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00:00In a sleepy Hampshire village, battle lines have been drawn.
00:10Five Chinese teachers have come to shake up the British education system.
00:15Discipline is really important. Without discipline, you don't learn well.
00:21British pupils are falling behind in the international race.
00:25Our students' academic achievement is three years ahead of you. Why?
00:31The Chinese have come to prove that even a high-achieving school has a lot to learn.
00:37Cheers!
00:39We are here to bring you the unique Chinese style of teaching.
00:45Class begins!
00:48Morning, class!
00:50Good morning, teachers!
00:52Everybody can get full marks. Just use your brain.
00:55What brain?
00:58At first, the Chinese way of teaching produced a rebellion in the class.
01:02Hey, I'm not doing this.
01:04I've never seen a student like yours.
01:07I feel sorry for the teachers. We're horrible.
01:09Now, the kids face the stress of the final exams.
01:13A bit overwhelming, I think.
01:15Arms straight!
01:16And time is running out for the teachers to turn the class around.
01:19Stand outside, please.
01:21Don't blame me.
01:22If you can't be bothered to revise, then you are lazy.
01:27Will the British or Chinese teaching system come out on top?
01:31I am genuinely really quite terrified to open this envelope.
01:37Hey, I can see you.
01:39One, two, three!
01:40One, two, three!
01:41One, two, three!
01:52That's not even half bloody seven.
01:56I just didn't sleep at all last night. Not even one minute.
01:59Apparently, I don't try hard enough.
02:01Neither do I.
02:02Apparently, I'm an embarrassment to Bohun.
02:05It's the final week of the Chinese experiment at Bohun School in Hampshire.
02:10Three, two, one.
02:13One.
02:14And the teachers feel they're beginning to whip their 50 British students into shape.
02:18Yeah, do it.
02:19Don't stop.
02:21Don't give up.
02:22Don't give up.
02:23Don't give up.
02:25In Chinese school, PE is all-important.
02:28Now, sit down, please.
02:30Yeah.
02:31Once you come here, go there, sit down.
02:34And the kids are having to get used to the Chinese way.
02:37You're late.
02:38You're late.
02:39Also, sit down, Alex.
02:40If they are not on time, we will give them extra exercise.
02:45So, they have to do sit-ups.
02:47How many?
02:4820.
02:49You ready?
02:5020 sit-ups.
02:51Go!
02:52Go!
02:54In China, PE is part of the national exam that decides which senior high school you get into.
03:00It's a very important test, so students practice a long time.
03:05They do very good.
03:07Many of them can get full marks.
03:09In a week's time, the kids face their own final PE exam, where they will be tested, ranked,
03:16and told if they have passed or failed.
03:19I've learned in Britain, the children can choose what they like to do.
03:24But Chinese students, they cannot choose.
03:27They focus on the test.
03:29They want to get full marks.
03:31We're training them like a machine, just training, training, training.
03:35Today, we will introduce medicine ball.
03:38We will test how you can slow.
03:41The distance will measure.
03:43In this training session, Miss Wang is being assisted by bow hunt PE teacher Anna Hogg.
03:49Girls, to get ten out of ten, ten marks, you need to throw 7.6 metres.
03:55To pass it, you need to throw 5.6 metres.
03:59Oh, I'm in three metres!
04:00OK, get over the other line.
04:02It's very competitive.
04:03All the things we've done so far have been against other people, making it almost like a mini competition.
04:08Philippa, be so kind to keep that here.
04:12If there is someone who's not very good at PE, but then is very skilled in the academic side of things like maths and English,
04:18I do think it would be unfair for them if they couldn't get into the top science and maths colleges just because they can't do sport.
04:25Everybody have to practise two times.
04:28Now we start to measure your maths.
04:31This is the line.
04:32Just practise here.
04:33You have to throw it.
04:34You have to throw it further.
04:35If you throw it further, you've passed.
04:36In China, your entire future can rest on one throw of a 2kg medicine ball.
04:50It's a bit weird.
04:52It's just throwing a ball.
04:54But it's a really heavy one.
04:5714-year-old Philippa has been one of the highest performing students in the Chinese school.
05:02We are Kinos.
05:04Cleaning the board.
05:05We are Kinos.
05:07She's led the way academically and embraced the regimented approach.
05:12I hope that as this amazing experience continues, I will learn more about Chinese culture and teaching style.
05:22I think someone would probably call me Kino because it basically just means someone who's enthusiastic and lessons.
05:29But this is one subject in the Chinese system that Philippa can't conquer.
05:36Philippa!
05:37I hate this!
05:39Stop!
05:40Don't throw.
05:41Push.
05:42Push.
05:43I can't.
05:44I can't clear the yellow line.
05:45Three weeks to seven, so that gets you one mark.
05:49You just need, you know, 30 more centimetres and you'll be done.
05:52You know, a ruler's length.
05:53And then you'll be fine.
05:54She got 5.3 and she's really good.
05:55I can't remember.
05:56How are you doing sit-ups?
05:57It's the only one you haven't really good at.
05:58Yeah.
05:59I don't even care about passing.
06:00I just think it's really bad, like...
06:01Why?
06:02I just don't think comparing yourself to others is a good, healthy lifestyle.
06:13This is the experience, isn't it?
06:15And this is what it's like.
06:16I know it is, but it's just that they're used to doing it.
