A typhoon flattened the teacher dormitory beside the school road. The school decided not to rebuild. The ground was reborn as a rice paddy — the 香田好米生態田. Each year, in partnership with a local Erlin rice mill, our children plant and harvest two seasons of Koshihikari rice. The grain is hulled at the mill and returns to the school cafeteria as the rice in our lunches. One field, one school, one full circle.

一場颱風吹倒了校門口馬路旁的教師宿舍。學校決定不重建，將這塊地改闢為水稻生態田——「香田好米生態田」。每年，我們與在地碾米廠合作，由孩子親手插秧、收割越光米，一年兩期。稻穀送到碾米廠處理後，回到學校的營養午餐裡。一塊田、一所學校、一個完整的循環。

For a small country school, the question is not how many English words a child can memorise — it is whether English shows up at all in the rhythm of the week. So we built Weekly English: a single sentence, posted on the school site each week, used by every class.

對偏鄉小校來說，問題從來不是「孩子背了多少英文單字」——而是英文有沒有出現在這一週的日常裡。所以我們做了「每週英語」：每週一句，在學校網站上更新，全校通用。

In partnership with My Culture Connect, our weekly sentence is paired with audio — so children hear the natural rhythm of the line, not just read it. A small but steady door through which an English-speaking world walks into our country classrooms.

在人師教育協會的協助下，「每週英語」搭配音檔——孩子不只看到句子，更聽得到自然的節奏。一道小而穩定的門，讓英語的世界，慢慢走進這所農村小校。

Two seasons paint the school. In winter, white buckwheat blooms wash across the fields beside the road — a colour you cannot get in a textbook. In summer, the silk-floss "beauty trees" line the school road in pink and purple. Inside the gate, our running track is real, living grass — a rarity among Taiwanese schools today.

兩個季節為校園上色。冬天，路邊蕎麥花田一片潔白——這是課本給不了的顏色。夏天，校門口的「美人樹」開滿粉紫花朵。校園內，跑道是真正的天然草皮——在今日台灣校園裡已屬少數。

Our seasonal lessons do not need a bus. Just a walk to the school gate, and a teacher who can name what is in bloom. Children learn what a year actually feels like — not from a calendar, but from the colour of the road home.

我們的戶外教學不必搭車。走到校門口，老師指著正在綻放的花朵，課就上了。孩子是從回家的那條路所變換的顏色，認識「一年」是什麼。

Beyond Weekly English, every teacher and class at Siangtian has access to two shared video libraries built by My Culture Connect: Classroom English (everyday teaching language, by Sarah Thomas) and Bilingual Announcements (campus broadcast English, by Sarah Thomas & Susan Rose).

在「每週英語」之外，香田的每位老師與每個班級都能使用人師教育協會製作的兩條影片庫：課室英語（Sarah Thomas 老師，日常教學用語）與校園廣播英語（Sarah & Susan 老師，校園廣播用語）。

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