other extra - curriculum interests are highly valued and even with the academic education, the pupils are given a choice to pick subjects to their highest interest (except for some compulsory ones). Personally, I really enjoy this sense of competition as it brings your team or house or school together to work in unison. And for me, these pursuits are fencing and debating or MUN.

I am not that great of a sportsman compared to other students in the school; I don't have the big size for rugby, nor the patience for cricket, so for a while when I first came, games is something I don't really enjoy-until I found fencing. There's something special about fencing to me; the fast-paced movement, the exhilarating hits and parries, the adrenalin rush of winning... Fencing for me is the perfect balance of speed and intensity while having very little physical contact which I really enjoyed and being able to do it instead of games is just perfect for me. Luckily for me, the fencing club I go and the coach who coaches me is the same club and coach for the school, so the location doesn't change which in the long term is very useful and my progress can be improved more efficiently.

I must confess that I have no talent at all for public speaking, in fact, quite the opposite until two years ago. I first discovered debating when I moved to Bristol Grammar School around two years ago; the school offers a debating and MUN club, which Clifton did not for its prep school, and I joined just out of interest. MUN or Model United Nations is basically what the name suggested; it's a mock UN with debtors or delegates playing the role of a country and debate in the interest of it. The formate of the debate is almost exactly the same as the real United Nations, which delegates write resolutions and amendments for a set topic; debate and vote to get the resolution passed or failed, depending on your country's views; and make alliances with other delegates to get support. Our school is particularly strong at this, and for most of the conferences I've been to, our top country, under the leadership of our secretary-general - Jay, always seems to bring some sort of a shield or a trophy back to school. MUN really boosted my confidence in a fun and progressive manner and I am now winning more and higher awards in the conferences and also more confident in presentations and speaking tests in school.

Clubs and activities to me are fun and exciting, but also a great escape from the day to day learning and lessons; all of the worries and pressure and work can be all released in a fencing match, and let me live in the moment. After all, we only have one childhood, so why not do something new or something you are interested.

Jack

*文章版权归Jack同学所有

﹏

想了解更多英国私校申请，

请咨询我们。