Welcome from Dance Teacher

Chinese Dance has its own unique vocabulary, meanings and ordered structure that enable dancers to fully express their thoughts and feelings with ease and glace. For this reason, I fall in love with Chinese Dance and enjoy to share such a wonderful experience with everyone. During the dance club, students will learn Classic(e.g. fan and ribbon dances) and Traditional Chinese Folk dances with elegant movements step by step. Welcome to every girl, no matter you are little feet or big feet, small bones or old bones!!!

张巧巧女士

Welcome from Art Teacher

Art is a perfect path to lift up imagination, excitement, creativity, confidence and sociability.

Art club in DCS is a fun and interactive club for children. It is a excellent place for children to play with paints whilst observe the world, learn knowledge of materials and express their feeling.

Our art lessons will cover western arts ( sketch, water-colour, pastels, acrylics, gouache paint et al) and Chinese arts ( paper cutting, handicrafts, calligraphy of China,cloisonne painting et al), and would suit for children from beginners to amateur.

Welcome to join us!

Mrs. Annie Hezhen Liu

Lady Fitness Club

Teacher: 张巧巧女士

Welcome from Chinese Chess Club Teacher

Chinese chess (象棋 pronunciation: xiàng qí) is a very popular strategy board game in China. The game represents a battle between two armies, with the object of capturing the enemy's general (king).
There are 16 pieces in each army including a general (将jiàng or帅 shuài),two advisors (士or仕shì)， two ministers (象or 相xiàng), two horses (马 mǎ), two chariots (车 jū) two cannons (炮pào) and five soldiers (卒zú or 兵 bīng).
In the club, I will teach children the basic of the moves, rules, tactics and notation. Here are some golden rules (in Chinese) for the winning of the game:
兵贵神速
两翼齐飞
攻守兼顾
棋路畅通
Welcome to join our club. Let us meet at the battle field!

Dr Lisong Yang, 彩玉

We are delighted to have our honoured guest Dr. Douglas Smith to coach international chess in the club. Dr. Smith is running Durham City Junior Chess Club weekly on Wednesday from 5.45pm to 6.45pm. For detail information please link to Durham City Junior Chess Club

Tai-Chi Club

Singing Club

Teacher: Ms Yumei Hsu

Chinese Calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy, also known as brush calligraphy, has been an important feature of the Chinese culture for more than 3000 years. It is an emotional form of art and our intangible culture heritage. It has been identified as one of the four critical standards for Chinese art treasures, which are musical instrument (Qin), strategic board game (Chess), calligraphy (Shu) and paint (Hua). In China, children will be encouraged to practice Chinese calligraphy since young, which is not only just to produce beautiful calligraphy works, but also to learn Chinese characters and discipline. It could also be an approach towards peaceful thinking.

中国书法是中华传统文化的艺术瑰宝，已有三千多年的悠久历史。在中国，学龄儿童通过练习毛笔字学习汉字、掌握书法技巧、感悟艺术、寄情书画。 她是很多人陶冶情操的良师益友。

Please contact if you are interested in practice Chinese calligraphy.

Chinese Paper Cutting

Chinese Paper Cutting or Jianzhi (剪纸) is distinctive visual art of Chinese handicrafts originated from the 6th century. At beginning women used to paste golden and silver foil cuttings onto their hair at the temples, and men used them in sacred rituals. Later, they were used during festivals to decorate gates and windows. After hundreds of years' development, now they have become a very popular means of decoration among country folks for ceremonial purpose. The art form also spreads to other parts of the world with different regions adopting their own cultural styles.

Chinese Origami

coming soon

Chinese Clay Art

coming soon