新金山中文学校校长信箱 (30/08/2024）Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Principal’s Message

(English version available in the end)

各位老师、同学和家长：

大家好！我在上个星期的校长信箱里跟大家公布了维州华校联络会将举办学生中华文化知识竞赛之事。我本以为知识竞赛难度高敢于参加的肯定寥寥无几，没想到很快就有各个年级近百位同学登记报名参赛。对此我们非常重视，将会统一安排在9月8日（星期日）下午举办我们学校知识竞赛的初赛，从而选出代表学校出征的同学。初赛的具体安排会电邮通知到所有报了名的同学。如果有同学在周日下午有要上中文课的，请提前做好临时调课的安排。

此外，今年的网上夏令营将在9月2日（下个星期一）开始举办，目前已有80多位同学报名参加（超过了主办方限额60名的要求），经征得肇庆市侨联的同意，我们将把报名同学分成三个班级，同时聘请3位老师担任志愿者班主任。希望所有参营的同学在志愿者班主任老师的带领下，每天坚持花半小时（最多一小时）时间听故事或观看视频，完成打卡任务。预祝大家在网上夏令营活动中增长中华文化知识，学会中华传统文化技能，帮助自己在中文学习上取得进步。

还有，上次讲到了校园安全，有不少家长反映他们极为关注这个话题。校园安全是我们学校社区内每位成员都有责任来维护的，在校园内师生们的人身安全、财物安全和我们租用的日校的财产安全等离不开每个人的重视。根据儿童安全法律的规定，在校园内的人身安全包括不受到身体伤害和语言的欺凌。为此，我校根据教育部的规定制定了一系列保护儿童安全的政策（阅读请点击），学校全体教职员工统一接受了儿童安全法律的专门培训，将严格守法并对校园内的任何霸凌行为零容忍。在我校制定的学生行为守则里我们还明确了不得损坏他人的财物，我们还要强调在校园内禁止学生使用手机，更不能随意拍摄他人。我们希望给学校社区的成员们提供一个安全、健康的校园环境。

除此之外，我想特别提一下，近来我校校园安全执勤人员发现有家长在上课期间将孩子叫出教室，然后带离校园。我在这里需要提醒所有家长注意：我校有明确的学生早接、晚接政策，旨在确保家长和监护人了解在学校上课期间提前接走孩子的相关规定，了解下课后学校能够监管照顾学生的具体时间。只有家长、监护人或指定授权人可以接孩子离开校园。但是，如果在学校放学前接走学生，必须一律到办公室填写《学生早接表》，学校必须记录学生提前从学校被接走的相关信息，比如：学生早接的日期和时间、学生早接的理由，以及提前接走学生的家长、监护人、授权人的姓名（包括其签名）。如果学生在放学后仍未被接走，学校必须：只允许学生家长或家长授权人接走孩子，要求授权人出示带照片的身份证明（如驾照）以确认其身份。如果学校关门时间后学生仍未被接走，学校也无法联系到学生家长，应立即联系学生报名表中填写的指定联系人。在特殊情况下，如果学校在关门时间后仍无法联系到学生的指定联系人，可以联系相关政府部门以确保学生被安全接走。

为了您的孩子和校园内所有学生们的安全，请家长务必遵照学生早接、晚接政策的规定行事。

最后，祝大家安康！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,

In last week’s principal message, I announced the Chinese Culture Quiz Competition and I assumed it might be too difficult for students to participate. However, surprisingly about 100 students from various year levels have registered for the event. We have now scheduled the first-round competition on Sunday afternoon on 8 September and outstanding students would be selected to attend the final competition as our school’s representatives. The first-round competition notice would be emailed to all the registered students. If you have Chinese class in the Sunday afternoon, you could apply for class transfer temporarily.

The online Chinese Culture Camp this year would start next Monday (2 September). Up to now over 80 students have registered for the event (over the limit of 60 students as requested by the organizer). With the approval of Zhaoqing Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, we now make all the participants into three classes with three volunteer teachers. I hope you could take half to one hour per day to listen to the stories or watch videos and complete learning tasks. I wish you all the best in the learning journey better understanding the Chinese culture and tradition, making it complementary to your Chinese language learning.

Last week, we also talked about the campus safety issue and many parents have raised their attention on it. It is the responsibility of every single school community member to make sure the physical and property security of our students, parents, teachers and even the campus are protected. There are a series of child safety policies available within the school and accessible on the school’s website. Please feel free to click here for details. All the teachers and admin staff have received child safe training and the school has no tolerance of any form of child abuse. In the school’s Students Code of Conduct, it also writes that students are not allowed to damage the property and belongs of others, mobile phones are expected to be switched off during school hours and students are not allowed to take photos or videos of other students without prior permission. We are dedicated to creating a safe and healthy school environment for all the members of the school community.

Moreover, I would also like to let you know our yard duty officers have noticed recently some parents taking their children away from school during school hours without informing the school. I would like to remind all the parents that we have student early and late collection policies available to ensure parents and guardians are aware of the procedures to collect students during school hours and are advised of the school’s supervision times after school while students wait to be collected. Only parents/guardians and authorised nominees are permitted to collect students. Before taking students away from school before the school is over, parents/guardians are required to fill in the Student Early Collection Form in the office. The school will record the details of when a student has been collected early from school including date and time, reason for collection and person who received the child (including the person’s signature). When a student is collected after school hours, the school will only allow students to be collected by their parents/guardians or by a person who has been authorised by the parents to pick up their child and request and verify the identity of an authorised person who is not known to the school by using suitable photo identification (such as a driver’s licence). If a child has not been collected from the school by closing time and the school is unable to contact parents, the school will contact the authorised nominees listed on the child’s enrolment form. In extreme circumstances where schools are unable to contact one of the authorised nominees by closing time, schools will contact the necessary authorities for the safe collection of the child.

For the safety of your child and the safety of all the students on campus, please observe our school’s student collection policies.

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].