Schools across the country are increasingly offering Mandarin Chinese as an option for their students. The IOE CI supports schools in starting and developing the teaching and learning of Mandarin Chinese and the study of China across other areas of the curriculum. The IOE CI is a bilateral project with Peking University and Peking University High School and supported by the Office of Chinese Language Council International, Hanban. The IOE CI has a network of 37 Confucius Classrooms across England, schools which have both Chinese firmly embedded in their own curriculum and which give advice, support and taster classes to other schools in their region looking to start offering Chinese. Our teaching resources include a primary Programme of Study and secondary resources created by teachers to assist fellow practitioners in their Classroom. www.ciforschools.wordpress.com