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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

Dear Teachers:

As the busy and exciting first two weeks has passed, we gradually move onto the normal track.  Thanks a lot for your hard work and support. Our school started on a strong and positive tune.  Here are some areas that we still need to pay attention to:

1. We have noticed that some teachers did not check the updated student list in the system.  As a result, students who registered to the class have been sent to the library by mistake.  As the registration process winding down, we still have some new students joining in. Please check the system periodically and take the class roster (点名) each Sunday to make sure that students on the list are matching ones sitting in the class.  This process will also help you to get familiar with each student.

2.  Parent teacher communication:  The school requires all teachers, including non-language teachers, to communicate with your class parents in the beginning of school year to build parent-teacher relationship(Adult Class is optional).  We have noticed that most teachers have done a great job in communicating with parents.  We’ve also heard feedbacks from some parents that they haven’t received anything from their child’s class teacher.  Please do so as soon as you can if you haven’t.  For all Chinese teachers , if you mainly use emails for parent communication, please cc your email to deanofncls@gmail.com.  You are also encouraged to use our teacher’s blog for communication.

3. Teachers Club:  To enrich teachers’ outside classroom activity and bond our teachers community, we have two teachers activity group within the club. One is Mulan Sword/drum (木兰剑/腰鼓）group and the other is fashion show （时装表演） group.  We encourage our teachers to join the club activities and enjoy the fun. If you are interested, please contact Cai Jie (蔡洁老师）jiecai2004@yahoo.com for sword/drum group and Zhao Yongmei (赵咏梅老师）maryzhao718@gmail.com for fashion group.  These two group have just started their new school year practice. We hope more teachers could join their fun activities.  If you have any idea to form new activity group for our teachers, please let us know.

4.  Our gifts (tissue and markers) and letter to Day school teachers have been distributed to all classrooms, thanks a lot for all of your cooperation and understanding.  For the past two weeks, we had a very smooth classroom management. Let’s keep up with it.

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents:   http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

Thanks and see you this Sunday.

Ling and Li

Dear Teachers,

Thanks for your hard work and support on the first day of school. We had a busy yet very organized day last Sunday. This year, we had more than 1300 students signed up for our school. As we growing bigger, we will continue trying our best to make NCLS a safe, enjoyable and quality learning environment for the community.  Here are a few reminders for you:

1.  Student List:  Please check your class student list in the system again before this Sunday’s class.  On the first school day, we had quite a few parents coming in to register or change the classes.  Please make sure the list in the system matches your class student names. If you notice any student sitting in your class does not have his/her name on the list, please let us know ASAP.

2.  Classroom Management:  We have a very good news – for the first week, we did not get any reports from Day School about classroom problems. What a terrific job we did!  Thanks to all teachers who really paid attention to the classroom maintenance.  Let’s keep up the good work and make sure the desks/chairs remain at the same position after we finish our classes.

3.  Classroom Arriving:  Please make sure to arrive the classroom by 1:45pm.  If for any reason you cannot arrive on time, please have your TA to cover the classroom.  If you see any students arrive the classroom before 1:45pm, please let them wait at the cafeteria first.  Please note that this year we need to enforce this rule strictly to make sure all students will be attended at the classroom.

Thanks again for your hard work in school opening day.  With a good start, we are sure that we will have another successful school year ahead.  See you this coming Sunday.

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents:  http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

Ling and Li

Dear Teachers,

Welcome back to Newton Chinese School!  We hope you all had a relaxing summer and are fully energized to start the school this Sunday.  As you all know, the first day is always an exciting and active day for our students.  For new students, it maybe a nervous day for them. Let’s work together to make it a pleasant day for all.  Here are a few reminders for you:

1. Please arrive the classroom by 1:45pm. For teachers who get a different classroom than last year, you might want to arrive even a little earlier to check the classroom condition.  Please let us know immediately if you notice any problem.  In addition, please try to communicate with the second class teacher who is going to use the same classroom to make sure that all condition will be well maintained.

2.  If you haven’t done so, please send email to your class parents before Sunday to introduce yourself and communicate class expectation.  If you have trouble sending email through our system, please email our website admin Wang Weidong laoshi at   weidong@yahoo.com     A  10-minute open house for parents on the first day is an option as this can be a good opportunity for parents to meet the teacher and ask questions.

3. Please take the class roster to make sure the student names on the list are matching everyone in your class.  During the first few weeks, please check the system periodically to note if there are any changes in your class list.  Please let us know if any student sitting in your class is not on the registration list.

We thank all of you for your hard work in preparing a good start.  Best wishes to all for a wonderful new school year!

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents:  http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!  中秋节快乐！

Ling and Li

Dear Teachers,

This coming Sunday 6/22 is our last class for this school year. As we are approaching the finish line, we truly want to thank each of you for your hard work and dedication in teaching during the year. We also want to thank you for your help and support to our admin staff.  With us working together, we are through another smooth and fruitful year.  Now it’s time for us to take a breath and catch up with ourselves.

1. 6/14 teachers training:  It was indeed a very productive training with three wonderful speakers.  Here are two links for you – Wang Shuhong laoshi’s presentation and Sheng Lanlan laoshi’s teaching resources link.

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/CLTResources-WangShuhong-Newton0614.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/chineselearningresources.doc

Thanks to all who participated the training.  Please try some of the resource website that Wang Shuhong laoshi suggested and let us know your feedback.

2. Year end reimbursement:  Please remember to submit your reimbursement this Sunday.  It’s the last day we accept the reimbursement for this school year.

