Bitish Museum Sunday 27th February

We have received the following message from the British Museum. If you are interested in getting tickets please contact Mr Huang:

"Dear Supplementary Schools

We are delighted to invite you to the Community Preview of Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World at the British Museum, on Sunday 27th February 2011. The exhibition preview will take place between 11 – 1pm, and all supplementary school groups who wish to bring students to view the exhibition are welcome.

The Community Preview is a ticketed event; tickets are limited and sent out on a first come first served basis. To book free tickets for your group please email qc.huang@virgin.net asap with the number of tickets you require.

Kite Making Activity – Great Court, 12 – 2pm
Take part in a creative kite making and decorating activity. Using traditional colours and Afghan patterns decorate your very own kite and explore the history and significance of this popular Afghani pastime."

Thanks,
David

Next Class - January 9!

Just a reminder that Sunday was the last class before Xmas - next class will be January 9.

Enjoy your Xmas/New Year!

David

Sunday October 31

Hi

Just a reminder that there will be no school on Sunday, October 31. Enjoy your half term break!

David

Taiwan in The Guardian

Saw this in The Guardian newspaper today http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/08/taiwan-launches-gasto-diplomacy-drive - I'm sure many of you can think of Taiwan delicacies that should be sold over here. I certainly think there should be more places selling Niu Rou Mien :)

David

Taiwanese Websites in UK

This is not meant to be a complete list and maybe you already know these, but if not...

Supermarkets

http://www.wingyip.com/

http://www.hoohing.com/

Both of these aren't strictly Taiwanese supermarkets, more Chinese supermarkets really - but you can still get Taiwanese food there.

And http://www.loonfung.com/ was also recommended. Apparently they are very large and popular supermarkets.

Restaurants

Leong's Legends - see http://www.london-eating.co.uk/34874.htm for reviews. It's in Soho - we've been there and really enjoyed the food. They don't only have Taiwanese food (I'm not even sure if it's Taiwanese owned).

I haven't been to any of the below restaurants:

http://www.taiwanvillage.com/

Formosa - see http://www.london-eating.co.uk/2668.htm for reviews

Keelung - see http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/review-23706391-taiwan-in-a-tasty-nutshell-at-keelung.do for a review

http://www.alisan.co.uk/ in Wembley


Bakery

My wife has been told aabout a Taiwanese bakery in Golders Green called Old Tree -
but we haven't been there.


Embassy

http://www.taiwanembassy.org/uk/mp.asp?mp=132

Contact Miss Shan Lo - ocac@taiwanese.co.uk - and she will email you a newsletter with upcoming Taiwanese-related events.

General Taiwanese Website
http://www.hellouk.org/ - I think it was originally designed for Taiwanese students in the UK, but anyone can use it. Had a good forum.

Travel Agent

http://www.ourstravel.com/new/ - I've never used them but lots of Taiwanese seem to. At the time of writing they have flights with Eva Air to Taipei for £525 inc tax. (Someone told me that "OursTravel have cheap tickets but service is awful when things go wrong.")


If you know any more good websites please let me know!

David

LOCS 2010/11 Term Dates

Hi All

Below are the term dates for 2010/11.

David

二零一零/ 二零一一年度上課時間表 ( 2010 / 2011 Term Dates ):
第一學期開學日： 二零一零年 九月 十二日 (12/09/2010 1st day of Autumn term)
期中假： 十月三十一日 (31/10/2010 Half term – school closes)
學期結束日： 十二月 五日 (05/12/2010 school breaks up at 3.50pm)

第二學期開學日： 二零一一年 一月 九日 (09/01/2011 1st day of Spring term)
春節後首個星期天：二月　　六日 (06/02/2011 1st Sunday of Chinese New Year)
期中假： 二月二十七日 (27/02/2011 Half term – school closes)
學期結束日： 四月　　三日 (03/04/2011 school breaks up at 3.50pm)

第三學期開學日： 五月　　八日 (08/05/2011 1st day of Summer term)
期中假： 五月二十九日 (29/05/2011 Half term – school closes)
學期結束日： 七月 十日 (10/07/2011 school breaks up at 3.50pm)


上課時間：每逢星期日下午14:00-15:50 School Hours: Sundays 14:00-15:50

上課地址School Address: St James’ Catholic High School, Great Strand, Colindale, London NW9 5PE

本校聯絡電話 Contact Telephone Nos.: 020 8318 0188 or 07768 057 200

CBBC CASTING -POLICE 8

Hi All

We have received the following email from the BBC - please contact Jonny Curtis jonny.curtis1@bbc.co.uk if you are interested.

We are looking for children aged 12-14 to take part in an exciting new CBBC show 'Police 8'. Here is a video taster of the show: http://vdev.national.core.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/childrensdevteam/screening/police8.shtml

Below is the consent form we would need the parents to fill out [You can get this from me, David, if you are interested]

We would come into the school, talk to the children and parents about the show and then interview the interested children. The "interview" would really be just a quick chat, would only take 5 minutes with each child and would be very informal. We would need to film the interviews with a small camcorder for our research purposes.
Are you interested?
Many thanks
Jonny Curtis