New Chinese immersion school opening in San Jose, Calif.

There is a new private Mandarin/Spanish immersion school opening this July in San Jose, Calif. It is called Silicon Valley International School. The website is www.SVInternationalSchool.org.

It is a subsidiary of Premier International Language Academy in San Jose, established in 2008.

There is an Open House on Friday, May 31st from 10am-12pm. RSVPs are requested.

Info on their Mandarin immersion track:

School Services

• Elementary Grades: Jr. Kindergarten – Gr. 4
• STEM Middle School Program: Grades 5-8th
• Year-round Schedule: August – June                                           (The lst day of school is July 29, 2013)
• Before and After School Extended Learning Program
• On-site Reggio Emilia Preschool
• School Hours for Grades Jr. K – 8th : 8:30am-3:00pm

Mandarin Immersion Track

The Mandarin language curriculum, taught by highly-qualified, native speaking teachers, emphasizes oral speaking skills and full literacy instruction through the content areas. Our Mandarin Language Arts program emphasizes:

• Traditional Characters
• Stroke Names, Stroke Order
• Radicals
• Content Area Studies (math, science, geography, history).
• History/Geography of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
• Cultural Studies
• Pin Yin and Simplified Characters taught in the middle school program
• Zhu Yin taught to Heritage Language Speakers and in the middle school program