3. Textbook Pickup:  For parents paid before 6/12 but did not get the textbook last Sunday, they should go to the library to pick up the book. The detailed procedure is in this week’s newsletter: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2266

4. Parent Assembly and Graduation Ceremony this Sunday at Auditorium

Please see the program in this link:

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/june2014parentassemblyprogram

5.  Last school Journal for this year:

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/journal/current/2014-6.pdf

Hope everyone have a great summer!

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

This coming Sunday 6/15 is Father’s Day.  We give our best wishes to all fathers on this special day!

1. 6/15 All Teachers Meeting  全体教师会议   2:30-3:15pm   Room 222

This meeting is for ALL teachers who are not teaching during the first class period.  We will talk about our work during this school year as well as introduce the new leaders of the school.

2. Reminder:  This Saturday 6/14 Teachers Training

Location:  CCCC (剑桥中文学校 411 Waverley Oaks Rd, Waltham, MA 02452 ）

Time: 6:30-9:30pm.  6:30-7pm will be dinner, training will be held right after.

This training is mandatory for all Chinese teachers, optional for other teachers.

3. Book Distributions

We will distribute textbooks on this Sunday to classrooms for the paid students. If your class is among our distribution list, please hand out books according to the book list and ask students to sign first to take the book. Can’t emphasize more on acquiring student’s signature.

This week’s newsletter: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2258

See you on Sunday!

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

We have three more weeks left before the summer break.  Let’s keep up with the good work and finish this semester on a high note!

1.  Please have a final student checking by using your class roster in the system.  Recently we have found couple of cases that either the student did not enroll in spring semester but sit in the classroom for the whole semester, or the student’s name is on the class roster but the student shows up in another class every Sunday.  These mistakes should not last for a whole semester if the teachers used the updated spring semester class roster in the system to check their classes.  Please note that your semester-end bonus is affected by the total number of students in your class, therefore you want to make sure all students sitting in your class are registered correctly to your class.

If you have trouble viewing the class roster in the system, please let us know. It’s a very important tool for you to get to know your class.

2. A friendly reminder:  6/14  All Teachers Training.

Location:  CCCC (剑桥中文学校 411 Waverley Oaks Rd, Waltham, MA 02452 ）

Time: 6:30-9:30pm.

6:30-7pm will be dinner, training will be held right after.  We will also announce the new school leaders in this meeting.

This in-house training is mandatory to all Chinese class teachers.  If for any reason you can not come, please let us know. Also note that $30 of your training budget is reserved for this in-house training.

3. Reimbursement – Please submit your reimbursement if any.  All reimbursement for this semester need to be submitted before or on 6/22.

Here is this week’s newsletter: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2246

See you on Sunday.

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

Hope all had a nice Memorial Day weekend.  We will have school this coming Sunday 6/1.  Our last school day of this semester is 6/22.

This past weekend, thirty teachers from our school participated the two-day ACS Conference at Burlington Marriott.  The workshops that presented by our teachers had good participation and received very positive feedbacks from audience. It was a great learning experience for our teachers too to hear so many different workshops about Chinese language teaching.  It was also a rare opportunity for our teachers getting together to share thoughts and have a fun time.

Our Board President Yongqi Deng joined the teachers in the conference on 5/24 . Vice Principal Ling Zheng, along with Xiaoyan Lin and Yi Tian, organized and hosted ACS Speech Contest.  The two students (our school’s speech contest representatives) received 1st and 2nd place respectively, in their age group.  Sarah Liu, our journal chief editor, along with a few other volunteers, came to the conference to record some of the precious moments.  We will post pictures, videos, and other materials about this conference on our school website later.

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2237

See you this Sunday!

Guangsong and Ling

Dear Teachers,

We do not have school this coming Sunday 5/25. Enjoy the Memorial Day weekend!

1. ACS conference this coming weekend 5/24 and 5/25

This year we have 32 teachers signed up for the conference.  We hope this event will bring some learning and fun experience to our teachers.  We will try to video tape some of the workshops and put on our website.  If for any reason you cannot join the event, but would like to learn from the workshop, you can check the video later.

2. Upcoming teachers training on 6/14

Our annual in-house teachers training will be held on 6/14 at CCCC (剑桥中文学校）from 6:30-9:30pm.  6:30-7pm will be dinner time, and training will be held right after.

This year we would like to have the training in a form of panel discussion.  We will have three panel leaders who each will give a short speech on a topic, then the majority of time will be given to all teachers to ask questions or have discussion on how this could help our teaching.  We would like to hold this training in a very relaxed yet interactive way and our hope is to help teachers use what we learned right into our teaching.

This training is mandatory to all teachers.  If for any reason you cannot attend, please let Xu Hua know.

3. 2013-2014 School Year Reimbursement – Deadline 6/22.  Please submit your reimbursement before the deadline, so we can process in this school year.

4. Last but not least, please check your class students when school resumes on 6/1.  We found a student has been sitting in a classroom this semester while not registering to this class.  Keep in mind that the total number of registered students in your class will be factored into your year-end bonus.

Here is this week’s newsletter: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2233

See you on 6/1.

Guangsong and Ling 

Dear Teachers,

1.  Our school fall 2014 registration has started.  Please notify your students in class, and/or send this information to parent in your weekly parent communications.

2. For teachers who teach classes at 2nd class period, please check this course description link on our website:  http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/registration/CourseDescription_2014-2015.htm#go

If you need to make any change or add information to your course description, please do so and email the updated version to us.

3. 推荐优秀学生助教：

If you want to recommend your student TA to this award, please submit the form at your earliest convenience.  Some teachers informed us the form we sent before cannot be opened.  We made some changes and here it is:

http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/tianyi/files/2014/05/OutstandingStudentAwards.pdf

This week’s newsletter covers the following topic:

• Fall 2014 Semester Registration
• Seminar

Please see the newsletter link: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/?p=2224

See you on Sunday,

Guangsong and Ling