新金山中文学校校长信箱 (24/08/2024）Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Principal’s Message

中华文化知识竞赛、网上夏令营和校园安全重要事宜

(English version available in the end)

各位老师、同学和家长：

大家好！上个星期，我向大家介绍了维州华校联络会将举办学生中华文化知识竞赛的事宜，并且公布了大赛规定竞赛题目内容。近日，有不少学生和家长询问如何报名参加比赛。我对此感到高兴，学习中文既是掌握人际交流一门工具的途径，对于华裔学生来说更是对自身民族文化的认同和传承。比赛按学生在日校的年级分为四个组别：1-3年级、4-6年级、7-9年级、10-12年级，各个组别的参考赛题已在学校官网公布，有兴趣报名参加比赛的同学请点击报名。报名截止日期为8月29日，学校会根据各年级组具体报名情况在9月上旬安排举办校内初赛，挑选代表学校参加维州比赛的选手。

此外，广受师生和家长们欢迎的网上夏令营活动即将开始，由中国侨联主办，广东省侨联和肇庆市侨联协办的2024“亲情中华.为你讲故事”网上夏令营（肇庆营）定于9月2日至11日举行，活动以“凯哥讲故事”内容为载体讲好中国历史文化故事，又增加一下肇庆历史文化的视频、推文、照片等，让学生了解中国文化、了解肇庆。这是肇庆营连续第三次在我校举办，本期活动主要内容有西游记故事节选、名人故事、成语故事、走进三星堆、美术片里的中国文化、中国传承糖画、折纸手工等。

我校有近2200位学生参加过中国各地举办的网上夏令营活动。学生们在参营期间每天在我校志愿者班主任老师的带领下花一小时时间在家里用手机或电脑听故事、观看视频，打卡完成作业。作业内容丰富多彩，包括写一段话、画一幅画、做一个小手工、模仿故事里的人物，以及表演一个才艺等。坚持参加、打卡，表现突出学生将会被评为优秀营员获得奖励。

我们建议有条件的班级可组织全班同学一起参加，作为中文学习的辅助活动，也可作为参加中华文化知识竞赛的赛前训练。参加网上夏令营全程免费，自愿报名请点击。

再有，我要在这里再次向我们学校社区的每一位成员强调校园安全的重要性。在过去的几个星期里，有学生通过家长向班主任老师反映有人在校园里问低年级学生是否需要吃糖甚至还邀请学生到他们的车上去，这些人中有的是成年人，有的可能是高年级的学生。家长表示对此情况的发生感到很担忧，我完全理解家长的担忧。值得欣慰的是，当班主任老师得知情况后第一时间向我校的学生安全专员报告，学校立刻布置所有校园安全员在全校区内巡逻排查是否有可疑之人，最后没有发生任何学生受到伤害的事故。但是，这确实需要引起学校社区每一位成员的重视。

我们全体教职员工和志愿者统一接受了教育部规定的儿童安全培训，学校也制定了一系列保护儿童安全的政策，学生、家长和老师发现有任何安全隐患请在第一时间向老师、向校园安全执勤员，或直接到学校办公室报告，以便我们能在第一时间及时处理。同时，我们提醒所有家长，为保障校园安全和教学秩序，在上课期间请不要在校园内滞留。感谢大家的配合！

最后，祝大家身体健康、诸事顺利，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,

Last week, I introduced you the Chinese Culture Quiz Competition organised by the Victorian Chinese Schools Association and presented you the question banks online. Many parents have raised their interest and asked me how to participate the competition. Learning Chinese language is not only an encouragement of social communication, but also more importantly for Chinese background students, a recognition and inheritancce of Chinese culture. The competition is divided into four groups: Y1-3 group, Y4-6 group, Y7-9 group and Y10-12 group. The question banks for each group are accessible on the school website and you are more than welcome to join the competition by clicking here. The due date for registration is 29 August. The first-round competition within the school would be scheduled in early September and the top students would attend the final competition as our school’s representatives.

One of our school’s most popular event-online Chinese Culture Camp is coming soon. 2024 Chinese Culture Camp – Zhaoqing Camp is scheduled from 2 September to 11 September. The camp is focused on listening stories about Chinese culture and history and learning local culture of Zhaoqing complemented with videos, information sheets and pictures. Zhaoqing Camp has been organised for three times at XJS and students this year could benefit from story excerpt of Journey to West, stories of idioms and famous Chinese, exploring Sanxingdui Ruins, Chinese culture cartoons, Chinese traditional sugar painting and Chinese paper crafting.

In the past few years, about 2200 students have participated in the online Chinese culture camp learning local culture of various Chinese cities and areas. During the camp, students are expected to listen to stories, watch videos and complete the assigned learning tasks under the instruction of volunteer teachers one hour per day. The learning tasks might be writing a short paragraph, drawing a picture, making a handcraft, playing a role of the story learnt or making a presentation or performance. Students who actively participate in the daily activities and complete the assigned tasks would be awarded as the Excellent Participants.

I would recommend students to participate in the event as a whole class to make it a complementary learning experience of their Chinese learning. It could also be regarded as a kind of practice before attending the Chinese culture quiz competition. This event is totally free of charge. Please click here for registration.

Moreover, I would like to emphasis the importance of campus security to all the members of our school community. In the last few weeks, parents have reported that strangers approached young students offering them candies and even inviting them to enter their cars. These strangers might be adults or senior students. Parents have raised serious concerns about it and I fully understand their worries. Luckily, teachers reported the incident to our school’s child safe officer immediately and we have asked all the yard duty officers to scan the campus for any suspicious person and no student has been injured. However, it has raised alert to all the community members of the school.

At XJS, all the teaching and admin staff and volunteers have received child safety training organised by CLV and the school also has various child safe policies in place. If any student, parent or teacher notices any safety hazard, please report it immediately to the class teachers, yard duty officers on site, child safe officer onsite or come to the school office directly. I would also like to remind all the parents to leave the campus after dropping off your children for child safety concerns. Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.

I wish you all the best and let’s see you on campus on 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].