Archive for the ‘Chinese Language’ Category

Chinese New Year hits Elsternwick Primary

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

This year we celebrated Chinese New Year. Thanks to our new Mandarin teacher students this year had a week long celebration of Chinese New Year. Students learned Chinese cultural dances, made lanterns and the week ending with the traditional dragon dance. I think its important as students learn a language to understand ...

Learning to speak Chinese – Mandarin

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Victorian students are required to learn a language other than English up until year 8 and for many years our students learnt Italian. This year after extensive community consultation we choose to change the language to Chinese - Mandarin. The main reasons the community selected Mandarin include:  Australia is viewed geographically as part of ...