The Pudong Campus has very active liaison groups and we would like to highlight them and the activities and support that they offer to our parent community. This month the focus is on the Chinese Liaison Group, representing China, our host country.

The SAS Pudong campus Chinese Liaison group falls under the PTSA. Each year, the Chinese Liaison organizes a number of events and participates in major school events representing the Chinese parents as a culture group.

The first and most important event of the Chinese Liaison is the Chinese Liaison Luncheon held in September. Guest speakers from the School Board, the Administration and the PTSA of Pudong SAS will give new parents a brief introduction of how the school is run, responsibilities of school and parents, and communication channels. New parents also use this occasion to meet other parents, especially the ones with children in the same grades or even same class. For new parents, the annual Chinese Luncheon is the most important place to meet other parents and to make friends which will benefit them for the rest of their stay in Shanghai.

Other events organized by the Chinese Liaison group thorough out the year are culture events such as the Mooncake tasting at the Mid-Autumn Festival (There’s no Moon cake tasting for 2009 because the Mid Autumn Festival is in the middle of the National Day Holiday), assisting the Chinese department for the Chinese New Year stage performance, Lantern Festival culture activities and luncheons.

The Chinese community is also very active in participating school-wide activities, such as the Fall BBQ where we provide delicious Chinese food at our Chinese Food Stand and at the United Nations Day where we introduce Chinese culture from different ethnic groups and different regions and areas of China.

We welcome all of you to have fun with us, volunteering your time to our community and making your stay in Shanghai meaningful and memorable.

Pudong PTSA Chinese Liaison Team
Overall: Queenie Zhang (4th and 7th grade), zhangbingqing@hotmail.com
ES: Zhao Qian (3rd grade), lotus_qian@yahoo.com; Lesley Lu (1st grade & 4th grade), weihong523@yahoo.com.
—Submitted by Queenie Zhang