Year 4 had a FANTASTIC Chinese Celebration Day today! There were lots of fantastic activities, excitement, chinese music and smiles all around. We have loved learning about Ancient China in Topic and had waited all week (since the ACTUAL Chinese New Year on Monday!) to celebrate.
So here it is! We’ll let the pictures do all the talking!!!
First off… Our fantastic chinese hats and lanterns for our Morning Parade! Our hats were a choice of an Emperor, a Monkey or a Chinese child. See if you can spot them…



Then we got ready for our Morning Parade! We all lined up as a year group, took hold of our drums and walked around the school grounds. e loved this as we got to shout out ‘Kung Hei Fat Choi to Mrs. Lune and Mrs. Williams- who were mega shocked at how fantastic we looked!

In the afternoon, we had a special visitor from a Martial Arts Academy in Birmingham. He was our ‘Sensei’- our teacher. We talked about the use of martial arts for self-defence as well as for discipline and composure. We were all intrigued by our Sensei as he taught us martial arts moves, body posture and foot work.

Towards the end of the session, we bowed to our ‘Sensei’, which shows respect and thanks. We also bowed to our partners to show our respect for them!

After returning to our classrooms we began making our fantastic Chinese Dragon puppets using our hand prints while listening to calming chinese music. We made some outstanding, colourful fire-breathing dragons!

Alas! It was the end of the day and the start of the half term holidays! We all had a memorable, fun-filled day and look forward to learning more about Ancient China after the half term holidays! 🙂