2023-2024 Traffic Duty List

School News 

Quick reminder: submit volunteer hours to your company.
Our school is run by volunteers and supported by donations. One of the donations is the matching grants from parent's employing company. When a parent volunteered working some hours for a non-profit organization, the employer would match the hours with some money grants, such as $10/hour and donate it to the same non-profit organization. However, there is usually a deadline to submit the hours to the employer to request for a matching grant. For example, Dec 15, 2023 for submitting the volunteered hours in 2023.
Whether you had volunteered just a few hours such as helping out traffic duty, or a substantial number of hours such as organizing event and acting as judges, as long as your employer has a matching grant program, please remember to submit your hours before the company deadline, so that the school and your child would benefit from the donation.
If you have any questions or need assistance with this process, please feel free to email controller@wvcls.org. Rebecca would be able to guide you through the steps.

Calling for Entries: 60th Anniversary Yearbook Cover Design Contest
60週年校刊封面設計比賽 - 發揮創意，共慶里程碑！
我們的西谷中文學校，在今年已經成立60年。為慶祝60周年校慶，我們很高興地宣布，現在開始接受所有我們的學生參加60周年校刊封面設計比賽的報名。請把握這個機會，開始動手發揮你的創意吧！

📌 CONTEST RULES
Format:
Submit your design on paper (8½ by 11-inch) OR digitally (PDF, JPEG, PNG), in "Portrait" layout format.

Artwork must include:
School name: "West Valley Chinese Language School" or "WVCLS" or "西谷中文學校" 
Theme: WVCLS 60th Anniversary (NOTE: Do not include Chinese Zodiac in your design.)
If you don't have the school logo, don't worry! Simply send an email to Amanda at public.relation@wvcls.org. She will email you the logo.

💡 Tip: Don't forget to include student’s Name and Class in your submission. If you are emailing your entry, please write subject line “WVCLS 60th Anniversary Yearbook Cover Design Contest Entry” and send to Amanda at public.relation@wvcls.org. 

Successful Penmanship Contest.
We had our annual penmanship contest on Oct 27. With great student participation and many parents volunteering as our judges, we can now declare and congratulate the winners!

We will make use of the Picture Day on 2/2/2024 to present each winner with a commemorative certificate and they will be our first in line to join the ANCCS academic competition scheduled to be on 3/24/2024.

Class Observation Days: Oct 6, Oct 13 and Nov 17.
Every year our school designated 3 days as Class Observation Days. They are meant to give parents a chance to observe the actual teaching process of their child's classroom. This year, the days are 10/6, 10/13 and 11/17. Interested parents are encouraged to go inside their child's classroom promptly at 7pm, stay and observe quietly till 7:30pm. If there are some recommendations or feedbacks, instead of informing the teacher at the classroom, parents should fill out a survey form and the school would collect all feedbacks and provide to the teacher anonymously.
Copies of the survey form will be placed at the hallway entrance of the two classroom floors. It can also be downloaded here or filled out online here.

Congratulations to our winners in ANCCS 光輝的十月國慶繪畫比賽.
Congratulations to two of our students in winning a prize in the drawing competition held by ANCCS! We can see their bright smiles holding their winning drawings.
Keep up the good work as our penmanship contest is coming soon by the end of October.

Back to School Night on Friday 9/15/2023.
After two nights of onsite registration, we had our Back-to-School night on 9/15. Each year on the 3rd day of class, we hold this event to align all our parents with the school's plan for the year. The first hour would be the Annual General Meeting where the school board members would introduce to all parents the board members of the coming school year, our financial report, parents volunteering duties and our planned activities in the coming 9 months. The next hour would be the parents-teacher meeting where the parents of each class would meet up with their class teacher, get an idea of the teacher's classroom setup, and elect two parents reps to help organize activities and celebrations specific to the class.

We had a good participation this year and our photographer Philip took some pictures of the night.

2nd day of school is on Friday 9/8/2023. Last day of onsite registration.
We are accepting registrations in all classes, including CK, C1 and C2. If you missed the onsite registration on our 1st day of class, there is another chance on the 2nd day of class Sept 8. Please come to the Student Center next to Building B in Homestead High School at 7pm.

1st day of school is on Friday 9/1/2023. Easy to remember.
After this long and hot summer, we are glad it is almost over and our evening Chinese school will start again.
If you have not registered your child in our Chinese school, please visit Registration to learn more about our registration and come on the first two days of school, Sept 1 and Sept 8, at 7pm at Homestead High School (HHS) to register your child. We will be in the Student Center next to Building B.

For returning students, please note that our usual classroom Building B has completed brand new renovation and we are moving back this year! Building B is on the east side of campus, near the student parking lot. Parents are advised to drop off their child in the Horseshoe area along Homestead Rd, or at the student parking lot which is closest to the classrooms. Our office will be in room B109. Please come to this room if you need any assistance.

