新金山中文学校校长信箱 (24/04/2025）Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Principal’s Message

第二学期开学通知暨联邦大选日停课通知

(English version available in the end)

各位老师、同学和家长：

大家好！我校2025年第二学期将于本周末（4月26日/27日）开学，6月28日/29日为最后一个教学日。

同时，大家已经知道5月3日为联邦大选日，我校三个校区中有两个校区的场地将被用作为联邦大选的投票站。因此，学校决定5月3日/4日（即，下个星期停课），我们原定的6月7日/8日全校停课举办教师教研日改为上课。鉴于12年级/VCE中文毕业班的教学需要，12年级将在下个星期保持上课，具体上课时间和地点请听从我校高中中文/VCE部和各班级班主任老师的通知和安排。

感谢老师、同学、家长等学校社区所有成员的理解和配合！

我相信大家一定度过了一个短暂、愉快而又充实的假期生活，我们满血复活迎接第二学期的到来。大家一定知道，由于今年1-5年级的学生使用了《中文》改版后的新教材，而且与新教材相配合的多媒体课件没有及时到位，因此在第一学期给我们老师们的课堂教学和学生们的自学与复习带来一定的困难。但是，我们各个年级的老师们在教研组长的带领下，经过许多经验丰富的资深教师和勇于接受挑战的年轻教师的共同努力顺利完成了第一学期的教学任务。目前，各年级的老师们正在认真备课，将继续给所有学生提供优质中文教学。

在第一学期的假期里，我校收到一个好消息：我校学生在参加由中国侨联等单位主办的“第二十五届世界华人学生作文大赛”中再次获得优异成绩，具体获奖名单如下：

我在这里向所有获奖学生和指导老师表示祝贺！感谢他们再次证明了我们新金山中文学校在中文教学上的实力。

我相信，我们还有很多学生是有一定的中文写作水平的，他们因为各种原因没有参加这次比赛。我希望我们的老师和家长们要多多鼓励同学们去参加这样的比赛，不断锻炼和提高他们的中文写作水平。当然，学生的中文写作水平是跟中文阅读密切相关。因此，我想借此机会跟大家做一次意向调查。有不少家长好几次跟我提出他们家里有很多中文书籍，随着孩子的年龄长大和阅读水平的提高，中文书越堆越多，弃之可惜，他们想借用澳大利亚街坊邻居在屋前放个小书柜让大家自由交换书籍的形式，提议我们学校能否牵头办一个中文书籍交换活动，把各自家里的中文书籍拿出来交换。我觉得这个提议值得考虑，因此需要您填写一份您是否有兴趣和您的孩子一起参与的中文图书交换活动的意向表，如果有50位的话我们将会具体安排（请注意：我们是非盈利、非政治性、非宗教性的社区中文学校，您提供的书籍内容必须是帮助学习中文和中华文化为主的）。

意向填写请点击。期待您的回复。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,

Welcome back to school. Our Term 2 will begin this weekend (April 26/27) and the final teaching week will be June 28/29.

As many of you are already aware, May 3rd (Sat) is the date of the Federal Election. Two of our three campuses will be used as polling stations. Therefore, the school has decided to cancel classes on May 3/4 (the next weekend). In exchange, the originally scheduled Curriculum Day on June 7/8 will be converted into a regular teaching week.

However, due to the teaching loads of Year 12/VCE Chinese students, Year 12 classes will continue as usual next week. Please follow the notices and arrangements from the Y12/VCE class teachers for details regarding class time and location.

Thank you to all members of the school community—teachers, students and parents—for your understanding and cooperation!

I trust everyone had a short, pleasant and fulfilling holiday and we’re all recharged and ready for the new term. As many of you know, students in Years 1-5 began using the revised edition of the Chinese textbook this year. However, the corresponding multimedia material was not available in time, which brought challenges to classroom teaching and students’ self-study and review. Nevertheless, under the leadership of group coordinators and with the collaboration of experienced senior teachers and proactive young teachers, we successfully completed the teaching tasks of Term 1. Currently, teachers are carefully preparing lessons to continue providing high-quality Chinese instruction for Term 2.

We also received great news during the Term 1 break: our XJS students achieved excellent results in the “25th World Chinese Student Writing Competition,” hosted by the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and other organizations. The list of awardees is as follows:

Congratulations to all the award-winning students and their instructors! Thank you for once again demonstrating the strength of XJS in Chinese education.

I believe many of our students also possess strong Chinese writing skills but did not participate in this competition for various reasons. I encourage all teachers and parents to support and motivate students to take part in such events, which help strengthen their writing skills. Of course, writing skills are closely related to reading habits. Many parents have mentioned they have large collections of Chinese books at home, which their children have outgrown. Inspired by local Australian neighbourhoods that set up small book-sharing cabinets in front of homes, some parents have proposed organizing a Chinese Book Exchange Event at our school. I think this idea is worth exploring.

To move forward, please fill in the expression of interest form if you and your child would like to participate. If we receive at least 50 responses, we will organize the event. (Please note: We are a non-profit, non-political and non-religious community language school. Any books provided should primarily support Chinese language and cultural learning.)

Please click the link to fill out the form. We look forward to your reply and seeing 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]