06:19It's just a shock to us because we've never done this sort of, like, competition every week.
06:24I'm a perfectionist, so I get really hard on myself.
06:27I'm really self-critical.
06:28I just don't think competitions like this isn't my sort of thing.
06:34Right, you need to stop.
06:36Okay?
06:37Stop.
06:38I can't stop.
06:39But you can.
06:40You can stop.
06:41Because you have to concentrate on the things that you are good at.
06:42There's nothing to hide.
06:43There's nothing to be ashamed of.
06:45Okay?
06:46You need to hold your head up high.
06:47You've been trying so hard.
06:49Okay?
06:50But listen to me.
06:52This is how it is.
06:54Let's go get a drink and calm down.
06:56You've taken on board what I've said.
06:57Okay.
07:08It's really hit home to me why we set students in PE.
07:13But effectively, this Chinese way, they're being told that their best isn't good enough.
07:19It just puts so much pressure on them to pass.
07:22And if they don't pass, they feel like a failure.
07:24And it just, it breaks my heart to see, to see students get so upset.
07:30The sides of AB.
07:31For almost three weeks, the high-pressure Chinese teaching...
07:32I don't get it.
07:33...has caused nothing but chaos and rebellion in the British classroom.
07:46Look, put down your...
07:47What?
07:48Look, put down your...
07:49What?
07:50This is why you guys learn less than the Chinese students learn.
07:54Who the hell does she think she is, saying that I'm dumb?
07:57But with the help of the Bowhunt teachers...
07:59We wouldn't tolerate that in any normal lesson at Bowhunt.
08:03And there will have to be consequences.
08:05Things are beginning to improve.
08:07Now, even restless kids like Sophie are warming to the regime.
08:12I think I didn't really respect the teachers,
08:14or the science teacher personally, as much as I should have.
08:17But I'm starting to now.
08:19And I do, I do do my work kind of thing,
08:21and I am actually learning some stuff.
08:22What is needed for photosynthesis to take place?
08:25Sophie.
08:26Er, carbon dioxide.
08:28Carbon dioxide.
08:29Water.
08:30Water.
08:31And then the sunlight.
08:32OK, you've got three, right?
08:35That's very good.
08:36Oh!
08:48Good morning, everyone.
08:54Lee Ai-Win teaches in an elite school in Nanjing.
08:59You elite.
09:00Look at the clock.
09:01Look at the clock.
09:02She's used to quiet, obedient pupils,
09:05and has struggled to keep control of the rowdier British teenagers.
09:09But Miss Lee finally seems to have taken control of her class.
09:13You cannot always come back late and just saying sorry.
09:18From now on, if you are late,
09:22everybody will be here during lunch break for ten minutes.
09:27So you're punishing everyone?
09:28Guys, shush!
09:30If she's like this all day, we are stuffed.
09:34The teachers, they're not as much as the pushovers as they were originally.
09:38So I think people are now starting to listen and actually are starting to take notes and stuff in class,
09:43and are starting to learn because they're realizing that it's not just for fun, it's like a school, isn't it?
09:51We are now in a very competitive world.
09:55I don't want you to feel regretful when you look back at now in the future.
10:04I'm a teacher, but sometimes I have to put on a face like, you know, a strict teacher.
10:12Please take out the grammar book.
10:15The third week has gone and you have only one more week.
10:21It's like our time is so limited.
10:25The most important thing in doing passive voice is to find the subject and the object.
10:35In just one week, the students of the Chinese school and the rest of Bowhunt Year 9 will sit exams set by an independent research body to compare the two teaching systems.
10:48That skirt is horrific. Can we unroll it, please?
10:55Head teacher, Neil Stroger, has been keeping a close eye on progress.
11:01Hi.
11:02So, Miss Lee asked me when objective clause is following prepositions.
11:09We've had a difficult beginning, the Chinese teachers, but things are improving.
11:13Now is when we will see whether the students respond to that and whether that will show us that this really is the best way.
11:21Turn to page 16, please.
11:24If you don't have any questions, we'll move on.
11:27I think as head teacher, I hate to lose.
11:30So I will be absolutely gutted if we find out that the Chinese method is indeed the best way.
11:36That will be a bitter pill to swallow.
11:40Yes, excellent. Very good. Excellent.
11:43But with the kids now buckling down, the rigid Chinese teaching seems to be having an effect.
11:49Can you tell me how to say have, has or head in Chinese?
11:53You.
11:54You.
11:55You, yes. Can you repeat it?
11:57You.
11:58You, well done. How about you?
11:59It's all about repetition and copying notes from the board.
12:03Please repeat after me.
12:05Yau.
12:06Yau.
12:07Yau.
12:08Yau.
12:09Yau.
12:10Yau.
12:11Four weeks ago, Mandarin teacher Zhao Wei's pupils didn't know a word of Chinese.
12:17Okay?
12:18Jiao.
12:19Jiao.
12:20Jiao.
12:21Jiao.
12:22So which word?
12:23C.
12:24C, yeah, just circle C. Understand it?
12:26The Mandarin teacher, she's what I expected a Chinese teacher to be like because she's strict
12:33and she's to the point and she's, she's scary.
12:37Does anybody remember how to say elder brothers?
12:39I think she expects a lot more of us.
12:42Oh yeah, on my homework one, she wrote, could try harder.
12:46I got one thing wrong.
12:48Rosie, the third sentence.
