新金山中文学校校长信箱 15052020
各位老师、同学和家长：
大家好！本星期最重要的消息是澳大利亚将分三步走逐渐解封，我们维多利亚州的中小学生从5月26日起分两批返校上学。
由于新冠疫情尚未终结，维州政府对校园安全有多项特别的要求，政府专门拨出4千5百万澳币给学校用于每天的专业清洁、消毒。很遗憾，这次社区语言学校不在政府的考量之列，因而学校校委会开会讨论决定：我校各年级将在第二学期继续坚持开展网课教学，第三学期的学习将视教育部的安排和整个疫情情况发展再做决定。不过，鉴于VCE12年级毕业班学习的特殊性，他们的学习将按维州教育部和高考局的各项具体规定和要求酌情处理。
我了解到有不少家长对疫情很担忧，我们学校始终把师生们的健康和安全放在首位，并以此来作为我们考虑问题的出发点。我也想借此机会再次向全校教师、学生和家长们表示感谢！感谢你们在这个困难的时期继续保持对我校全心全意的支持！上个星期，我们全校5200多学生在线上了网课，学生网课出勤率再次保持了高达97%。这个是对我们学校支持的最好的例证。
这里，还要跟大家讲一讲上个星期公布的中国侨联主办的帮助海外华裔青少年学习中华文化、学好中文的活动 — “亲情中华，为你讲故事”的网上夏令营。活动以故事为主并配有一些视频，由“凯叔讲故事”提供，内容涵盖说文解字、姓氏起源、成语寓言、名著名人、人文地理、风景名胜、历史溯源、防疫知识等。
这个活动是面向全世界各国的中文学校的。按主办方的原意，只要我们组织到40位学生就可以编班参加。没想到我们的学生和家长参与此项活动的积极性特别高，通知发出后没几天就有超过500多学生报了名。经与主办方联系并征得他们的同意，这次凡是符合报名条件的都可以参加。学校办公室正在逐一统计，由于部分报名表填写不符要求，因此需要花一些时间才可发出确认通知。活动具体日期是：6月14日—28日（6—13岁组），以及6月29日—7月13日（14—18岁组）。对于那些因年龄等关系这次没报上名的学生，我们会争取在今后把网上夏令营中精彩的内容跟他们分享。
如果您需要了解更多有关学生重返校园和新冠疫情防护的最新举措的话，请查询教育部网站：https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/department/Pages/coronavirus.aspx
我们本周末“云课堂“再见！
胡培康
校长
新金山中文学校
Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School
Principal’s Message
Dear teachers, students and parents,
I would like to let you know that following the advice from the Victorian Chief Health Officer, the Victorian Government has announced that students, teachers and support staff can return to face-to-face teaching by two stages and students in Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 and VCE11 and VCE 12 will return to school from Tuesday 26 May. Grade 3 to Grade will return to school from 9 June.
As the COVID-19 is not totally clear, $45 million would be provided to mainstream schools for professional cleaning and sanitising in the rest of Term 2 and all of Term 3. Unfortunately, community language schools are not given any financial support for the professional cleaning and sanitising. Therefore, after serious consideration, the School Council has decided that we would keep on online learning till the end of Term 2. How we would deliver teaching in Term 3 will depend on the further advice from DET and the development of COVID-19. Considering the special learning requirements of VCE year 12 students, we would make specific arrangements for them based on the requirements of DET and VCAA.
I understand that many parents are presenting their concerns about the development of COVID-19 and I would like to let you know we put the health and safety of all our teachers and students as our most priority. I would like to take this opportunity to present my sincere appreciation to all the teachers, students and their parents for their continuous support for our school. Last weekend, over 5200 students attended the online classes with 97% attendance rate.
I would also like to share with you a bit more information about the Online Chinese Culture Camp announced last week. Participants of the online camp would learn Chinese language stories, origins of Chinese family names, Chinese fables, stories and histories of Chinese famous sites of interest etc through video and audio footages. We are informed that the camp could be set up if there are over 40 participants. Out of my surprise, over 500 students have submitted the registration forms in the last couple of days. With the permission of the organiser in China, all the students meeting the requirements would be accepted this time. We are now busily collecting and proofing the information and it would take a bit of time. Once all the information is confirmed, we would send out notification to the participants. The event timetable is: 14-28 June (Age 6-13 group) and 29 June -13 July (Age 14-18 group). For the students out of the age range, we would try to share the camp activities with them later.
More information about the return to school and COVID-19 can be found on the Department’s website, which will continue to be updated:
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/department/Pages/coronavirus.aspx
See you later in Virtual Classrooms this weekend.
Yours sincerely,
Kevin Hu
Principal
