For Hove Park School students on the Mandarin Excellence Programme the usual China trip was not possible this year, so the programme team came up with an innovative solution: a virtual China trip.
Year 9 and 10 students have been taught intensively by teachers from a Chinese university and were interacting directly with Chinese students. There were also exciting live events where they get to interact with experts on pandas, business people and people involved in China’s upcoming Winter Olympics. The Year 10 team came second out of 75 schools with a superb promotional video for Brighton and Hove in Mandarin (see below) and the local Tourist Board wants to use it on their website! Congratulations to Deneb, Jimmy and Peter on the winning team and to all the other students whose videos were also of excellent quality.
“This was a really intensive language learning experience, and over the course of two weeks, students make great progress in Mandarin and get exposed to some fantastic cultural content and get to practice with a range of native speakers”, said James Sandford, Head of Languages at Hove Park.
Hove Park School is one of the 75 schools nationwide enrolled in the prestigious Mandarin Excellence Program (MEP) which aims to put students on the road to fluency in Mandarin. Students in all year groups have recently been involved in year-end MEP activities. Year 7 and Year 8 have just successfully finished their MEP exams and have shown how much they have learned in a short period of time.
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