Mandarin Chinese outreach

One of our native Mandarin Chinese teachers delivers an outreach programme once per week for 45 mins for a term. The programme will include language learning and cultural activities such as character painting.

Aims

The aim is to share our expertise with neighbouring schools to broaden the linguistic experience of our local community of children

To strengthen partnerships between St Gabriel's and our local feeder schools.

To facilitate the learning of Mandarin Chinese for younger pupils and introduce them to another culture which is very different from their own.

Background

We have previously delivered an outreach Classics programme to a number of local Primary schools, which was extremely successful. With increasing numbers of our pupils choosing to continue Mandarin Chinese to GCSE and beyond, we think it is important to broaden young minds at an early age, to the benefits of learning a non-European language. Our own Junior school pupils learn Mandarin from Year 1 and we would like to extend this opportunity to other young members of our local community. 

Resources

Our teacher is given one full day on her timetable to deliver outreach lessons to local Junior schools. She has travelling time built in, and uses the host school's facilities. There is no cost to the host schools.

Transport available.

Impact

We hope that the Junior school children will be inspired to continue their learning of this language in the future.

Pupil Involvement

Partner school Year 4 pupils. Boys and girls. 

 

Frequency

The outreach will be offered to 3 local Primary schools each term We expect this to develop into a long-term commitment.