Dear Teachers:
We do not have school this coming Sunday (Oct 12, 2014) due to Columbus Day. Wish everyone have a good weekend. The school will resume on Oct 19, 2014.
1. Fire Drill Last Sunday:
This past Sunday, we successfully finished our annual fire drill. Thanks a lot to school admin team, PCC team and teachers/TAs for all of your hard work. The whole building was emptied less than five minutes that meets the requirements of newton fire department. But there is a couple of important things that needs to be addressed during the exit process.
1. After all people exited the building, the majority of people just stood near the building doors instead of walking far away from building. There are two classes that stayed near the door, exit 1. This is absolutely unacceptable. After exit the building, all teachers/TAs must bring your class far away from the building. For classes that exited from door 1, 2, you need bring your students to walnut street. For classes that exited from 3, 4, 5, you need to bring your class to the field.
2. The main entrance driveway is not clear enough, the majority of parents, students just stood on the main entrance (driveway) that will make other people difficult move forward, and even worse, the fire trucks will be difficult to get in.
The purpose of the fire drill is to let everybody get familiar with the general emergence exit process, strengthen the urgent feeling, know where your classes should go if something happens in the building. The safety of our community is always the school top priority.
2. Stipend code for Sep:
Some teachers were asking about the Sep stipend pay code in the memo field. Here is what each code stands for:
s- 工资总和 a – 代课费 b – 9/4教师大会补贴 c- 校行政值班 d- 暑期教师NEACS和UMASS培训 e – 暑期马立平教师会议 f- 暑期年级组长会议 g- 暑期校行政会议 h- 暑期校行政工资 i- 其他
3. NEACS 11/22 汉字文化节 Contests:
We have emailed the following information to all parents this week:
Please see the following message from NEACS(新英格兰中文学校协会）：
漢字文化節活動，將訂於11/22/2014(星期六)，在波士頓的華僑文教中心舉行 (地址:90 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, MA 02461, 電話: 617-965-8801) 比賽包括: 國語朗誦比賽 http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/NEACSRecitationContestRule_11-22-2014.doc 國語演講比賽 http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/NEACSSpeechContestRule_11-22-2014.doc 國語歌唱比賽 http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/NEACSChineseKaraokeContest_11-22-2014.doc 中文聽打比賽 http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/NEACS_Chinese_Input_11-22-2014.doc 寫作比賽:百字文學獎 (網路投稿) http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/NEACSChineseEssayContestRule_11-22-2014.doc 請鼓勵貴校同學踴躍參與活動，由中文學校校際間之聯誼與文教活動，提高中文學校學生說中文之能力與興趣。 今年各項目增加雙語組，請鼓勵貴校雙語同學參與，報名時請註明組別:雙語組。 國語演講比賽與寫作比賽的題目都是"我最喜歡的成語"，同學寫作後可以直接參加兩項比賽。 敬祝 教安！ 新英格蘭中文學校協會 Please note that this 11/22 event is in addition to NEACS April speech contest event, not a replacement. Based on ACS new rules, the speech contest will divided into 国语朗诵比赛 and 国语演讲比赛 two categories in the future. Our school will host our annual in school speech contest according this new format next spring. Please read the rules carefully. This will be a great opportunity for some extra practice in addition to the April contests. If you are interested in joining any of these contests, please email our dean Xiaoyan Lin at xyc_lin@yahoo.com. Our school will send in registraion for all contestants. Any questions, please let us know. Principals
Here is this week’s newsletter to parents: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/
Have a nice Columbus Day weekend and see you on 10/19.
Ling and Li