Pupils at Wootton Bassett School will be celebrating all things Chinese as part of this year’s Enrichment Week.

The school has forged links with a Chinese middle school in Nanhai and recently had a teacher from there spend the year in Wootton Bassett teaching Chinese art, cooking, songs and language skills.

One of the teachers involved with the Enrichment Week, Hester McCunn, said there would be lots of activities taking place.

She said: “This year we wanted to do something to tie in with all our links to China.

“There are going to be workshops making dragon costumes and Chinese flags, doing some Chinese cooking, taking part in Tai Chi and learning feng shui.

“We’ll also be doing maths patterns, puppet shows, dragon dancing and making a Great Wall of China.”

This year the groups taking part in the activities, which run from July 19 to 23, will be made up of pupils from Years 7 to 9.

Miss McCunn said: “In the past the activities have been divided up departmentally.

“But this way the pupils will get to work with new people.

“The children are really looking forward to it.

“There is a bit of a riot going on at the moment to see which group will make the biggest Great Wall of China.”

In 2008 staff and pupils from Wootton Bassett visited the school in Guangdong Province which was followed up again with a repeat visit in April this year.