(22 May 2003)
1. Wide shot exterior of Beijing Guangqumen High School, students arriving at the gate with banner above saying: "People of the whole country unite together with one will to overcome SARS"
2. Students with bikes at the temperature checking point at the school gate, temperature taken
3. Mid shot school doctor taking temperature of student
4. Close up taking record of the check results
5. Wide shot students having temperature check
6. Mid shot girl with face mask having temperature checked
7. Mid shot doctors taking temperature of students
8. Wide shot students passing by board with Chinese characters saying "Welcome Classmates Back to School and Class"
9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Wang Wei, Student, Guangqumen High School:
"I woke up at 5:30 am today, an hour earlier than I used to do. I am too excited to go back to sleep. We have not seen our teachers for quite a long time and today I have very strong feelings for them, I have never experienced this before."
10. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Gao Ming, Student, Guangqumen high school:
"The impact (of SARS) puts all the students in our grade at a fair and equal level. We are all standing at the same starting line (for the national university entrance exam)."
11. Close up photocopy of a municipal regulation about students having a temperature exceeding 37.2 degrees not being allowed to enter school
12. Wide shot exterior of Beijing No. 80 high school
13. Various of flag-raising ceremony
14. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Gao Yuchen, Principal, Beijing No. 80 High School:
"We do have some worries about resuming school before the virus has totally disappeared. All the kids are very active and energetic. If they are infected, our hearts will be broken. Of course, we have the responsibility to do well now that the school is reopened. We are not afraid of taking on that responsibility."
15. Various shots of students in class
16. Various shots children playing skipping rope
17.SOUNDBITE, (Mandarin), Huang Chungming, 11-year-old girl:
"I really miss going back to school. I want to see my classmates. I wish I could play with them so I wouldn't feel so lonely."
18. People looking at children
19. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Huang Zihau, 12-year-old boy:
"I feel really upset staying at home all day. I have nothing to do. I would write my homework assigned by my teacher, then review some notes. That's it. Nothing else to do."
20. Traditional Chinese house
21. Two boys studying in room
22. Boy doing homework
23. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Li Zi-wen, 4th grade primary school student:
"I would much rather go to school. I would have my classmates to keep me company. I wouldn't feel so lonely then. I feel really lonely writing homework at home - really lonely."
24. Boys studying in the room
STORYLINE:
Thousands of students went back to class on Thursday as Beijing began to reopen public schools that were closed four weeks ago at the height of the Chinese capital's SARS outbreak.
Classes resumed for high school students who are preparing to take college entrance tests.
Lower grades are to return in the coming days, while some schools will stay closed longer, holding classes on the Internet or television.
School closures on April 24 sent home 1.7 (m) million students, many of whom have spent the past month cooped up in apartments.
On the city's north side, Beijing No. 80 High School - a cluster of modern glass-and-tile buildings - reopened with a flag-raising ceremony on a sunny late spring morning attended by teachers and some 400 students spaced out in neat rows on an athletic field.
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