Xīnnián hǎo (新年好) - Happy Chinese New Year!

 A time for celebration! Xīnnián hǎo (新年好) - Happy Chinese New Year! 

The Year of the Dragon

The Chinese New Year, which is also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year is celebrated by millions of people around the world. Houses are decorated with lanterns, red message banners and New Year pictures, there are parades through the streets with music, acrobatics, and dragon dances, Other traditions include having a family reunion dinner on Lunar New Year’s Eve and distributing red envelopes with money to children. The festivities continue for two weeks, finishing with a lantern festival, which signals the end of the New Year celebration period. This year, it is from February 10th to the 25th.   

We have had a wonderful time filling the centre with festive decorations, activities and experiences.........

We made lanterns to decorate the classroom, shared the story of the great race and talked about what animal we would be, the dancing dragon even made an exhibition at Uxbridge!!