For those students who had pre-registered during our early registration period, or had registered online, please check out the Classroom Map to see which room your class is assigned. We will also post the class assignment on the front door of each room.
For others who have not registered, we will conduct our usual onsite registration on Sept 1 and Sept 8 in the Student Center. Registration will start promptly at 7pm so that your newly registered child can go to the classroom asap. Please bring a checkbook to make the tuition payment.

One thing to note is currently our CK, C1 and C2 classes are getting full, so we are accepting names into a waiting list. If you would like to be on the waiting list, please come to Homestead High School’s Student Center at 7pm on Sept 1 to register your child. We will try to accommodate as many as we can on the waiting list according to the registration order.
​All the other classes, from C3 and above, are open for immediate enrollment.

Separately we contacted HHS to see if they are willing to let us rent their gym for our badminton class. Initial response was discouraging. They rejected our request on all the dates. We are trying to contact their Athletic Director to learn if we can remedy the situation.

See you all on our 1st day of class, Friday Sept 1 at 7pm!

Congratulations to the winner of this year's Yearbook Cover Design Contest.
This school year has come to an end. As usual, we distributed the yearbooks to our students during the last day of class.
This year we have a high number of contestants submitting their beautiful drawings to compete in the Yearbook Cover Design Contest. It is indeed a very tough challenge to the judges to evaluate and decide on a winner. We are impressed by the dedication work each student had put in and we want to give every participant a round of applause here:
  👏 Abigail Liu 廖心悅 from C1
  👏 Pui Wai Sun 孫佩韋 from C1 
  👏 Serena Yin 尹星月 from C1 
  👏 Gloria Liu 廖心怡 from C3
  👏 Jonathan Cheung 張緯琪 from C5 
  👏 Ella Cheng 鄭思詠 from C8, and
  👏 Joyce Cheung 張綺琪 from C Advance
All participants' submitted entries and stored here.

After careful and deliberate considerations, the judges had announced the one submitted by our C-Advance class student, 張綺琪 Joyce Cheung, to be the winning design in this year. Her drawing consists of several adoring rabbits gathering together cooking and enjoying food for the new Year of the Rabbit. This winning design becomes the cover of our school yearbook this year.

And not to be outdone by this exciting moment, the School Board has started calling for entries in the upcoming WVCLS 60th Yearbook Cover Design Competition!
Our West Valley Chinese Language School has been serving the community since 1963. Starting in the coming school year, it will be our 60th anniversary. To celebrate this occasion, the school is calling for all WVCLS students to participate in the 60th yearbook cover design competition. During the summer holiday, we have the opportunity to reflect on this milestone and express our appreciation and commitment through our cover design.

Here are the contest rules:
Format: Submit your design in  8½ by 11-inch sized (letter size) paper OR digital format in PDF, JPEG, PNG.  "Portrait" layout 
Artwork must include:
  School name: "West Valley Chinese Language School" or "WVCLS" or "西谷中文學校" 
  Theme: WVCLS 60th Anniversary

If you don't have our school logo, don't worry! Simply send an email to Amanda at public.relation@wvcls.org, and she will provide you with the logo via email.

💡 Tip: Please send in your entry with subject line “WVCLS 60th Anniversary Yearbook Cover Design Contest Entry” to Amanda at public.relation@wvcls.org. Don't forget to include Student’s Name and Class of your submission, or in the email if you are submitting a digital file. 

Have a great summer! 

Announcing our first ever Summer Learning Program by our Student Council!
Our Student Council, led by students from Grade 6 and above, have designed a free Summer Learning Online Program to increase Chinese learning engagement for all our students during the summer. It consists of fun videos tailored to different grade levels, including Chinese grammar, Chinese history and idioms. giving students a cheerful and educational experience during their summer break.

To further our students' participation, we are giving a prize to every student who score +90% in the online quiz when the next school year begins. Have fun in the Summer Learning Online Program and feel free to send us a message in the Contact Us page if any questions, comments or suggestions. Have a great summer!

Closing ceremony on 6/2/2023. Have a great summer!
It was a joyful yet solemn night. First we announced the two senior students graduating from our school this year. Both of them are receiving our scholarship to help them in attaining college next year. Besides calling out each of our winners in the 3/26 ANCCS competitions, we invited the student who won the 1st place in the Cantonese speech contest to present her winning speech to us. Next our current Student Council described the activities they organized in the past year, and introduced every council officer in the next school year. After the introduction, we delivered the scholarship awards to the two graduating students and also presented a Teacher Service Award to our longtime teacher who had been with us for 20 years. Each of our current school board members then came to the front to address the audience and also we announced the board members for the next school year.

All in all it was a memorable occasion and we were happy to see so many young boys and girls are growing up and completing another school year of Chinese learning. Our school photographer Philip had captured these moments again in these great pictures.

Have a great summer!

