Dear Teachers:
-Class Description
We already received majority teachers class description, thanks a lot for your support. If you haven’t submit your class description, please do it as early as possible, send it to Sara Liu: sarahliu08@gmail.com
-Thanksgiving and Teacher Appreciation Party
NCLS Event Committee is going to host the annual Thanksgiving and teachers appreciation party on 11/14, starting from 5:00 pm – 10:30 pm, the address is: 29 Montvale Ave., Woburn, MA, 01801, Woburn, MA. You and your family members are very welcome to join this party. The general party agenda is: 1. Dinner (5:00 – 6:00 pm); 2. Raffel (6: 00 – 7:00 pm); 3. Speech (Principal and Board Chair); 7. Performance; 8. Dancing and Kara OK;
Please send the headcounts of your family to Teacher Tian before 11/1, :pa@newtonchineseschool.org, we need get the number to order food.
You can also use the following link to submit the headcounts of your family members
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kCwnwvVt88scYq0veXEsWD_ROfl9RvF1vFgeAlGNdX8/viewform
一年一度的牛顿中文学校教师感恩节联欢晚会也将如期而至。今年教师晚会将于十一月十四日举行，共由以下部分组成: 晚餐 (5:00 pm – 6:00 pm); 教师抽奖和友情互动 (6:00 pm – 7:00 pm); 校长,董事长贺词, 为教师颁奖（7:00pm – 7:30pm);文艺表演 (7:30pm – 8:30pm); 欢乐舞会,卡拉 OK (8:30pm – 10:30pm)
与往年不同的是今年的文艺表演将以老师的节目为主，以和董事会,校行政，家长会以及 Events Committee 成员一起联欢（不是正规的文艺表演）的形式与大家共享节日的轻松和喜悦。舞会，集体舞，卡拉 OK 当然是晚会必不可少的部分。
我们在此真诚地邀请您和您的家人参加。请于十一月一日前回复您的
姓名和随行人数，便于组委会排晚餐，请回复：pa@newtonchineseschool.org,或到图书馆找校长助理田毅老师登记.或者使用下面网站填写表格:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kCwnwvVt88scYq0veXEsWD_ROfl9RvF1vFgeAlGNdX8/viewform
晚会地址：29 Montvale Ave., Woburn, MA, 01801, Woburn, MA
https://blu168.mail.live.com/mail/ViewOfficePreview.aspx?messageid=mgu8hCKdd25RGctgAhWtgMAg2&folderid=flinbox&attindex=0&cp=-1&attdepth=0&n=58864253
-Ward 2 Election Forum
With the development of NCLS, school has become one of the largest non-profit organizations in Newton. At the same time, it also bring a lot of inconvenience to the local communities, such as parking issues, etc. To solve this or other potential issues, Ward 2 Alderman will play a significant bridge role between school and our neighbors. Therefore, NCLS decided to host Newton Ward 2 Alderman Election forum this coming Sunday, October 25, from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in the auditorium. Four alderman at large candidates, plus Emily Norton, who is the current alderwoman, will come to our school. Our vice principal Ming will moderate the forum. Bellow please find the background information of these candidates. Also, Wenhua Zhang, a parent of NCLS, who is running for Newton Charter Commission this year, will meet our parents and answer their questions from 2:15 to 2:30 pm.
This is a very important event. If you don’t have class during strongly encouraged to attend this Forum to show your support to NCLS and Chinese community. Your participation will be highly appreciated.
-PVSA Award Granting Ceremony
Another important thing is President Volunteer Service Award(PVSA) granting ceremony. After the debate forum, from 3:30 to 3:40 pm, school principals, Board Chair and Alderman Candidates will announce the the 1st group of PVSA award recipients and grant the certificates to them. Please join us to congratulations all of award winners.
1. Annie Miall Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area:Education
2. Annie Yu Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area:Education
3. Christine Yao Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area: Education
4. Claire Wang Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area:Education
5. Helen Dong Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area:Education
6. Kenneth Zhang Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area: Education
7. Megan Wei Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area:Education
8. Nancy Li Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area:Education
9. Regina Yu Bronze/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area: Education
10. Tiffany Tang Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area:Education
11. William L. Wang Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area: Education
12. Winnie Li Gold/Complete Package Medal Individual Focus Area:Education
-Parking tag
Since more and more cars have been found parking inside the school parking lot without teacher’s parking tag, PCC imposed more restricted rule to check the parking tag. If you have tag, please hang in front of your car and easily to be seen by on duty parent.
-Art Sale and Auction for Charity: A Winter Filled with Love
Sunday October 25 from 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM
at 1st floor Cafeteria
The event is initiated by American Youth Leadership Foundation South Boston Branch (http://www.aylus.org), A Life A Time Foundation (http://alifeatime.org), and Boston’s Beijingers WeChat Group. The event organizers are mostly high school students who received help and supervision from their parents. All proceeds will go to Boston Trauma Fund, which has been established to help disadvantaged children who travel from China to seek medical treatments in the United States. In addition to arts and crafts by local students, there are also more than 40 pieces of Chinese calligraphy by highly acclaimed artists from China including Changbao Gu (authors of books and exhibitions), Peihua Yin (whose paintings are among the collections of Chinese National Art Gallery) and Jiuqing Zhou(winners of multiple top awards in China). A link to the art works is here: http://tinyurl.com/exhibit00. The base price tag ranges from $50 to $150.
All sales are tax deductible (60% of the sale price), and receipts will be issued by A Life A Time Foundation. Online donations to Boston Trauma Fund are welcome: http://www.alifeatime.org/cn/help/donation_list.aspx?id=888. How the fund is spent is easily trackable at alifeatime.org
We are grateful to Newton Chinese School who provides the venue for the event.
Everyone is welcome to join us at Newton Chinese School on Sunday October 25 from 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Address: F.A. Day Middle School 21 Minot Place Newtonville, MA 02460
Here is the link to parents weekly newsletter:
http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/
Thanks
Li and Ming