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1. In This Issue
• President’s Welcome
• Pandas Picnic
• Hanyu Qiao
• Year 9 Day
• Schools Showcase
Bateman P S
Chistchurch GS
Mt Lawley SHS
Perth Modern School
Rossmoyne P S
• CLTFA Conference
• Sharing Corner
What’s On This Term
• Chinese Speaking
Competition
(Saturday Sept.14)
• Chinese Writing
Competition
(Closing Date Wed. Sept
4)
No.2 August 2013
From the President
Newsletter
The Chinese Language Teachers’ Association
of W.A. (Inc.)
西澳大利亚中文教师协会会讯
Dear members and colleagues,
I hope you all have settled into the new term after the holiday break.
Ten CLTAWA members including myself attended the
19th
CLTFA Conference in Canberra at the beginning
of the school holidays. The Conference was a very
rewarding event and the weather in Canberra was ex-
ceptionally warm and sunny!
Term 2 was a short term but this didn’t stop the great
enthusiasm and the wonderful effort of CLTAWA com-
mittee members and other member teachers in successfully organizing
the annual Primary School Pandas’ Picnic and 2013 High School Year 9
Day excursions. These two language and cultural oriented events were
very welcomed by the students! My sincere thanks to the event coor-
dinators: Priscilla, Bonnie (Pandas’ Picnic), Xiao Yu and Anita (Year 9
Day) who spent a lot of time planning and going through all the logistics
of the events. I also thank Kinny for volunteering her time at the Pandas’
Picnic and all the other participating school teachers and helpers. These
two fantastic events wouldn’t be possible without their great commit-
ment and effort. One of the feedbacks received by a student was “It’s so
fun! Can we do it every term?”
Five Mount Lawley Senior School students participated in the 6th High
School Hanyuqiao Competition at the University of Adelaide. with 2 stu-
dents being selected to go to China in October. My congratulations to all
the contestants, and special thanks to our three very devoted teachers:
Bee Tee, James Cheah, Anita Chong and Professor Chu from the Con-
fucius Institute at UWA.
Invited by the Chinese Language and Culture Education Foundation
of China and Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Ningx-
ia, Perth Rossmoyne Chinese School organized a 30 students sum-
mer camp to Ningxia China during July holiday.The campers benefit-
ted from learning Chinese language, understanding Chinese culture and
enjoying the beautiful scenery of Ningxia.
You may be aware that Curtin Business School and Chinese Studies has
recently introduced a new Accounting & Chinese Double Major degree.
This is another indication that Chinese is becoming a more prominent
language in the business sector.
The major CLTAWA events in Term 3 are our annual CLTAWA Chinese
Writing and the second language students Speaking Competitions.
More details are included in this newsletter. We wish your students all
the best in these two upcoming competitions.
Have a great Term 3!
Jieqi Zhang
CLTAWA OFFICERS
President: Jieqi Zhang
Vice-President: Bonnie
Woo
Secretary: Yungtsing Mew
Treasurer: Hua Li
Committee Members:
Kinny Hsu
Xuanli Ma
Priscilla Prince
Yi Wang
Yu Xiao
Yi Yuan
Grace Zhang
Committee Advisers:
Anita Chong
Geoff Davis AM

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Professiopnal
This year’s Pandas’ Picnic was held on Tuesday June 6 at Lords Subiaco recreation centre. A total of 9 prima-
ry schools attended the event: Bannister Creek, Bateman, Highgate, John Septimus Roe, Methodist Ladies
College, Morley, Noranda, Rossmoyne and Weld Square.
Students’ were immersed in Chinese cultural and language activities through out the course of the day di-
vided into Chinese zodiac animal groups. The day started with some icebreaker games and one in particular
encouraged student’s to use the Chinese language they had learnt at school in meeting a new friend. Other
highlights included jianzi making, paper cutting and creating dragon boats. The day concluded with a quiz
and happy faces of students’ who had received prizes in the numerous raffle draws and announcement of the
winning Chinese Zodiac animal groups.
