This week, children, parents and teaching staff all came together to celebrate the most traditionally important event in the Chinese culture: Lunar New Year. While we have many fond memories of 2017, we expect the Year of the Dog to offer us all much laughter, many surprises and plenty of successes. Getting ready to celebrate the new year, Wellington College Bilingual Shanghai prepared a wonderful series of Chinese New Year celebrations for 2018. The children were extremely busy creating colourful and cheerful decorations, including the beautiful dragon that is currently standing in reception to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Dog. It was decorated by every child in the setting, which is highly appropriate for this inclusive festival where everyone comes together to celebrate.
As well as the decorations, each class devised and prepared a traditional Chinese New Year game for our pupils to enjoy. In the morning, our pupils wore brightly-colored Tang Dynasty costumes as they came to the Chinese New Year celebrations with their parents. They visited each classroom to join in with the wide variety of activities on offer, creating plenty of exciting and joyful memories together.
