Northwest Chinese School (NWCS) offers classes on Saturday at the main campus at Newport High School in Bellevue and Washington Middle School in Seattle. After-school classes are also offered Monday through Friday in downtown Bellevue. NWCS currently hosts 58 Mandarin Chinese language classes for ages ranging from preschool to adult, where Chinese is taught using simplified Chinese characters and Pinyin. In addition, the school also offers classes in enrichment math, English, Chinese youth painting, art, performance dance and violin, as well as free classes in English, dance, and Taiji for the school’s teachers and parents. Every summer, NWCS also operates a afterschool program in DT Bellevue campus and full-time summer camp that are very popular with the local community.