School year is coming to close. Our thanks to all the volunteering to make this happen!
Our school is run by volunteers. They are our students' parents, graduates and alumni. They take up operations such as Traffic Duties, Security Patrol, Event Helper, Competition Judge, Classroom Support, Teacher Assistant, Board member and many more. Because of their help, we are able to run the school smoothly and economically while maintaining the non-profit status, giving our students the best education we can. We want to thank everyone for their selfless giving and devotion to the school.

Besides the countless volunteering hours, many parents donated fundraising gifts or cash to the school. Every penny of these gifts goes to the school's operation, such as textbook and yearbook printing, teachers' salary, and classroom rental. Furthermore, when the parents' workplace has a company matching program, they submitted their volunteer hours such that the company will donate a corresponding cash amount to the school. We received a substantial matching donation in the past year from companies like Apple, Cisco, eBay, Google, Intel, Lam Research, ServiceNow,...etc. We sincerely thank them for supporting their employee in volunteering in the school.

This coming Friday May 26 will be the final exams and June 2 will be our Graduation Ceremony. Many students are looking forward to that date as we will have classroom parties after the Ceremony. All parents are welcomed to come to the Ceremony and join the parties to share the joyous moments with their child. It is a time to celebrate the past nine months of hard work and Chinese learning by their child. Slowly and surely the children had learned a few new Chinese words, a few Cantonese pronunciation, plus some Chinese culture along the way.

Before we close out the year, we want to spread the word that we are looking for teachers on all grade levels. Our enrollment had been steadily increasing in the past years. To maintain a reasonable student to teacher ratio, we need to split classes. We also have some usual attrition and substitution to fill. If you or any friends/relatives are interested and passionate in teaching and guiding our young children, please feel free to take a look at our hiring post and contact Vice Principal Angie if any questions.

See you in the Graduation Ceremony and have a wonderful summer!

It was a great evening on May 12 Family Fun Night.
The weather was very pleasant and many of us stayed till almost 10pm enjoying the Family Fun Night.
This is our last fun event organized by the Student Council before the Final exam and graduation. So we are excited to stick around.

There were several fun games hosted by the student council members. After completing each game, a student would get a check-off mark to pick up a small prize from the prize table. The fun part is we can play the game as many times as we want and get as many prizes as we want.

To entertain the waiting parents, we have peach tea, milk tea, popsicles and ice cream for sale. And thank you to some generous parents, they donated stuffed animals and toys for sale to fundraise for the school.

Our official photographer Philip, besides taking all the pictures, becomes our official salesman for the night and helped out up-selling all our toy donations. The school made many dollars more due to his great effort!
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Open House for New Families and Students on April 28!
We are excited to extend our warmest invitation to all new students and families to join us for our Open House on April 28th! This is a fantastic opportunity for you to gain firsthand experience of our WVCLS learning environment. You will be able to observe our teaching methods and student interactions by sitting in a classroom during the event. We kindly ask that all questions be reserved until the observation session is complete, to minimize disruption to our students' learning. Our WVCLS school board will be available to answer any queries you may have after each observation session.

We would appreciate it if you could help us spread the word to any families who may be interested in learning Chinese culture and wish to offer their children the chance to learn to speak, read, and write Chinese.

Date:  Friday, April 28th, 2023
Registration Time:  7pm
Venue:  Room 108, Building L, 21370 Homestead Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014

西谷中文學校將於4月28日舉行開放日 🎉
誠邀有興趣就讀的家庭及學生前來參觀
我們誠摯邀請所有新生和家庭參加我們於4月28日舉行的學校開放日！這次開放日可以讓有興趣學習中文語文的學生及家庭，第一手體驗我們的 WVCLS 學習環境。您將有機會坐在課堂上觀察我們的教學方法。為免減少對學生學習的干擾，我們謹請您在觀察課程期間保留所有問題。我們的 WVCLS 學校委員會將在每次觀察課程後回答您的任何疑問。

日期: 4月28日星期五
時間: 晚上七時
登記及地址: Room 108, Building, 21370 Homestead Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014

如果您認識任何家庭對學習中國文化感興趣，並希望為孩子提供學習中文語言，閱讀和寫作的機會，懇請所有西谷中文學校的家長幫助我們邀請他們前來參觀學校開放日。

Early registration started on April 7 . Sign up to save a bundle.
Register early for the 2023-2024 school year to enjoy the benefits of early bird tuition fee discount! By registering early, you need to pay only $540 by check (or $555 by PayPal) instead of the regular $590 tuition fee, receiving a discount of $50 per student. Early registration enables the school to plan and allocate teacher and classroom resources, benefiting our students and the school. We strongly recommend all parents to take advantage of the early bird discount before it ends on April 28, 2023.