12:50You 34.
12:51What is?
12:52You 34.
12:5334 years old.
12:5434 years old.
12:55Excellent.
12:56Okay?
12:57Remember, in your exam on Thursday, you also need to write a composition.
13:02We will have very, very typical Chinese lesson preparing for the exam.
13:11They will do a lot of vision, you know, writing and everything, exercise.
13:20They need to know, do they really learn something during this one month or they just wasting their
13:25time and doing nothing?
13:27Now your homework, write a short composition to introduce yourself.
13:32Oh, that's all so complicated.
13:36In the British section of Year 9, Bowhunt Head of Maths, Pete Whitworth, is also gearing up for the exam.
13:43Today's lesson is your final lesson before your test on Thursday.
13:48How do we find the area which you please them?
13:51You do half the slum of the parallel sides.
13:54Okay, so let's do that then.
13:55Which is 12 add 9, 5 by 2.
13:58Is she right?
13:59Mr Whitworth's class is much smaller and the kids have been grouped by ability.
14:05His approach is also more personal.
14:08This one, which one are you doing?
14:09With maths, you've got to put a bit of personality into it to make it a bit more fun.
14:13You've got to get to know the students.
14:14If you get the students on your side, you build a good relationship.
14:17Where are we?
14:18Which one are you showing me?
14:19All of them.
14:20You haven't put any work-ins with any of these?
14:22No, because these ones you don't need work-ins.
14:23Okay, so these are the Pythagoras ones, don't they?
14:25It's important for me that the students come in and they enjoy maths.
14:29That's a really big thing.
14:30If they enjoy maths, then they're much more likely to want to do it.
14:34What's the matter?
14:36Mr Whitworth may have a softly, softly approach in the classroom, but he's deadly serious
14:41about the exams.
14:42Anyone who knows me knows I'm insanely competitive.
14:46And, of course, I want my students to do well.
14:49I want it to look like what we do at Bow Hunt works and improve that.
14:54Perfect.
14:55Right, what we'll do is we will end it there.
14:58I'm very much aware that I've set you a homework of a double-page bread of revision.
15:03Enjoy what's left this lovely afternoon.
15:05See you later.
15:06Be good.
15:08We can't have a Chinese victory, can we?
15:20Good Lord, no.
15:21That will be setting us back into the dark ages.
15:24Having spoken to a few shins today, I don't think we need to worry too much.
15:27No, I'm not sure.
15:29I spoke to a few who were like, well, I've got it all written down.
15:31And I was like, well, do you understand it?
15:33And they were like, well, I've just got to learn it.
15:35Well, let's see.
15:36Is it all revision stuff now?
15:37I don't know.
15:38Let's find out.
15:39With the exams looming, Mr. Stroger and his head of school, Stuart Vaughan, check in on
15:44the Chinese school.
15:46Come and talk to the lads at the back.
15:48Hello, gents.
15:49Talk me through how you're doing.
15:52No, it's the volcano.
15:54Right, we're working hard over here, I see.
15:57Some of the students are doing really well, and they're the ones that are sort of very keen
16:02and motivated.
16:03One wonders whether these students wouldn't be sort of self-motivated, whatever the context.
16:09It's going to be a numbers game.
16:11We'll see what the majority do in the test.
16:14Hello.
16:15Hello.
16:16Hello.
16:17Hi.
16:18Nice to see you.
16:19How are you?
16:20Fine.
16:21Is it all right if I sit down?
16:22Yes, please do.
16:24I've heard some students in there that are feeling quite confident with their maths.
16:28Really?
16:29Oh, yeah.
16:30I've got to hear that.
16:31I'm not sure I'm very glad to hear that.
16:34I'm a little bit worried.
16:36How are we?
16:37How are we?
16:38If you win, we have to employ you for the next ten years.
16:41I don't think it's going to happen.
16:45Actually, I don't have a lot of confidence in them.
16:49You don't have a lot of confidence?
16:51Interesting.
16:52I'll tell you something.
16:53I have come up with one thing that is going to, you know, comfort me should you win, well,
17:00win, should your students do better.
17:02And that is that we have a great excuse to make a lot of savings and the budget.
17:06And we will get rid of a lot of teachers and we'll put everyone in the sports hall with one teacher to just talk all day.
17:14And we'll get great results for a lot less money.
17:21Talking to the teachers, I'm feeling much better because they are not at all confident about the tests.
17:29So that's good news.
17:31I think if actually the Chinese approach yields the better results, we are going to have to have a really long, hard look at what we're doing and what we believe in.
17:41Perhaps we are failing children still if they're doing better through a different method.
17:52The Chinese school does have one big advantage, the sheer number of hours.
17:58After class is finished, there are two hours of self-study.
18:02All in all, the kids in the Chinese school have almost twice as long in class as their bow hunt counterparts.
18:08I need your attention.
18:11In China, teaching learning doesn't only take place in the classroom settings.
18:16After class, that's when a lot of learning is taking place.
18:22When Tom will come back, when Tom comes back, which one?
18:26Seat.
18:27Seat, good.
18:28I miss having a social life so much.
18:30Like, the people you see in school, that's all your friends.
18:36Like, that is it.
18:37You can't have friends outside of school.
18:39You can, like, you barely even see your own family.
18:42Have you finished all of your homework?
18:44Oh, good.
