Emily Halfpenny

Grade 4 Lead Teacher 老师 at a Bilingual School in Beijing 🇨🇳 Primary trained, English and SEND specialist, Animal lover, Traveller

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Today was spent exploring The Great Wall of China in the snow 😍❄️🇨🇳

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Hutong dogs 🐕

[Life at Beijing Haidian Kaiwen Academy @LifeatHDKaiwen]

Think your #school has great facilities? Think again. 🧐

Welcome to the 200,000 sqm #Beijing Hadian Kaiwen Academy campus. All kinds of sports venues complemented by dedicated art buildings and stunning gardens.

The most beautiful campus in Beijing? Hands down. ✨

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A message for my Grade 1 students as our time together draws closer to an end 🌻🌻🌻 We planted sunflower seeds a while ago and now the first of them has bloomed ❤️

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So excited for this! China to India will be an epic journey! Can’t wait to see where they go to in China especially now we live here!

[Race Across The World @RATW_official]

It's finally back! Watch #RaceAcrossTheWorld now on BBC One and iPlayer! 🌏🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

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Kuala Lumpur views 😍🇲🇾

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Celebrating the last day before the Winter break with these amazing food creations! Our cafeteria staff are awesome!🎄⛄️🎅🏻

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@technologylaura Not any more

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Grade 1 students created their own ‘Mr Kind’ or ‘Little Miss Kind’ characters for the front of our ‘Kindness tickets’. They will be printed and handed out to students whenever they demonstrate little acts of kindness 🥰

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Our Primary School adventure week 🌍 Each grade is given a continent to study and then create a display around chosen countries. Children are given their own special passport to travel around the different counties, receiving a stamp for the countries they pass through ✈️

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Used AI with my G1 students today to generate their settings for their fictional stories. Students wrote their own setting descriptions which we then inputted into AI to generate their images. We then added their own character into the setting too! 😃

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Beijing in yellow 💛🍁🍂

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#autumn2024 has arrived in #Beijing!

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From the old to the new. Switched our traditional hutong home in the heart of old Beijing to a modern apartment in the centre of Sanlitun. Our hearts will always be in the hutongs but looking forward to exploring the bright lights of the city 🌆

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@TaraTeacher1 So far the weather has been good, warm enough for T-shirt and shorts (although cooler in the evening). There’s been a little bit of rain in the air occasionally but that’s all

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Tokyo 🇯🇵

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Mid-Autumn Festival treats at school today 🐇🥮🎑

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Great resource for the classroom: https://t.co/pstAlE5jNC It has various classroom tools for you to use including timers, randomizers, polls and more. You can also include your own images and text. It’s free to use, just need to sign up!

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And just like that, the new school year begins tomorrow. Currently strolling around my beautiful neighbourhood in Beijing, feeling lucky to be living here and looking forward to tomorrow and the year ahead 💫

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Favourite place in my classroom ☺️📖🐌

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Summer days in Beijing ☀️ (although technically Autumn has started now 😆)