新金山中文学校校长信箱 (09/10/2026）Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Principal’s Message

第四学期开学通知及儿童安全政策更新

(English version available in the end)

各位老师、同学和家长：

大家好！我校今年第四学期将于本周末（10月10日/11日）开学。由于我们在第三学期有一个周末因为Mt Waverley中学校区停电而停课一周，我们会在第四学期完成补课。因此，本学期共十个教学周，到12月12日/13日结束。第四学期有不少重要事项在这里和大家报告一下。

第一，每年第四学期最重要也是最引人关注的是我校12年级学生将参加维多利亚州VCE高考的中文考试。我校高中暨VCE中文部在假期里专门为12年级的学生举办了中文口语模拟考试训练，同学们认真准备、积极参与，老师们精心辅导、严格要求，现场效果良好。我相信同学们一定能在VCE高考中考出自己最理想、最好的成绩。

第二，在第四学期，学校将举办全校统一考试，检验同学们一年来的中文学习成果，1-11年级各班班主任老师将完成下半年学生成绩报告，学校还将在1-11年级各个班级中评选年度优秀学生，各个奖项的具体评选名额另外公布。

第三，维多利亚州正在改革“儿童相关工作背景审查”（WWC Check），以加强对儿童的保护，并协助各类机构在聘用人员或招募志愿者从事涉童工作时，能够做出更安全的决策。从2026年10月19日开始，一项新的在线服务WWC Connect将正式被引入，该服务将协助各机构和个体经营者履行新的法律义务，即向社会服务监管机构（Social Service Regulator, SSR）通报其聘用的涉童工作相关人员及志愿者；同时，当某人的“涉童工作许可”（WWC Clearance）状态发生变更时，该服务也能帮助 SSR 确定需要通知的对象。另外，从10月19日开始，在申请新的WWC Check、更新WWC Check或者WWC由志愿者类别变更为雇员类别时，申请的工作人员和志愿者必须完成在线培训，方可最终完成“与儿童共事”（WWC）资格审查申请。该培训将有助于维多利亚州从事儿童相关工作的各类人员就儿童安全责任建立一致的理解，这一培训是对机构现有的儿童安全职责、入职引导、监督及培训工作的补充，而非替代。维州对于儿童安全的保持政策越来越严格，这既是对我校所有的教师、行政人员和志愿者工作上的督促，更是对所有在校学生的安全保障，相信大家一定能积极配合，共同为孩子们创造一个安全健康的学习环境。

我们周末校园见。

胡培康

校长

新金山中文学校是一所教育部认可的旨在保护儿童安全的社区语言学校，如果您对我校的有关儿童安全相关政策有任何疑问或建议，请登陆我校网站 https://xjs.vic.edu.au/child-safety/或致电98881688进行查询，也可发邮件至[email protected]

Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School

Principal’s Message

Dear teachers, students and parents,

Hello everyone! Our Term 4 begins this weekend (October 10/11). As classes were cancelled for one weekend during Term 3 due to a power outage at the Mt Waverley campus, we will make up for that missed lesson in Term 4. Consequently, this term will consist of ten teaching weeks, concluding on December 12/13. I would like to share a few important updates regarding the Term4 with you.

First, the most important and highly anticipated event in the Term 4 each year is the VCE Chinese examination for Year 12 students. During the school holidays, our school’s Senior School/VCE Chinese Department organized intensive mock oral exam training sessions for the Year 12 students. The students prepared diligently and participated enthusiastically, while the teachers provided careful guidance and maintained high standards. The sessions went very well. I believe our students will be able to achieve their best and most satisfying results in their final VCE exams.

Secondly, during the Term 4, the school will hold a unified examination to assess students’ Chinese learning progress over the past year. Class teachers for Year 1-11 will complete Semester 2 Student Progress Reports and the school will also select “Outstanding Students of the Year” from each class across these year levels; specific quotas for the various awards will be announced separately.

Thirdly, Victoria is reforming the Working with Children (WWC) Check to strengthen safeguards for children and help organisations make safer decisions about the people they engage to work or volunteer with children. From 19 October 2026, the new WWC Connect online service will be introduced. It will help organisations and sole traders meet the new legal requirement to notify the Social Services Regulator (SSR) about workers and volunteers they engage in child-related work and help the SSR identify who needs to be informed if a person’s WWC Clearance status changes. Moreover, workers and volunteers will need to complete a mandatory child safe training before a WWC Check application can be finalised if they are:

·        new WWC Check applicants

·        people renewing their WWC Clearance

·        people changing from a volunteer WWC Clearance to an employee WWC Clearance.

The training will help build a consistent understanding of child safety responsibilities across Victoria’s child-related workforce. The training complements and does not replace an organisations’ existing child safety responsibilities, induction, supervision and training.

Victoria’s policies regarding child safety are becoming increasingly stringent. This serves not only as a prompt for our teachers, administrative staff and volunteers to uphold high standards in their work but, more importantly, as a guarantee of safety for all students at the school. I am confident that everyone will actively cooperate to create a safe and healthy learning environment for the children at XJS.

See you on campus this weekend.

Kevin Hu, Principal

Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School is a DET-accredited Child Safe community language school. If you have any concern and suggestions regarding the school’s child safe policy, please feel free to visit  https://xjs.vic.edu.au/child-safety/ or call us at 9888 1688 or email us at [email protected].