新金山中文学校校长信箱 （10/02/2023）Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Principal’s Message

各位老师、同学和家长：

大家好！2023学年顺利开学了。尽管开学第一天上个周六下雨，周日还恰逢农历新年大节–元宵节，但依然有3600多位学生出勤，全校教学秩序正常。给大家点赞。

今天，我先要在这里特别跟大家讲一讲学生注册的事宜。自三年前疫情爆发政府封城我校不得不改上网课起，教育部规定的社区语言学校每年一度的学生注册也从纸张填表改为了网上填表。三年来，网上填表注册也已被广大家长接受，今年开学前就有3500多位学生完成了网上注册。这有利于学生信息收集的高效和准确，减少纸张运用也有利于环保，更使我校的学生信息库管理上了一大台阶。目前，仅有不到3%的学生因网上注册的各种原因在开学前没有被编到班级，他们还需要到办公室接待处来查询。我们对每一位来的都要求及时查明原因，结果发现既有家长填写时的疏忽，也有表格内容多易产生误填的可能（这方面学校将认真研究并作改善）。

我要特别感谢绝大多数为孩子顺利完成网上注册的家长，也要感谢那些来咨询查明原因后及时完成网上注册的家长，当然还有我们业务过硬、耐心讲解的接待人员。学生注册的补遗工作进行的很顺利，任何事只有学生、家长和老师大家掌握，并互相理解、配合，才能办好。希望明年我们会做得更好。

其次，有两件事也要请家长们明了：一是我们租用的Mt Waverley中学是一所公校，在我们租用的30年里它的办学条件在不断改善之中，比如南面盖了二层教学楼、北面更新了流动房教室以及正在建造新的教学楼。当然还有待改善的，比如A区域的教室是日校创建时的第一批教室，虽然承载着历史且日校还在正常使用，确实陈旧了。大家知道，日校办学条件的改善也会使到我们社区语言学校收益，因此我校已跟日校一起向政府提出了改建的要求。如果您孩子的班级被安排在A区域，请家长跟我们一起耐心等待校舍的改建。二是由于报读我校的学生多，而且更换上课时间的也多，给我们编班工作带来很大的压力。通常我们会在第三周后适当调整一些班级的安排，在这之前建议家长不要轻易给孩子换班。目前，1-9年级精英部第一批招生已满，第二批招生会在6月进行；VCE各年级精英班还有几个名额，欢迎报名考试录取。

还有，我要在这里很高兴地向大家宣布：经过全校1-12年级各班级认真评选，在2022年我校有近350位学生成绩突出、表现优秀被评为年度最佳学生，有将近540位学生成绩优良被评为优秀学生，有700多位学生进步显著获“学习进步奖”。各校区已在2022年年终时给年度最佳学生颁发了金牌，给优秀学生颁发了银牌，给学习进步学生颁发了奖状证书。所有获奖者名单将会公布在学校网站上。这里，向所有获奖学生和他们的老师和家长表示祝贺。

此外，澳式橄榄球AFL向我校学生发来邀请，欢迎5-12岁的学生参加AFL的AusKick举办的“第一学期少儿澳式橄榄球中心“活动，从3月2日（星期四）起每周一次下午5点至6点（共5次），地点：Mount View Primary School 及Brentwood Reserve。有兴趣参加的学生请到学校办公室领取活动广告扫描登记报名。

最后，再次提醒您：注意交通安全、注意泊车。请留意校园附近的交通管理标志，请给孩子树立遵纪守法的榜样，请把车泊在离校园近百米无限制停车的地方，避免受罚。

祝大家在新学年工作顺利、学业进步！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,

Welcome back in 2023. In the first week of Term 1, we had a rainy Saturday and Lantern Festival on Sunday, however, 3600 students had chosen to come to school with passion of Chinese learning and the school went well. Well-done, everyone!

Today, I would like to first talk about the student registration process. Since the lockdown due to Covid three years ago and we had to move from onsite to online learning, our student registration process had to move from paper form to online form under the instruction of DET. In the past three years, parents have accepted the methods of online registration and this year over 3500 students completed their online registration before Term 1 started. It has improved the efficiency of student data collection and accuracy of data collected, reduced the waste of paper and updated the management of our student database. Up to now, there are only less than 3% of students who haven’t been allocated to classes due to various issues in online registration and they have to come to the school office for assistance. We have traced the reasons for not being registered and found out that some parents have made mistakes when filling the registration forms online and some parents encountered misunderstanding on some questions in the forms (we would try our best to revise them to avoid future misunderstanding).

I would like to present my sincere appreciation to those who have completed their children’s online registration and also thank parents who have come to us for assistance and then completed the online registration under our instruction. I would also like to appreciate our admin staff who have presented their expertise in work and great patience when receiving enquiries of parents. The registration work has completed very well with our mutual understanding and cooperation. I wish we could make it better next year.

Secondly, I would like to let you know that our main campus is within a government school – Mt Waverley Secondary College. It has updated its facilities in the past 30 years while we use them as our campus on weekends such as the two-floor building on the south side and upgraded portable areas on the north side and the new building under construction. Of course, there are still some improvements to be done, such as A-block area which is the first classrooms when MWSC was established, historical and functional, yet quite old nowadays. As you all know, the improvement of day school facilities would benefit us in the end and we have raised the renovation suggestions to local government along with MWSC. If your child/ren’s classrooms are in the A-block, please be patient and wait for the upgrade of the area. Moreover, due to large number of students enrolled and requested for class transfer, we are under great pressure allocating students to classes. Normally we would accept class transfer requests after the first three weeks of Term 1. Up to now, the first stage Chinese Accelerated Program enrolment has completed and the second stage enrolment is expected in June. There are a few places available in VCE Chinese Accelerated Program and you are more than welcome to apply for entrance tests.

Thirdly, I would like to announce that with serious consideration within Year 1 to Year 12, 350 students have been awarded the Student of the Year in 2022, 540 students been awarded Outstanding Student and 700 students been given Best Progress Award. In December 2022, Student of the Year and Outstanding Student receivers were given gold medals and silver medals separately and Best Progress Award receivers were given certificates to acknowledge their achievements in Chinese language learning in 2022. The list of award receivers would be presented on our school website. Big congratulations to the students, their teachers and parents.

Moreover, AFL sent us an invitation recently inviting students aged 5-12 to attend AFL Auskick program level 1 activities from Thursday 2 March (once a week, 5pm-6pm, 5 times) at Mount View Primary School and Brentwood Reserve. Please visit our school office for brochures and registration details.

At last, I would remind you again to pay attention to traffic rules and parking signs around the campus on weekends and set up a good example for your child/ren. Parking cars in the area 100 metres away from school with no parking restrictions is highly recommended to avoid unnecessary fines.

I wish you all the best and see you on campus this weekend.

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].