April 1, 2016   校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages

NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 3/19

Dear NWCS families:
 
We have posted audio tracks of the pilot curriculum Chinese Wonderland online for you to download to laptops and smartphones. This Saturday at 9:30, board member Mr. Harry Villareal, will hold a tech clinic to help parents download the MP3 to your laptops and/or smartphones. Please feel free to bring your laptops, Android or iPhone to see Harry. We want our students to be immersed in the sound tracks so conversations come natural to them. If you consider yourself a techie and want to help (please!), come and join Harry to help fellow parents. 
 
Class parent and communications
We are alerted by recent campus events, though not at Briarcliff school district, that prompt us to be extra cautious with safety and security. We would like each class to have at least one class parent through whom we can quickly propagate urgent messages, preferably through text SMS. Will class parents please let your teacher know? 
 
Moving academic contest to early April
For the middle and upper grades, both A and B tracks, we are looking to move the date of academic contests (speech, multimedia presentation, Chinese culture Jeopardy, and Karaoke) to April 9 so we can submit entries for the ACS competition before April 16. For the ACS Region 2 schools, there will also be a warm up contest on April 30 so we are looking to send students to participate. Please follow your teachers’ instructions to prepare and rehearse. For the lower grades below age 9, we will hold academic contests on April 30 as scheduled on the school calendar. 
 
Picture book of 2016 graduation ceremony and Chinese New Year performance now available for purchase
A must see and keep! The picture book contains beautifully shot and edited photos by chairman emeritus Mr. Benson Louie that you don’t want to miss. Please reserve your copy with board member Ms. Francine Fang. We are still selling raffle tickets. We have Saks Fifth Ave gift cards, a Kindle Fire, a $50 Starbucks gift card, a wonderful arts and crafts gift basket by Ms. Terry Taylor, and books published by NWCS alums as prizes. Raffle Drawing will happen this Saturday at 10am. Please hurry! 
 
Financial planning for college seminar this Saturday
Dr. Tso-hui Ting, and his team are independent brokers based in the Greater New York City area. They have helped hundreds of families in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts for their saving and investment needs. This Saturday at 10:10 am in the Middle School theater, they are going to host a seminar to give an overview on family finance planning, especially to address topics on how to prepare and manage kids’ education fund without impacting grant and scholarship qualification. Please feel free to attend. 
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極