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Dear Katharine, I have some photos if they would be useful from when we were in China with the group (pick a year any year!). Best wishes, Victoria >===== Original Message From Mandarin Chinese Teaching <[log in to unmask]> ===== >Dear All > >I am writing to tell you about the project to develop a Chinese set of >webpages on the Specialist Schools Trust website. These pages will be >called The Chinese Network. There will be news from schools teaching >Chinese, news of events, sharing and exchange of teaching resources (an >opportunity for teachers to upload and download lesson plans and >resources), weblinks, pupils' pages etc. > >The Network will complement the ALL e-mail forum, which I would say has >been well used over the last few weeks for discussion. The Network's >main focus will be on the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language in >secondary schools, but it will aim to be as inclusive as possible and so >will also cover community schools, FE, AE, HE and primary education. > >I am working on behalf of the Trust to develop these pages (not, I >hasten to add, the technical side, but the content!). I hope they will >be lively, useful and a valuable resource for all those involved in the >teaching of Chinese. However, I will need lots of ideas and input from >everyone. > >In the first instance, I have the following requests: > >1. The name for the webpages in English will be Chinese Network. I >thought that the Chinese name could be zhong1wen2wang3. However, I would >welcome feedback on this. If anyone has any different ideas or >suggestions or agrees with my proposal, then all feedback is very >welcome. Finding the best name at the outset is very important! > >2. As far as I understand at the moment, the header of each webpage will >have a photograph and there will be a couple of smaller photographs down >the side of each page (these photos will be the same on each page; there >won't be different photos on each page). I think the smaller photographs >will be a semi-permanent feature of each page and that the header >photograph will be changed regularly. > >Do any of you have any suitable photographs? It would be good to have >pictures of learners involved in some exciting activity in the classroom >or putting their learning into action in China. Any digital pictures >any of you could send me would be great. The Trust has an official >permission slip which I would need to ask you to get the parents of any >children on photographs selected for use on the site to sign. > >3. I will be starting to collect material for the pages very soon, but >in the first instance, it would be very useful if you could come back to >me with any ideas of what you would like to see on the site over and >above the sub-headings I mentioned above. > >We are lucky to have a good communications network set up already, so I >intend to use it to ensure that the Chinese Network pages are as useful >for everyone as possible! > >I look forward to hearing from you all. > >Best wishes >Katharine Carruthers >-- > >Katharine Carruthers >Brooke House >Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden >Essex, CB10 2AA Head of Oriental Languages Katharine Lady Berkeley's School Wotton under Edge GL12 8RB