18:45But even with the new sense of dedication, there are some distractions that can't be ignored.
18:51Oh, my God.
18:52Guys?
18:53Is he?
18:54Yeah.
18:55Zayn Malik has just left One Direction.
18:58He hasn't left.
18:59Zayn Malik left.
19:00What?
19:01Zayn Malik has left One Direction.
19:02One Direction.
19:03Katrina, come here.
19:04I feel as well.
19:05It's so sad.
19:06Oh, no.
19:07It's okay.
19:08It's okay.
19:09It's okay.
19:10It's okay.
19:11It's fine.
19:12It's, it's, it's, it's, it's Zayn Malik.
19:29I have never ever seen a Chinese in
19:34school
19:35Crying her eyeballs out
19:38before the exam
19:39for a member of pop star leaving a
19:44pop band
19:46Come on, we need some fresh air. Annabelle. What? She's crying. She's really upset. I'm gonna check his Twitter and see if he's tweeted anything
19:53Okay, it's gonna be okay
19:56They all love the pop music they all Chinese people do they youngsters they love pop music as well
20:03But they have their priorities they set their priorities right come on before the exams
20:19At the heart of Chinese culture and Chinese academic success is one thing
20:24Conformity
20:28The work of a Chinese school is to mold children into model citizens
20:35Chinese education is about the next generation of
20:40Chinese citizens
20:42The next generation of Chinese leaders and every single child has that desire to do well to serve their country
21:00At the weekly flag-raising ceremony Chinese children are expected to make motivational speeches and it's no different here
21:08Hello
21:10As you're aware there are tests coming up later this week. You've got two options for them
21:16Option one is you don't revise and option two is you revise
21:20If you pick option one
21:22Then you are lazy
21:24You can't be bothered to revise if you are really stuck
21:29Then ask a teacher for help
21:31But if you are stuck and you do not ask a teacher for help and you fail the exam
21:37It is your own fault
21:39Not the teachers yours
21:41So what are you going to do revise and succeed or don't revise and be lazy and fail the exam
21:51Thank you
21:53It's not only in the rituals of flag-raising and mourning exercise where the collective spirit is encouraged
22:08Chinese schools reinforce social cohesion and conformity with classes in social education
22:14Nobody will only live by themselves all of us live in a community
22:20It's very important for us to communicate with each other in a proper way
22:25The subject is taught from kindergarten to university by members of the Communist Party who work in every school
22:34Breakfast slash lunch
22:3614 year old Josh has been one of the most troublesome kids in the Chinese school
22:41Keep quiet
22:45No
22:46During the second week he brought in a kettle to make tea in protest against the long hours
22:51This is not all
22:53No, no, you cannot take this to classroom
22:56Totally not allowed
22:59I'm normally super hard working and Chinese school this hasn't happened
23:05It's just sort of a complete personality change
23:08You can rebel against something can, you know, be different
23:15We are talking about communication qualities
23:19So in Bohan, in social education, you're encouraged to form your own opinions far more than in Chinese school
23:26You're dictated at all the time, this is typical of a Chinese lesson
23:29You're told these facts and they will be right because it's come from a more authoritative position
23:36Say a teacher and then headmaster than government
23:40Do you think equality is very important?
23:42Well communism was about equality and that worked out well
23:46I think the Chinese education system
23:51It seems like sort of an industrial process to me
23:54You get batches of really intelligent kids
23:58Who have the same work ethic
24:00And I think it has its place
24:02But I'm not sure whether its place is fully in England or not
24:06I accept myself as who I am
24:11Bit of a nick
24:17An advantage of the long Chinese school week is that the teachers have more time to engage with their students
24:24Come here
24:26Miss Lee is trying to bring Josh into line
24:29These two days
24:32You don't behave as well as I expected
24:38So I just want to find the why
24:40Or do you have any solutions to
24:43Or do you have any suggestions?
24:45You know
24:46You can tell that I've been mad
24:48Is that right?
24:49Yes
24:51And why?
24:53You really don't know?
24:54I do know
24:56Please tell me
24:57I don't know
24:58I don't know
24:59Just talking
25:00I don't know
25:02Did you talk?
25:03Yes
25:04Why?
25:06Because I was uninterested
25:08Or I didn't get it
25:10I just want to do something to help
25:14Maybe?
25:15It's fine
25:16I'm fine
25:17Okay
25:18But I hope that you can be more concentrated
25:20Since we don't have a lot of time left
25:22Yeah, okay
25:23As a teacher I just try my best to encourage the students
25:29Because in China you have to compete with people around you in all kinds of examinations
25:37Okay
25:39I think I could really, yeah, really get high grades if I just charged on and revised all the time
25:46I wouldn't do it though because it
25:49It's, as I say, not healthy
25:51I wouldn't, that's not what I want for myself
25:54In China individuality is not encouraged
25:58We do everything for our country
26:00Which is very good, I think
26:02England need that
26:04Need that strength
26:05Need that solidarity
26:06But maybe
26:08The Chinese way of teaching
26:10To some extent
26:12Kills
26:14The student's imagination
26:16Freedom of thinking
26:19Critical thinking
26:21And creativity
26:24I like this one
26:26You just imagine
26:28One, two, three, four
26:31In China
26:32In China
26:33I would like to see
26:35Education pay more
26:37Attention to
26:39Personality
26:41Or the potential
26:43Of each student
26:45That's it, right?
