
Mandarin Excellence Programme
@mep_excellence
The Mandarin Excellence Programme is a unique intensive language programme. Thousands of students are enrolled on the programme across schools in England.
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31-03-2023 07:40:11
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30 minutes until the Twilight Show with Mr D. Lester on YouTube! Darren is joined by guests Julian, Matt and Beth to discuss the successful Mandarin Language Programmes. Watch live using the link below 👇 zurl.co/vx096 Live Education Conversation. #TTRadio


🇨🇳 Join us live now for the Teachers Talk Radio episode exploring lessons from the #MandarinExcellence programme x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"They get an experience they would never get otherwise!" headteacher Julian Metcalf on the Mandarin Excellence Programme British Council Schools x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"When students are there - this is a real country and a real language with real people - it's groundbreaking!" Beth Fleming discussing her students educational visit to China with Mandarin Excellence Programme British Council Schools x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"Learning a language can't just be about an exam at the end of year 11! In a world dominated by AI, programmes like Mandarin Excellence Programme are important" Julian Metcalf on the significance of MEP for his students x.com/i/broadcasts/1…


"All of our students will do two languages to GCSE! We have 60+ different langauges being spoken in the school so we are always looking for ways to promote languages" Headteacher Julian Metcalf Mandarin Excellence Programme British Council Schools x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"I teach in the school I went to - my line managers were my teachers as a child!" Beth talking about her journey into teaching at the school she went to as a child Mandarin Excellence Programme British Council Schools x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Check out the fantastic Teachers Talk Radio episode exploring lessons from the #MandarinExcellence programme. 🎧Podbean: podbean.com/eas/pb-3s5z5-1… 📺YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=B95RRB… 📺X: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Thank you to Mr D. Lester and Teachers Talk Radio for hosting this engaging discussion and thank you to guests: Beth from Macmillan Academy, Julian from Dartford Grammar and Matt from IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society for providing interesting insights from the programme.




If you missed our podcast with Teachers Talk Radio, you can still tune in 👇



Last term, to enrich their unit on ‘local area’ and give them a taste of engineering and sustainability careers in Asia, Year 10 learnt about how #Singapore has innovated to become highly sustainable, culminating in some fantastic target language explainer posters Mandarin Excellence Programme


Today, the United Nations celebrates #ChineseLanguageDay 2025 with the theme "Poetic China, Romantic Elegance", drawing inspiration from Chinese culture and Chinese classics. We honour this as one of the oldest and richest languages in the world #mfltwitterati #edutwitter Mandarin Excellence Programme