Please read the Registration page to learn more details on our Registration Policies and our Mandatory Parent Participation Policy.
The early registration can be done completely online through the Online Registration Form, or by downloading and filling out the Registration Form and bring to our office (Building L, room L108) during our school hours, or mail it in. For the payment, you can pay the registration fee through PayPal ($15 extra processing fee applies), bring a check to the office (Building L, room L108) during school hours, or mail it in. The deadline for the application and payment received by the school is April 28, 2023.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Registrar, Rachel, at registrar@wvcls.org.

Thank you for choosing our school to provide for your child's education. We are excited to join together in bringing the best possible learning experience to your child.

請不要錯過這個機會，提早為2023-2024學年註冊報名學費優惠。如果以PayPal支付費用為$555, 或以支票付款費用則為$540，正價學費為$590。提早註冊能讓學校更早地安排資源，同時亦為家長節省開支。我們建議所有家長在4月28日早鳥期截止前，把握機會盡早報名。

如有任何疑問，請聯繫註冊辦事處Rachel，電郵地址為registrar@wvcls.org。
感謝您考慮我們的學校為您的孩子提供教育。我們期待與您合作，為您的孩子提供最好的學習體驗。

Our great results from ANCCS Academic Contest on 3/26.
我們西谷學校總共 18 位參賽者，有 11 位同學獲獎。這是一個很好的成績。沒有得獎的同學，這是一個很好的經驗。不要氣餒，下年再接再厲！
Whether winning or not, it was a challenging and great learning experience to all our participating students. Enjoy these pictures to appreciate their happiness and fulfillment.

The Yearbook Cover Design Contest deadline is extended to 3/24.
Turn in your entry before it is too late!​

Be a sponsor of our Yearbook.
Do you have a business that serves the Chinese community, a product that many young kids would enjoy, or simply a word of advice and congratulations to your loved one? Help the school to meet the printing cost of our Yearbook by sponsoring a section of a page.

As a sponsor, your advertisement will be featured in our Yearbook, which will be distributed to over 100 WVCLS families and local communities. By sponsoring our Yearbook, you will have the opportunity to showcase your business to potential customers and show your support of WVCLS.

Sponsorship options include:

• $25 for a 1/4 page advertisement
• $50 for a 1/2 page advertisement
• $90 for a full-page advertisement

Don't miss out on this opportunity to promote your business and support WVCLS. To become a sponsor or for more information, please contact us at yearbook.editor@wvcls.org.

Picture Day on Friday Feb 3.
Our annual Picture Day is here where each class will take a class photo to be posted on our Yearbook. Don't miss out!

Apply our scholarship by April 1, 2023!
Our school is the only Chinese school in the Bay Area that offers scholarships to our college-bound senior students. It was established by the generous donations of our students' parents.  Last year, we gave out four scholarships, ranging from $300 to $1000. There is also no limit on the number of scholarships to be given out. The more applications we receive the better. Please go to the Scholarships page and apply right away!

The Yearbook Cover Design Contest is now open!
Thank you to our Marketing/Public Relations Director Amanda, the following is an excerpt of our eNews #7 sent out on 1/18/2023.
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Do you love to draw 🎨 and would like to showcase your talent in the West Valley Chinese Language School yearbook for all your friends and family to see? All entries will be included in this year's memory book. The winning entry will be featured on the cover of the 2022-2023 Year Book. Please turn all entries into the “Yearbook Cover Design Contest Entries” to WVCLS school board or email Amanda at public.relation@wvcls.org. The deadline is Friday, March 10th, 2023. We recommend that you get started on this project early.

你喜歡畫畫🎨，想在西谷中文學校年鑑上展示你的才華，讓你的朋友和家人看到嗎？所有參賽作品都將收錄在今年的紀念冊中。獲獎作品將刊登在 2022-2023 年鑑的封面上。請將所有參賽作品變成“年鑑封面設計競賽參賽作品”，並發送至 WVCLS 學校董事會辦公室或發送電子郵件至 public.relation@wvcls.org 給 Amanda。截止日期是 2023 年 3 月 10 日。我們建議您儘早開始這個項目。

To enter, please read the following rules carefully and make sure ALL the requirements are met.
​請仔細閱讀以下規則: 
Contest Rules:
One entry per student:

• Use 8½ by 11-inch sized, white paper, in "portrait" format.
• Use brightly colored markers, crayons, or paint. (Color pencils are not recommended.)

Artwork must include:

• "West Valley Chinese Language School" or "WVCLS" or "西谷中文學校" school name
• "2022-2023"  school year
• Drawing of the West Valley Chinese Language School logo

On the back of the Artwork, include:

• Student’s name, grade, teacher’s name
• Color/fill up the entire page (edges may be cropped slightly)

Artwork should be "friendly" (no battles or weapons, etc) and abide by the school's handbook.
Have fun and good luck to all participants!
Questions? Contact Amanda at public.relation@wvcls.org

Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit!
Everyone had a big feast last Friday. There were sweet glutinous rice cake, curry fish balls, red bean soup, dumplings, sweet rice balls, cake, fried wonton, fried rice, chow mein, roast pork, fried shrimp, and even a whole crab! Several parents actually cooked the food in an Instant Pot® pressure cooker and bring the whole pot in so that the food would stay fresh and hot. Our parents are genius!
Of course our students likes the candies the best, such as Hi-chew and Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolate.

