WHS Mandarin Dept.

🇨🇳🎓Exciting day at UCL IOE for our Year 12 Mandarin students on #SchoolandUniversitiesDay! 📚They got to engage with Chinese departments from top universities, and heard from alumni about studying Chinese and life post-graduation. Questions, insights, and aspirations flowing!🌟

🇨🇳🧧Y8 students showcased their creativity today by trying Chinese calligraphy as part of our Lunar New Year celebration! 🐉✍️ #YearOfTheDragon They crafted Chinese characters fused with dragon elements, blending tradition with artistry. #gdst #wimbledonhigh #y8whs #whslanguages

🥮🇨🇳 Last Friday was Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) in China. We learnt poems about the moon, and made bookmarks with writing Chinese calligraphy. @wimbledonhigh @gdst #year11whs #year9whs #whslanguages

🇨🇳✏️Congratulations to our Year13 girls who have received excellent HSK1 test results! @Sixth_WHS @WimbledonHigh @gdst #sixthwhs #OpenMind #inspirewhs

🇨🇳🖼️ Our y12 Chinese study group went to @britishmuseum to see the immersive exhibition 'China's hidden century'. It was amazing to see those exquisite objects representing people's life in China in the last 100 years. #whslanguages #year12whs @GDST @WimbledonHigh

The art of translation, sign language, make your own Hanzi, poems in translation, invented languages, language puzzles... which workshop would you choose? All on offer at today's Linguistica conference! @WimbledonHigh @Mandarin_WHS @German_WHS @French_WHS

After learnt how 汉字 hanzi (Chinese characters) were created, our linguists from @WimbledonHigh and @HAWimbledon have worked together to create their own special 'hanzi'. We had so much fun at the Linguistica conference 🇨🇳🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸 today! #whslanguages @GDST

@alexbellos has kicked off our inaugural Linguistica conference for @WimbledonHigh & @HAWimbledon students with a fascinating interactive history of the alphabet and writing systems, including various linguistic puzzles @French_WHS @Mandarin_WHS @German_WHS

Can't wait for the #WHSLinguistica conference on 18 May! Keynote speaker @alexbellos & workshops on translation, invented languages, sign language & much more! It's going to be 精彩绝伦 🇧🇴fascinante مبهر faszinierend🇨🇮 eltur tìtxen si 🇦🇫захоплюючий 🇧🇷hynod ddiddorol चित्ताकर्षक

🇨🇳✨So much fun at school today - we just had a special visitor at break! @JuniorHead_WHS @GDST @Mandarin_WHS #LunarNewYear2023 #ChineseNewYear

🇨🇳🎤🥢 Our Year 10s had so much fun in applying language in real life scenario: ordering food in Chinese as well as singing karaoke in Chinese. 😋 @WimbledonHigh @GDST #whslanguages #whsyear10 #year10whs

✍️🇨🇳 Year 9 girls enjoyed writing about themselves and families in 汉字 hanzi （Chinese characters). We are so proud of ourselves💯💯. @WimbledonHigh @GDST #year9whs

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🥳Congratulations to Emilia (y10) who won the 1st prize for the ISMLA Original Writing Competition for GCSE Mandarin category. What a great achievement! @WimbledonHigh @GDST @ismla_uk #year10whs #linguistica

🎨Year 9 girls explored Chinese water painting 山水画（shan shui hua) today. So many beautiful works!🌸🌸🌿🌿 @WimbledonHigh @GDST #year9whs @ArtDept_WHS

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How many ways can you say, “no”?❌ Let's see. If you have any questions leave a comment below🥰 #xingtianwa #chineseforkids #kids #learnchinese

🇬🇧🇨🇳Our y7-10 girls enjoyed a fun chat with their pen friends in Beijing! As a Chinese old saying goes, 海内存知己，天涯若比邻 （A sincere friend from afar brings a distant land closer） @WimbledonHigh #year7WHS #year8WHS #year9WHS #year10WHS @GDST

"Linguistica is a platform for our #students to engage with the cultural, social and political world of the country they are studying." - Mrs Claire Baty @French_WHS @Mandarin_WHS Read on #WimTeach - bit.ly/3wLcHFB #LinguisticaWHS #LanguageLearning @German_WHS @GDST