Puxi Campus G1: One Day, A Century’s Play, Hundred Days, A Brighter Way-Shanghai High School International Division

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Puxi Campus G1: One Day, A Century’s Play, Hundred Days, A Brighter Way

March 23, 2026

On Tuesday morning, a touch of time magic quietly descended. Along the first-grade corridor of Shanghai High School International Division Puxi Campus, a group of "centenarian scholars" slowly approached. Some hobbled along with small canes, unsteady on their feet yet bright-eyed; others wore wire-rimmed glasses and berets, youthful smiles hidden beneath gray-streaked hair. A few children had dressed in vintage long skirts, their soft coughs making it seem as though they had truly lived through a hundred years of life. For a moment, the entire hallway felt like a tunnel through time leading to the future—why had these six- and seven-year-olds "turned gray" overnight?

It turned out to be their special way of celebrating one hundred days of school. On this day, the children marked their "100-day milestone" by creatively dressing up as centenarians. Faux wrinkles drawn with brown eyeliner, makeshift canes, floral headscarves, and their earnest imitations of elderly mannerisms—all were part of their childlike imagination of what it means to be 100 years old.

Morning light streamed into the library, where these "little elders" sat quietly together, flipping through picture books as if truly reflecting on a century's worth of wisdom.

In English class, they visited different learning centers and embarked on an exploration of "100." At the writing station, children used brushes and words to imagine themselves a hundred years from now: silver-haired but still fond of laughter, living in floating cities, with robots as neighbors. At the game station, challenges like "stand on one foot for 100 seconds" and "count to 100 as fast as you can" unfolded one after another. The children wobbled as they balanced, counting with intense focus while laughter rippled through the air.

Math class became a battleground of strategy games. Dice tumbled across desks as numbers added up, with children competing to see who could get closest to 100. Other groups carefully arranged digits, racing to launch their "rockets" as quickly as possible. Amidst the adding and subtracting, thinking quietly took root.

From morning reading to classroom activities, from games to creative work, we witnessed not only a fun "aging" experience but also the subtle transformation each child has undergone over these one hundred days: learning to express, learning to cooperate, learning to think, and, above all, learning to love learning itself. In this warm educational soil, every little "centenarian scholar" is growing steadily toward the future, each at their own pace.

(Written by Yuanjing Zhang

Pictures by Siying Li

Reviewed by Zhang Yi, Jenny Zhang, Hannah Kloeber)