May 11, 2016   校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages

NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 5/7

Dear NWCS families, 
 
Trophies to reward effort
I am getting many inquires about trophies, including a phone call from a first grader. This is clearly the most anticipated event from our kids. So here is the change I am making this year to encourage students’ effort. As it was in the past few years, we will have first, second, and third prizes plus honorable mentions. What is different this year is I will be asking parents’ input to bump up your kids from honorable mention to third prize (bigger trophy), if he/she/they made a serious effort at home rehearsing before the contest. It is completely your call and I have total confidence in our parents. Promoting from honorable mention to third prize trophy will cost us a few more dollars. However, I want to use this as a tool to reward children who made genuine effort this year and hopefully boost their confidence to aim higher next year. We will distribute contest results to our teachers shortly. Please let your teacher know after seeing the result that you would like to request a promotion. I aim to collect your feedback and have the trophies ready by the first week of June. Thanks for your help. 
 
Summer roll presale success from NW Culinary School
And we have the bigger sale with many more trays on May 14. Photos from last Saturday’s presale can be found here. http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1297
 
Buy gifts for mom and support 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