各位老师、同学和家长：
大家好！上周末是我们维多利亚州开始逐渐解封的第一个周末，又加上好天气，很多家庭纷纷外出以解数月宅家之闷。尽管如此，我校学生在上个周末的“云课堂”的出勤率还是高达97%，再次表明大家对我校老师网课质量的认可。我在这里要向全校老师、学生和家长们表示感谢！面对疫情，我们整个学校社区团结一致，大家克服了种种困难，坚持在“云课堂”学习中文和中华文化知识，我们所有人都受到了鼓励。
网课开始以来，我校各校区陆续发出一篇篇的网课报道文章，从中大家了解到：老师们认真参加培训学习，夜以继日备课，成功转型在“云课堂”；学生们保持热情学中文，网课出勤周周高，家庭作业做得好；家长们一如既往跟学校在一起，每个周末配合老师上好网课，还给老师送了关心和慰问。虽然因为疫情开设的网课隔开了老师、学生和家长们的距离，但是“云课堂”让我们的老师和学生、家长们有了更多的交流、了解，增进了彼此的理解和关心。师生关系、家校关系更加密切了，我为我们学校社区有这种风尚感到欣慰。
我还要感谢学生和家长对学校举办的各项活动的一贯支持和积极参与。这次“亲情中华，为你讲故事”网上夏令营活动，据最新统计全校已有700多位学生报了名，远远超出了我们的意料。
我们将把所有符合条件的学生名单上报给中国的主办单位。由于人数实在多，我们根据主办方的要求将把学生们分到不同的年龄组别和不同的时间段，并会与中国各地的承办单位对接。这个活动每期时间为2个星期，有开营式和闭营式，全部通过微信群展开（具体内容会书面通知所有参加的学生）。在开始阶段，每天可能需要最多一小时的时间听故事看视频，然后编故事或简单回答问题。我校选派的班主任老师会给学生们做适当的辅导，当然，正如网课一样，我们也需要家长的协助，当大家适应了夏令营的节奏，就会缩短时间提高学习效率了。
今天，要在这里跟大家讲一个很重要的事。去年最后一个学期我校各校区以视频的形式举办了学生朗诵演讲比赛。由于进入学校总决赛选手的视频收集汇总在年底才完成，因而原准备在今年开学前组织专家评选。可是不巧的是，由于年初新冠疫情爆发导致不能集会，直接影响到无法评出结果。我在此向所有进入总决赛的选手同学们表示歉意。
近日，学校信息技术专家成功地把各校区4—11年年级进入总决赛的180多位选手的朗诵演讲视频放入了学校网站，欢迎全校师生和家长一起参与评选，以大众评比和专家评比相结合的形式决定最后名次，各年级组前6名学生和指导老师将获奖励。观看和投票请浏览网页：https://xjs.vic.edu.au/speech-contest
最后，跟大家通报一下，本学期我校共有10个教学周，最后一个教学周为6月20日/21日。第三学期7月18日/19日开学。
天气渐冷了，请大家注意保暖，多保重！
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,
Last weekend was the first weekend after the lockdown restrictions were gradually eased in Victoria and many families chose to stay outside enjoying the fresh air and beautiful sunshine on weekend. However, the attendance rate of our virtual classrooms still remained 97% and we sincerely appreciate the great support from our students, teachers, parents and all community members at this difficult time.
Since the start of our virtual classes, we have posted a series of reports on the online learning and I believe we all understand how hard our teachers have tried to transfer the face-to-face teaching into virtual classes, how enthusiastic our students have shown in attending classes and accomplishing homework and how active our parents have been as usual in supporting the teachers and the school. We are pleased to realise that the teacher-student connection and parent-school connection have been strengthened with more communication and understanding with each other even though the COVID-19 separates us physically.
I would also like to thank all the parents and students for supporting the activities the school has organised. Up to now, over 700 students have registered for the online Chinese Culture Camp which is totally out of our expectation. We have submitted the students lists to the organising authorities in China. Students would be separated into two groups – Junior Group and Senior Group and attend the event at different time. The event would last for two weeks with opening and closing ceremony online (through Wechat). We would sent out event notification to all the students who have successfully registered. During the online camp, students are expected to listen to stories or watch videos every day (for about 1 hour) and answer questions or rewrite the stories listened. Leading teachers of each class would provide assistance for students who have difficulty accomplished the learning tasks. Parents’ support would also be expected and appreciated as what have been done in online learning. Once the students have got used to the camp activities, it would be easier for them to accomplish the tasks every day.
Last year in Term 4, many students participated in the Chinese Speech Competition by sending their video footage of performance to us and the videos for final competition were selected and collected in the end of last year and were expected to be judged early this year. However, due to the COVID-19, we couldn’t gather the judges for the work and results are not available yet. I would like to present my apologies to all the students who have entered the final competition.
Now the performance videos of 180 students (grade 4 to grade 11) have been uploaded to the website of the school. All the teachers, students and parents are encouraged to cast their votes (https://xjs.vic.edu.au/speech-contest). The final result would be based on the public voting and expert judging. The top 6 students of each year level and their instructing teachers would be given awards.
There will be 10 weeks in Term 2 and the last week is 20/21 June. Term 3 would start from 18/19 July.
It’s getting colder now. Please keep warm and see you on weekend.
Yours sincerely,
Kevin Hu
Principal
