“Blue Alien Cop” – Student Agency in Action!
“蓝色外星警察”——我们在行动!
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.
随着4株漂亮的樱桃树的栽种，一个持续了一年多的项目在本月完美收官。这一切要从去年还是三年级的Ayden Kripalani说起。
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将自己写得一本书带到学校与全班同学分享，这是一本关于Billy和一位邪恶的蓝色外星人警察的故事书，但有一缺憾——这本书没有插图。Ayden请全班的同学们一起帮助他完善这本书，于是项目开始了。
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!
对于Billy和外星人警察究竟该是什么样子，引起了大家的争论。于是全班同学将自己的想象画出来，投票选出了人物。随后，他们各自选择故事书的一页为它配上插图，他们以一个团队的姿态凝聚了起来。要知道，让每一页的Billy和外星人看起来都一样是极富挑战性的。
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.
配好插图后，Ayden和全班同学决定出版这本书，并将销售所得用于购买能够美化校园的樱花树。
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.
班主任仔细阅读了书的初稿，并给予适当的润色后，同学们制作了一份电子稿，并得到了印刷成本报价单。
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.
他们正式向校长申请项目许可，并成功获得用于支付印刷费用的“贷款”，这意味着他们至少需要得到80多份的订单才能还清债务。制作海报、广告张贴在走廊上，在学校集会上进行图书推销活动，一切都是为了更多地接收购买订单。令人高兴的是，有近100人预定了这本书，开始印刷吧!
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.
当书印刷完成，全班分成小组将书分别送至有预定的班级，并开始结算金额。这需要他们仔细核对并使用数学计算，以进账无误，还需要确认当还清学校“债务”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们回到学校前，三年级的“财务团队”一直将盈利额放在学校的保险箱里。当我们回到校园，在2020年的8月，Ayden和来自三年级的一个小组，与Xixi老师一起商量要种哪一种树。较后在2020年11月，他们在一个苗圃园中选择了4颗结实的小树——三年级(现在的四年级)一直密切关注直至它们被栽种起来。
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.
为了庆祝这为期一年的项目结束，同学们将整个PYP在彩带上写下的愿望、祝福彩带系在了树上，并挂上了特制的纪念牌。
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、整个班级都为这些树感到自豪，他们希望这些树茁壮成长，当它们开花时，为伊顿的学生们带来更多的快乐。
