NWCS Chorus – Year End Performance – June 18, 2022, 10:45am – 11:30am
Please come to the school cafeteria on Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 10:45am for the NWCS Chorus Year End Performance!
NWCS Spring ’22 – Newsletter, Week 12 (06/04/22)
Dear NWCS Families, As we start the month of June, we are heading to the final stretch with only 3 sessions left – including the graduation and year end celebration. This week, we will host a General Assembly in Briarcliff Middle school cafeteria – 9:20 ~ 9:50 AM. We cordially invite you to join for
Category Archives: 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
December 16, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 12/19
Dear NWCS families,
On the last school day before entering 2016, I would like to wish you and your family a Healthy, Happy Holiday and Wonderful New Year! To all Star Wars fans, may the force be with you in getting tickets to see the movie!
Graduation ceremony and Chinese New Year celebration moved to January 16
Our chairman emeritus Mr. Benson Louie received confirmation from the school district that the facilities will be available for us on January 16. I understand families may have plans for the MLK holiday weekend so please let your teachers know as soon as possible if your kids cannot attend. For the kids who attend the celebration, yes, there will be lots of fun and we will hand out red envelopes!
News from Northern Westchester Culinary School
Kay and Vivian have the following message: NWCS families, kindly bring baked goods in for the holiday bake sale this Saturday. Also the breakfast club is holding a dumpling making live session starting at 9am followed by fresh dumpling sampling at 10:30am for purchase. Please come and join the fun!
Donate to NWCS by shopping at AmazonSmile program
Please remember to use Amazon.com through www.nwcsny.org website so we can get 0.5% of the sale proceeds from eligible purchases. The 0.5% would have been pure profit to Amazon if you do not go through our school’s link.
Your principal
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
December 5, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 12/5
Dear NWCS families,
We are at Week 11 with three more sessions to go before the holiday break. I hope the warm weather continues until we return for the graduation ceremony and Chinese New Year celebration on January 9. We will have our General Meeting this week. From the principal’s desk, I plan to brief you about our exploration at a new curriculum structure that focuses more on topic-based Chinese learning. Please do join us on Saturday.
Thanksgiving potluck a great success
Thanks to all the amazing moms and dads who made our first Thanksgiving potluck a great success. I was at first fairly suspicious about holding a potluck at 10:30 am but apparently our kids were just happy to line up to try out the many home made dishes. Special thanks to Kay, Vivian and breakfast club for starting a new NWCS tradition. The only photo I took showed two lines of shiny, empty trays, cleaner than my sons’ dinner plates. If you took photos of your proud creations before the feast, please send them to me for web posting.
Donate to NWCS by shopping at AmazonSmile program
Please remember to use Amazon.com through www.nwcsny.org website so we can get 0.5% of the sale proceeds from eligible purchases. The 0.5% would have been pure profit to Amazon if you do not go through our school’s link.
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
November 21, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 11/21
Dear NWCS families,
In honor of our first Thanksgiving pot luck, our board chairman Mr. Calvin Chin announced to postpone the General Meeting. He also sent me the following notice to share with you.
Thanksgiving pot luck
The NWCS is having its first Thanksgiving Pot Luck on Saturday at the cafeteria at 10:30AM. Parents – there will be no break at 10AM so feed your children well in the morning. The break will be moved to 10:30AM so all the classes can be dismissed and teachers can join the families for a feast. Some important things to do -
Very limited selection of snacks will be on sale from 9-10:30AM.
1. If you signed up to bring a dish or dessert, please do so before 10:30AM.
2. There will be hot and cold foods and desserts too.
3. water, juices, gatorade, and lemonade will be available for purchase
4. a donation basket for people to give money and offset the costs of the utensils, napkins, plates, cups, etc.
5. Come eat and vote on the best dishes!
6. It is not too late to make plans to be with your NWCS family for this exciting meal
Pilgrims, Native Americans, and other people are welcome to join!!!
Letter of gratitude – 感恩信
In addition to the highly anticipated Thanksgiving pot luck, the Breakfast Club came out with another great idea. We would like to encourage all classes (particularly Grade 4 and above) are encouraged to put together a letter of gratitude (yes, in Chinese). Each class please work on the letter as a team, and have one or more volunteers to present to teachers and families in the cafeteria before food is served in the party.