Two of our talented students presented a live performance on two Chinese musical instruments: Erhu (二胡) and Ruan (阮) which is such an inspiration to many young students who were watching. To entertain younger kids, our student council set up booths for Chinese zodiac reading, fortune wheel, Chinese art craft and several games with candy prizes for winners.

As usual, our school official photographer Philip Wong had captured the memorable moments with his high end camera and stored them here. Enjoy!

Don't miss the Chinese New Year potluck celebration on Friday 1/27 at 7pm!
Welcome to the Chinese New Year, the year of the rabbit! 恭祝新年快樂，身體健康！
On this coming Friday, instead of the regular classroom instruction, we will have a Chinese New Year potluck party at the cafeteria. Each parents are asked to bring a dish to share on their class's table in the cafeteria. We can try out delicious food from our children's class as well as those from other classes.  ​At the same time, the school have ordered a whole roast pig to be shared with all families.

Our student council will also do a live performance and set up some games for our students.
Come join us in the fun!

ANCCS Academic Contest 2023 is now open for registration.
Every year, Association of Northern California Chinese Schools (ANCCS) holds an academic competition among the students from more than 110 Chinese schools in northern California. This year, the competition will be held on Sunday March 26, 2023. It will be a fun and exciting day to meet many fellow Chinese students from across the bay area and compete with them in the same room! As there are limits on how many students from each school can enter each category of the competition, our students are encouraged to submit this Registration form asap before Friday Feb 3, so that we can coordinate to sign up the most of our students to each category. The competition categories include Cantonese Read Aloud, Mandarin Read Aloud, Pencil Calligraphy, Mandarin Speech, Cantonese Speech, Western Drawing, Chinese Painting, Chinese Writing Composition, and many others. Feel free to register to compete in any of them.

大家好！
2023年北加州中文學校聯合會主辦之學術比賽，謹訂於2023年3月26日(星期日)舉行。學生報名一律採用email各校統一報名的方式報名。
一、比賽時間:2023年3月26日(星期日)下午1:30 開始
二、比賽地點:To Be Determined
三、西谷中文學校報名截止日期:2023年 2月3日(星期五),逾期概不受理。
四、報名費用:每位參賽學生美金40元。

                                                                                                                  👉Click this link 報名👈
                                                                                                                   名額有限，請從速報名 !

請詳細閱讀所參賽項目之規章及注意事項
2023 ANCCS 學術比賽須知及評審細則Academic Contest Terms
2023 ANCCS 國、粵語演講題目
2023 ANCCS 國粵語注音朗讀稿 
2023 ANCCS 國粵語漢語拼音朗讀稿
2023 ANCCS CSL/CFL Read Aloud Articles
2023 ANCCS 試題及答案卷樣本 (Question, Topic, & Answer Samples)
2023 ANCCS 國粵語朗讀稿更新部分節錄 (11/24/2022)

北加州中文學校聯合會學術比賽的重要訊息與細節已於聯合會網站公佈，請點擊以下連結:http://www.anccs.org/ 。
在此希望學生能踴躍參加此次比賽，如有任何相關問題，請用下面電郵與西谷中文學校教務主任 聯繫：curriculum@wvcls.org 。
期待我們的學生在學術比賽中發揮所長，於學習中文的道路上更上一層樓！

Many many thanks to your generosity!!!
As of today, our school has received over $4300 cash donations! They are from our parents, alumni, friends and several undisclosed donors. Moreover, as some of their work places have matching programs, we received matching funds from companies such as Google, eBay, Lam Research, Intel, Apple, Cisco, etc. Our school is run by parent volunteers and every penny of the donations are going to the operation of the school. On behalf of the school, we want to give our sincere thanks to all the generous donations and everyone who are contributing their time or money to help running the school. 

As our school is a non-profit organization, your donations are fully tax-deductible. Please visit our Support Our School webpage for more details.

12/9 Speech Contest 朗讀比賽 winners are here!
Whether our children came out winning or not, it was a great experience for them. In most classes, the speech is reading aloud or reciting a paragraph of Chinese literature. Each student is asked to stand in front of the class to preform the speech, giving them an opportunity to practice public speaking. Some would come out assertive and firm, pronouncing the words one by one. Others might come out shaking, but holding steady towards the end. A very few might just be too shy, and parents had to videotape the performance to send in as a make up.

