新金山中文学校校长信箱 (01/09/2023）Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Principal’s Message
我校学生在国际汉字棋比赛中喜获佳绩
各位老师、同学和家长：
大家好！今天要跟大家报告一个好消息：在本周于中国宁波市举办的“第二届五大洲华裔青少年中国汉字棋邀请赛”的汉字棋比赛中我校学生取得佳绩。
本次比赛由五大洲数十个国家和地区30多个华校和社团的1100位选手报名参赛，最后有240名选手进行激烈的名次竞赛。我校顾梓译等6位同学获得比赛一等奖，林惠馨等6位同学获得二等奖，王嘉睿等6位同学获得三等奖。在比赛公布的一等奖22位选手中有6位来自我们澳大利亚新金山中文学校，占27%的获奖名额。其中，我校精英中文班的顾梓译同学在总排名中名列第4位，我校普通中文高级班的黄丽蒨、黄丽燕两姐妹同学双双获得一等奖。
同时，在先前举办的汉字棋线下（澳大利亚分会场）的比赛中，我校精英中文八年级徐佩芬老师执教的班级中杨佳玥等12位同学获得一等奖，25位同学获得二等奖，45位同学获得三等奖。其中，杨佳玥同学排名第一，她也作为唯一的选手代表获邀在第二届五大洲华裔青少年中国汉字棋邀请赛的开幕式上发言。此外，徐老师班级中的张舒杰同学同时报名参加了线上和线下的比赛分别获得了一等奖。
在此，给所有参与比赛的同学点赞，向所有获奖的同学表示祝贺，向陪伴他们的老师和家长们表示感谢。
我校学生在去年曾参加了首届五大洲华裔青少年中国汉字棋邀请赛并取得了好成绩，今年再接再厉再创佳绩。我相信，这也再次证明了我校向社区提供了优质的中文教学。
中国汉字棋是2014年由宁波市华文汉字应用研究院发明，前期在中国国内中小学生中推广，2019年在海外华裔青少年赴宁波寻根之旅活动中首次介绍给海外华裔青少年学生。因下汉字棋是一种玩中学汉语的过程，增强了玩者学习汉语的兴趣，受到参营海外华裔青少年们的欢迎。从此汉字棋走向海外，至今已有30多个国家100多所华校引入了汉字棋。我校学生代表正好参加了2019年在宁波举办的寻根之旅活动，他们有了下汉字棋促汉语学习的快乐体验，汉字棋被带到我们澳大利亚新金山中文学校。
今年8月11日至8月20日，宁波市鄞州区侨联为我校学生举办了“亲情中华.为你讲故事”网上夏令营鄞州汉字棋特色营活动，聘请汉字棋专业教练做指导。我校200多位同学齐聚云端，通过微信群和直播平台走进汉字棋，共同感受汉语词汇的丰富精妙和中华文化的独特魅力。
参加鄞州营活动和汉字棋比赛的杨佳玥同学说，她感受到了汉字之美，体会到了中文的深邃与丰富，提高了逻辑思维和形象认知。她希望能有更多的同学来参加汉字棋的学习和比赛，体验中国文化的魅力与下棋的快乐。
张舒杰同学说，汉字棋会在将来越来越受大家的欢迎。因为汉字棋可以让同学们在一个有趣的环境中学习汉字，汉字棋也可以让同学们跟家长一起愉快地玩耍、亲子互动，汉字棋还可以在网上学习和交流很轻松且非常方便。
徐佩芬老师认为，汉字棋不仅是一项有益智的棋类游戏，还是海外华裔学生学习汉语的有效途径，更可成为学生们离开中文学校后互相用中文交流的一个新平台。
总而言之，汉字棋毫无疑问可以助力学生们的中文学习，值得推广。欢迎有更多的同学来下汉字棋。
春天到了，带给了我们新的希望，相信我校的中文教育也一定会有新的发展。
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,
Today, I would like to announce some good news: XJS students obtained wonderful achievements in the Five Continents Chinese Youth Chinese Character Chess Competition this week.
About 1100 competitors coming from over 30 Chinese language schools and community organizations of 10 countries in the five continents have participated the online Chinese chess competition and 240 of them have entered the final round. XJS students have performed pretty well in the competition. Ziyi Gu and other 5 students got the first prizes, Huixin Lin and other 5 got the second prizes and Jiarui Wang and other 5 students got the third prizes. In the total 22 first prizes, 6 are from XJS, which is 27%. Ziyi Gu from MJ campus ranked the fourth in the final ranking and the twin sisters Liqian Huang and Liyan Huang from MS campus both got the first prizes. What an achievement!
Meanwhile, in the offline competition (Australia sub-field) earlier, Jiayue Yang and other 11 students from MJ campus got the first prizes, 25 students got the second prizes and 45 got the third prizes. Jiayue Yan who ranked the first made a speech on the opening ceremony of the Five Continents Chinese Youth Chinese Character Chess Competition as the only participant representative. Shujie Zhang from MJ campus registered for both online and offline competitions and won the first prize separately.
I would like to present my sincere congratulations to all the participants and those who have won prizes, their teachers and parents. XJS students obtained great achievements in last year’s competition and they performed even better this year. I believe it has shown how well our Chinese language teaching has performed as well.
The Chinese character chess was invented by Ningbo Chinese Character Applied Research Institute in 2014. Initially, the game was introduced to primary and secondary school students in China. In 2019, the game was introduced to overseas born Chinese youth participating in Chinese Culture Camp for the first time which was largely welcomed as it encourages students’ interest in Chinese language learning in a fun way. From then on, the Chinese character chess stepped outside China and now over 100 Chinese language schools in over 30 countries have taught the game to their students. XJS students were so lucky to try the taste of the game in 2019 in Chinese Culture Camp in Ningbo and brought the game back to XJS later.
From the 11th to 20th August, a special Chinese Culture Camp focused on Chinese character chess was organised by the Yinzhou office of Ningbo All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and experts were invited to teach students how to play the game. Over 200 students joined the camp and was soon attracted by the beauty of various combinations of Chinese characters in the game.
Jiayue Yang who participated both the Chinese Culture Camp Yinzhou Camp and Chinese chess competition said she gained a lot through participating the event and enjoyed the beauty of Chinese characters. The game has also improved her logic thinking skills which she really appreciates. She invites more students to join the game and experience the magic of Chinese characters.
Shujie Zhang believes the game would become more popular in the future. The Chinese character chess creates an environment where people could learn Chinese characters through the game. People can play with other students in school, with their parents at home and even with others from all over the world online.
The instructor Peifen Xu says the Chinese character chess is a fun game of learning Chinese characters for students outside China and it could be the platform of communication in Chinese when they leave the school.
In short, Chinese character chess is an excellent tool of Chinese language learning and you are more than welcome to join the game.
Spring is coming. It is the season of new beginnings and new life. I believe our Chinese language learning will embrace a fresh new look in Spring.
Yours sincerely,
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].
