23/12/2011

New Term Jan 2012

The Spring term starts on 14.01.2012 and finishes on the 31.03.2012 for the Easter break. The school fee £49.50 is to be paid to your respective class teacher at the beginning of the term. We wish you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

18/10/2011

Half term closure

NMCS will be closed on Saturday 29th October and normal lessons will resume on Saturday 5th November 2011. We wish you a happy half term break.

7/09/2011

New School Hours and term dates

The school will recommence on Saturday 10th Sep 2011 with new school hours from 1.30pm – 3.30pm for Foundation class and 1.30pm – 4pm for Level 1 and above classes. The Autumn Term which will start on the 10th Sept and finishes on the 17th Dec 2011 with a half term break on the 29th Oct.

3/07/2011

The End of the School Year

The last day of the school year is 9th July 2011 and the school will re-open on Saturday 10th September. Places are still available for Foundation level and Level 1 for the September intake. NMCS wishes all the children and parents a wonderful summer holiday and we look forward to seeing you all in September.

3/07/2011

UK National Reading Competition

Seven children took part in the 9th UK National Reading Competition in Edinburgh recently. Congratulations to Lily Karlsen and Thomas Karlsen who won 1st and 3rd prize respectively (both parents non Chinese group) and Zheng Wenxing won 3rd prize (Mandarin speaking Chinese group – under 9).

13/04/2011

Forthcoming Reading/Recital Competition

The Forthcoming Reading/Recital Competition will be held:- • Foundation Class, Level 1 and 2 – On 7th May; starts at 2.15pm • Level 3 and 4 – On 14th May; starts at 2.15pm • Level 5, 7 and GCSE Class – On 7th May; starts at 3.00pm These to be held in the school hall and all parents are welcome to attend and support the children.

13/04/2011

Term dates for Easter

The end of term is 16th April and the starts of next term is 7th May 2011.

13/04/2011

Chinese Calligraphy Competition winners

We are pleased to announce that winners for the NMCS Chinese Calligraphy Competitions are:- In the category for under 7\'s Non-Chinese Speaking Home Background: First Prize - Arron Cheng You Flack Runners Up - Hannah Sue-Mei Eggleston For the category of age 8 to 11 Non-Chinese Speaking Home Background: First Prize - Olivia Gill Runners Up - Alexander Daniels Runners Up - Gareth Rickaby For the category of under 7\'s Chinese Speaking Home Background: First Prize - Jo Yu Liu For the category of age 8 to 11 Chinese Speaking Home Background: First Prize - Rachel Tsang Runners Up - Ada Liu For the category age 12 and above Chinese Speaking Home Background: First Prize - Chloe Chen Runners Up - Pui Yu Liu Congratulations also to all the other children who has entered for this competition.

21/01/2011

Chinese New Year Celebration 2011

We will celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit on Saturday 5th February 2011 at the main school hall of Newcastle Church High School from 12.45 to 4.00pm. The normal Chinese School sessions will be bought forward to 11.30am to 12.30pm. We would like to invite all school members and families to participate in this celebration. The school will provide all the drinks and light snacks. Can all families bring some food, one or two dishes to share on the day please. Also, please avoid food containing nuts due to a number of nut allergies among the children. See you all at the party!

12/01/2011

Spring Term (15/01/11)

Spring Term starts on 15th Jan 2011 and the school fee of £45 is to be paid to your respective class teacher at the start of the term please.

18/12/2010

School Open today (18/12/10)

Today is the last day of the term and school is open as normal.

9/12/2010

School Open this Saturday (11/12/10)

The School will be opened as normal this Saturday 11th December 2010. For those travelling from areas where conditions remain difficult, please take care and travel only if it is safe to do so.

4/12/2010

School closed due to bad weather (04/12/10)

The Chinese School is closed today due to the adverse weather and treacherous driving conditions. Please check your emails, text messages or this website for next week\'s announcements.

27/11/2010

School Closed due to bad weather

Due to the adverse weather conditions, the School is closed until further notice. Please check your emails, text messages or this website for updates.

21/06/2010

Congratulations to Calligraphy Competition Finalists

Congratulations to NMCS pupils who have achieved third places at the UKAPCE 2010 Calligraphy Competition. They are: 1. Liu Pei Yu 廖珮瑜 - Using Chinese brush age group 14 to 19 2. Ada Liu 廖穎珊 - Using pen age group under 13 3. Chloe Chen 陈寳兰 - Using pen age group 14 to 19.

