Hello Xu

Mandarin Chinese is a compulsory language in our school. We have 3 classes in year 7 with about 50 students( half of them will carry on Chinese to year 11, half of them learn about Chinese culture). The students do have a  choice to choose their language. They will have 5 years to complete the course. In year 10, some able students will do GCSE, while some students will wait until year 11. 

Hope it is helpful. 

Wanjun 
Miltoncross School
Portsmouth

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Hello,Xu,
 
Mandarin Chinese has been a compusary subject in Year7 in our school since 2006. We usually have 3 classes in Y7(29/30 pupils each class, we may have 4 classes if the classrooms are available). Y7 has French as a compusary subject as well. However the pupils have to choose one of Chinese or French to do in Y8. After that they have more choices to do the languages, e.g. Russian, German, Spanch, Italian, but they have to do one language for their GCSE subjects. A level students do not have to choose any languages.
 
Roughly we have Chinese learners 150-200 every year.
 
Kind regards,
 
XIu Hua Pan
Mandarin Chinese Teacher
Oxford High School
 

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Sent: Tue 2011-10-11 14:03
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Dear Xu,
 
We have German and Spanish as our main languages in Year 7 (half the year group do one, half the year group do the other - chosen at the end of Year 6). In Year 8 pupils can elect to study either Chinese or French alongside their Year 7 language. Everyone is a dual linguist until the end of Year 9.
 
At KS4 they must continue with at least one of their languages. At KS5 they may take a language at A level if they have studied it at GCSE. If they are taking IB, then they must take at least one language at one of the following levels: ab initio  (Chinese and Spanish); standard (French, German, Chinese and Spanish) and higher (French, German and Spanish). They may add another language as part of the hexagon if they wish.
 
Best wishes,
 
Victoria Allen
Torquay Boys' Grammar School
 

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:34:00 +0100
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Dear Xu (and anyone interested),

 

At Katharine Lady Berkeley's School (state comprehensive school) we have French as our core language, then we offer a carousel for Y7 pupils in the first half term.  Pupils have 2 hours of taster lessons in each of Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, German and Latin.  They then opt for their second language from the list of 5 and study this alongside French until the end of Y9.  They can then opt to continue stuyding both languages up to Y11 or drop one of their languages.  If they have a GCSE in any of the languages, they can continue up to A level.

 

Hope that helps with your gathering of statistics. 

 

Michelle

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Dear Colleagues, 
 
I am trying to find out that how many primary and secondary schools have Mandarin Chinese as compusary modern foriegn language currently.  I would be very grateful if you could kindly let me know the figures in percentage for both states school and independent school. 
 
Our school is consider to introduce Mandarin Chinese to pupils and i was asked to find out such information if possible.
 
Thank you very much in anticippation.
 
Xu Guo
Kings school Rochester

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Katharine Lady Berkeley's School 
Wotton-under-Edge 
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