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📖 Our Mission & Course Overview

The Western Sydney Chinese School is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to promoting the Chinese language and Chinese culture. We employ an interactive, practical, and engaging teaching approach. To help students apply what they learn and boost their learning outcomes, we also regularly publish a school journal featuring our students’ own work.

🇦🇺 Alignment with the Australian Curriculum

Our curriculum is closely aligned with the official Australian Curriculum: Languages – Chinese standards. In the Australian education system, Chinese language learning focuses on Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin), Pinyin Romanisation, and simplified characters.

As both simplified and traditional Chinese characters are widely used across media, education, and print, our teaching methodology guides students to develop a strong knowledge and awareness of both writing systems.

We cater to a wide range of language-learning experiences, whether your child is:

  • A second-language learner starting their Chinese language journey for the very first time.

  • A background-language learner with existing cultural or familial connections to Chinese.

  • A first-language learner who identifies with or uses Chinese as their mother tongue.

📚 Premium Learning Materials

For our core curriculum, we use the authoritative and highly acclaimed textbook series compiled by the Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC): 👉 《Learn Mandarin with Me》(學華語向前走) Digital Textbook

This curriculum is designed to be highly practical and relevant to daily life, helping overseas students progressively master listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.

🕒 Class Schedule & Term Structure

Our school terms align with the standard NSW public school calendar.

Each term consists of 9 sessions (1 session per week, running for 9 weeks).

💡 Safety & Important Note: In the event that our school venue is utilised as a polling place for federal, state, or local elections, classes will be suspended on that day to fully ensure student safety and maintain teaching quality.

The daily timetable is as follows:

  • Period 1: 09:00 – 10:10

  • Period 2: 10:20 – 11:20

  • Period 3: 11:30 – 12:30

💰 Fees & Inclusions

  • Tuition Fee: $50 AUD per student, per term (collected at the commencement of each term).

  • What’s Included:

    1. Full tuition for all 9 sessions per term.

    2. All required textbooks and learning materials (including the digital resources for the Learn Mandarin with Me series mentioned above).

中文

📖 我們的教學宗旨與課程介紹

本校以推廣中文及中華文化為宗旨，屬於非營利教育機構。我們採用活學活用的互動式教學，並定期發行刊載學生作品的校刊，讓學生們能學以致用、顯著增進學習效果。

結合澳洲國家課程標準 (Australian Curriculum)

本校的課程設計密切銜接 Australian Curriculum: Languages – Chinese 官方標準。在澳洲教育體系中，中文學習著重於現代標準漢語（普通話/國語）、漢語拼音以及簡體字。

考慮到簡體與繁體中文在媒體、教育和出版物中的廣泛應用，我們的教學將引導學生同時建立對這兩種文字系統的認知與覺察能力。

無論您的孩子是：

  • 第一次接觸中文的初學者 (Second-language learners)

  • 具備家庭文化背景的基礎學習者 (Background-language learners)

  • 將中文視為母語的學生 (First-language learners)

我們都能提供相應的語言學習體驗，滿足多元背景學生的需求。

📚 選用優質教材

本校主課選用中華民國僑務委員會精心編纂的權威教材： 👉 《學華語向前走》數位教材

本套教材兼顧生活化與實用性，非常適合海外學子循序漸進地掌握聽、說、讀、寫技能。

🕒 上課時間與學期規劃

上課週數配合平日澳洲正規學校的學期安排，每學期共 9 節課（每週六上課一次，共 9 週）。

💡 安全溫馨提示：如遇大選日、地方選舉等投票日占用學校場地時，當日將暫停上課，以全面確保學生的出入安全與教學品質。

每日課程時間表如下：

  • 第一時段 (Period 1)：09:00 – 10:10

  • 第二時段 (Period 2)：10:20 – 11:20

  • 第三時段 (Period 3)：11:30 – 12:30

💰 費用說明

  • 學費：學生每人每學期 $50 AUD（於每學期開學時收取）。

  • 費用包含：

    1. 每學期共 9 節課的完整教學。

    2. 課堂所需之書籍教材（含上述《學華語向前走》相關配套資源）。

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