26:47Okay, thank you
26:53That's the last thing, guys
26:55In the Chinese school
26:58Even the more fun parts of the curriculum
27:00Seem to have nationalist undertones
27:02Okay, everybody
27:04Can you please all sit down, please?
27:06Shhhh
27:08In Chinese martial arts
27:10This fan is used as a weapon
27:13When you open it
27:15You open it sharp
27:17I bring fan dance to the students
27:24Because number one
27:25Fan dance is very Chinese-y
27:28And also
27:30It's a form of martial arts
27:35This story is about
27:37The Chinese military soldiers
27:40Fully prepared
27:42To defend their country
27:44From foreign intruders
27:46So, when you perform
27:48You have that strength
27:50You have that beat
27:52Okay?
27:54Right?
27:55Position one
27:56Position one
27:58Everyone
27:59Now all standing still
28:01Two
28:02Two feet
28:03This way
28:05Now stop playing with the fan
28:07I'm looking at your feet
28:09How you stand on your feet
28:11When you dance
28:13You want the biggest volume
28:15The volume you want biggest
28:17So you're going to stretch your body
28:19Two, three, four
28:21What?
28:23It doesn't open!
28:25It doesn't open that way
28:27Chinese school
28:29Is going to bring the Chinese culture
28:32Chinese value
28:34Chinese history
28:36And that should be
28:38Demonstrated in every single lesson
28:41Every minute, everything you do
28:43You're ready to defend your country
28:46From foreign intruders
28:48You're ready to fight
28:52Oh, I love fan dancing
28:54A fan and dancing
28:56Is the best combination ever
28:58Because you get to waft a fan
29:00And dance
29:01It's also quite entertaining to watch the boys
29:07Because some of them don't really have coordination
29:16Okay? Like that?
29:18Oh, that's graceful
29:20Very good!
29:28One of the key problems for the British pupils
29:31Has been the large mixed ability class
29:33Most British schools put pupils in different sets
29:36According to their performance
29:38But not in China
29:40Yes, we're doing trigonometry!
29:41No!
29:42Oh, my God!
29:44You're the most frustrating person on the earth
29:47So, what is trigonometry?
29:50Dicking around with triangles
29:52Angle...
29:54This is a relation between angle and size, right?
29:57They'll hand out the consolidation paper
30:01Mr. Zhou has been setting extra homework for the higher-performing students
30:05And they seem to be relishing the Chinese style of teaching
30:08Because that's two and that's two
30:11You can do two times two and then not divide it by two
30:13Because you've got two triangles
30:15Or you can do four times two divided by two
30:17Both ways you get the same answer
30:19What I'm doing is try to encourage and enforce
30:24You are very talented in maths
30:27I provide challenging homework for you
30:30You do more and you learn more
30:33And then you can keep on being on the top
30:36So that's a way to build confidence
30:40This is adjacent
30:43What you need to do is label the size
30:46Zero minus two degree
30:49I think his style of teaching suits a very small number
30:54Of clever and determined people
30:58How do we explain 7-3?
31:01I try my best to listen in his maths lessons
31:03But he doesn't really stop to think about you
31:06He just keeps going through his boring lesson
31:10Center, scare factor
31:14At bow hunt, Rosie is in one of the lower sets for maths
31:18Sir, I don't get it
31:20Let's, one by one, okay, can you get the first one?
31:23Yeah, I just don't know what I'm doing at all
31:27Pardon?
31:29You can get the first one
31:31Yeah, but I'm not going to learn if I keep copying
31:34I don't know what I'm doing
31:36Just use the definition
31:38It's really difficult to sit there and have to listen to people tell you what you find hard is easy
31:44And...
31:46And that you should get it when you don't
31:49That is H
31:51A
31:53That's the opposite, so that's O
31:55So now...
31:57I get really affected by the fact that when others can do stuff and I can't
32:02I still get so angry with myself
32:04And it is, like, really hard to sit there
32:07And have to, like, listen to them talking about trigonometry
32:10When you can't even draw a triangle
32:26I was so hungry
32:27No, no, no, no, no, no, no
32:30Luca is another student who's in the lower sets in normal bowhunt classes
32:34From the beginning of the experiment, he has struggled to concentrate in lessons
32:39Name two hobby moves in the food chain
32:43Which one?
32:45In some ways, it's difficult to keep up
32:47Because there are people that are in, like, set one in that group of 50
32:52If I find it difficult
32:55Then...
32:57Start to talk
32:59Question three
33:01You will be tested next Thursday
33:05And I don't really like a moment
33:08Somebody is keep talking to each other
33:11In this classroom
33:13Still trying to converse with each other
33:17Why are you talking when you have a lesson?
33:20I'm not
33:22Now, can you get your books ready?
33:24Don't blame me
33:28Stand outside, please
33:30Stay outside
33:32Come on
33:38Luca is challenging
33:40Chinese kids are not like that
33:42They try very hard
33:44They need to make sure they get it
33:45If I don't get it this week
33:47I'm...I'm doing more
33:49Study more
33:51Luca
33:53Luca
33:55If you work...you work in my desk
33:57You sit on my...
33:59Why am I on your desk now?
