Today has been a wonderful day. The Year five and six students were joined by Te Hihi School and Ardmore School students to learn about and experience a few of the many things that are part of the Chinese Culture.
We started out with an opening ceremony with lots of demonstrations and performances by ACG Strathallan College students and Chinese specialist teachers. We particularly enjoyed the students showing their diabolo skills and the Tai Chi demonstrations.
After that we were sorted into our groups and we went in our groups to different activities. Some of our favourite activities were:
“My favourite part was making a Chinese mask and learning twenty Chinese characters in ten minutes”. – Liam.
“When I was doing the diabolo I learnt how to loop it in the air and then throw it in the air and catch it”. – Melvin.
“When we were doing the diabolo I found it really hard at first and then one of the teachers helped me and then I started helping others and I liked that”. – Madeline.
Some of the activities we did included:
Diabolo
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Games
Chinese folding and cutting
Tai Chi
Making Chinese masks
After we had finished our workshops we had the closing ceremony in the School Hall. We watched three instructors do the diabolo. They were highly skilled, tremendously awesome, and entertaining to watch! Then we had an ending speech by Mrs Shapcott and feedback from a student representative of each school. We found today fascinating, exhilarating, and fantastic. We felt it was a great way to be able to learn about the Chinese Culture and to take part.
