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<\/a>We\u2019re keeping ourselves extra busy at the moment, as we teach not one, not two, but three classes on Friday mornings! It\u2019s all thanks to some new additions to our Friday teaching team who brought their warmth, enthusiasm and new ideas to the classes.<\/p>\nEach week our dedicated volunteers teach English and Science. Being able to run both English and Science programmes at two schools on the same day just goes to show how we\u2019re growing in scope. As you can see from the photos below, the students really are engaged and it\u2019s a pleasure to see. We\u2019ve said it before and we\u2019ll say it again; it\u2019s all thanks to our hardworking volunteers \u2013 old and new \u2013 who enable the classes to happen. This month we also welcomed Aileen on board as our new MCF Science Teacher!<\/p>\n
We were treated to some of our favourite visitors this month, including Rotaract who visited our deaf school on Saturday and did arts and crafts with the children. The kids always have a great time when Rotaract are around! A team of volunteers from Hilton Beijing came to one of our schools to teach survival sills. Fire, electrical and traffic safety were all covered and as you can see from the pictures, the students got to try out their extinguisher handling skills. Thank you Hilton Beijing for giving the students a better chance of survival in case of emergency! We were also treated to some Eagle Scouts from Troop 943 installing corkboards and hand sanitizers in over 15 classrooms at one of our schools \u2013 thank you boys!<\/p>\n We\u2019re not the only ones writing about what we\u2019re doing\u2026 MCF Dulwich Kids\u2019 Club have written a lovely write-up of their Saturday morning session where they taught the topic \u2018dream\u2019. Follow the link<\/a> to read their dreamy article. And here\u2019s their love-ly article<\/a> on the topic \u2018love\u2019.<\/p>\n Also this month, catch MCF founder Helen chatting to China Development Brief about MCF\u2019s work<\/a>.<\/p>\n We look forward to updating you on next month\u2019s activities![:]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [:en]We started this month by having a well-deserved brew and a biscuit at British Beijing\u2019s Morning Cuppa event. We were the supported charity, which meant we got to spill the beans on the exciting things we\u2019ve got planned for the future. We\u2019re keeping ourselves extra busy at the moment, as we teach not one, not… \u9605\u8bfb\u66f4\u591a »[:en]The chillier weather hasn\u2019t dampened our spirits! Another great month for MCF[:]<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mcfchina.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\nBWYA MCF Kid\u2019s Club is one of our newest kids clubs \u2013 they write a mighty fine lesson plan and the kids are super engaged! They\u2019ve been working their magic teaching English, art, music, Chinese and calligraphy (what a combo!). It\u2019s so great to see our students show off their creative skills. Check out the beautiful paintings above!<\/p>\n<\/a>Keeping up with the creative spirit, BCLU taught English and Origami at our school in the south one Saturday. A lot of our teaching groups work hard to combine English with other skills, offering students the chance to embrace arts, creativity and language in one lesson \u2013 as you can see above\u00a0it really pays off!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>This month we announced the winners of our \u2018Name the Child\u2019 logo. As you might have noticed, there are three lovely children in our logo and earlier this year we asked for them to be named. We had so many great entries that we decided to give each of the three children in our logo both a first name and a middle name! The winners for naming the boy, as announced by Lorna (Volunteer Coordinator) at BSB Sanlitun morning assembly, were Finn and Tanner. Finn came up with the name \u2018Charlie\u2019 (from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory) and Tanner came up with \u2018Obex\u2019, which means \u2018a good boy\u2019. We\u2019re so happy the children in our logo now have identities. This helps us represent the children we work with and promote the work MCF doe \u2013 big thanks to Finn and Tanner!<\/p>\n<\/a>We were very fortunate this month as the World Bank Family Network (WBFN) donated two very high tech printers to MCF. Many thanks to our volunteer Jenny, who saw the need, applied for them and arranged the delivery. Thank you so much to Jenny and to the WBFN! It\u2019s so cool when people think of different ways of giving to MCF. This month we want to thank Kavita, one of our volunteer teachers, for encouraging her friends to donate to MCF during their Diwali celebrations. Thanks to RDFZ secondary school, as well, for having an \u2018Adopt a Plant\u2019 day!<\/p>\n