34:01For something I haven't done
34:03If you want to join us, you can sit on your own
34:05Or you're not coming back
34:07You think about it
34:08I'm not coming back then
34:09Because it wasn't even me
34:14I just feel English students might be a little bit easy to give up
34:18As soon as they found it challenging academically
34:22They start to talk to each other
34:24And they give up
34:27It's five o'clock
34:29And the rest of Bohun's students have gone home
34:32But in the Chinese school work goes on
34:34Mr. Zhou is starting his lesson for those students who struggle in maths
34:39Luca and two other pupils haven't turned up
34:43I can't find them
34:45We've looked on the courts and, like, everywhere
34:49I've never seen students like this
34:53I came at so long distance to bring you some Chinese way of teaching
34:58But you don't have to learn
35:01We feel disappointed
35:02Let's start, OK?
35:06Let's start
35:08We're not going to wait
35:10Just be seated
35:12Almost ten years teaching
35:14I haven't experienced the level of students like this
35:18I see if I can help them
35:21By my effort
35:23Sir, I've done it
35:25Can I pack up now?
35:27Luca is a lonely boy
35:29He learns very quickly
35:32In fact, maybe the quickest in my small group
35:36But if he doesn't want to learn
35:39It will be a totally different person
35:42Yeah, yeah
35:43Luca, come here
35:44I need to talk to you
35:57Why don't... why don't you come for a lesson?
36:01Sorry, sir
36:03No, don't say sorry
36:04I'm so sorry
36:07Hello, this is Mr. Zhou from Chinese school
36:11Is that Luca's mother?
36:13Ah, hello
36:15Tonight, it should be a math lesson for two periods
36:20And Luca didn't show up
36:23So he missed all two lessons tonight
36:25It's so different from the normal bowhunt day
36:29One thing being the hours are longer
36:32Yes
36:33Trying to get used to that has been difficult
36:35I just went to go watch the year eight basketball game
36:38It was all... it was because I felt like I was back in bowhunt when I went there
36:43I'm missing just normal school quite a lot from doing this
36:46It just... felt good
36:49So at about half past six I got a phone call from Mr. Zhou
36:58Saying you disappeared
37:00It just wasn't your normal behaviour or attitude to school
37:05To ever disappear off
37:07You've never... you've never left a lesson, have you?
37:10And Mr. Zhou said that you have a lot to contribute to the class
37:13And that you're very quick to learn
37:15It's just sort of about helping you see that there's more to today
37:20Than just the next five minutes
37:23Can we put that away please?
37:26Thank you
37:28He's got a few days yet to pick up his socks
37:31So there's always hope that he'll improve
37:34Is this you writing all this?
37:35Yeah
37:36That's really good
37:37And all that
37:38And you wrote all this?
37:39Yeah
37:40And this is Mandarin, yeah?
37:41Right
37:42This is a three
37:45I've never had like three lessons in a row when I've been good
37:50It's always been one little thing
37:51Or it's been a big thing like it has been this time
37:54Seeing Mr. Zhou annoyed made me feel a bit
38:01Upset
38:03And unfair
38:05Not like, oh what he's doing is unfair but what I'm doing is unfair
38:08You are very smart, do you know that?
38:20Me?
38:21Of course
38:22You are smart
38:26You have to learn, be smarter
38:29We do not ignore any students and we hope we can help them in some way
38:40You never know what you will do in the future
38:43You might feel regret
38:45I should have learned hard
38:48Yeah
38:50So
38:53I'm willing to change
38:54Yeah
38:56Just be more focused
38:57Try my best
38:59Try your best
39:03When someone tells me that I've got potential
39:06There is that bit inside that says okay
39:09Yeah I can do this
39:11And if it's a teacher saying that then it must be true
39:15It means
39:17It just means that I can do it
39:19So I just might as well do it
39:22The number of lines of symmetry
39:33One
39:34That way
39:36With just days to go until the final exams
39:39Kids on both sides of the educational divide are knuckling down
39:42Water plants prevent light reaching the plant to the bottom
39:48Sophie could you expand, what does this mean?
39:50Three to the left
39:51Three to the left
39:52And then five upwards
39:54Great job
39:58Luca answer the next question
40:00One, two, three, four
40:01One, two, three, four
40:02One, two, three, and four
40:07Four
40:08Okay, good
40:11That's very beautiful
40:13That's pretty
40:14You like it, yeah?
40:16It designed for you, made for you
40:18We need to review this part tonight
40:20And then go home
40:22But first put all these days back to the original position
40:26Luca help
40:27I think you're really a model student
40:30Always work the hardest
40:32And you don't give yourself too much pressure
40:35Yeah, I try not to
40:38The night before the exams
40:40And the year nine kids are showing they can match anyone in China for dedication
40:45Revising long into the night
40:47I've got my pens facing the same way
40:52It's good to be organised, I believe
40:54I think when I'm under pressure, I'm like, I said this like, I'm given a deadline so there's no getting out of it
41:03Especially, I think I work best in exams because you're given a time limit
41:08I'm revising for my chemistry test
41:13I prefer writing it down and reading off
41:16That's why I prefer the Chinese style way of teaching in science
41:19Because what she does is she puts it all on the board
41:22And she's got to copy it down
41:24So then when you do go to revise, you can just read it all through and you can revise like that
41:29What someone said to me for revising, you've got to do it in a stupid accent
41:35Rosie has roped in her sister to help with revision
41:37OK, nitrogen is an element of...
