Mission

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="044fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Pleasanton Community Chinese School</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pleasanton Community Chinese School"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Mission</B>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="201112 School Calendar"><U>2011-12 School Calendar</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Registration Forms"><U>Registration Forms</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PreK Classes"><U>Pre-K Classes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Safety Patrol "><U>Safety Patrol </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Class Worksheets"><U>Class Worksheets</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Member List"><U>Member List</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Related Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Acknowledgments"><U>Special Acknowledgments</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chinese Web Page"><U>Chinese Web Page</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Everything a new Student or parent needs"><U>Everything a new Student or parent needs to know</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and gossip"><U>News and gossip</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SCRIP"><U>SCRIP</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="045d2b03.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Mission</B></I></div> <div> Our mission is to provide an open learning environment for our children to learn <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why Another Chinese School in Pleasanton"><U>Traditional Chinese</U></A> writing characters while becoming proficient in reading, writing, and speaking Chinese. This is offered in a choice Mandarin and Cantonese dialect and supplemented with Simplified Chinese characters.</div> <bR> <div> Pleasanton Community Chinese School is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization incorporated in May 2004.  We are working on applying for non-profit status.</div> <bR> <div> Classes are conducted in 100% Chinese with English spoken only when the children have difficulties in understand instructions.  The only exception will be 'Pinyin' Kindergarten which will be conducted in both Mandarin Chinese and English.</div> <bR> <div> If there is sufficient interest expressed by our non-Chinese speaking community, we will also offering special classes to teach adults conversational Chinese as well as learning Traditional Chinese Writer Characters.  A minimum of 18 people will be needed before we can open such a class since we must pay our teacher and cover the rental cost for the classroom.</div> <bR> <div> Pleasanton Community Chinese School intends offer culture classes where the children will have the opportunity to learn Chinese culture, like Chinese Arts & Crafts.  These classes will be formed once there is sufficient interest amongst the enrollment students.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why Another Chinese School in Pleasanton"><U>Why another Chinese school in the Tri-Valley area?</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Mission</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="201112 School Calendar"><U><B>2011-12 School Calendar</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Registration Forms"><U><B>Registration Forms</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PreK Classes"><U><B>Pre-K Classes</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Safety Patrol "><U><B>Safety Patrol </B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Class Worksheets"><U><B>Class Worksheets</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Member List"><U><B>Member List</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U><B>Related Links</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Acknowledgments"><U><B>Special Acknowledgments</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chinese Web Page"><U><B>Chinese Web Page</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Everything a new Student or parent needs"><U><B>Everything a new Student or parent needs to know</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and gossip"><U><B>News and gossip</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SCRIP"><U><B>SCRIP</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>