Calligraphy award ceremony and call for dads to organize Lion Dance for Chinese New Year
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure to attend the award ceremony at Taipei Economic and Culture Center in Flushing, along with our students 朱莉雅, Juliet Rose Weglarz, and 文天娜, Valentina Capshaw. Our school, the Weglarz family and the Capshaw family are very proud of their accomplishments. I took photos of submissions from other Chinese schools to share with Ms. Shen our calligraphy teacher and believed our students truly best other schools’. Congratulations again!
While I was at the Center, I noticed they have costumes for Lion Dance for loan, both adult and kid sizes. Hence I would like to call for 2 to 4 NWCS dads, who have strong arms and do not have a history of back injury to step up for a Lion Dance performance at the coming Chinese New Year celebration. If you are not sure what Lion Dance is about, please seehttp://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1187
Donate to NWCS by shopping at AmazonSmile program
Please remember to use Amazon.com through www.nwcsny.org website so we can get 0.5% of the sale proceeds from eligible purchases. The 0.5% would have been pure profit to Amazon if you do not go through our school’s link.
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
November 13, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 11/14
Dear NWCS families,
At Week 9 we are scheduled to have a board meeting. Please feel free to stop by the meeting to participate in the discussion and contribute your ideas. Next week, we will have our General Meeting where your ideas could become part of the agenda. No, you don’t have to be a board member to attend the board meeting and by attending, you will not be volunteered to become a board member!
Letter of gratitude – 感恩信
In addition to the highly anticipated Thanksgiving potluck party on 11/21, the Breakfast Club came out with another great idea. We would like to encourage all classes (particularly Grade 4 and above) are encouraged to put together a letter of gratitude (yes, in Chinese). Each class please work on the letter as a team, and have one or more volunteers to present to teachers and families in the cafeteria before food is served in the party.
Donate to NWCS by shopping at AmazonSmile program
Please remember to use Amazon.com through www.nwcsny.org website so we can get 0.5% of the sale proceeds from eligible purchases. The 0.5% would have been pure profit to Amazon if you do not go through our school’s link.
Reply to this email to get a free raffle ticket to the New Year Festival
Also for high schoolers’ interested in a Math/Social Science project, you are welcome to speak to me to model and predict wining entries of weekly newsletter. With much cooperation from NWCS parents, we expect to accumulate 12 batches of timestamped replies. You may find the data interesting and useful to build a little STEM project.
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
November 5, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 11/7
Dear NWCS families,
I am very glad that a couple of parents contacted me last week to seek additional help with homework and learning. Thank you parents for your unwavered support to make sure your kids learn Chinese well. Sometimes, a quick repeat of the lessons just learned reinforces students’ memory. I highly recommend having your children stopping by Rm 111 at 11 am to get help from our high school tutors, who are happy to listen, pronounce, correct and answer questions. If your kids wish to start working on their homework there and then, that is great too!
Halloween at NWCS
Thanks to many talented and devoted parents as well as little princesses, witches, supermen and ninjas, we had a wonderful Halloween party. Please send me photos you’d like to share on the web site. I also have the posted photos in full resolution and am happy to send them. Please see http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1158
Special thanks to Vivian and Kay’s organization for the bake sale. NWCS moms showed amazing talent with their cup cakes and sweet treats. Now I cannot wait to find out our school’s culinary talent at the coming Thanksgiving potluck.
NWCS students won 1st and 3rd places at regional Chinese Calligraphy competition
Congratulations to our high schoolers 林詠雯, Rebecca Lim, and 張逸文, Alan Chang, for winning the 1st and 3rd place awards in Chinese Calligraphy competition organized by ACS Region 2 schools. Two other entries from 朱莉雅, Juliet Rose Weglarz, and 文天娜, Valentina Capshaw received honorable mentions. The award ceremony will be held in Flushing on November 14. The winning streak in recent years reflects not only the academic excellence of our students, but also the dedication of our Calligraphy teacher, 沈道茜老師, Ms. Daisy Rose. Thank you, 沈老師.
Please see http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1174
Donate to NWCS by shopping at AmazonSmile program
Please remember to use Amazon.com through www.nwcsny.org website so we can get 0.5% of the sale proceeds from eligible purchases. The 0.5% would have been pure profit to Amazon if you do not go through our school’s link.