41:41I'm not going to listen to you if you keep speaking like that
41:44Please
41:46Most of nitrogen that plants obtain they absorb from nitrate ions, brackets, NO3 negative
41:55Oh, this page is proper sciency
42:00Is it quite a full on day tomorrow then?
42:02Yeah, we've got all the exams apart from PE all the way until dinner
42:07As much as I love it, I'll be absolutely knackered
42:09I know you've enjoyed it, haven't you, apart from the fact you're flagging now
42:13No, I don't really care
42:15I think I do feel pressure to perform well in the exams
42:19I know I can only achieve the best of my ability, but I know I have it
42:23So it's just whether I can succeed
42:25I want to try and perform very well
42:28So I can show that this Chinese method either has or hasn't made a big change in our education
42:448.30am, exams are about to begin
42:51The Chinese school students are going head to head with the rest of Bowhunt Year 9
42:58No more chatting, bags that way please, find your seats
43:02It's the first time any of these kids have taken a formal exam
43:06I slept on all my books last night, because you know you put them under your pillow
43:09and then you put your pillow on, and you absorb the knowledge while you're asleep
43:15Josh, good luck
43:18The outcome of four long weeks of teaching, a competition between two completely different approaches to education
43:26will be decided by the next four hours
43:29Does everybody understand what they have to do?
43:33Time starts now
43:39It kind of freaks you out when you're in there
43:49And then you look at everyone else, and then you've got your head down and you think
43:51How are they answering this question?
43:56Seeing an exam room is just like
44:01Oh God
44:03But then again, I just have to do it
44:06I kind of want Bowhunt to do better than Chinese school, because that means that I won't have to go to school from 7 till 7 and random things I didn't like might change the way my normal school is
44:24You have ten minutes remaining
44:29For the Chinese teachers, it's a waiting game
44:32I want all of them to do well, but it's not realistic
44:37I want all of them to do well, but it's not realistic
44:42This is a class of mixed abilities
44:46Some of them, they don't engage themselves to the class
44:52So whatever result comes out, I think I can accept it
44:56But if they can do very well, higher than what I expected, I think it's a miracle
45:09If you can stop writing now, if you are still writing
45:12No talking or communicating with anybody in front or behind
45:15For the Chinese school, there's one more test still to come
45:23On the spot, heel flip
45:25A two-hour PE exam
45:27If this were China, the students would have to pass to get into a good senior school
45:32This is a very important day for Chinese students
45:37This exam, it will decide them in the future can go to the good school or cannot go to the good school
45:45The kids will be marked on running, skipping, sit-ups and throwing a medicine ball
45:51All right, listen, you're going to throw one at a time as we go down the groups
46:05Every student has one, only one time
46:08You prepare maybe three years, one year, only one time, just throw it
46:12Number one's behind the line and get ready
46:15Our aim is full marks
46:16Yeah, but it's still crap
46:22I think finally the pennies dropped that this means something now to them
46:26I don't think they appreciated it in the process
46:28But now I think it means something to them and they're all hellbent on passing each of these tests
46:33Luca, go!
46:38I think I did all right
46:40It was better than all my practice ones, I think
46:42Next ones, happy game
46:46I think I got ten
46:51Just, probably
46:53I think I stepped over the line, but
46:55I don't think anyone noticed, so it's fine
46:58I did all right
47:00I think I passed
47:02I thought everyone would be lazy
47:04But they're actually trying
47:06I'm not surprised, to be honest
47:07Keep going, I'm back, you can do it
47:21Be ready for your next one
47:25Are you ready for your next one?
47:27Oh, you brought it off
47:29Yeah, I did
47:31Go back
47:32Next one
47:34Philippa decides she's too exhausted to complete all of the PE exam
47:38If I push myself too hard, it's going to get even worse
47:42That's why I'm not doing the skipping or the running
47:43Because I've had this illness, like, I don't want it to get any worse
47:47I've been working really hard over the last couple of weeks
47:50And that's all kind of built up now
47:52And it's showing, because I'm getting really tired
47:54I do start to realise how worn out I really am
48:01A bit overwhelming, I think
48:03What do you think?
48:08All the students, well done, so congratulations
48:12You finished the PE test
48:14Twenty-four passed
48:17Twenty-six failed
48:19The individual result
48:21You will get it
48:23When you get your academic result
48:29For the pupils and teachers of the Chinese school
48:31These four weeks have been a challenge of endurance
48:35Nyan
48:36Nyan
48:37Yue
48:39Tested by cultural differences
48:41It kills me, you too
48:44You didn't show me your manners
48:46I never see a student like yous
48:48You embarrass the bull heart
48:51And the occasional lost in translation moment
48:54Who can tell me what pee-pee means?
48:56You said pee-pee
48:58There was time lost to discipline problems
49:01Listen to me, to teacher
49:04And time spent forming new relationships
49:07Too young for it, in my book
49:09Too young
49:11The big question now is
49:13Has the Chinese school managed to overcome all the disruption
49:17To triumph in the test?
49:20The results are in
49:22And the Chinese teachers will soon know how their students have done
49:26Luca
49:28Thank you
49:29Angelina
49:31At Bowhunt, the kids are used to grades
49:34But they've never been ranked against each other
49:36I've got hundreds of on my maths
49:38Yes
49:40Oh my God!