We are delighted to announce the winners here of the five classes. Our teachers gave the students a lot of motivation and will present them with a winning certificate on the Picture Day on Feb 3, 2023. They will also be the first in line to participate in the Speech Contest to be held by ANCCS (Association of Northern California Chinese Schools 北加州中文學校聯合會) on 3/26/2023. We encourage all of our students to keep practicing speech. More practice will calm our stage fright, induce us to clearly verbalizing each word, and stimulate our body gestures to deliver the topic to the listening audience.

11/4 Penmanship contest 書法比賽 are done, and the winners are ...
Many students tried their best and parents were surprised at the great calligraphy their children was able to achieve. Our many volunteering parents-judges spent diligent hours evaluating, comparing and finally made the winning list. These winners will be presented by their teachers with a certificate on the Picture Day on Feb 3, 2023 and their winning entries will be included in our annual Yearbook. 

For those of us who did not win this time, don't be discouraged. Keep practicing and improving, as the ANCCS (Association of Northern California Chinese Schools 北加州中文學校聯合會) Academic Contest will be coming up soon (3/26/2023). Even though the winners in our Penmanship Contest will have priority in participating in the ANCCS Penmanship Contest 鉛筆書法比賽, all our students are welcomed to join (if space is available in any contest). Please refer to ANCCS contest details and sample exams.

Watch out for our eNews newsletter!
Many thanks to Amanda, our Marketing/Public Relations Director, who have been diligently preparing and sending out our monthly newsletters. It contains a lot of information on the upcoming events happening in our school.

In the latest eNews #3, it described the Halloween Family Fun Night we had last Friday, and the next upcoming event, Penmanship Contest 書法比賽, to be held on Nov 4. This is a Pencil Calligraphy Contest where the students will be given a short piece of Chinese words to demonstrate their calligraphy skills. Besides winning a certificate, they will be eligible to enter into the annual ANCCS academic competition next year.

eNews #3 also described our Yearbook Cover Design Contest. At the end of every school year, our school publishes a Yearbook, free to every student. We invite student participation in designing the cover of the yearbook. The competition is now open and the deadline to turn in an entry is Friday 3/10/2023. Please read the submission details in the newsletter and we recommend our students to start early on this contest.

Lastly, our 2nd (1st one was on 10/14) and the last Class Observation Day will be on 11/18. Parents can pick up a one-page blank form in a box in Building L hallway, go inside a classroom, observe and provide some comments on the form, then drop it off back into the box. We would not give any specific parent names back to the teacher, but would only aggregate the comments and provide a general feedback to the teachers to reflect our opinions and hopefully improve their teaching to our students in the future.

If you had not received the newsletter in the email, please feel free to contact Amanda at public.relation@wvcls.org, or send us a message at the Contact Us page to add your email address into our email list.

Lots of fun in our Halloween Family Fun Night Friday 10/28.
Our students and parents had lots of fun last Friday playing games, enjoying boba milk tea, ice cream, and the raffle drawing till 10pm! Certainly lots of us had captured many prizes, big and small. Our school official photographer Philip Wong had captured the excitement in these pictures, plus many more pictures from our PTA Director Ken Law. Enjoy!

Thank you to many students in our student council and several volunteering parents who had made this event a success. This is a fund-raising event organized by our student council and subsidized by our school. It gave the students an experience in managing events and raising operating funds for future student council activities.

Join us in back-to-school night coming Friday 9/9 7:15pm in HHS cafeteria.
From 7:15-8pm, we will have our annual All Parents Meeting at the Homestead High School (HHS) cafeteria where we will introduce this school year's volunteer school board members, information on our finance, parent participation, planned activities and some important dates. We will also have a short time for parents' questions and answers, plus some light refreshments (most likely some mooncake 月餅 😃) after the meeting.
At 8pm, our parents can proceed to their child's classroom to attend a meeting with the teacher. The teachers would mostly be describing their plan of teaching in the coming school year, their expectation on the students, and try to confirm one or two parents as volunteer class rep. The class rep main function is to forward school news to other parents, collect a class fund (~$30/student) and manage spending the money on class functions during Christmas, New Year and end of school year party.

This year we had 20 new kindergarteners joining our CK classes with over 100 total enrollments. We expect to have a busy school year this year. Stay cool and have fun!

1st day of school is on Friday 8/26/2022. Come and register your child.
If you have not registered your child in our Chinese school, please visit Registration to learn more about our registration and come to the first two days of school, Aug 26 and Sept 2, at 7pm at Homestead High School (HHS) to register your child. We will be in Building L room L108.

After a successful and safe onsite classroom instruction in the past school year, we plan to continue onsite in the coming 2022-2023 school year, following HHS re-opening policy and guidelines. We encourage everyone to be fully vaccinated and to wear mask inside classrooms. It will help keep everyone safe and healthy during these lingering pandemic times.

Please note that our usual classroom Building B is under renovation. So we will be conducting our classes in Building L this year, which is on the west side of campus, near the intersection of Mary Ave and Homestead Rd, next to the faculty parking lot. Parents are advised to drop off their child along the faculty parking lot which is closest to the classrooms. Our office will be in room L108. Please come to this room if you need any assistance.