21/06/2010

Successful workshops at Kenton School

NMCS teachers ran a series of successful Chinese workshops at Kenton School in Newcastle recently. we would like to extend our thanks to the following teachers for their input:Miss Wu, Pi Pa lesson, Miss Wang, Singing lesson, Mrs Huang, Maths and Paper cutting, Mr Hu, Tai Chi and Chinese.

9/06/2010

Chinese Earthquake appeal

A big thank you to all who has kindly donated to the Chinese earthquake appeal. A total sum of £139.15 was raised.

9/06/2010

Urgent meeting for parents Sat 12 June 2010, 2:00pm

A notice to all parents to meet at 2:00pm in the main hall for an urgent meeting regarding changes to new procedures for the Chinese School.

29/04/2010

Chinese Workshops

NMCS has recently ran workshops at The Church High School, Newcastle and St. Joseph School at Hebburn, South Tyneside. These workshops were well received by pupils and teachers from both schools. A big thank you to our teachers: Xiao Jing, Hu Lonbioa and Wu Fei for teaching in these workshops.

16/02/2010

Celebrating the Chinese New Year

We have celebrated the Chinese New Year, Year of the Tiger, with performances from all our talented pupils, they have demonstrated a variety of skills which have impressed us all. Well done to our younger pupils who performed for the first time in public and to our brilliant comperes who were magnificent with their links. During the event, we were visited by Mr Ng MBE, President of UKAPCA, who presented us with a £200 cheque for funding our school activities. The school would also like to thank all the parents and teachers who have supported their children\'s build up to the performances. Thank you to all who brought the wonderful selection of tasty food to share in our party buffet, which everyone sampled and enjoyed. A special thank you to Shaun and Karen To-Chapman who kindly loaned and operated the PA system for our show, which has now become essential equipment for a successful show. Thanks too, to our anonymous parent, who, for the second year running donated generously to fund our red envelopes. Last but not least of all, the celebrations would not have been possible without the help of our hard working committee members who have sacrificed their spare time to ensuring a successful and enjoyable event. Our thanks to Willis and Eng Lan for the organisational work and to Jishan, Quihua and Jiang Qin for taking over the latter part of the organising. It was also an honour for our Head to be invited to the Chinatown Chinese New Year Celebrations on 14 February, where he met local political dignitaries and members of the Chinese community. Mr Sung was able to speak to Councillor Shipley, Council Leader and discuss possible routes of funding for our school. Xin Nian Hao.

28/01/2010

Chinese New Year Celebration

Gong Xi Fa Ca! (恭喜发财). The NMCS will host a party at The Church High School, Newcastle; to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The celebration will take place on Saturday 13th February at 1pm. All lessons on that day will start earlier than usual at 11.45am and finish 12.45 pm. Parents are asked to bring along one or two dishes of their choice to share with the School. There will be small performances by the children from the NMCS.

13/01/2010

NMCS opens as usual 16th January 2010

The weather forecast for the weekend looks good so the NMCS will be opened as per normal.

7/01/2010

NMCS closed 9th January 2010

Due to adverse weather conditions, NMCS will be closed this weekend. We hope to reopen next weekend, 16th January.

6/01/2010

Weather Conditions

Due to the current weather conditions, the NMCS might have to close at short notice. Please check the website for the latest updates before travel.

18/05/2009

New website online

The new website of Newcastle Mandarin Chinese School is now online. Let us know if you like it or not.

25/04/2009

UK National Mandarin Reading Competition

This annual competition held in Edinburgh was kindly organised by Teacher Zhu Lin and parents. We are thrilled to announce that Yuxin Wang in the A1 group received the 3rd prize, Puiyu Liu won the 1st prize and Hoyu Liu 2nd prize in the B2 group. Well done to everyone who took part.

08/02/2009

Fashion Show Charity event

This event was held at St. James’ Park, Newcastle Through ticket sales, we have raised £39.00 for the school. Well done Willis for co-ordinating the ticket sales!

24/01/2009

Chinese New Year Celebration

This year’s Chinese celebration was a real success! There were lots of delicious food, games, performances, raffles and red packets for all the kids! We really look forward to next year’s celebration.

29/12/2008

Church High School’ Christmas Fair

A big thank you to parents who have donated goods for our stall and to Willis for co-ordinating our stalls. Thanks also to Manny and Wei for their skills in writing visitors’ names in Chinese and Western calligraphy. Through these activities, we have raised £58.00 for our School.

13/12/2008

Santa’s visit

Santa came to our School today! He delivered lots of presents for our pupils and everyone has a great time.

01/11/2008

Workshops with Schools

We were invited by several local schools to provide workshops on Chinese arts and cultures. The pupils had lots of fun doing different activities.