Congratulations to our Year 11 students on your fantastic GCSE Mandarin results! 🚀 80% Grades 9-7 (A*-A) 🎉 90% Grades 9-6 (A*-B) 🙌 100% overall pass rate #SBSPride #GCSEResultsDay #ResultsDay2024 St Birinus School Mandarin Excellence Programme

A great start to the term with Year 9MEP exploring the customs and complexities of the traditional Chinese family tree and the impacts of China’s One Child Policy, illustrated with edible population pyramids! #MandarinExcellence #SBSPride UCL IOE CI

Last weekend, Head of Mandarin Mr Mahoney spoke at the annual #chineseconf about the Didcot Sixth Form Mandarin pathway, encompassing the #IBDP #HSK4 and enrichment

We’re super impressed with our Year 7’s homemade storybooks they’ve created over the half term break! Inspired after reading Chinese books in their lessons, what a great show of reading for pleasure and #SBSPride #MandarinExcellence UCL IOE CI St Birinus School

A throwback to the transformational experience afforded by the #MandarinExcellence programme trip to Shanghai last summer with our Year 9MEP class! Bridget Phillipson Catherine McKinnell MP Mandarin Excellence Programme

A brilliant session in the kitchen today with our 28 Year 8MEP students making bao buns! #confidence #collaboration Mandarin Excellence Programme UCL IOE CI Bridget Phillipson

A great meal out last week in Oxford with our Didcot Sixth Form Year 12 Mandarin IB class! It makes such a difference being able to use your language in context. #MandarinExcellence #IBDP

We’re so impressed to hear that Freddie went away and made even more bao buns over the weekend, after having made them in school last week. They look 很好吃！ This term Year 8 students decoded a Chinese recipe before making the bao buns themselves last week #MandarinExcellence

Some fantastic final lessons of the term with Years 9 and 10MEP, including secret Santa and some competitive rounds of chopstick challenge. 圣诞快乐！🎅 Mandarin Excellence Programme St Birinus School

Year 9MEP enjoyed a fantastic kung fu session this afternoon with local kung fu master Pete Orum - what a brilliant surprise treat for Blue Monday! #MandarinExcellence UCL IOE CI British Council Schools

Next week is our Chinese New Year celebration week and we’re excited to be hosting paper lantern and dragon making sessions, a Chinese quiz, and New Year’s lunch to celebrate #YearOfTheSnake 🐍 Well done to Huw (Y7) on his fantastic poster! #SBSPride Mandarin Excellence Programme

Our #ChineseNewYear celebration week is off to a flying start with our students creating paper lanterns, which will be used to decorate the canteen later this week! #YearOfTheSnake #SBSPride Dr Khan Leadership Mandarin Excellence Programme

Happy #ChineseNewYear from our #MandarinExcellence programme students! We wish everyone a Happy New Year and good luck in the #YearOfTheSnake

The lanterns looked brilliant in the canteen today, as was the delicious #ChineseNewYear lunch prepared by the catering team! #YearOfTheSnake #SBSPride

Great to welcome former student Charlie (MEP Class of 2023) back this morning. He led an inspiring session with our Year 9 and 10 MEP classes in which he spoke about his experiences of studying for his A Levels in China! Mandarin Excellence Programme #SBSPride

Last term, Year 8 explored China’s diverse climate before creating their own annotated maps out of play dough! #MandarinExcellence #Mandarin #MFLTeaching #SBSPride Mandarin Excellence Programme

To round off their unit about food, at the end of last term Year 7 got to grips with using chopsticks. Ably led by our enthusiastic Year 10s (who have been to China) two Year 7 teams battled out a chopstick relay challenge! #MandarinExcellence #MFL #Mandarin British Council Schools

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

🌏Mandarin Chinese opens up a world of opportunities! 🇨🇳 Since 2016, the Mandarin Excellence Programme has helped more than 15,000 school pupils in England get on track to fluency in Mandarin. Find out more: ow.ly/6soc50VPrHf

Year 10MEP’s Intensive Study is in full swing this week - there’s been a real buzz of collaboration and it was great to have the Year 12s helping them out too, and we even fitted in a filming visit from British Council Schools this afternoon! Mandarin Excellence Programme UCL IOE CI #SBSPride