新金山中文学校假期简报09042020
各位老师、同学和家长：
大家好！本星期二，安德鲁州长宣布了维州中小学将于下个星期三开学，他同时强调为了继续控制疫情发展，学生必须在家学习。这样，我们中文学校也将于下个星期周末（4月18日/19日）如期开学，为社区的安全我们将全部上网课了。各位老师、同学和家长将迎来的是一个全新的学期。上网课对我们的老师来说是新的挑战，从封闭式课堂面对面到开放式居家视屏以及家长的旁听，我们要学习并适应。但是，我们既然有战胜疫情的信心，我相信，我们也一定能克服困难继续学好中文的。
放假期间，我接到一些家长、学生的来电，他们询问第二学期是否正常开学，也谈论上网课的利与弊。这里，我要特别感谢家长和同学们对学校的关心和支持。学校正在组织培训教师和开展各年级教研活动，我们将一如既往努力为学生们提供最好的中文教学服务。
事实上，上个学期我校VCE12年级学生已经上网课了。教育部对上网课有明确的规定，我校已提醒所有老师和IT技术员必须做到：学生参与、家长配合，不可一对一上课，更不可透露任何学生的个人信息、电邮和地址等。为此，我校统一使用ZOOM软件，通过电脑和平板电脑上课。这需要每个家庭注册一个ZOOM的免费账户。上网课时，我们将以班级为单位，由班主任老师向本班学生发出用户名和密码供大家登录然后上课，阻止外人介入。
我校为大家注册ZOOM账户提供了信息指南，如您需要请阅：
https://xjs.vic.edu.au/form_download/online-resources/
（教育部对学生在家上网课有特别的帮助，如果您在电脑设备和宽带上网方面遇到困难，可向您孩子所在的日校提出求助申请。）
早教班、数学班及美术班等具体上课安排，我们将另行通知。
我校将分别在周六、周日给学生提供在线即时网课，一是满足学生不同时间段的学习需求，二是让同一家庭有几个孩子可分别使用设备。每周安排三节网课，每节课40分钟，有课间休息。我们会尽快向大家公布课程表。家长在安排孩子上网课时遇到任何问题，可与班主任老师联系，或发电邮给学校：[email protected] ，我们希望确保在第二学期的教学中给每个人提供支持。
假期里，我校精英中文部六年级张世銮老师指导学生们做了很好的中文作业，我很高兴把它们展示给大家，欢迎查阅：
https://xjs.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/year6.pdf
最后，祝大家居家愉快！
胡培康 校长
新金山中文学校
XIN JIN SHAN Holiday Newsletter (09042020)
Dear teachers, students and parents,
On Tuesday, Premier Daniel Andrews announced that Term 2 in Victoria would start next Wednesday and all students who can learn from home must learn at home. Thus, our school would also start Term 2 next weekend (18/19 April) providing online courses for our students, which would look very different from our traditional classes. This is a new challenge for both our teachers and students, moving from the face-to-face classroom environment to the online virtual platform where parents would very likely observe the classes. Everyone needs to learn and adapt to this new way of learning. I believe we could keep on our Chinese language learning with best efforts.
During the school break, I have received quite a few phone calls asking whether Term 2 would start as scheduled and discussing the pros and cons of online classes. I would like to present my appreciation to the parents for their great support to our school. We are now providing training and teaching seminars for all our teachers intending to provide the best Chinese language learning services for our students.
As a matter of fact, our VCE 12 students tried online classes already in Term 1 and most of them were quite happy with the new way of learning. As required by DET, we have reminded all the teachers and IT technicians to make sure no one-to-one online class would be conducted and students’ personal information, email and address would be protected. In Term 2, we would use ZOOM as the platform of online learning and students could attend the online classes through PCs or Tablets, which means students need to register a free account in ZOOM. The leading teacher of each class would send out user name and password to all the students of the class and only the students of the class could get access to this specific online class. The relevant information about using ZOOM can be found on our website at https://xjs.vic.edu.au/form_download/online-resources/. (If you have difficulty obtaining relevant equipment for online learning such as computers or Internet, you could seek help from your child’s mainstream school).
The arrangement for Early Learning classes, maths classes and drawing classes would be informed later.
We would provide online classes on both Saturdays and Sundays for families with more than one child enrolled in our school to get access to online classes with different equipment at different time. There will be three 40-minute classes available for each week and the detailed timetable would be available soon. If you have any problem for online learning, please contact the leading teacher of your child’s class or email us at [email protected]. We would try our best to provide support for each student throughout Term 2.
During the school break, our grade 6 teacher on the Accelerated Chinese Program has successfully instructed students to accomplish their Chinese homework. Please feel free to enjoy them at https://xjs.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/year6.pdf.
We wish you and your families safe and healthy at home.
Best regards,
Kevin Hu
Principal
Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School
