Dalry Primary will be the stars of the Edinburgh Evening News’ School Focus features today.
It is focusing on our role as Confucious hub.
If you wish to grab your copy as a souvenir it is in shops today.
The pupils took part in a great many activities during Chinese Cultural week and at the end of it, showcased some of their learning during an assembly. The children planned, prepared and performed the story of the Chinese Zodiac to pupil’s in Primary 2 and 4.
Well done to everyone for such a team effort and confident performance! We had some awesome narrators using scripts, amazing actors wearing masks that they had designed and made themselves and a props department who created a wonderful river and signs.
A special mention goes to Allan who had to step in at the very last minute to play the part of the Jade Emperor and did a brilliant job!
P7 went to the Zoo this week and attended the official opening of the Confucius Science hub at Edinburgh Zoo.
We had the chance to see the pandas and explore the zoo, as well as attend the ceremony where we sang for the guests. Afterwards, we took part in a variety of workshops which included Chinese tea, crafts, calligraphy, dressing up, music and using chopsticks.
The snow cleared and the sun came out and we had a brilliant day at the zoo!
We actually got to see the pandas – they were amazing! We saw so many other animals too and really close up – look at our photos of the lions, tigers – ‘ROAR’. Alden is our very brave new friend of the lion!  After a whole day out we were really, really tired (some of us fell asleep on the bus!!!!)  but we had some great memories to take home with us!
Oh, what fun the Early Level had celebrating Chinese New Year! We tasted traditional foods, made our own lanterns, dragons and willow plates.
Now we have the beautiful creative work we made and some wonderful memories to take home and share with our families.
Here are some photos from P3A in Chinese Cultural Week. They created their own puppet dragons after hearing a legend about the dragon.
They played games and wrote the Chinese numbers 1-10.
P2B today created their own dragons and listened to a legend about dragons.
We had the Panda Boxes this afternoon and the children worked in groups playing different board games and saying numbers and colours in Chinese.
They listened to different types of Chinese music, we compared the music and developed a dance from the different movements children came up with. It was lots of fun making up our own dance!
