Dear Teachers:
Here are a few notes for you this week:
1. Parking issue: This past Sunday, we received a very serious report from newton police officer in regarding to parking issue during the 1st three school days. There are a lot of cars that parked along the brook side of Albemarle Rd, this is absolutely not allowed. We were told that city hall has received bunch of complaints from local residents, some parents parked their cars near their driveway and caused some inconvenience for them. At the same time, we were notified by the police officer, if they found cars that park along the Brook side in the future, cars will be towed at the owners’ cost. To the majority of teachers with parking permit, you can disregard this notice, but for teachers and TAs without parking permits, Please make sure to park your car at the right parking space.
2. 3rd “Xing Guang” writing contest will start now until 10/30/2014, please encourage your class to attend this contest. The detailed instruction is posted below:
牛顿中文学校第三届“星光”杯作文大赛通知
为继续提高我校广大学生的中文阅读和写作兴趣，我校第三届作文大赛即将拉开帷幕。这次大赛与“侨报”举办的第三届美东少年儿童作文大赛同期举行。和前两届相同，我校所有参赛作品将由学校推荐参加“侨报”大赛以及其它海外华人学生作文大赛。
现将有关事项通知如下：
一、比赛时间：从即日起至2014年10月30日。
二、比赛对象：牛顿中文学校2-10年级学生以及助教，须来美三年以上或在美国出生8至19岁青少年儿童。比赛分成四个组别：儿童组（8-10岁）、少年组（11-13岁）、少年组（14-16岁）以及青年组（17-19岁）。
三、比赛方法：参赛主题是“根”或“我的好朋友”。儿童组300字，少儿组400字，少年组600字，青年组1000字。电脑打印、手写均可，手写汉字可加分。
四、投稿方式：请以电子邮件（纯文本格式）发送文稿至校刊编辑信箱：pa@newtonchineseschool.org;纸质来稿请交图书馆admin desk或journal desk.请在电子邮件主题栏注明“作文大赛”字样，并在文末提供姓名、出生日期、班级、指导老师以及联系方式。
五、评奖方式：我们将组织本校资深老师和校有关行政人员组成评审委员会，本着公开和公平的原则评选优秀和获奖作品。每个组别各设一等奖一名，二等奖两名，三等奖三名，优秀奖若干名，学校将发给奖状和一定的物质奖品，予以表彰鼓励！
以“根”或“我的好朋友”为主题的所有参赛作品将由学校推荐参加美东地区第三届青少年儿童中文写作大赛。学校作文比赛组委会还将所有参赛作品拟投其它海外华人学生作文大赛。获奖作品将刊登于牛顿中文学校校刊。
欢迎牛顿中文学校学生踊跃参赛！希望各位老师和家长给予大力支持！
预祝我们的学生取得优异成绩！
3. As our registration process is winding down, please don’t forget to make sure your class list in the system is matching students sitting in your class. Please let us know any difference.
Here is this week’s newsletter to parents and our first issue of the journal for the new school year:
http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/
http://newtonchineseschool.org/journal.php
Click 2014-09 Journal page by page
See you this Sunday.
Ling and Li