Pandas’ Picnic
Professiopnal
Jayde Wilson, Tara Bacovic, Maksim Bacovic, James De Lore and Raqeema Evans of Mount Lawley Senior
High School went to Adelaide to participate in the 6th Hanyuqiao Chinese Speaking Competition held on
June 14 & 15. They had to write, learn and memorise a 3 minute speech, prepare a Cultural performance,
and study for a Chinese cultural test.
The competition was held at the Confucius Institute at the University of Adelaide. 19 candidates aged from
15-18 from NT, WA, ACT and SA sat a 40 minute written test followed by the speech competition.
Raqeema first brought the good news as she was awarded with ‘best speech’. Tara Bacovic, who came third
and Jayde Wilson who won second won a trip to China to be observers of the World Hanyuqiao in November.
Competitor James Delore said “The greatest prize was the experience, the things we had learnt and not just
Chinese but how to deal with these kind of events, something that is perhaps invaluable.”
Competitor Jayde Wilson remarked “Overall I am extremely proud of Mount Lawley for our effort in the
Hanyuqiao competition, and I am so grateful for such a wonderful opportunity. Adelaide was a chance in a
lifetime and I urge students to enter the competition next year and continue to make Mount Lawley proud!”
Hanyu Qiau Competition

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Yesr 9 Day
On June 28 CLTAWAheld the annual Year 9 Day at the Chung WahAssociation in Balcatta. It was attended by
150highschoolChinesestudentsfromChurchlandsSeniorHighSchool,MethodistLadiesCollege,MountLaw-
ley Senior High School, Perth Modern School, Rossmoyne Senior High School and Woodvale Senior College.
The students tried their hand at a variety of activities including Tai chi with Professor Chu from the Confucius
Institute, Paper cutting, Chopstick Challenge, Character card games and learnt about Chinese pop culture
from the Engaging China Project team.
During the breaks students also got to see a collection of Paper cuts from the Austra-
lia China Friendship Society WA. The day was finished with a quiz which was won by
the horse and rabbit teams, and cultural performances from the Hanyuqiao candidates from Mount Lawley
Senior High School.
Laura Sydenham
Dungraig Senior High School
由西澳中文教师协会主办，六间中学共同参与举办的“九年级日”于2013年6 月 28日举行。 这个专为九年
级中文学生所举办的活动是在中华会馆文化中心举行。其宗旨是为了让学生们有机会用他们在课堂上所学到
的中文和别间学校的同学交流，更重要是能体验中文蕴含的文化内涵。
当天， 当所有的学生都云集在会场里，司仪老师先向学生们讲述应遵守的规则和程序。接着Engage China
Project Team先掀开帷幕，他们两位主干成员西澳大学生用不同的诠释见证了学习中文的经历。同学们都听
得津津有味。接下来是由孔子学院中方院长褚献华老师领导大家打太极。在褚院长的引导下， 全体学生和一
些老师都浑身解数得动起来。冬天的寒意让人畏惧，但当时的文化中心却充满了有意义的笑声和振奋感。
休息一阵子后，学生们就被列入以十二生肖为主题的组里来进行一系列的精彩活动，其中有词汇卡游戏，中
文文化活动，筷子游戏，剪纸和中文常识比赛。同学们在各个游戏中都玩得不亦乐乎！
在休息和午餐时间，同学们还能欣赏由西澳澳中友好协会提供的剪纸展览。同学们也利用这段时间和别间学
校的朋友们交流，天马行空地聊起来，其乐融融！司仪老师也在不同的时间公布抽奖的幸运儿。
午餐过后，五位曼特罗礼中学的第六届汉语桥参赛者为大家展现了精彩的文化表演。接着第三等奖得主贝恬
乐演绎了她的演说。这一小段的表演引来不少羡慕的眼光和热烈的掌声。
几个小时的聚首又来到曲终人散的时刻。这项活动在颁奖仪式后圆满结束。这一天的活动肯定嘉惠了所有
参与的莘莘学子。各校学生们的反映都很好。他们觉得这项活动是一个独特的阅历，他们不但学到很多中
文知识，认识了新朋友，还带回礼物，真是乐趣无穷！我们要感谢褚院长、李韦老师及Ros Hanley的无私付
出，Engage China Project Team的帮忙，还有当然也要谢谢老师们整个月付出时间来策划和做准备功夫。我
们希望“九年级日”由此能成为一个年度活动，能激励更多的学生热衷学习中文。
郑美宝报道
Students perform at Year 9 Day

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CLTAWA Newsletter August 2013
Schools Showcase
BATEMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL
On Friday 22nd
March Bateman Primary School had a whole school LOTE assembly. Around 60 students from
Year 1 and 2 gave a spectacular performance of the popular Chinese children’s song, ‘Two Tigers’.
