各位老师、同学和家长：
大家好！从本周起，我们维多利亚州的中小学开始逐渐恢复上课了。同学们能与分别两个多月的伙伴在校园里重聚都很兴奋，更重要的是学校是学生学习的最好场所。我相信，我们新金山中文学校的学生们也期待着早日回到课堂上学。可是，鉴于社区语言学校周末上课的特殊性，更出于对学生健康安全的考虑，我们学校必须遵循教育部的要求，本学期继续网课教学不返回学校课堂。我很高兴我们的家长们对此给予了极大的理解和支持，在此要向大家表示感谢！
虽然整个第二学期我们全校通过“云课堂”开展教学，传授中文和中华文化知识。但是，我们的教学任务、教学目标、教学要求和教学质量，将一如既往保持不变，这也是我们学校赢得社区认可的重要因素。因此，第二学期我校各年级将会有“云课堂”学期考试。这次考试的形式会大有不同：一是考试方式会有改变，将打破一纸考卷的传统考试模式；二是基于网课教学的特点，会偏重口语（说话）的内容；再有考题形式也会有不同。需要特别指出的是，考试只是检查教学情况的一种方式，不是我们教学的目的，请同学们不要为此焦虑过多。只要如实答复反馈给学校，也是对学校将来改进教学提供了帮助。
我在上个星期提到了，我校各校区的学生积极报名参加由中国侨联主办的“亲情中华，为你讲故事”网上夏令营活动。现在全校已有840多位学生报了名。这表示了我们学生对中华文化有极大的兴趣，这种对中华文化的兴趣也是我们的学生们学好中文的源动力，非常可贵。
学校为办好这个“为你讲故事”网上夏令营活动成立了一个工作组，邀请各个校区的校长们参加，其中精英部和VCE部的校长将分别牵头负责两个不同年龄组的学习事务。活动的班主任招聘工作正在全校开展之中，本周结束。受聘老师都是志愿者，他们将在两个星期的时间里每天召集学生听故事，提供背景资料，辅导学生完成任务。家长也需要每天协助孩子在夏令营群里出勤“打卡”，鼓励孩子坚持学习，听故事并完成任务。所有坚持参与活动，有良好表现的学生将会被评为“优秀营员”，未来将会被保送参加赴中国文化寻根之旅活动。
上个星期，还跟大家报告了学校180多位选手的朗诵演讲视频放入了学校网站，欢迎大家一起参与公众评选。据反映，观看点击率相当不错。但是，也有学生和家长不知道这个网评活动。请浏览网页：https://xjs.vic.edu.au/speech-contest
请注意：本学期最后一个教学周为6月20日/21日。第三学期7月18日/19日开学。
周末网课见！
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,
As we all know, students have gone back gradually to schools from this week. They are very excited about seeing each other again on campus and schools are the best place for their learning. I believe our students are also looking forward to coming back to school. However, due to the hygiene concern, we would follow the instructions from DET and keep on providing online learning for our students. I’m pleased to know that parents have presented their greatest support on our decision and I would like to present my sincerely appreciation to all the parents.
Although the learning is delivered online, our teaching objectives, standards and quality remain the same, which is also the reason why our school is acknowledged in communities. In Term 2, the end-of-term tests would go virtually, quite different from our usual forms. We would no longer present tests in written-form only this time. Considering the nature of online learning, Term 2 tests would focus more on oral (speaking) forms and test questions would be different from our usual written tests. I would like to let you know that tests are not only one way of assessing the achievement of the teaching, but also the way of reviewing what has been learnt. Therefore, students don’t have to worry too much about the tests. Their honest feedback in the tests would also help us to improve our teaching in the future.
Last week, I mentioned that students have presented their great interest in the Online Chinese Culture Camp and up to now 840 students have registered for the event. I’m very glad that our students are so interested in Chinese culture and their interest would be the greatest motivation of Chinese language learning. To support the event, we have established a team including campus managers working together and the principals of Accelerated Chinese Program and VCE Program would be the leaders of junior and senior groups separately. We are now recruiting class leaders for the event and the recruitment work would be done by this weekend. All the class leaders would work as volunteers within two weeks organising students to listen to the stories designated, providing supporting materials and assisting students in learning tasks. Parents are also expected to encourage students to ‘attend’ the event every day, keep on learning and accomplish learning tasks. All the well-performed students would be awarded “Excellent Participants” and be able to attend the Chinese Culture Camp in China in the future.
Last week, I also mentioned that speech presentation video footage of 180 students have been posted online at our school website for public voting and many students and parents have casted their votes. If you haven’t tried yet, please feel free to visit our website at https://xjs.vic.edu.au/speech-contest.
The last week of Term 2 is 20/21 June and Term 3 starts on 18/19 July.
See you this weekend.
Best regards,
Kevin Hu Principal
Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School
