You may have watched some of our school videos and have seen students at our school being taught 2 out of 5 days in Chinese, Mandarin – we also have a bi-lingual English/Vietnamese program, where students from prep. to grade 2 are taught two out of five days at school in Vietnamese. You can have a sneak peek into one of these classes here:

On the 29th of October 2013 the BBC published a report by Jon Donnison about our school’s bi-lingual program, titled “Meet the Australian children fluent in Mandarin” in their Asia News section, which you can find here.

While the program has some interesting facts that you might want to read through we would like to share an enhanced video that was made available to us by the BBC as part of this report:

Our Chinese Prep class was invited by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to perform at a reception for students from Suzhou, China at the Melbourne Zoo and they did a great job. Everyone was impressed how much these kids have learned after only 50 days in Chinese.

Do you want to see some of our prep. class kids in action? Then you might want to look at this video of Valerie Landewee’s second term prep. class. Enjoy!

Do you wonder what a Bilingual class looks like? Take a sneak peek at our Chinese Bilingual class after four month of bilingual education in Chinese: