Welcome to Ming-Der's Website

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 Principal's Message 

Just like the zodiac has a twelve year life cycle. We have provided 12 years of service to the community and have reached a new stage in the school's development.

We hope to take you with us through this new journey, where you will witness our new developments and experiences.

Ming-Der has become one of the elite Chinese language institutions in the Sydney community because our objectives are clear:

  • We strive to be open minded, ready to accept and teach all students.
  • We provide a warm and accepting atmosphere in our classrooms.
  • We are a caring community.
  • We adopt and encourage enthusiastic and dedicated attitudes.
  • We respect the school body as a whole and each pupil as individuals.
  • We are proud and grateful to watch each individual students＊ progress.

Not only are the results recognised by the wider community, but each parent and teacher is proud of our students' achievements and in turn, we enjoy the fruits of our own success.

The objective of this website is to create an interactive environment for students, parents and teachers to communicate. It is a platform for the community to engage, interact and exchange knowledge. You are all welcome to visit often, and utilise the services.

Our email address is inquiry@mingder.org.au.
Your words of feedback are much appreciated and we will value every suggestion brought forward, please email feedback to feedback@mingder.org.au.

From an ancient Chinese proverb, every dawn is a brand new day to advance and improve.

Let's use this website together and learn from each other.

Our Belief

"What the Greate Learning teacher, is to illustrate illustrious; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence." V.1, CH. 1, THE GREAT LEARNING, THE FOUR BOOKS

With the through understanding of the great wills of the past Saints and Sages, who had put their efforts in enlightening the pure and profound virtues of human being, Sydney Ming-Der chinese School has always kept itself on the path of providing fine education to students, both academically and ethically, in the will of following the steps of the Great Teacher Confucius who educated many people regardless of their wealth or background.

Our Vision
Every growing individual shall be nurtured by love and tolerance. Children will show their innocence in an environment that helps them learning and developing their characters.

They will learn not only knowledge but also modesty and politeness for daily life. We assist children in developing their positive character and morality on the everchanging path of life, to help them gaining their power for pursuit of perfection in the future.

Our Self-awareness
We respect every parent for his or her love on children, and we see every child as the one who needs our care and education. Every bit of effort we put in is our duty to the community. We hope our teaching will help children silently paving the path to their brilliant future.

Our Mission
To provide the functions of Chinese language teaching, development of children's character, community activity and cultural heritage for the next generation.

Our Belief
We believe in warmth, care, dedication and respect.

"Filling our children with growth and love, we see their pure innocence flown in cheerful melody.
With the heritage of ancient culture, we treasure the revelation of human's pure virtues.
Living a new life everyday, our achievements will be remembered forever."

About Us

The phrase Ming-Der originates from "the Great Learning"; first book of the famous collection of the four books, written by Confucious.

Ming-Der means to illustrate morality and virtue, to know of right and wrong. Its meaning is significant to our students, as we promote not only high standards of academic education, but an all round sense of greater learning.

Ming-Der Chinese School is registered as a charitable, non-profit Chinese community language school. The school operates in six separate locations around the Western Sydney, with more than 798 students in a total of 52 classes from Kindergarten to Year Twelve.

This school is one of the largest Chinese schools in Sydney. It has a firm reputation for teaching the Chinese language and in promoting the Chinese culture and traditions.

Our Aims

  • To teach the morals and principles of traditional Chinese culture found in ancient and contemporary Chinese literature.
  • To promote the dissemination of Chinese culture into modern Australian society.
  • To maintain an awareness among Australian-born Chinese of their cultural heritage through the teaching of the Chinese language and culture.

Our teachers are all qualified teachers of Mandarin. Their qualifications have been approved by the NSW Department of Education.

Our curriculum consists of teaching traditional Chinese characters. Beginners will use texts from Taiwan as well as resources compiled by our own teachers. Primary school students learn to write basic compositions. They will learn to use the Chinese dictionary. In order to adhere to the NSW Board of Studies curriculum, students will learn Hanyu Ping Yin from grade three and are introduced to simplified characters. In high school, students will further develop their conversational and dialogue skills. They learn Chinese expressions and further develop their essay writing skills.