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
October 29, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 10/31
Dear NWCS families,
This Saturday will be Week 7 and we are half way into the fall sememster. For those of you whose checks we haven’t deposited, thank you for your patience. Our former board member Ms. Lynn Winters just stepped up to become our school’s Treasurer. So hopefully we can clear the backlog of financial bookkeeping shortly. I would also like to thank Ms. Chia Chi Chang, whom I lobbied to become 2A teacher while double dutying as Treasurer until now. I would also like to welcome Mr. Tony Wu to become our school’s Registrar. I am very grateful that Tony stepped in to help taking the role from me so I only need to answer emails arrived at the principal account. Lastly, I would like to thank Mr. Addi Hou to step in as co-counselor, along with Mr. Kenneth Soohoo. School counselors are usually the first ones to arrive and the last ones to leave after they check every corner of the space we are using. As we are with the Briarcliff Middle School in the 10th year, the strong relationship is partly indebted to the dedication of our past and current counselors.
Halloween parade and face painting at 10
I am calling princess and wizards, batman and ninjas, banana and minions to join a short parade and candy run at 10 am in the cafeteria. In addition, our Arts teacher Terry in Mermaid costume will happily paint your face, Mermaid or not. If you plan to bring in cupcakes or other baked goodies, please RSVP with Kay or Vivian before Saturday.
No lunch order this week
Our Breakfast Club chairladies are reporting lack of interest in lunch orders so we will not be accepting orders this week. If you would like to resume lunch order with the same food outlet or a different one, please speak to Vivian or Kay. We are certainly looking for some healthy choices. After all, one can only eat so much Halloween candy.
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
October 22, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 10/24
Dear NWCS families,
Time flies and we are at Week 6. Please note most classes will have midterm this Saturday. Please work with your children to follow midterm preparation instructions from their teachers.
New York Life Foundation’s Volunteers for Good – Individual Grant to Chairman Emeritus Benson Louie
For a third year in the row, our Chairman Emeritus Benson Louie applied and is recognized with a $1000 volunteer service grant by New York Life. This grant program encourages and supports the volunteer involvement of New York Life employees, agents and retirees with community-based nonprofit organizations. The grant will help our school to pay for equipments, award trophies and teacher training. If you are aware of other community service grants sponsored by your companies, please help us apply for them.
WACA award to 2015 graduate Kevin Chang
I am proud to announce our 2015 graduate Mr. Kevin Chang, currently a senior at Byram Hills High School, is recognized as the 1st place winner of this year’s Outstanding Student Leadership and Community Service Award by Westchester Association of Chinese Americans (WACA). Since 2009, the award has been given to high school seniors who demonstrate excellent academic achievements, rich extracurricular activities, and outstanding community service. Our congratulations to Mr. Kevin Chang and his proud parents Mr. and Mrs. Rong Chang!!
Saturday parking
Our host school has a football game scheduled at 10 am and expects a lot of visitors. We are asked to leave the usual parking lot open so the visitors have easier access to the field. Instead, we can park on the side or the back of the building. Please use the rear door of the Middle School to enter the building.
Fire drill was a success
Thank you all for your help to make last week’s fire drill orderly and smooth. Our registrar, Mr. Tony Wu timed and reported the full evacuation was complete in less than three and a half minutes. After the drill, our counselor Mr. Kenny Soohoo could not stop praising our teachers to keep their classes together during the evacuation. Thank you, teachers!!
Order Your lunch
Please buy snacks and drinks at The Breakfast Club. A part of every purchase goes toward fundraising for the school. The Breakfast Club also takes lunch orders from a local Chinese restaurant for your convenience. You get an entree plus Wonton/Egg Drop soup, can soda or egg roll. Please order at the school cafeteria by 10:00AM – pay CASH when ordering. Each order includes $0.50 delivery cost and $1.00 donation to the school. The menu is available online athttp://www.nwcsny.org/?page_
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
October 14, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 10/17
Dear NWCS families,
We resume Chinese learning this Saturday, Oct 17. Please note some classes are having their midterms this week while others will hold midterms on the 24th.
Parent Teacher Conference
- There are a couple of classes with substitute teachers so for those classes, the parent teacher conference will be postponed until their regular teachers return.
