Weekly Newsletter October 24, 2025

Upcoming Event

10/26

  • Drawing Contest Day 2 (1:30 – 2:30 PM)

  • PCLS Halloween Parade – Come to school in your costume! 🎃(2:45 – 3:15 PM)

11/2

  • Daylight saving time ends

  • Dance Studio unavailable in November, class will take place at Upper Gym

11/9

  • First Semester Welcome Meeting with Parents (3:00 – 4:00 PM) at Cafeteria

 

 

Message from Principal

 

 

Halloween Event 👻

 

Put on your spookiest, silliest or most creative costumes – our Halloween Parade is happening this Sunday at 2:45 PM!!

 

 

Check out the parade route and dress up for a chance to win a prize in our Best Costume Contest! Parents are welcome to stand around the Main Entrance, Lobby or Upper Gym to watch the parade.

 

 

Each student will get a goody bag filled with candies and/or small surprises! If you have concerns about food allergies, please accompany your child(ren) during the event to help keep them safe.

 

 

Costume Guidelines:

 

No mask

 

No toy weapons, knives or any sharp objects

 

No costumes depicting violence or scary/bloody imagery

 

 

2025 Global Chinese Reading Contest 全球中文閱讀力大賽

 

Registration: Now to Oct 31, 2025 through this link

 

Details:

 

2025 Global Chinese Reading Contest — Chinese Brochure

 

2025 Global Chinese Reading Contest — English Brochure

 

 

 

Message from Academic Director

 

 

PCLS 校內演講比賽 Speech Contest

 

The speech contest is a great opportunity for our students to practice public speaking in Chinese. We will hold our 2025-2026 speech contest next month. Please find more information at the registration page.

 

Contest date and time: Nov 16, 2025 1:30-2:25 pm

 

Contest location: PDS Upper Gym

 

Registration deadline: Nov 12, 2025 11:59 pm

 

Log into the Registration System to enter the speech contest. If you have any questions, please contact Sophia at academic@pcls.org .

 

 

Message from Culture Director

 

 

Drawing Contest (See Flyer) – Part II

 

The drawing contest continues this Sunday, October 26th from 1:30pm to 2:30pm. Students should finish their best possible artwork this Sunday. See you there!

 

 

PTA Update

 

 

Deposit refund requirement: Please note that only after the parent duties are fulfilled will the deposit be refunded. To check your 2025-2026 parent duty sign ups, please click this link. Detailed parent duty instructions and information can be found in the PCLS Parent Duty Guidelines. Please make sure to sign in at the event/duty to log the completion of your duty. If any events/parent duty signups are canceled/moved, it is the family’s responsibility to fulfill another parent duty in order to receive the deposit.

 

 

Any questions about your parent duties, please reach out to Jan-Huey, PCLS PTA Lead, while at school or at PTA@pcls.org.

 

 

Vendor Update

 

 

Join us at LINE group: “PCLS – Food and Vendors 普林斯頓中文學校美食團” to get the latest information about food ordering and delivery. https://line.me/ti/g/QuLI3jTQan. Click the link to join.

 

10/26: Golden Buns 金華包子

 

11/07: David Kao粽子

 

11/09: 台灣好滋味 from Flushing, NY

 

11/09: 北方麵粉團

 

 

 

For additional

information on the date, time, location and order link, please see this link.

 

Cindy Chen, 校長 Principal