Masaiti Boarding Secondary School Members of Staff

	Mr. Richman Ndhlovu      Head Teacher
	Ms. Joyce Mwape   Deputy Head Teacher
	Ms. Su Xiaoyan    Teacher
	Ms. Wu Hongmei      Teacher

School address and Contact:

 Masaiti Boarding Secondary School,

P.O.Box 22,

Masaiti,

Copperbelt.

Brief  Introduction  of  the School

 The school  is 900m from Luanshya- Mpongwe road, 3.5km from Masaiti Civic Centre going to Mpongwe chief Mushili’s area. Building of the school was completed in 2012 by African Brothers Chinese Company and it was officially opened on 2^nd January, 2013. The school started with 5 classes and  22 teachers. Currently the school has 1000 pupils and 44 teachers. There are also new dormitories which have been built for both girls and boys. The motto of  the school is providing excellent education through team work.

Chinese Language course has been offered since January 2014 at this school. At that time, class8A and 10A  were given Chinese lessons. At

present,Class8A,9A,10A and12A are taking Chinese course. The total number of pupils is about 150. So far, we have attained conspicuous

achievement that 33 pupils passed  through YCT(18 for LEVEL1,14 for LEVEL2  and 1 for LEVEL3) ,meanwhile, 5 pupils  gained the chance to

visit China and watch Chinese Bridge Competition , 1 pupil went  to China for Summer Camp as well.

   Confucious Institute Activities at the School

  1. July 2016, there was a Chinese Song Competition and 13 pupils took part in the competition. 

 2.  September 2016, there was a Mid-Autumn Day Celebration, about 40 pupils knew about  Mid-Autumn Day and tasted mooncakes.

 3. October 2016, talking about Chinese charming city, according to some pictures and videos, pupils talked about several famous  cities in  

      China such as suzhou.

 4. November 2016, there was tasting of Chinese Food, about 40 pupils and some local teachers watched《A bite of China》and tasted Chinese dish

“Gongbaojiding” “Yuxiangrousi”.

“Chinese New Year Enter Classroom 2018” was held successfully at   

   Masaiti Boarding Secondary School 

The activity called “Chinese New Year Enter Classroom 2018” was held successfully at the Chinese teaching center of Masaiti Boarding Secondary school on 13^th February, 2018. Ms. Wvunga the Head of language Department opened the function and Ms. Mwape the deputy headteacher gave the opening speech to the pupils. The two Chinese teachers Mr. Wang Lishi and Mr. Liu Hao with almost 100 pupils from every grades attended this activity.

“It’s important for the Chinese people to celebrate the New Year. However, in Zambia the New Year was celebrated one month ago. Hoping that everyone can participate this activity and feel the Chinese Culture of the New Year activity. Ms. Mwape, hoped that next time the activity can be done better when they meet Chinese people different from Zambians after learning Chinese language well.

Ms. Mwape- Deputy Headteacher giving the opening speech

“Thanks for the two Chinese teachers offering pupils a platform where they can learn Chinese culture. I hope you can create more chances for the pupils to learn about China. ”Ms. Mvunga said.

  Ms. Wvunga- Head Of Language Department

After the opening of the ceremony, pupils learned how to make “Chinese Knot”, paper cuts of “Fú” character, joint China and Zambia flags and tasted dumplings with the teachers. Particularly, the pupils from Grade 11A helped Chinese teachers to use a brazier and charcoal to boil dumplings, because there was no power. Everyone was encouraged and moved by the pupils’ positive action.

Learning Chinese knot with the Chinese teacher

                                            Group photo