Celebrating the Lunar New Year
We believe it is important to incorporate the diversity of our cohorts, each year, to help us learn about our new ‘school family’. This year we have a proportion of children who celebrate Lunar New Year with families from China and Vietnam.
One of our lovely parents was able to come in and explain how they celebrate at home and shared decorations, instruments and puppets with us. She shared a book with us about how people celebrate and taught us some words in Cantonese and Vietnamese. We learnt about the animal race and why each year has a different animal representing it and we found out we were all ‘rats’ or ‘ox’s’.
We had a go at using the dancing dragon puppets, playing some of the instruments to frighten ‘Nian’ the mythical monster away and learnt why red is a lucky colour (he was scared of this). Then we did a dragon dance and spent some time making Chinese drums and paper dragons.
‘Gong Hey Fat Choi’ from Reception.