The Year 3s and Year 4s performed a bilingual prose recitation about animals while a short sketch performed
by the Year 5s and Year 6s to show the audience how a traditional Chinese birthday is celebrated with
longevity noodles, red packets and red eggs!
The assembly had a great turnout and was a huge success!
Rachel Brown
Bateman P S students perform at assembly
CHRISTCHURCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Congratulations to Christ Church Grammar School for winning the CLTAWA Top School Award trophy in the
Language Perfect World Championships 2014!
Students at Christ Church Grammar school spent an incredible 2, 838 hours online to answer more than 900
000 questions and place 20th
overall globally in this year’s Language Perfect World Championships. They
placed 1st
in WA for Chinese, 1st
in the AISWA network and 1st
in the MLTAWA network of schools … with a
tally of 3 trophies for their outstanding achievements!
Congratulations to all staff and students, you have set the standards very high for the competition in Western
Australia.
The top 5 schools for Chinese in the 2013 Championships were:
Christ Church Grammar School with 54, 010 points; Methodist Ladies’ College with 42, 602 points;
hung Wah Chinese School, Leeming with 40, 651 points; Mount Lawley SHS with 34, 549’ pointsGeraldton
Grammar School with 31, 310 points
()Points mentioned are what each school earned in the Chinese language)
Good luck to all in preparation for the 2014 Championships – you are all officially in training!
Tania Christie (Language Perfect) with
CGS students and the winners’ cup
REMINDER!!!
2013 CLTAWA STATE MANDARIN
SPEAKING COMPETITION
1.30 pm – 4:30 pm, Saturday, 14th
September 2012
Closing Date
Wednesday, 4th September 2013
2013 CLTAWA STATE CHINESE
WRITING COMPETITION
Closing Date
Wednesday, 4th September 2013

5. CLTAWA Newsletter August 2013
Schools Showcase
MOUNT LAWLEY S H S
In June, seven Chinese second Language students met with Her Excellency Ms Francis Adamson,
Australian Ambassador to the people’s republic of China. The meeting allowed the students to gain an
insight into the life of an Ambassador to China whilst also receiving advice from a very successful source.
Each of the students was able to ask a question in Chinese and Ms Adamson who was very friendly
responded in Mandarin. She encouraged us to continue learning Chinese and the school was invited to
visit the Embassy in Beijing during their next China tour in 2014.
Ambassador Adamson with MLSHS A./Principal
Johnson and Geoff Davis Ambassador Adamson with MLSHS A./Principal
Camilleri and Anita Chong
MT LAWLEY SHS
On FridayJune 7 the GAT Club was held at Mount Lawley Senior High School. The Club is one of the ways
the school brings together students in the Gifted and Talented languages program.
Professor Gary Sigley from the University of Western Australia talked to the Year 8,9 and 10 GAT Chinese
students about the importance of learning the Chinese language and the many benefits it will bring us in the
long term.
