Weekly Newsletter October 31, 2025

Upcoming Event

11/2

  • Daylight saving time ends

  • Dance Studio unavailable in November, class will take place at Upper Gym and share the space with YoYo class

11/9

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

  • I-Compatriot Card (i-僑卡) Application (2:30 – 4:30 PM) at Cafeteria

11/16

  • Speech Contest (1:30 – 2:30 PM) at Upper Gym

  • I-Compatriot Card (i-僑卡) Application (3:00 – 4:30 PM) at Admin Table

Message from Principal

First Semester Welcome Meeting with Parents

Join us next Sunday, November 9 at 3 PM in the Campus Common (cafeteria) to meet the PCLS Admin Team.

We’ll share an overview of our school operations and upcoming events for this school year. If you’re new to PCLS, this is a great opportunity to learn more and ask questions.

Best Costume Winner

Congratulations to Julian Chen (T5) for winning the Best Costume contest at last week’s Halloween parade!

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

Congratulations to Drawing Contest Winners!

Age group 年齡組: 6 year old and under

1st place

Gemma

Hsu

2nd place

Ananya

Srinivasan

3rd place

Felix

Schroeder

李少洋

Honorable mention

Shin-Yun

Hsiao

蕭馨云

Age group 年齡組: 7 – 9 year old

1st place

Ethan

Tsai

蔡汭穎

2nd place

Chloe

Wei

魏岑庭

3rd place

Yu Hsun(Lulu)

Lin

林育旬

Honorable mention

Tristan

Yen

Age group 年齡組: 10 – 11 year old

1st place

Olivia

Tsai

蔡依珊

2nd place

Damon

Lin

林家樂

3rd place

Charlotte

Jen

任妍蓁

Honorable mention

Maddie

Chew

Honorable mention

Evan

Hung

洪浩緯

Age group 年齡組: 12 year old and older

1st place

Louiessa

Ocampo

王璵臻

2nd place

Josephine

Chen

陳雪芬

3rd place

Audrey

Wu

吳奕臻

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.

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