Dajia Hao and welcome back to school everyone. Here we are again at lawleylanguages for 2011, the Year of the Rabbit and what a start it's been ! We had teachers and students from our sister school in China, the Hangzhou No. 14 Middle School visit us from the Zhejiang province. Our teachers and students have visited No. 14 every 2 years since the first signing of our Memorandum Of Understanding in 1999. This is the longest sister school relationship in WA.
Xie xie to the teachers Derek Xu and Catherine Yu for bringing over their students to visit us. Xie xie to their hosts, Jessica Ho, Max Owen, Louise Kim, Matt Parry and the teacher hosts Ms Keen and the Tate family for their wonderful hospitality.
Our first whole school assembly was an outstanding success with 38 of our students from last year receiving a certificate for their achievements in last year's WACE. They were inducted into our 90 club because of their excellent results.
We were treated to a fantastic cultural event with the Lion Dancers and musicians from the Chung Wah Association performing and enthralling us all to welcome the Year Of The Rabbit. We thank them most graciously for their incredible performance which inspired us all.
Many thanks also to our Secretary of the Languages Parent Support Group, Sondra Tate for hand making our Languages For Life banner. She is one of our many wonderful parents that do incredible things for our students, a truly valued community group that makes our school so special.
Have a great year everyone !
Here's a link to more information about Chinese Lion Dances:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_dance