49:41My academic ability has definitely improved during this experiment
49:47It's all about hard work and not really chatting or messing around
49:52And a lot of it is getting on with work by yourself
49:55And I think I'm often quite good at working on my own
49:58I don't know if this is good or not, I'm not sure
50:01For maths, this is 51%
50:04I can tell you
50:05Is that good or bad?
50:06You are a small cast group
50:07You are the best
50:09Okay?
50:11Are you happy?
50:12But you can be much, much better as I told you, right?
50:19This isn't really that bad
50:21Well for me, it's not that bad
50:24Do you feel happy?
50:25I'm not that pleased
50:27Why not?
50:28Tell me
50:29I came 19th in Mandarin
50:3323rd in English
50:3634th in Maths
50:38Okay, so it's not what you expected, alright?
50:44I'm annoyed with myself
50:47I only just passed Mandarin
50:50Well to be honest
50:52Chinese education isn't the most encouraging thing
50:55Okay, why?
50:57Because they're always just
50:59It's just all expectations that maybe you can't always reach
51:03But if you try hard and you keep, you know, trying hard
51:07No matter you go to work or you go to school, you try your best
51:11That won't hurt you
51:12I did try my best
51:14And you're just telling me my best isn't good enough
51:17Yeah, I'm happy with them
51:18Because I didn't pay attention, like, due to that one
51:20The first few weeks of the Chinese thing
51:22So I think I did alright, like, considering, like, concentrating for two weeks
51:26But for the teachers, the real results are still to come
51:30How have their 50 pupils performed against the rest of the year?
51:33How have their traditional Chinese methods done against the British system?
51:39I feel very apprehensive with the science results
51:43I do not feel we are standing in a very strong position
51:48To compete with Bohang teachers
51:52In China, this is not my expectation
51:54In my school, if you get a B in math, the students will not accept this result
52:13Graduation, a chance to celebrate the end of school for the students
52:17For the Chinese and British teachers, it's the moment of truth
52:24Right, so this envelope could, of course, change the course of history
52:30I don't know if I want to open it, actually, I'm really quite nervous
52:34Because there are a couple of philosophies that have clashed over this project
52:39Um, and if Chinese school has won the day, then
52:44That's going to be quite interesting for us, I think, at Bowhunt
52:50Yeah, we need a drum roll
52:55I need a drum roll
53:00Okay, so
53:04The Chinese school average mark for maths
53:0867.74%
53:13Bowhunt year 9
53:1554.84%
53:22There is more
53:24Bowhunt year 9
53:26Average mark for Mandarin
53:2836.46%
53:32Chinese school
53:3446.88%
53:41For science
53:43Chinese school
53:4558.33%
53:47Bowhunt year 9
53:4950%
53:50I have to attempt to be gracious and say to Chinese school, very, very well done
54:08And, yeah, the inquiry will commence
54:12Thank you very much and well done, well done, well done
54:15Well done, well done
54:18We are here to bring you the unique Chinese style of teaching
54:24And we are very pleased to hear the results
54:27But still we would like to say
54:29Please try your best
54:31And we wish you do all your best in the future, no matter what you do
54:35You do
54:38Joe
54:40Marvelous
54:41I did say that it would be a miracle if the students' Chinese school did better in the test
54:47But it did happen, the miracle really happened
54:52Maybe in the test we do better because, you know, we push the students more
55:00They stayed at the school longer
55:04Which means they had to spend a comparatively longer time on their study
55:11Tristan and Philippa
55:12And a Philippa
55:16We probably do need a longer day at school
55:19But do we really want children working 15, 16 hours a day?
55:23That to me doesn't really sound like childhood
55:26That to me sounds like almost prison
55:29The Chinese school works with children who are already bright, who are already motivated
55:35I'm not altogether surprised by that because these are students who would probably do really well
55:41Despite the teaching
55:43Rather than because of the teaching
55:45It does challenge the most able pupils
55:48But does it do it in a nurturing way?
55:53It's very hard to say
55:56Which education system is better
55:59And I think we should learn from each other
56:01I think that the way that the Chinese pupils respect their teachers is something that we ought to have in this country
56:11Our teaching style may be a bit too rigid
56:16We give you the knowledge, you learn
56:19What happens to those ones who don't learn this way?
56:23We need to teach them differently
56:26And we need to learn from England
56:28Learning is not just about the teacher
56:34It's about teacher and students
56:38Two part
56:50Before school ends, it's time for goodbyes
56:52It has been a great journey
56:56We have learned tremendously from you
56:59It was not as successful as I expected
57:03But I have to say, I will miss you
57:07I just want to say, good luck
57:10I have a little present for your Chinese team
57:14Chinese team
57:15Oh my god
57:17Thank you
57:21Thank you
57:23This has been one of the most weird yet amazing experiences I've ever had
57:30And I think I speak for everyone here when I say I'm never going to forget this
57:33Thank you so much to Mr. Zhao and Ms. Lee because I was so proud
57:40And then they believed me that you had the potential and I was just very grateful for that
57:46Three cheers for the teachers! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Hooray!
57:53Hoch
58:03Ok, I can see you Shove me all your face
58:05On
58:08One, two, three
58:10To find out more about attitudes and approaches to education in the UK and China
58:18and have your say, go to bbc.co.uk forward slash Chinese school
58:23and follow the links to The Open University.
58:30Well, next on BBC Two, Eric wants to buy the most powerful pair of binoculars.
58:35Best not to ask why. It's the perfect Morecambe and Wise.
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