Chinese Class & HOP Music & Art
To register your child, please email admission to Chineseclass@hornby.org.uk
or Complete the Online Registration Form
Chinese Class & its Origin
Chinese Class is founded by Ms. Huang (alos known as Ms Carry) at her home in 2003. Ms. Carry is born in Taiwan, a native Mandarin speaker and is OCAC trained Mandarin teacher and IQ Chinese tutor. She has taught at Lewisham Indo-Chinese School and Ringmore View Chinese Class in South East London. She is now directing the weekly Chinese lesson as extra curriculum to Honor Oak Preschool term teaching plan in line with the EYFS Curriculum. She is also heavily devoted to promote langauge development in children. Chinese class provides individual, shared, small group classes to children aged 3+ attending Honor Oak Preschool and other school children.
Chinese Class and Pre-school Children 3+
Chinese Class provides high quality teaching, and fun learning in Chinese language to children from age 3 through to primary years and secondary age in South East London. Chinese Class supports the Early Year foundation stage and National curriculum with balanced activities to help children's language learning & other aspects of development physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually.
Learning Chinese Language through playful activities
Mostly, Chinese Class provides an unique opportunity for primary and secondary age children to learn Chinese in a natural and fun way through adult led activities including songs, rhymes, books, and artwork, in conjunction with the traditional Chinese teaching methods. The Class is run in very small size to ensure the individual students are given maximum attention in the class by the tutor. The teaching textbooks and sources are all printed in traditional characters. The lesson will be taught in traditional characters.
Ms Carry's Chinese Story for children podcast & other Publications
Ms Carry's chinese story for children podcast supports Children's language leaninging in Mandarin. Four seasons of selected Chinese Story Podcast will been made in total, three have been made accessible via Spotify, Google podcast, and apple podcast. They are carefully selected, blended and recorded. Many children and families have enjoyed it and I hope more can make use of it and can retell the stories to your friends and families. For more details, please visit Ms Carry's Chinese Class or Ms Carry's Chinese Story for Children Podcast Website or Chinese Class Youtube Channel . Alternatively, you can listen direct from available stations here - Amazon Station Apple Podcast Spotify Podcast
Chinese Books Recommendation
HOP Children's Book Store - Chinese Class Book Recommendation for Children & Learners
A special section has been set up on HOP Children's Book Store for Chinese Class where you would be able to find books recommended to beginners or young learners. Please visit the HOP Children's Book Store to find out more.
Chinese Class Syllabus
There are three levels including Foundation Level, Intermediate Level and Advanced Level. All students are expected to start from the Foundation levels and work towards to intermediate levels before moving up to the advance levels. Here is an outline of each teaching focus on different stages. Each level is 3 school terms annually, and 10 weeks taught lesson termly. Fees are freezed at £450 termly.
Foundation Level
Children will learn Chinese basic phonics, nursery songs, foundation of Chinese character stokes, young children's reader, and books. The emphasis of this stage will be on children's listening, and speaking through adult led classes and activities.
Intermediate Level
Children will extend their learning from foundation level into more advanced level in Chinese Phonics and readers, Chinese characters writing recognition and Chinese children's reader. Children are working to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills built from the foundation level and extending to advanced level.
Advance Level
Children will be introduced to further Chinese readers through selective learning books. This will be led by your native Chinese teacher. She will work with you to improve your command in Chinese pronunciation, conversation, text comprehension, and Chinese characters and phrases building in speaking, listening, writing as well as reading comprehesion.
Booking information
To register your child, please complete the online registration form via - Chinese Class online application form - Extra Curriculum or email admission to Chineseclass@hornby.org.uk
HOP Art School - for creativity & expression
Our art classes offer opportunities for every child to be an artist and creative to express their emotion, feelings, and imagination through different media.To sign on, please email to Preschool@hornby.org.uk
HOP Music Class - Music Development Matters
To register your child, please email admission to Preschool@hornby.org.uk
Music Development plays an important part at the heart of Early Years Curriculum at Honor Oak Preschool. Our preschool children learn to sing with beats, act, dance and move with music and creativity weekly. We follow the national framework of muisc development matters. Children are introduced to :
Musical terms
Pulse/beat: like a heartbeat, a steady beat underlying the music
Rhythm: pattern of sound
Pitch: high sounds, low sounds
Structure: how a piece of music/song is built up, eg verse-chorus-verse-chorus
Dynamics: loud, quiet, getting louder, getting quieter
Timbre: the character of a sound, eg smooth sound, spikey sound, scratchy sound
Texture: layers in the music, eg one sound or several sounds
Tempo: speed
Melodic shape: this is a little like the outline of the song or piece of music, picture a line that goes up steeply when the melody suddenly jumps to a much higher sound, or that goes down slowly when the melody gently falls. This “line” gives the contour or shape of the melodic line
Genre: the type of music, eg pop, jazz, folk, classical
Instruments
The word “instrument” is used throughout the entire guidance. This word refers to all resources
which have sound-making possibilities, eg pans and wooden spoons should be considered to be
instruments. All instruments should be treated with care and respect. By modelling respect and
care for instruments in the environment and valuing instruments, adults can offer clear and positive
messages about music making.
The overall purpose of Musical Development Matters is to support practitioners, teachers, musicians and parents to see the musical attributes of young children and to offer ideas as to how they can support and nurture children’s musical development by offering broad musical experiences.
Music Learning Beyond Preschool
The main muiscal instrument family consists of string, brass percussion, and woodwind. Whether you would like to take on an instrument or continue to explore the joy of music learning, there are trained music tutors awaiting and available to take you to next stage.
For Music Theroy & Music instrumental lessons, please contact Ms Carry at preschool@hornby.org.uk for instrument lessons / programme available and music tuition fee information.