For those students who had pre-registered during our early registration period, or registered online, please check out the classroom assignment posted in front of Building L before going to your assigned classrooms.
For others who have not registered, we will conduct our usual onsite registration on Aug 26 and Sept 2 in room L108, our office, in Building L. Registration will start promptly at 7pm so that your newly registered child can go to the classroom asap. Please bring a checkbook to make the tuition payment.

HHS decided to reserve their gyms during their volleyball and basketball season. We are sorry that we would not be able to conduct our badminton class for our parents and community friends during this school year.

See you all on our 1st day of class, Friday Aug 26 at 7pm!

A recap of our school at Hong Kong Day 香港節 on 7/2.
Many thanks to the great support by our board members: Amanda, Angie, Rachel, Rebecca, Wendy, plus their families! Our booth at the event site was able to attract many new perspective parents and also reunite some of our current and former students' parents. At the same time, we collected some potential candidates for our Cantonese and Mandarin teaching opportunities.

This is the first such event held in the bay area. According to the event organizer, there were over 6,500 attendees visited the site. Our booth showcased the uniqueness of our school, where we focus on teaching the Cantonese language. This is the dialect spoken by all the Hong Kong residents, and all the 126 million residents in China's most populous Guangdong (Canton) province. When you know Cantonese, you will feel at ease shopping and dining in all the Chinatowns around the world.

Here are some memorable pictures at the event and an interview by Deltapath.

Visit us at our booth on Saturday 7/2 Hong Kong Day 香港節 in Milpitas.
Hong Kong Day is organized by 415EHK focusing on Hong Kong culture, consisting of food and retail vendors, guests’ seminars, music performances, exhibitions, games, workshops, etc. It will be held on 7/2 from 12 noon to 6pm at Crosspoint Church of Silicon Valley (indoor baseball court) at 658 Gibraltar Ct., Milpitas, CA 95035. For more details of the event, feel free to check out their website, watch the June 20 KTSF26 interview, or visit their Facebook page.

Successful conclusion of the school year. See you in August!
After nine months of on-site Chinese school, all our students deserve a good summer break. During the promotion ceremony on 5/27, we were happy to congratulate six graduating seniors and even happier to be able to award scholarships to four of our senior students. All of them had achieved good academic performance and demonstrated a dedication to learning Chinese and its culture. Here are some pictures of the happy moments from our school official photographer Philip Wong, and some more from our Marketing Director Amanda on our CKA class.

Plenty of fun time in the Family Fun Night 5/13/2022
Due to pandemic concerns, we were not able to hold our annual Chinese New Year party in February, but we made it up with our Family Fun Night in May on Friday the 13th! Thanks to the great effort by the Student Council and numerous board members, we have good participation of students playing till late hours, fundraising with ice cream and milk tea. The pleasant evening weather also help us in enjoying the cheerful outdoor family time.
Our PTA Director Ken Law took lots of pictures here, while our school official photographer Philip Wong took a whole album!

Congratulations to our winners in the ANCCS contests!
Association of Northern California Chinese Schools (ANCCS) conducted their annual academic contests on March 27 and April 3 this year. With much hard work and diligent preparations from both the teachers and the students, we competed with many other fellow students from numerous Chinese schools in the bay area and achieved a superb performance. Congratulations to all our students in participating in this challenging event.
Here are some happy pictures from our school official photographer Philip Wong. 

We are gracious to be able to take a class picture together again.
Our class picture day on Feb 18 went smoothly and it was so nice to be able to stand next to each other to take a picture again, instead of sending out a collage of Zoom windows. Many thanks to our school official photographer Philip Wong who took excellent pictures, and our photo editor Gabriella Wong who built in several enhancing backgrounds. Here are the class pictures. Let's hope we can take off our masks next time!

Congratulations to our Read-a-loud winners!
Thank you for the active encouragement from parents and teachers, we have great participations in the Read-a-loud contest.

Our Penmanship Winners are here!
Thank you to all our students who had tried their best to showcase their great calligraphy in the Penmanship Contest. Congratulations!

Apply our scholarship by April 1, 2022!
Thanks to some generous donations from our parents, our school is one of the very few which offer scholarships to our college-bound senior students. There is no limit on the number of scholarships given out. The more applications the better. Please go to the Scholarships page and apply right away!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2022!
Due to the ongoing mutating pandemic: Delta, Omicron, we have to be cautious and limit our celebration event to a small gathering of students in the classroom. We were grateful that Santa Claus is still willing to visit us in each of our classrooms and our photographer Philip Wong was able to catch the moments and share the great pictures with us. Please enjoy!

Great to see faces after zooming a year & a half!
Our first four weeks of classes went by very fast.

