“Blue Alien Cop” – Student Agency in Action!
“藍色外星警察”——我們在行動!
A project which lasted over a year ended this month with the planting of 4 beautiful cherry trees, thanks to last year's Year 3’s, and Ayden Kripalani.
隨著4株漂亮的櫻桃樹的栽種，一個持續了一年多的項目在本月完美收官。這一切要從去年還是三年級的Ayden Kripalani說起。
Early in 2019, Ayden brought a book that he had written himself to school and shared it with the class. It was about Billy, and an evil blue Alien Cop. There was only one problem - the book had no illustrations. Ayden asked the class to help him illustrate his story, and so the project began.
2019年初，Ayden將自己寫得一本書帶到學校與全班同學分享，這是一本關于Billy和一位邪惡的藍色外星人警察的故事書，但有一缺憾——這本書沒有插圖。Ayden請全班的同學們一起幫助他完善這本書，于是項目開始了。
There was much discussion about what Billy and the Alien should look like. The class all drew pictures, and voted to choose the characters. Then they each chose a page to illustrate, and they all worked as a team. It was challenging making sure Billy and the Alien looked the same on every page!
對于Billy和外星人警察究竟該是什么樣子，引起了大家的爭論。于是全班同學將自己的想象畫出來，投票選出了人物。隨后，他們各自選擇故事書的一頁為它配上插圖，他們以一個團隊的姿態凝聚了起來。要知道，讓每一頁的Billy和外星人看起來都一樣是極富挑戰性的。
When the illustrations were finished, Ayden and the class decided they would like to publish the book, and to sell copies to raise money to buy cherry blossom trees to beautify the school.
配好插圖后，Ayden和全班同學決定出版這本書，并將銷售所得用于購買能夠美化校園的櫻花樹。
The class proof-read the draft of the book carefully, and made changes to improve it. They then made a digital copy, and got a quote for how much it would cost to print.
班主任仔細閱讀了書的初稿，并給予適當的潤色后，同學們制作了一份電子稿，并得到了印刷成本報價單。
They approached the Principal for permission for their project, and borrowed seed money to cover printing costs. They had to get more than 80 orders to pay the school back. They created posters, and advertisements to put up in the hallways, and ran a book promotion campaign at a whole school assembly, where they took book orders. Luckily, nearly 100 people booked a copy, and the printer was given the go-ahead.
他們正式向校長申請項目許可，并成功獲得用于支付印刷費用的“貸款”，這意味著他們至少需要得到80多份的訂單才能還清債務。制作海報、廣告張貼在走廊上，在學校集會上進行圖書推銷活動，一切都是為了更多地接收購買訂單。令人高興的是，有近100人預定了這本書，開始印刷吧!
When the books arrived, the class divided into groups to deliver the books to classes and count the money. It took a lot of checking, and mathematical thinking, to make sure the money was counted accurately, and to calculate how much profit was made after the load from the school was repaid.
當書印刷完成，全班分成小組將書分別送至有預定的班級，并開始結算金額。這需要他們仔細核對并使用數學計算，以進賬無誤，還需要確認當還清學校“債務”后有多少盈利。
The Year 3 ‘finance team’ then put the profit in the school safe, until we returned to school after Covid-induced restrictions were lifted. When we were finally allowed back onto the campus, in August 2020, Ayden and a small Year 3 team worked with Miss Xixi to choose which type of trees they wanted to buy. Finally, in November 2020, they went to a nursery, and chose 4 strong young trees – and Year 3 (now Year 4) went down to watch them being planted.
直到疫情限制解除我們回到學校前，三年級的“財務團隊”一直將盈利額放在學校的保險箱里。當我們回到校園，在2020年的8月，Ayden和來自三年級的一個小組，與Xixi老師一起商量要種哪一種樹。較后在2020年11月，他們在一個苗圃園中選擇了4顆結實的小樹——三年級(現在的四年級)一直密切關注直至它們被栽種起來。
In order to celebrate the end of this year long project, the students helped the whole PYP write special wishes on ribbons, which they hung on the trees, along with plaques to commemorate this event.
為了慶祝這為期一年的項目結束，同學們將整個PYP在彩帶上寫下的愿望、祝福彩帶系在了樹上，并掛上了特制的紀念牌。
Ayden and all of his class are very proud of these trees, and they hope they will grow healthy and strong to bring many years of pleasure to EtonHouse students when they flower.
Ayden、整個班級都為這些樹感到自豪，他們希望這些樹茁壯成長，當它們開花時，為伊頓的學生們帶來更多的快樂。
