Every year during the Chinese New Year season, the CIE teachers are at their busiest. Many schools around the city organize different kinds of culture activities to celebrate Chinese New Year, including the teaching of Chinese traditional culture handcraft. The teachers provide sessions, performances, Chinese lunch at these events.
In just a couple of weeks the CIE teachers have provided a variety of Chinese culture sessions to more than 10 district schools, the majority being schools without any Chinese language programming. More than 3000 students have experienced these sessions covering Tai Chi， Chinese Painting, Calligraphy, Chinese dough art, Chinese paper cutting, Chinese knots and Chinese traditional dance.
The workshops and sessions are welcomed by the students and teachers. Through these activities and the learning of aspects of Chinese culture, a desire is cultivated to start to learn Chinese language.
CIE teachers will continue to keep busy providing these cultures workshops to more schools in February and March.