肯特学校校长
亲爱的老师们，同学们，大家晚上好。首先请允许我代表学校向不远万里来到中国的美方老师表示热烈的祝贺和衷心的感谢！并对今天来校学习的各位新同学表示热烈的欢迎！向送你们来校学习的各位家长表示深深的谢意！今天是一个特殊的日子，是宁波赫威斯肯特学校举行开学典礼的日子。而明天，我们也将迎来抗日战争和世界反法西斯战争胜利的纪念日。1935年，我们的先辈面对日本的侵略，发出“华北之大，已容不一张安静的书桌”的呼喊，走上抗日救亡之路。今天，在这个纪念抗战胜利的特别的仪式上，我要告诉同学们，唯有国家的强大，民族的复兴，经济的发展和社会的文明，才会有学生们安静的书桌，才会有良好的学习环境。少年强则国强！在我演讲开始时我想给大家推荐一个简短的视频，想必当大家看完这段视频多少会有点感触。这就是今天我要告诉同学们的开学典礼主题，明确你人生的方向，并努力去实现。
Dear teachers and students, good evening! First of all, please allow me to express my warm congratulations and heartfelt thanks to the foreign teachers who came all the way to China. I would also like to express my warmest welcome and deepest gratitude to all the new students and parents who came to school today. Today is a special day, it is the opening ceremony of Ningbo Hanvos Kent School. More importantly, tomorrow is the anniversary of the victory of the anti-Japanese War and anti-Fascist War. In 1935, our ancestors faced Japanese aggression and embarked on the road of resistance and salvation. Today, at this special ceremony to commemorate the victory of the war, I want to tell all of you that only the strength of the country, the revival of the nation, the development of the economy and the civilization of society will provide you with a good learning environment.Strong youth entails strong country! At the beginning of my speech, I would like to recommend a short video to everyone. I think everyone will learn something when you finish watching this video. This is the theme of the opening ceremony today, I want to tell all the students to clarify the direction of your life and work hard to achieve it.
同学们，在你们开始学业和生活新征程的时刻，我想和同学们谈谈如何正确理解三个W（What）。
Before you start a new journey in your studies and life, I would like to share how to catch 3-W (what) well.
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第一个W（What）这是一所什么样的学校？
The first one is what kind of school this is
宁波赫威斯肯特学校是由两所百年名校浙江省镇海中学和美国密苏里州巴斯图学校合作创办的。这里不是一所应试的学校，也不是留学的预备学堂，而是一所融合中西教育优势，以培养孩子健全人格和综合素养为目标的学校。
从学校两届毕业生的情况来看，我们连续两年有60%的毕业生进入美国TOP50的大学，被业界誉为是学生综合素养和学业提升最快的学校。
This is an international school cofounded by Zhenhai High School of Zhejiang and the Barstow School in Missouri, the United States. This is not a school that is examination- oriented, nor a preparatory school for studying abroad. It is a school that combines the advantages of Chinese and Western education to cultivate people’s sound personality and comprehensive quality. Judging from the situation of the two graduates of the school, 60% of our graduates have entered the top 50 universities in the United States, and our school has been hailed as the school with the best comprehensive literacy and academic improvement.
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第二个W（What）你要成为什么样的人？
The second "W" is what kind of person you want to be
仅仅是为了读名校，还是为了争名气？学习的最终目标是让你成为更好的自己。我们希望培养的是充满自信，又自觉自律的人，是具有“中国灵魂，国际视野”的人。
Do you want to go to a famous school, or do you want to have a reputation? The ultimate goal of learning is to make yourself better. We hope to cultivate people who are confident and self-disciplined. People that have both Chinese spirit and global vision.
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第三个W（What）我们的校训是什么？
The third "W" is what our school mott is
校训 RIPE 的每个首字母都代表了特殊的含义。RIPE就是要培养具有社会责任，充满智慧，人格完备，追求卓越，心智成熟的人。这和巴斯图学校的校训“完善健全的奖学金机制，培养思想、身体和心智全面发展的人才”也是相辅相成的。
There is a special meaning of each initial letter of the RIPE, which are Responsibility, Intelligence, Personality and Excellence. RIPE means to cultivate people who are socially responsible, full of wisdom, complete in pursuit of excellence, and have a mature mind. Our school motto is consistent with the motto of Barstow School, which is “to promote sound scholarship and to give symmetrical development to mind, body and character.”
To establish a sense of rules 、 integrity and self-consciousness
我希望同学们在正确认识理解三个W的提前下，要牢固树立三种意识。
要树立规则意识，让规则成为学习和生活的准则；
树立诚信意识，把学业诚信和以诚待人贯彻始终；
树立自觉意识，把自我反省和自我改正成为一种自觉的行为。
I hope you can firmly establish three kinds of senses depends on 3-W .
To establish a sense of rules and make rules a guide to learning and living.
To establish a sense of integrity, and adhere to academic integrity and honesty.
And to Establish a sense of self-consciousness, and make self-reflection and self-correction a conscious behaviour.
，我希望同学们做一个坚持梦想的人。中国有句名言叫“不忘初心，方得始终”。这句话告诉我们，有梦想，会坚持，才会取得最后的成功。不忘初心，就是要求我们做一个有梦想的人，有梦想的人生才会有目标。人生就像是一条实现梦想的曲线，之所以说是曲线，就是告诉我们在实现梦想的路上，要经受住失败的考验，要培养自己坚持的品质。会坚持才会去改变行为和习惯，把好的习惯转变成好的性格，才会成就幸福人生，幸福是靠坚持和奋斗得来的。人生短暂，我们应该牢记使命，努力向前走。
Last but not least, I wish all of you would be a person who insists on dreams. There is a famous saying in China: “Do not forget your heart, and follow it until the end”. This sentence tells us that if we have a dream, we should stick to it until we succeed. Do not forget your heart, that is, to ask us to be a dreamer and to have a goal. Life is like a curve, because on the way to realize our dreams, we must withstand the test of failure and cultivate the quality that we insist on. By turning good habits into good personalities, we can have a happy life. Happiness is achieved by persistence and struggle.
Life is short, it is essential to keep in mind the mission of your life, and move forward. Taking actions today or you never will!