In the first two weeks, we had on-site registration which brought our student count to over a hundred, which is actually higher than last year. It is especially encouraging that we are able to open up two kindergarten classes. At this point, we are still accepting enrollment of returning students to 3rd grade and above.

On the third week, we had our annual All Parents Meeting where we introduced our volunteer school board members, and presented information on our finance, parent participation, planned activities and some important dates. Due to COVID concerns, we were not able to provide refreshments for the parents and school board members to mingle and chat for the rest of the hour. We will see if we can make it up in the Chinese New Year party next year.

​Next week 9/24 we will have a fire evacuation drill. Upon hearing a rapid alarm bell ringing, teachers will lead their classes to assemble in the open quad area. 9/24 is also our first adult badminton class. Anyone who is interested please join us in the large gym at 7pm.

Stay safe and keep healthy!

First day of school on Friday 8/27/2021 at 7pm
Dear Parents and Guardians,

Welcome back to our 2021-2022 school year. We hope everyone is safe and healthy during this pandemic time.

Following Homestead High School (HHS) re-opening policy, we will be conducting our school fully in-person this school year with safety protocols and guidelines in place.  All items below are subject to change per the Santa Clara's country Covid-19 policy.

1. Everyone is required to wear a mask while one is inside the classrooms or office per the county's policy at this point.
2. Everyone 12 years and older are highly encouraged to be vaccinated and should be fully vaccinated. If one (12 years and older) is not fully vaccinated, one is encouraged to provide a negative covid-19 test result (within 72 hours) upon entering the classroom buildings.  The school lacks the resources to fully enforce or track the vaccination or testing results of each person.  Self compliance is a critical component and the county's policy will drive changes as needed. The school may ask for documentation in case of potential county's violations.
3. We will maintain social distancing as required by the county's policy.
4. HHS had upgraded classroom venting and AC units with the highest grade Merv-13 filters.
5. To pick up their child at the end of class, parents should wait outside Building B and not inside the hallways to minimize indoor contacts.  Self compliance is a critical component to minimize unpleasant conversations during a violation.

For those students who had pre-registered during our early registration period, please check out the classroom assignment posted in front of Building B before going to their assigned classrooms.
For others who have not pre-registered, we will conduct our usual onsite registration on Aug 27 and Sept 3 at the Student Center in Building H. Registration will start promptly at 7pm so that your newly registered child can go to the classroom asap. Please bring a checkbook to make the tuition payment.

We will offer the badminton class again to our parents this school year. It will be 16 two-hours classes taught by our volunteer coach Ken who was an instructor at Mission College. All participants are required to be fully vaccinated. The signup fee is $160/year or $12/drop-in to cover the court rental and feather birdies. Parents are welcomed to bring their own rackets or use the school rackets provided. Any questions please email Ken at ken.ng5@gmail.com. To sign up please email Ivy at chanivys@yahoo.com or show up to the first class on 9/24/2021 7pm at the school's large gym.

See you all on Friday Aug 27 at 7pm!

[4/9/2021]

Early registration for the 2021-22 school year is now OPEN!  New and returning students can either register online or mail-in a paper application. See the Registration page for more details!

​2021-22學年的提前註冊期現正式開始！ 新生或現正就讀西谷的學生可經網上註冊或於郵寄申請表格。 詳情請參考本校的註冊網頁。

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Welcome to our school!

​​Welcome to West Valley Chinese Language School! 
​Our school provides an engaging, experiential Cantonese and Mandarin learning environment that excels a student's understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture and heritage. 

Classes are held every Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. during a school year. 
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Please browse around our website to learn more about programs offered, enrichment activities, and curriculum highlights.

歡迎來訪西谷中文學校！
​本校提供著重學生參與和體驗廣東話及國語的學習環境，從而提升學生對中國文化和傳統的理解和欣賞。

​本校上課時間為逢星期五傍晚七至九時。
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想要多了解我們提供的課程及課外活動, 請瀏覽我們的網站。

A reminder to parents

For the safety of your child(ren), please use extra caution in and around the parking lot. 

The horseshoe area on Homestead Road is a loading zone.  Never leave your vehicle unattended and never double park. 
Unattended vehicles may be cited by the Sheriff's Department and/or towed away at car owner's expense. 

​To enforce this parking rule, the school will begin placing notices on unattended vehicles this school year.  

Thank you for your cooperation.

為確保學生安全， 家長們於接送學生時請留心道路安全。
切勿在Homestead Road的上落區停泊車輛或雙線停車。違例者可能被票控。 無人值守的車輛如若被拖走，車主將需負責有關費用。

為提醒家長，本校將於本學年開始向無人值守車輛貼上告示。

​多謝各位家長合作。

The horseshoe area (red) is a loading zone.  Please park in the blue zones.
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​紅色區域為上落區。 如需要停泊車輛，請利用學校兩旁停車場圃藍色區域)。