Dear Parents,
We are having the last school day of this calendar year on Sunday. NCLS will resume on January 8, 2012 after the holiday recess. We wish you and your family a very happy and enjoyable holiday season. For those who celebrate Christmas, we wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful and safe vacation for all!
Spring registration will start at mid-night on January 1, 2012. all currently registered students will be pre-registered in the same classes as that during the Fall term of 2011.
If you are not making any change on your child(ren)’s class election, you just need to login into your account, sign up for parent’s duty, print out the summary sheet, and then make the tuition payment with your summary sheet, either by mailing a check to
Newton Chinese Language School
P.O Box 600442
Newton, MA02460
Or by handing in the check to school accountants during school time at NCLS. Tuition payment deadline is January 31, 2012. The check needs to be payable to Newton Chinese Language School.
The change-class period for in-school students is from 12:00am January 1, 2012 to 11:59pm January 10, 2012. Registration will be open to public from 12:00am January 11, 2012 to 11:59pm January 31, 2012. Please refer to the blog for details: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/registration-procedure-for-spring-2012/
As the last school day of the year approaches, the Principal and the administration team sincerely thank you for your support to the school. Let’s put our effort together and continue working hard; we are committed to provide our children with an inspiring and rewarding learning environment!
Best wishes,
NCLS Administration Team
1. Introducing a new book:
一位牛顿中文学校的前家长和文学城子女教育论坛的朋友们一起出了一本关于子女教育的电子书【子女上名校，父母谈心得】,12月2日已经开始发售,仅几天,已经卖出近700本, 受到了读者的极大欢迎。这是这本书的有关介绍
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=201110&postID=25871
书的目录 http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=201110&postID=25873
买书的LINK http://groups.wenxuecity.com/groupview.php?gid=1515 售书所得将全部捐给海外中国教育基金会(OCEF),用来帮助国内贫困学生。
2. 2012 NCLS Chinese New Year Celebration Announcement
Dear NCLS parents, teachers and students:
Happy holiday season!
New Year is around the corner. Newton Chinese School Event Committee invites all NCLS teachers, students and parents to join the preparation of the biggest annual event of our school– Chinese New Year Celebration. To celebrate the year of dragon, the event committee will organize two performances: an in-school celebration will take place on Sunday, February 5th, 2012 during the school hour; an out-school celebration performance will take place at the newly built Newton North High School from 7:00 to 9:30 pm on Saturday, February 11th, 2012.
All interested groups please submit your favorite program to the NCLS events committee (eventcommittee@newtonchineseschool.org). We start collecting program as early as today and the deadline of submitting the program is 12/30/2011. Please submit as early as your convenience.
Following is the required information when submitting a program:
Program type (节目 类型)
Duration ( 时间长度)
Performers (表演者)
Director (指导老师)
Program description (节目介绍)
Contact person name, email and phone number （联系人姓名，电话和电子邮件）
All the programs should be shorter than 5 minutes; some Chinese traditional program like 相声，小话剧，小表演 may allow longer duration. All submitted programs will be audited by NCLS event committee. The committee will decide on the acceptance and which celebration event the submitted program is accepted based on its quality and overall arrangement of the two performances. The final decision will be sent out on January 15, 2012.
To assist the audition of the submitted programs, you may choose to send us a CD, DVD, a link to the performance of your group, or arrange an audition with our committee members. All related materials should be received before January 8th, 2012.
Thank you for your support!
Event Committee