On Wednesday, September 6th, FLIS held a special meeting with parents, in which we encouraged parents to get involved with the school.  All parents and staff are automatically members of the PTA when they join the school community.

 

　　家委会（Parent Teacher Association, 缩写为PTA），即由家长、学校职员及社区成员所组成的协会。PTA主要有以下两个主要职能：首先是促进社会融合和互动，其次是通过项目筹集资金和与儿童慈善机构一起工作来支持学校履行社会责任。

　　The Parent Teacher Association (aka PTA) is made up of parents, school staff and community members. The association has two primary functions: firstly to promote social integration and interaction, and secondly to support the school in fulfilling its social responsibilities by raising money for projects and working alongside children’s charities.

 

　　作为幼儿园及小学部门校长，Jeanne女士与德育处主任Kata女士一同出席了该会议。她们向在座家长介绍了数项PTA参与方式，可以作为一名志愿者参加协会举办的活动、作为一个班级的联络人、或是一个协调委员会的成员。这完全取决于家长们的兴趣、才能以及他们能为此付出的时间和精力，诸如加入PTA指导委员会/参与社会活动，成为班级联络人/家长大师/家长代表，等等。

　　As Principal of ECE and Primary school, Ms. Jeanne Sobo attended the meeting with Ms Kata Wu, the Director of Character Education department. They introduced a number of ways in which parents can involve themselves in the PTA. It really depends on their interests, skills and their ability to give time to the association, like joining the PTA steering committee/social events, being room parents/parents ambassadors/parents representatives.

　　此前福州西湖国际学校曾成功举办过数次慈善活动，今年也将继续这项传统。我们真诚希望能一如既往地获得家长们的支持。此外，许多家长擅长厨艺，热爱旅行。对此，家长社团将会向西湖国际学校社群征集私房食谱与旅途故事，我们将制作学校自己的食谱集以及旅行手册，售出资金将用于慈善活动及救援工作。

　　Since FLIS has already held some successful charity events, this year we're willing to carry on the tradition.  We sincerely hope parents can continue to offer their wonderful support.  Many parents are good at cooking & baking and some are true travel enthusiasts. The FLIS Cookbook & The FLIS Travel Book also await your contributions! We can sell the books to fundraise for parent directed projects such as school improvements or charity & relief efforts.

　　PTA的结构及组织意在创造参与及奉献的机会，而非增加家长负担、让大家感到费力辛苦。参与越多，所能达成的快乐与成就也越多。

　　我们期待您的参与！

　　The structure and organization is designed to create opportunities to be involved and to contribute. It is not intended that parents’ involvement should in any way be arduous, the more people we have involved, the more we can achieve and enjoy together!

　　We look forward to your participation！