At Templestowe Valley Primary School, the Mandarin Program provides learners with language skills, and also a cultural awareness of the Chinese speaking community.

Mandarin is delivered and practised through a variety of activities:

• Role-plays
• Practising their typing, speaking and listening skills with ICT tools
• Research projects
• Class discussions
• Real-life language texts analysis
• Language competitions
• Singing songs and dances
• Chants
• Stories
• Language games

This learning experience also introduces the metalinguistic skills and knowledge of how to learn an additional language.