Category: Announcement

Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers/TA: I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time with family and friends! This Sunday, we will distribute PCLS 2019-2020 Directory to our families and teachers.  Special thanks to our designer, Ivy Yeh Cox, for her dedication to design our beautiful directory.  Each family will receive only ONE directory so one of your children will receive directory in his/her language class. We are gearing up for preparations for Chinese New Year! We would greatly appreciate donations (value of $20 and Read More …

Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers/TA: Please note the schedule for the next weeks: We will be off next Sunday (11/17), have school on 11/24, and off again on 12/1. Alexander Road will be closed from Nov. 6 to April 20, 2020 as per the link below, please use alternative route if this closure impact your commute. http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/09/alexander-road-closes-for-nearly-six-months-starting-nov-6 Congratulations to all the Drawing Contest Winners.   We have over 80 drawings this year and competition is fierce.  All drawings are amazing and showed great efforts in the creation of master Read More …

Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers/TA: Hope you have a great week and enjoy the beautiful autumn scenes. Please come to the cafeteria 3:40 – 4:30 for the Welcome Meeting with Parents and meet the staff who help run PCLS.  We will go over important events, school initiatives, finances, and much more!  PCLS will provide light refreshments for the parents at the meeting.  Please come join us! The Dance Studio and Drama Room are not available this Sunday and next Sunday.  Adult Zumba and Student Dance class will move to Fox Room. Read More …

Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers/TA: Hope you have a great week and are ready for the Taiwan Culture Expo (文化展演) held this Sunday.  The students, TAs, and teachers of first class group (PreK, CLS1, CLS5, T6), please report to cafeteria before 2:30 pm. Other classes will go to classroom normally. PCLS students will visit this event in group. Parents of young students: we encourage you to go with their classes. Schedule follows: 2:30-4:10pm @ Cafeteria. Class Schedule (20 mins interval) – T10 will not participate Read More …

Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers/TA: Happy Teacher’s Day (Confucius’ birthday is 9/28) 教師節快樂 – PCLS would like to thank all of the Language and Culture Teachers – without your dedication and commitment, PCLS would not be possible!  . On this Sunday, 9/29, PCLS will host the 14th Annual Confucius Memorial Ceremony (祭孔典禮) in New Jersey (See attached poster). Prep starts at 10:30am for the volunteer helpers and some PCLS admins. Music and dance performers will rehearse around noon. Parents: please come and invite Read More …

Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers/TA:   Hope you have a great week. This Sunday, please listen for the whistles signaling the start of the Fire Drill  (around 3:00). Staff will guide classes in evacuating from the building during the designated language class time.  This will require everyone, including parents/guardians to evacuate the building. As a reminder, language class is 2:30-4:15, with a 5 minute break in between.  Culture class is 4:20-5:00. Particularly for new and younger students, it is helpful if parents can walk Read More …

Dear Parents, Guardians, and Teachers, I hope everyone has been having a great summer! Our teachers and admins have worked hard over the summer and I believe it will be another successful year for the PCLS community. I will forward you some emails regarding events, classes, and scholarships that might interest our parents before school starts. In addition to those forwarding emails, below are a few things to keep in mind as our new school year approaches. 1. Registration & Read More …

Dear Parents and Guardians, Below are the updated information about the culture class and adult class.  Please read carefully and contact the class coordinators or our culture director, Ya-ping Su: culture@pcls.org should you have further questions. New class & Offerings this year: We are excited to announce a new culture class (for Adults and Children in different class time) – the quintessence of Chinese culture: Mahjong (麻將). Our volunteer parent teachers David, Howzan, Joseph and Tony will be teaching this class. You probably have Read More …

Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers:    Hope everyone have a great memorial weekend.  This Sunday is the last day of school and also the last week to take the the advantage of Early Registration ($40 Discount per student, first choice of culture classes and parent duties, etc).  Attached is the 2019-2020 calendar for your reference.   We’ve got around 200 students registered in one month.  Thank you for your support and trust to PCLS!  Please note that Three culture classes are already full: Chinese Abacus and Mental Math (兒童珠心算), TaeKwonDo (跆拳道), and Chinese Knotting Read More …

 Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers:        We want to thank everyone who came out and donated something for Fun Day last Sunday.  We had a great sunny day, good food, fun craft activities and exciting field games!  Thank you for all your compliment, help and participation to make our Fun Day a success.   We have No School this Sunday.  If you’re planning go to NYC.  You might want to consider this event: Passport to Taiwan Festival (Sunday, May 26, 12 – 5 pm) @ Union Square North.  Check the Read More …