Back to school weekly newsletter No. 1, August 10, 2018

Guanghua Chinese Association (GHCA) Back to school weekly newsletter No. 1, August 10, 2018

Weekly briefing: 

  • 2018-2019 school year starts on Sep 9
  • Classes Changes and New Teachers
  • Textbook purchases and orders
  • Tuition Payments
  • Donation updates


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1. Registration issues 
      Our new semester will start on September 09/2018. Some classes are already full. Please visit our school website (http://www.guanghuachinese.org) to register for classes.

2. Classes changes & new teachers

  • Badminton Class(12:00-1:00pm) is canceled, due to low enrollment and following the instructor's suggestion;
  • New teacher for CES1B(2:00-3:50pm): Grace Kang/康毅婷. Grace Kang graduated from our Guanghua Chinese School in 2017. She is an excellent tutor for kids and is fluent in both Chinese and English. Has received a full score in the AP Chinese exam. Has won many Chinese speech contests & the Chinese literacy competitions. Has been a host for many years for the school’s Chinese New Year Galas and various community events. Has been a substitute teacher and a teaching assistant at the Chinese school and the Chinese summer camps. Loves Chinese traditional culture, poems, and dances. Believes in education according to one’s natural ability in an informative and entertaining way;
  • New teacher for G6A(2:00-3:50pm): Ting Yang /杨婷. Ting graduated from the department of Chinese Language and Literature, Jiangsu Normal University. She loves students and has passion of teaching Chinese. Ting has many years of experience in teaching Chinese and has won Outstanding New Teacher Award in her early career. She is keen to adapt new ways for Chinese education by fostering student's interest in learning Chinese;
  • New teacher for Adult English Class(2:00-3:50pm): Yan Liang/梁燕. Yan earned her MBA degree from Thomas Jefferson University in 2017. Excellent teacher fluent in both English and Chinese. Before she joins our Guanghua Chinese School, she has been a Volunteer Chinese Teacher for William Penn Charter School(Philadelphia) and Prodigy Learning School(Philadelphia). 

3. Textbook orders 

  • Textbooks for all the freshmen of Kindergarten  & CES1 will be ready when the school 
    starts on September 9th. No orders are needed. 
  • For classes that have more than 9 students, the textbook orders should be handled by their parent representative. Please be aware the deadline of textbook ordering is August 20/2018.
  • For current students and transferred students, if need textbooks, please contact school textbook purchase manager: Weiqin This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  let her know: 
    • />Student and your name
    • Student class no. or teacher name 
    • Parents phone number

4. Tuition Payments

Tuition due must be paid by Sept 16, the second week after the school starts. You may submit your tuition payment online by using paypal right now. Don’t miss the deadline.

5. Donation update

We would like to thank the following families/individuals for their generous donation to our school. We really appreciate it. Also, many of the members of our 2018 Chinese Cultural Immersion Youth Summer Camp-Shanghai (2018年中国寻根之旅夏令营-上海营) have donated their deposits to our school and GPCCC. The donations we have received as follows:

  • Eric Lang (graduated) 徐扬/Yang Xu
  • Aiden Guo /郭儿歌 (parent: HongXia Fan/樊红霞)
  • Kevin Shi (parent: Yan Shi)
  • Eric Wang (parent: Hannah Zhang)
  • Eric Lang /朗耶桁 (parent: Yang Xu)
  • Lynn Chaoying Lin(Guanghua graduate)
  • Syndee Ho (parent of graduated student)
  • Liya Ma /马李雅 (parent: Jun Ma & Haiyan Li)
  • Luogang Wei(Guanghua graduate)
  • Biming Cao
  • Weidong Zhou
  • Yixing Zhao
  • Feng Qiu (Guanghua graduate)
  • Hongying Miao
  • Bosheng Lin
  • Albert Zhang /张一凌
  • Kevin Kang Cui /崔昊 (Guanghua graduate)

Members of 2018 Chinese Cultural Immersion Youth Summer Camp-Shanghai

  • 金濛濛/Ashley Jin (parent: 金茜)
  • 崔昊/Kevin Kang Cui (parent: Jiannan Kang)
  • 张昊中/Andrew Zhang (parent: Xuqing Zhang)
  • 王锐/Eric Wang (parent: Wei Wang)
  • 张一凌/Albert Zhang (parent: Chong Zhang /张翀)
  • 林艾玲/Alina Lin (parent: Weiwen Zheng )
  • 胡童童/Sophia Hu (parent: Sherry Xiao)
  • 沈妞妞/Leanne Shen (parent: Henry Shen)

GHCS Management Team