For cultural exposure, Professor Chu Xianhua, Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of West-
ern Australia taught the very popular exercise of Simplified Taiqi 24 forms.
Overall the GAT CLUB 2 meeting was highly successful.
MLSHS students practising taijiquan
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Schools Showcase
PERTH MODERN SCHOOL
Perth Modern School Year 12 student Miss Kayley Crebbin was recently awarded a scholarship from the
Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (HANBAN) and Confucius Institute.
This is a very prestigious and generous scholarship, which will cover all her expenses of study at Yunnan
Normal University for six months starting in February 2014.
Kayley has demonstrated her genuine interest in learning Chinese, which won her the first place in 2012 WA
Hanyuqiao Competition. Kayley has decided to take up this great opportunity to study in China next year.
Congratulations to her for this great achievement.
ROSSMOYNE PRIMARY SCHOOL
On Tuesday，22 May, Year 7 students attended a presentation by “Engaging China Project” .This is a volun-
teer youth-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to igniting the idea of China in the minds of high school
students.
During the visit, students had the opportunity to participate in various activities starting with a presentation
that includes information about Chinese family trees and special dishes, etc.
This was followed by Chinese calligraphy, a chopstick game, mystery characters and popular Chinese culture
on a rotation basis. Prizes were given to the winners at the end of the Quiz.
The students indicated that they greatly increased their knowledge and gained some special skills from the
experience, while also enjoying themselves.
Rossmoyne P S students show their
calligraphy
Students working on tasks
PMS scholarship winner Kayley Crebbin

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Sharing Corner
YEAR 春节
Chinese
New Year
元宵节
Lantern
Festival
清明节
Qingming
Festival
端午节
Dragon Boat
Festival
中秋节
Mid-Autumn
Festival
2013 10/02 (Sun-
day)
24/02
(Sunday)
04/04
(Thursday)
12/06
(Wednes-
day)
19/09
(Thursday)
2014 31/01
(Friday)
14/02
(Friday)
05/04
(Saturday)
02/06
(Monday)
08/09
(Monday)
Dates of Chinese Festivals/Celebrations
(2013 – 2014)
C L T F A National Conference
This year’s conference, the 19th
, was held at the Australian National University in Canberra on July 6 and 7.
It was very well attended, and very well organised. This year 10 CLTAWA members attended.
In addition to panel discussions, there were 34 workshops on offer, eighteen on the first day and sixteen on
the second day covering a wide range of topics.
The offerings from exhibiting booksellers were very wide-ranging, with many new and interesting materials
for Chinese teaching available.
The 20th
Conference is to be held in Melbourne in 2014. This will be a conference of celebrations. The
Chinese Language Teachers Association of Victoria will be marking its 50th
anniversary, our CLTAWA will be
celebrating 30 years of activities and the CLTFA will reach its 20th
anniversary,
Anita Chong was re-elected as the CLTFA President for the next 2 years and Jieqi Zhang was re-elected as
Secretary.
At the CLTFA 19th Conference

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Sharing Corner
CanUHanyu
CanUHanyu is a resource designed for Iphone and
Android devices created by Education Services
Australia (ESA) for the teaching of Chinese. Students
of Mount Lawley Senior High School like using it.
Please refer to attached flyer.
http://www.iphoneappstorm.com/iphone-apps/
education/au.edu.esa.CanyuHanyu/canuhanyu.
php?id=667780038
Anita Chong
memrise.com
The website promotes the creative and imaginative
learning of languages using ‘mems’ – photos, images,
animations that help reinforce words and facts into
our memories. I have introduced the site to my Y7
and after school students and they love it! It is best
for individual learning though, so the students can
use the site to practise the vocabulary they learn in
class at their own pace or even to learn some new
words.
Arlene Wong
Perth College
http://www.tesaustralia.com/
Thanks to members for sharing
these.
If you have found other useful
sites, please let others know by
advising the editors so we can
mention them in future edition
of the Newsletter