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Irish Times
Education Editor
Carl O’Brien covered Chinese
as a Leaving Cert subject,
featuring Our Lady’s Grove
Secondary School.
Celebrations of Mid-Autumn Day and Lunar New
Year, organised by Ms Tiantian Wu at Kishoge
Community College
Next steps
h year Carla
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For Sanda Sanduta, also a sixt
window into
it has been about getting a
Chinese culture.
shows and
“I was watching Chinese TV
ted to learn
dramas, even before I star
never had the
Chinese,” she says. “I just had
ool; it’s one of
opportunity until I came to sch
e.”
the reasons I chose to come her
decision to
the
As for principal Colm Dooley,
reasons.
ny
ma
offer the subject made sense for
for the girls.
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d it’s going
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China is a huge training
cating for
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;
to be for their generation
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tomorrow, not for today,”
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feel is niche and will giv
in their cap.”
•
Recruit and train new teachers
•
Continue to deliver CPD support to
teachers implementing the LC
Chinese curriculum
•
Continue researching and piloting
the Saturday LC Chinese Class
online model
•
Continue to support parents of LC
Chinese students
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