1. Type of Award Certificates

a. Excellent Student Award

This award will be given to students who are outstanding and superior on learning Chinese in their class. It shall be given out in each semester, twice for a school year.

 

b. Full Attendance Award

This award will be given to students who are in full attendance during the semester. It shall be given out in each semester, twice for a school year.

 

c. Most Progress Award

This award will be given to students who have most progress in their class. It shall be given out in each semester, twice for a school year.

 

d. Speech Contest award (Class level)

This award will be given to students who win top three places during class level speech contest in the school year.

 

e. Chinese Character Recognition Contest (Spelling Bee Contest) Award  

This award includes participation award, “Bang Yan (榜眼)” award, “Tan Hua （探花）” award, and “ Zhuang Yuan（状元）”. The participation award will be given to students who participate the contest during class level contest in the school year. All other award will be given to students who win in grade level contest and school level contest.

 

f. Little Writer Certificates

This ward will be given to students who contribute their writing to our school journals during the school year.

 

g. Chinese History and Culture Contest Award

This award will be given to students who participate the Chinese History and Culture contest in the school year.

 

h. Community Service Award

This award will be given to student who stand for Guanghua Chinese School to participate performance in communities during the school year.

 

i. Little Angel Award

This award will be given to students who make donation to Guanghua Chinese School.

 

j. Class Level Award

This award will be given by teacher in each class.

 

2. Basic Rules for awarding certificates

1. Excellent Student Award, Most Progress Award, and, Full Attendance Award shall be given in each semester .Each Chinese class teacher shall come to school to pick up certificates in September (for the past Spring semester) and March (for the Fall Semester).
2. Excellent Student Award and Most Progress Award in total shall not be given more than 30%  of number of students in the class (40% for Kindergarten,  1st grade, and, 2nd grade)

 

3. Pick up Certificates

1. Excellent Students Award, Full Attendance Award, Most Progress Award, Spelling Bee Participation Award, Chinese History and Culture Contest award, Little Writer Award – Xianghong Zhang
2. Speech Contest Award – Zhang Jing
3. Community Service Award – Lijun Zhang
4. Little Angel Award – Hongxia

 

4. Exchange Trophies

Every school year, student can use their certificates to exchange trophies. Students would need to collect all their certificates and turn them in at the end of school year (usually during April every year) to exchange trophies. Trophies will be awarded during the graduation ceremony.

1. Every 5 Certificates (3 for Kindergarten and 1st grade and 2nd grade), including Excellent Student Award, Full Attendance Award, Most Progress Award, Speech Contest Award, Chinese History and Culture Award, Spelling Bee Participation Award, can exchange an Excellent Student  trophy.
2. Every 5 community service certificates (3 for Kindergarten and 1st grade and 2nd grade) can exchange a Community Service Trophy.
3. Every 5 Little Writer Award can exchange a Little Writer Trophy
4. Every 5 Little Angel Award can exchange a Little Angel Trophy
5. Every 5 class level certificates can exchange a medal.