News update

       CLTAV 于2022年5月27日举办了维州小学生中文才艺比赛 (Chinese Talents Competition) 和汉语桥演讲比赛 (Junior School)。本次比赛移师 boxhill 的澳洲敦煌艺术中心。
      今年的比赛依旧收到了多所学校关注和报名。由于COVID疫情和流感的原因，本次中文才艺比赛采取了现场演出和录像播放参赛的比赛方式。
      汉语桥演讲比赛 (Junior School)的小选手参加了线上中文文化知识竞赛，并进行了主题为Flying High with Chinese的演讲。
      经过一个下午的激烈角逐，比赛在学生、老师和家长的赞扬及感谢声中落下帷幕。

具体获奖情况如下： 

最佳歌唱奖 (Best Singing Award）     Geelong College
 
最佳集体奖 (Best Team Work Award)  Ruyton Girls’ School
 
最佳创作奖 (Best Creativity Award)     Carey Grammar School
 
最佳表演奖(Best Performance Award) Kingswood College
 
最佳参与奖(Best Participation Award)  Overnewton Anglican Community College
 
最佳全能奖(Best Overall Award)          Canterbury Primary School

Kahoot: Chinese Culture
 
1^st Place: Saira Kothapalli 
 
2^nd Place: Arian Prasad 
 
3^rd Place: Katinka Keppich 
 
4^th place: Alice Kemp
 
5^th place: Sanath Herle
 
Hanyuqiao Prizes:
 
1^st  Place:  Saira Kothapalli  (Overnewton Anglican Community College)
 
2^nd Place: Katinka Keppich (Carey Grammar School )
 
3^rd Place: Arian Prasad (Kingswood College)
 
Encouragement Awards:
Alice Kemp (Ruyton Girls’ School)
Sanath Herle (Geelong College)

 

Please see attached.

The topic of the competition for primary school candidates is “Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Hot in Life, 生活中的酸·甜·苦·辣” (candidates could focus on just one of the four aspects), and the topic of the competition for secondary school candidates is “Are Computer games Good or Bad for Teenagers’ Growth?” (电脑游戏对青少年的成长有益？有害？)
Requirements: 1. speech contents creation should be based on the topic of “Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Hot” for primary school candidates and “Are Computer Games Good or Bad for Teenagers’ Growth?” for secondary school candidates; 2. speech contents should be original and the speech language should be mandarin; 3. time limit of speech is two to three minutes.   
 

墨大孔院搭台，维州汉语教师大会探讨中文高考新课程

12月1日至2日，2017年维多利亚州汉语教师大会在墨尔本大学举行。本次大会有两个主题，第一个主题探讨了“VCE汉语课程针对汉语作为第二语言、汉语作为第二语言高级组的课程设计”，第二个主题是“VCE汉语课程设计——语言、文化与社会”。

The recital competition photos on the 11th of May.

The CLTAV & TASMANIA 2022 Chinese Hanyuqiao Speaking and Performance Competition was held online on 20 May 2022.

These students below will take part in the Australia’s National Hanyuqiao Chinese Competition for Secondary School Students on 20 June 2022 in Melbourne.
Hannah Phung (Geelong College )
Mishanya Romadinov (Kingswood College )
Jack De Fraga (Melbourne Grammar )
Abbey Johnson (Stawell Secondary College )

Students below have won the encouragement award.  
Polly Cartledge  (Ruyton Girls' School )
Phuong Quynh Mai (Emmi) Do 
Aaron Pojani (Geelong College )
Levi Liauw (Balwyn High )
Alexander Kartel (Melbourne Grammar )
Felix MacDonald (Scotch College )

Tonight was a another wonderful evening for the new VCE teachers. There was around 40 Chinese teachers who attended the VCE workshop for new Chinese teachers. Everybody learnt a lot and enjoyed themselves at the end with pizzas. Many thanks to you Jixing and Ha Wei for their generosity  imparting their knowledg

The CLTAV & TASMANIA 2017 Hanyuqiao Speaking and Performance Competition for Second Language students of Chinese is a free competition designed to select the best two or three senior students from Victorian and Tasmanian schools to take part in the 11th International Hanyuqiao Chinese Competition in Kunming in October 2017. On the May 26th- 汉语桥比赛  was conducted at Melbourne Grammar School during 6.30-9.30 p.m. 
Here are some of the photographs taken on the day.

Congratulations to Koonung Secondary College, the winners of the Language Perfect World Championships CLTAV Award for the Top School for Chinese in the CLTAV network for 2017! The students earned 61,475 points in Chinese to place first in our network.  They have worked hard to produce an OUTSTANDING result!

You may be aware that Bendigo Art Gallery is renowned for running student and teacher programs for Language students and teachers.  This semester there is a Professional Development activity especially for Language Teachers on Thursday 18^th May featuring renowned Language teaching presenter Tilka Brown.
Here is the link to the program: http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au/Education/Teachers/HeARTful_Teaching_With_CLIL