What secondary schools teach Mandarin GCSE ?

[maisiewaysie]

I'm thinking of moving back to UK from HK within the next year and am searching for a state school/independent secondary school that teaches GCSE mandarin for my son who is now 13 (which is Year 8). Hopefully to find one in the surrey area as I have relatives living in Cheam (Surrey) area. I'm hoping to find one where he can take mandarin as an alternative to French/Spanish etc. So one less language to pick up as he will already have to speed up his English Language knowledge.

[halvedfees]

And of course Wellington College Berkshire :)

[purplegirl16]

Hampton- although it's a new thing. dd's at Putney high and one of the mandarin teachers moved there last year to start it up.

[DontWorryBeHappyNow]

Kings College Wimbledon do, I believe. The work displayed outside their Mandarin classrooms looks incredibly impressive.

[Cloud2]

Mandarin Chinese GCSE is very simple, the standard is like year 2 or year3 in Chinese Primary school. So OP, you DS's Chinese must already be very good, so he does not need to take a GCSE mandarin course. Just find a school which let him do the GCSE exam. I think most school would allow him to sit the exam.

Maybe you can find a Chinese school nearby, which normally operate during weekend for 2 hours, so he can do some GCSE paper's with the GCSE class. And he can take A levels later. There are should be lots of these kind of weekend school, like London, Woking , Portsmouth, Southampton etc.

[mushroom3]

Haberdashers Aske Hatcham, Mandarin is available from year 8

[AmazingDisgrace]

Grey Court in Richmond. State comp

[PeanutButterOnly]

Piggott in Wargrave Berks