新金山中文学校校长信箱(24/03/2023) XJS Chinese School Principal’s Message
各位老师、同学和家长：
大家好！今年第一学期的教学即将结束，本周全校1-11年级的学生将统一参加期末考试，12年级学生将参加在下个星期周末考试。其中，11、12年级VCE学生的考试严格按照高考局教学大纲规定进行并需将考试成绩记录在VCE学生成绩库；1-10年级学生的考试按照教育部社区语言教学大纲要求开展是对中文基础教育的学期检查，考试结果将会帮助教师根据班级学生的实际学习状况调整教学安排，因材施教。
今天要特别跟大家报告一下：我校在本星期一（3月20日）完成了向教育部上报本学年学校办学情况报告的工作，内容包括学校规模、校园安全、课程设置和学生信息等。其中，学生信息方面因需要核查学生姓名（必须跟日校、护照相同）、生日（必须是日、月、年排序）、以及日校名和校区名等。工作量大、时间紧，但我们在大家的支持和配合下顺利完成。我要在这里向所有班主任老师、各校区行政管理人员、学生和家长们表示感谢，没有大家的支持和配合，对于一所注册有超过3700多学生的周末学校来说，在几个星期里完成这项工作是难以想象的。
据不完全统计，除各班级的班主任老师之外，学校办公室管理人员向家长打出近1000个电话核查几个关键信息。其中，最主要的是学生的名，我们发现有相当数量的学生在日校用的名（英文名）并不是其护照上的名，甚至有不少高年级学生的学生证上的名也不是护照上的名。而教育部对我们的要求是必须跟学生在日校使用的名一致、必须跟学生护照上的名一致，否则将无法得到经费补助。这显然给我们的信息上报带来困惑，我们将向教育部如实反映。还有，有为数不少孩子还是小学生，但家长在孩子的“日校”一栏里都填写为“Mt Waverley 中学”，这是明显的错误，我们学校租用Mt Waverley中学是在周末开展中文教学，”日校“是孩子们周一至周五上学的学校。这也让我们要花时间与家长联系询问孩子的日校名。再有，学生出生年月日的填写错误，这方面可能也有输入习惯的因素，尤其电脑软件设置是月、日、年，而教育部的要求必须是日、月、年。除此之外，也有其它一些信息方面的核查、勘误等，所以才会有近千个核查电话。我们会总结经验，更新改善，争取明年做得更好。
我在这里要再次向所有配合我们做好核查工作的家长们表示感谢（其中有不少家长是在听了留言后及时给我们回电）。这项工作能做好再次显示出我们学校社区的每一位成员都给予了学校有力的支持，这是我们应该珍惜的。
最后，还想跟家长们讲一讲交通安全的事。目前，绝大多数家长都严格遵守停车限制的规定，既避免了受罚，也为孩子做了榜样。但是，有极少数家长没注意标牌随意停车或让孩子在不能停车的地方上、下车受到了罚款。还有家长可能被误判受罚，如果这样的话您可直接与市政府联系请求核查重审。总而言之，希望大家遵守法规避免受罚减少不必要的经济损失。
祝大家平安、健康、幸福！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,
Term 1 is coming to an end soon. This weekend, all the year 1 – 11 students would attend the end-of-term exams and Year 12 students’ exams are scheduled on the next weekend. The Year 11 and 12 exams would be conducted according to the requirements of VCAA and the results would be recorded as requested by VCAA. For Year 1-10 students, their exams would be conducted according to the requirements of Victorian Curriculum-Languages of DET and test results would be used to reflect students’ learning progress and plan for future teaching.
I would like to let you know that on Monday 20 March we have submitted the funding application to DET including the operation of the school and students’ enrolment information which involves checking students’ full name (should be the same as records in their day schools and on their passports), date of birth (in the format of dd/mm/yyyy), their day school names and campus names. The workload of information checking is huge within limited time and thanks to all your support we have completed this work on time. I would like to present my sincere appreciation to all the teachers, admin staff on campus, students and their parents for their wonderful contribution without which we couldn’t check the information of over 3700 students within a few weeks.
According to our records, apart from some class teachers, our admin staff have made about 1000 phone calls checking some key information with parents. We’ve noticed that many students’ first names used in their day schools are different from those shown on their passport and some students’ Student ID names are different from those on passports as well. DET requires us to double check students’ name with their records in day schools and on passports as well for funding purposes which has brought us great trouble. We will notify DET the facts we have noticed. We’ve also noticed many primary level students have shown their day school names as ‘Mt Waverley Secondary College’ which is obviously incorrect. We rent Mt Waverley Secondary College for Chinese learning on weekends and students’ day schools are those they attend Monday to Friday. It has taken us some time to ask for students’ correct day school names with parents. Another common mistakes we’ve found is the format of date of birth as some parents used to record it as mm/dd/yyyy, however, the DET’s format is dd/mm/yyyy. Anyway, we’ve picked up various mistakes and have to make a lot of phone calls to double check the information with parents. Let’s learn the lesson and get it improved next year.
I would like to thank you again for supporting us in information checking (some parents called back immediately after hearing the message left for them). It again shows great contribution of each community members to our school and we sincerely appreciate it.
In the end, I would like to remind you the safety issue again. Up to now, most parents have observed the parking regulations in and outside the campus and set up a good example for their children. However, very few parents have parked their cars without reading the parking signs nearby or stopped cars at non-stop area and get parking tickets. If you believe you have received a parking ticket incorrectly, please contact the local city council for reviewing. Please observe the parking regulations all the time to avoid unnecessary fines.
Keep safe and healthy 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].