Thanksgiving Pot Luck
- Share with us with one of your favorite dish(es) for Thanksgiving. November 21, 2015. Bring a tray in. If we have enough trays, The Breakfast Club will not charge for breakfast but will take donation in the morning. Please think about all the yummy food we can share. We will begin the sign up this Saturday. Please stop by to see Terry, Kay or Vivian.
Calling for Volunteers for Chinese New Year Celebration
- We would also like to call for volunteers for Chinese New Year Celebration scheduled on Jan 9, 2016. Remember the more you help, the more fun everyone will have. We are looking for creative ideas to make it a fun day. So please come in to tell us that you can help out and we can work out the details together. We will begin the sign up this Saturday. Please stop by to see Terry, Kay or Vivian.
Order Your Lunch
- The Breakfast Club takes lunch orders from a local Chinese restaurant for your convenience. You get an entree, Wonton or Egg Drop soup, and a choice of can soda or egg roll. Please order at the school cafeteria by 10:00AM – pay CASH when ordering. Each order includes $0.50 delivery cost and $1.00 donation to the school. The menu is available online at http://www.nwcsny.org/?
page_id=1010
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
October 7, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 10/10
Dear NWCS families,
I wish to remind everyone that there is NO SCHOOL this Saturday, Oct 10. Some classes may have a midterm upon returning on the 17th or the 24th. Please encourage your children to review the Chinese material briefly every day, like reading out loud a couple of pages with the CD. Practicing every day goes a long way.
Chat with principal
I will hold a telecon this Friday evening at 9 pm, inviting all NWCS families who would like to discuss school issues to join. If you are not available, please ask your class parents to relay your message. We are one-third way into the semester and if there is anything we can collectively address, let us do it now.
Essays from our sophomores
I just posted essays from two sophomores Diane Yang, 楊得安同學 and Alan Chang, 張逸文同學. I highly recommend all students 7th grade and above to try reading those essays. Their extensive use of 成語 (Chinese idioms) throughout the writing makes the stories succinct and witty. See http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1096, http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1098
Thanksgiving Pot Luck
Share with us with one of your favorite dish(es) for Thanksgiving. November 21, 2015. Bring a tray in. If we have enough trays, The Breakfast Club will not charge for breakfast but will take donation in the morning. Please think about all the yummy food we can share. We will begin sign up on Oct 17. Please contact Kay and Vivian for details.
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
September 30, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 10/03
Dear NWCS families,
As we are entering Week 4, I hope your children have found their favorite elective in the third hour. Briarcliff middle school informed us there will be scheduled activities this Saturday so we will postpone the fire drill, currently listed on school calendar on 10/3, to a later date.
It is with a heavy heart that I am relaying the news about the passing of our former teacher, Ms. Jiau-lan Weinstein, who departed peacefully in Taichung, Taiwan on Sunday, September 27. A memorial service is scheduled to be held in Tarrytown on October 11. Please contact me for exact time and location of the service.
Student Travel Journals
- I just posted an essay from our 6th grade student Megan Chin, 陳頌詩同學, with introduction from her proud father Mr. Calvin Chin.
http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1062 - Please encourage your children to write about their experience in learning and speaking Chinese. Send the essays to me, long or short and I will post them on our web site to share with NWCS families.
Online Tutoring Initiative
- I would like to invite up to 10 families to join a trial of a new online tutoring initiative introduced this year. I am hoping online tutoring will become a viable education tool to keep our students practicing speaking and listening Chinese during the week. For details, please see http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=
1035
Student Leadership Award
- Westchester Association of Chinese Americans is soliciting nominations of outstanding students in leadership and community services. The nomination deadline is October 15. Please see http://wacany.org/ for details.
Order Your Lunch
- The Breakfast Club takes lunch orders from a local Chinese restaurant for your convenience. You get an entree, Wonton or Egg Drop soup, and a choice of can soda or egg roll. Please order at the school cafeteria by 10:00AM – pay CASH when ordering. Each order includes $0.50 delivery cost and $1.00 donation to the school. The menu is available online at http://www.nwcsny.org/?
page_id=1010
Donate to NWCS by shopping at AmazonSmile program
- Please remember to use Amazon.com through www.nwcsny.org website so we can get 0.5% of the sale proceeds from eligible purchases. The 0.5% would have been pure profit to Amazon if you do not go through our school link.
Your Principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
