Dear Teachers:
We are approaching middle of the fall semster. In this week’s newsletter to parents, we have sent out all mid-term exam reviews for all Zhongwen classes. Please remind your students to print them out at home and bring to the reivew class. The school do not make copies for review materials.
Here are some notes we have for you this week:
I. False Fire Alarm:
This past Sunday, we had another false fire alarm incident which are believed to be done by one of our student. This is the second similar incident happened in less than two months. This has not only interrupted our normal school life, but will also cause monetary penalty to our school due to frequent false alarm, even worse situation, NCLS may be forced to move out of day school if similar things happen again and again. After talking to the Newton fire department on Sunday, we found out that someone pulled the fire alarm right outside room 210 on second floor, outside the gym. We hope all parents, students and all school staff pay more attention to avoid the similar things happen again.
1. Please talk to your class again regarding the fire alarm and tell them not to touch any fire alarm at the school hallway and gym. If any one pull the alarm either by accident or intentionally without a true fire, the parent will bear the monetary penalty. If the student pull the alarm intentionally, the school may discontinue his/her NCLS student status.
2. To avoid any potential similar incident occur, All TAs must oversee the students who go to restroom and count the numbers after the students come back. If not going to the restroom, students must stay at classroom during break time. For all classes in gym, teachers need pay more attention to your students. We did noticed one alarm box opened by accident last Sunday.
In the future, PCC will assign two parents on duty to watch the fire alarm on each floor to make sure no one touch the alarm. In the meantime, we will put a sign on top of the alarm to make sure people not to touch it without noticed fire.
Thanks for your cooperation and patience during the fire evacuation. We noticed that people exited the building quickly and orderly. However, we noticed that there were still quite a lot of people standing close to the exit doors. Newton fire department warned us that for people who exited door 3, 4 and 5, no one should stand in the driveway or close to the building as it will block the fire engine. All should retreat to the sports field behind the building.
II. Parent Forum
This coming Sunday, 王瑞云老师 and 赵肖东老师 will host a parent forum for k-3 grade parents. The topic is how to help kids learn Chinese at home. If you are interested, please go to room 325 at 3:40 pm.
III. Writing Contest
The 3rd Annual Writing Contest is under way. Please remind your class parents to submit the student writing work before Oct. 30. Here is the contest information: http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/WritingContest3Announcement.php
We hope to collect more student writing work this year.
Here is this week’s newsletter to parents: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/
Thanks and see you this Sunday.
Ling and Li