Dear Teachers:
-Thanksgiving Party
The annual school Teacher appreciation/Thanksgiving party will be on Sat. 11/22/2014 at Woburn ACAS Center, 29 Montvale Ave. Woburn, MA 01801. The appreciation dinner will be from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at basement. Please be there on time. After the dinner, performance will be on the 1st floor from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm. Here is the program list:
http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/NCLSThanksgivingParty2014ProgramList.pdf
There are a few things that we would like to address for the party:
1. parking: There are plenty of parking spaces across the street of ACAS, but be aware that some spots are for private parking, please pay more attention to the sign.
2. The performance is on the 1st floor. At the same time, PCC will arrange many kind of kids games at the basement. Water and snacks will be provided
3. Safety: The ACAS center will be crowded this Sat, especially at basement. PCC will have full authority to maintain the order. Please remind your child to follow instructions whenever it is required. Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable evening.
– Parking Issue
This is a repeated topic, but the illegal parking issue has raised concerns from the Newton City. Recently we have received a message from the Newton School Operation Management. Here is part of the message:
”As I have mentioned in the past, there is a significant parking issue in the neighborhood around F A Day during Sundays when your school is in session. People are parking illegally, blocking driveways, parking on grass areas and parking where there are no designated spaces. There is no respect given the neighbors who live around Day. This needs to stop. I understand this behavior isn’t representative of everyone, but there is a significant number of folks guilty of this behavior”.
The school has been taking this parking issue seriously. If you park outside the Day School campus, here are some important parking notes:
1). On Albemarle Rd, please do not park along the brook side, it’s no parking area. Please try to leave enough space for the drive way if you park along the residential house. The State regulation requires that cars cannot be parked within 5ft to the drive way opening. We did spot some cars parked too close to the residential drive way.
2). On some small streets off Walnut Street, please do not park too close to the intersection. The State regulation requires that cars cannot be parked within 15ft to the street intersection. However, we spotted some cars parked too close to the intersection which would block the view of the traffic. We took a picture of Linwood Av. off Walnut St. last Sunday. Please see the picture in this link. Cars parked too close to the intersection. This is one of the big problems that caused the resident safety concerns.
http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/parking611-16.jpg
3) There are plenty parking on California St and Linwood Av. off Crafts Street. We have checked that street parking is allowed there. They are good alternatives besides Albemarle Rd. and Newton Education Dept. parking lot on Crafts St.
One observation from last Sunday, one car with teacher parking permit occupied two parking space, maybe it’s due to technical skills, but please pay more attention to the line when you park your car. Our teacher parking spaces are limited.
-School Facility
Based on the agreement between Day school and NCLS, we can not take or use the Day school properties unless we got approval from Day school. Recently, we received couple of complaints form Day school room teachers. In order to avoid such issues happen again, please review the following items with your class:
1. Classroom: Please do not take anything that belongs to Day classroom. Please do not touch things on the teachers desk. All chairs, desks and other things have to be put back to the original position after the class.
2.Library: Please advise your class not to remove books from book shelves and left them randomly.
Here is this week’s newsletter to parents: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/
Thanks and hope to see you at the Saturday party!
Ling and Li