Recent educational thinking across the fields of MFL and multicultural education has highlighted the relevance of teaching Mandarin Chinese in modern English primary and secondary schools.  Progressive schools in the North West have already begun to introduce Mandarin into their curricular and extra-curricular timetables: a movement initiated particularly by primary schools, who are now required to teach at least one Modern Foreign Language at Key Stage 2. 

Primary school is a great time to introduce children to a second language - young brains can adapt to the new skills with greater ease and fewer preconceptions than older children.

With its tones, Chinese is highly musical, making it an incredibly fun and surprisingly easy language for young children to get to grips with.  The new script also lets children use a new part of the brain, and gives some children who struggle with alphabetic writing styles the opportunity to excel in, and enjoy, a form of written communication.

Our teaching style is fun, multisensory and highly interactive; after all, enjoyment and accessing plenty of practice are the best ways to allow children to excel at language.  Employing visual, auditory and kinaesthetic methods in teaching and learning ensures that all children are involved in the enjoyment of language acquisition. 

We are more than happy to discuss schools' individual requirements, but as a suggestion we provide a scheme of work involving lots of speaking, listening, singing and games, as well as reading and writing the Chinese script.  The children will learn and use vocabulary including numbers, colours, animals, self and family, parts of the body, as well as general skills for building conversation and mastering sentence structure.  Of course, from the start, they also get to grips with the all-important tones.  We provide our own materials to accompany this scheme of work - but if you have a system already in place and just need a qualified teacher to deliver the lessons, we can still help.

We can provide weekly lessons as part of your school's curriculum; or a lunchtime, before-school, or after-school club on a day to suit your current schedule - as well as the opportunity for flexible PPA cover.  

Charlotte Foster of It's All Chinese is a Mandarin graduate with extensive language teaching experience, and a fully qualified primary school teacher holding QTS.  She is currently registered with the GTC, and is able to provide a recent enhanced CRB disclosure and curriculum vitae upon request.

Please do not hesitate to contact Charlotte on 07595 252930 for more information, or to arrange a meeting at your convenience.  Alternatively, send an email to the address below:

charlotte@itsallchinese.co.uk