Mandarin Department
“Learn Chinese, Double Your World 学会中国话 朋友满天下 ”
— CHINESE BRIDGE
Our Aims
The main aim of our Mandarin Department is to provide a platform for the learners to acquire language proficiency, cultural awareness and critical thinking skills so that they can be global citizens and succeed in any chosen professional discipline anywhere in the world.
Our Curriculum
In Key Stage 3, we offer classes of 3 levels: advanced, intermediate and basic. The advanced level focuses on reading, writing and summary skills whereas the speaking, listening, reading and writing skills are the main foci for both the intermediate and basic level.
We use the Chinese Independent School book as our main teaching resource for the advanced level and the Easy Steps to Chinese, for both intermediate and basic levels.
In Key Stage 4, students study for IGCSE Chinese First Language, IGCSE Chinese Second Language or IGCSE Mandarin Chinese (Modern Foreign Language). We believe that through our curriculum, learners can become appreciative and critical readers and writers of Chinese.
In Key Stage 5, we deliver the IB Ab initio and Language B (both standard level and higher level).
We visited numerous international schools in Klang-Valley and Sri KDU Subang Jaya was not even on our list. Reason being it is way out of our travelling radius. However, we are glad we made the visit to the school before our final call, and it was the best decision ever! It was a huge transition period for us during the first 2 weeks into school, but the school’s team (Teachers, Administrative and Parent’s Teacher Association) made us feel right at home. We were given clear guidance and was kept well informed on the happenings in the school. My daughter blended into the community quite well with the care provided by the Homeroom teacher. All the teachers here are the kindest, as she told me. She looks forward to going to school and has become more disciplined in terms on knowing what tasks she needs to complete daily. She has gained so much confidence during this short period of time and was given the encouragement to explore and develop her abilities here. She was just selected as the new Primary House Captain for Year 6 AY2022/2023.
Every parent want to find the ‘perfect’ school for their child and are afraid of making the wrong decision. For us, as long she is safe and happy, we believe, she will eventually find the way to her own success.