Culture Club meets every Monday at lunchtime, bringing together pupils from Years 8 to 11 to learn Mandarin and explore Chinese culture. Mr Guan, from the Confucius Institute at Ulster University, leads the club and plans to host a variety of Chinese cultural workshops for pupils during these sessions.

So far in Culture Club, we have learned how to say our Chinese names and how to greet others in Mandarin.

We have also learned numbers and the hand signs that represent each one. Finally, we discovered which numbers are considered lucky or unlucky in China, and learned that Chinese Cyber Valentine’s Day is celebrated on 21st May.