Earlier this term we announced that Elizabeth Truss and ShaoLan will join the 11th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference. We are excited that we shall also be welcoming the following people as […]

ShaoLan Hsueh, author of Chineasy, is coming to the 11th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference.  Are you? You may have seen ShaoLan’s TED Talk online in which she first introduced her […]

We are delighted to announce that Education Minister Elizabeth Truss MP has agreed to open this year’s Annual Chinese Teaching Conference. The Minister visited schools and education centres in China […]

Book your place today for the 11th Annual Chinese Conference this June… Bookings are now open for our popular Chinese teaching and learning conference on 6 and 7 June 2014. […]

Thank you to Maggie Sproule from George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, for sharing the following Easter quiz: Easter Quiz – M.Sproule (PDF) Enjoy the Easter break! Do you have any resources […]

Does one of your colleagues deserve an award? Could you be one of this year’s winners? Nominate your colleague for an Excellence Award 2015… Deadline: Submit your nominations by Thursday […]

Students at Rosendale Primary School (IOE Confucius Classroom) had a royal visitor in their Mandarin lesson on Tuesday. Click here to read the full story on class 6JP’s blog Click […]

Forty students at Year 8 and Year 9 from Kingsford Community School took part in the YCT language exam and achieved good results. YCT stands for Youth Chinese Test and is […]

Colourful celebration of Chinese New Year of the Horse went on across our Confucius Classrooms. Fantastic performances by children such as singing ‘Xin Nian Hao’ and giving out red envelopes are just […]

英国伦敦大学IOE孔子学院全体同事向大家拜年！ 祝大家在新的一年里马到成功，吉祥如意。 Colleagues at the IOE Confucius Institute wish you a prosperous Chinese New Year in 2014. Click the link below to read about the characteristics for the horse in […]

Free lesson plans and activities for Chinese New Year 2014: IOE Confucius Institute for Schools has been working with the British Council to update the Chinese New Year education pack. […]

The excellent Mandarin language learning at Highgate Primary School features in a BBC News report today (BBC News: Languages to be compulsory in English primary schools). Congratulations to teacher Rhoda […]

Dynasties, daggers and duty – a Chinese cinema Study Day for KS3 Mandarin The BFI Southank is running a study day to inspire Key Stage 3 learners with Chinese cinema. […]

IOE Confucius Classroom at Anglo European School and the Essex-Jiangsu Centre for Chinese Studies would like to invite you to an all-day China Conference at the Anglia Ruskin University in […]

Chris Husbands, Director of the Institute of Education (IOE), and Katharine Carruthers, Director of the IOE Confucius Institute, recently gave an interview for NetEase (网易), one of the most popular internet […]

TeachMeet event at Highdown School, Reading 17:00-18:30, Friday 24 January, 2014 What is the Mandarin TeachMeet about? This will be a short and practical gathering for Mandarin Chinese teachers with […]

Congratulations to the Confucius Classroom at Dartford Grammar School on winning 2013 Confucius Classroom of the Year. The Confucius Classroom at Dartford Grammar School (DGS) is one of 37 IOE […]

Are you interesting in presenting a workshop at our 11th Annual Chinese Conference?  Or do you know someone who has a good idea and experience share? We would like to […]

On Tuesday 3 December, we were excited to launch Mandarin Chinese for Primary Schools. Funded by HSBC’s Global Education Programme, the project will run for five years initially and support […]

Thank you to Emily Preston (author of Everything Chinese) who joined us on 6th and 7th December to give step-by-step training in how to improve teaching with a simple blog. […]

We’re pleased to announce our new five-year initiative to develop Mandarin and Chinese culture in UK primary schools. Is your primary school thinking of teaching Mandarin Chinese? The Institute of […]

On Tuesday 15 October, our five new IOE Confucius Classrooms (CCs) received their iconic Hanban plaques. Joan Deslandes, Headteacher of IOE CC at Kingsford Community School and acting chair of […]

16 members of the UK’s Chinese teaching network came together at Dartford Grammar School (DGS) on Friday 11 October. The meeting was hosted by Paul Tyskerud, Confucius Classroom Manager and […]

Free lesson plans and activities: IOE Confucius Institute for Schools has been working with the British Council on a primary school education pack. What’s included? Lesson plans, an assembly plan, […]

Looking for images of China to show in your lessons?  Look no further. Stunning photos are now available from James Trapp’s collection.  They are now free for everyone to use […]

The 7th Annual Study Camps took place this summer in July. Click here to read more about the 7th Annual Study Camps Click here to read about a few students’ experiences from Altrincham […]

Presentations from the 10th Annual Chinese Conference are now available to download in the “Events” section of this site under “10th Annual Chinese Conference”. Click here to go straight to […]

On March 1st and 2nd 2013 IOE Confucius Institute Hanban teachers met in London and took part in a two day CPD training programme at the Institute of Education, University […]