Cairns School of Chinese

Dear students and parents,

I have to cancel the lessons today (Monday 10/2/2025) as I am unwell. Sorry for the late notice.

Shixiang Chen

Dear students and parents,

Happy Chinese New Year and welcome to Term 1 2025. Please see the class schedule for this term below.

Monday Classes (Week 1 lessons postponed)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Children's class starts on Monday 10/02/2025 (Mooroobool).
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Adult Class starts on Monday 10/02/2025 (Mooroobool).

Thursday Class (Week 1 Lesson Postponed)
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Primary School Class starts on Thursday 13/02/2025 (Smithfield).

Saturday Classes
TBA

Please note that there may be some last-minute changes during this term. Please check your emails (including the spam box) regularly in case you miss some key notifications.

Hope to see you soon.

Dear all,
Further to our previous post, please note that there will be no Chinese class on Saturday 3/2/2024 as Mr. Chen will be on professional development in Brisbane.

Dear Students and Parents,

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024.

Below are the class times for this term.
As Monday 22/02/2024 being a student free day, our Monday adult classes will start from 5:30 pm, 29/01/2024.
As per requested by parents, our Monday Kids Class will start from 4:00 pm, 5/2/2024.
All Saturday classes will start from 27/01/2024. We'll keep the class time the same as last year for now.
If you have any questions, please feel free to let us know.

Shixiang Chen

Happy Chinese New Year - Chinese & IT Courses in 2023

Dear current and past parents and students,

Happy Chinese New Year! Welcome to the year of the rabbit! For the first time in a long time the Chinese New Year finally fell on the weekends. Hope you and your family thoroughly enjoyed it.

In 2023, we will introduce two certificate courses in the IT area while we continue with our usual Chinese courses for adults and school aged students, which includes the Australian Curriculum Chinese for kids, HSK, BCT, and Certificate II & III in Applied Language Chinese. All the certificate courses are nationally accredited and may contribute to QCE and ATAR for Senior Years students (Year 11 & 12).

Below is a list of our current courses and the class times. Please help us spread the word and let us know if you have any questions. Our Monday classes start tomorrow (Monday 23/01/2023), and the Saturday classes start on 28/01/2022.
Australian Curriculum Kids Class - Monday 4:00 pm start
BCT (Business Chinese Test) Level 1 for Adults - Monday 5:30 pm start (no previous learning experience required)
HSK (Standard Chinese) for School Aged Students - Saturday 8 start
Certificate II & III in Applied Language - Saturday 9:15 am start
HSK Adult Chinese (previous learning experience required) - Saturday 10:30 am start
Certificate II in Applied Digital Technologies (New!) - TBA (expression of interest by email)
Certificate III in Information Technology (New!) - TBA (expression of interest by email)
Below are the lists of units covered in the new certificate courses. The courses may also suit Chinese speakers whose English is their second language.

Certificate II in Applied Digital Technologies
Core Unit - Contribute to the health and safety of self and others
Core Unit - Operate application software packages
Core Unit - Operate digital media technology packages
Core Unit - Participate in sustainable work practices
Core Unit - Use computer operating systems and hardware
Core Unit - Use digital technologies to communicate in a work environment
Group A - Connect a home based local wireless network
Group A - Design and create basic organisational documents
Group A - Develop web presence using social media
Group A - Securely manage personally identifiable information and workplace information
Group B - Maintain interactive content
Other - Build simple web pages
Certificate III in Information Technology
Core Unit - Apply introductory programming techniques
Core Unit - Develop and extend critical and creative thinking skills
Core Unit - Identify IP, ethics and privacy policies in ICT environments
Core Unit - Provide ICT advice to clients
Core Unit - Securely manage personally identifiable information and workplace information
Core Unit - Work in a team
Group B - Evaluate characteristics of cloud computing solutions and services
Group E Generalist IT Support - Maintain and repair ICT equipment and software
Group E Generalist IT Support - Run standard diagnostic tests
Group H Programming - Apply introductory object-oriented language skills
Group H Programming - Write scripts for software applications
Group I Systems - Install, configure and secure a small office or home office network
Thank you for your time reading this long email. We look forward to another exciting year working with keen learners in our local community.

Best regards,
Shixiang Chen

Dear parents and students,
Invoices for Term 2 have finally been sent. Thanks for your patience.
See you in Term 3.

Catch-up Day for Certificate Course students. Great learning group, tasty food, completed learning tasks. That’s what we are talking about.💪🍕🎉

Just a quick reminder that our Cert course catch up day is tomorrow. See you there.

Dear Parents and Students,

Please note that the Term 1 2022 invoices have been sent. Your prompt payment is much appreciated. Thank you.

Dear Parents and Students,

Today marks the final lessons of all our Term 1 classes. It has been a term with major interruptions but students, parents and teachers all coped really well. Thank you for all your support and hard work!

Below is the Term 2 draft schedule.

Term 1 Wednesday class - The class time is under review and we'll publish the time when we have all the feedback.

Saturday HSK 2 Class - The class resumes at 8:00 am from Saturday 23/4/2022.

Saturday Certificate II and III in Applied Language
- The holiday catch-up session is on Saturday 16/04/2022 from 9 am to 2 pm.
- The class resumes at 8:00 am on Saturday 23/4/2022 (with the choice of arriving late before 9:15 am for students with work commitment)

The Saturday Adult HSK 2 & 3 classes will be combined running as Saturday Adult Class - The class resumes at 10:30 am from Saturday 23/4/2022

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on Facebook or [email protected].

Enjoy your break and see you in Term 2.

Just a quick update: Our Tuesday afternoon class has been merged to Saturday 8:00 am.

Kids Beginner Chinese Course time confirmed. All welcome. Please see our classes of 2021 below:

* Saturday 08:00 am: Kids HSK 2 class 1 & Cert II and III in Applied Language starting from 5th March

* Saturday 09:15 am: Cert II and III in Applied Language starting from 5th March

* Saturday 10:30 am: HSK 3 Adult Class starting from 5th March

* Saturday 11:30 am: HSK 2 Adult Class (New Students Welcome) starting from 5th March

* Tuesday 4:45 pm: HSK 2 Kids Class 2 starting from 8th March

* Wednesday 4:45 pm: Kids Beginner Class starting from 9th March