7:27am Friday 2nd March 2007
By Lydia Kinnell
RECEPTION pupils at Rookwood School celebrated the Chinese New Year in style by turning their classroom into a Chinese restaurant.
They used traditional chopsticks for their meal of noodles with prawn crackers and spicy seaweed with lychees for pudding.
The restaurant was part of their study of China and its culture. They had created a huge dragon for the classroom wall and even made their own Chinese hats for the occasion.
Some also wore Chinese costume and made a banner for the grand opening of the Dancing Dragon Restaurant.
They greeted every visitor to the restaurant' with very authentic cries of Gung Hay Fat Choy which means Happy New Year.
"The Dancing Dragon restaurant was a wonderful way of bringing Chinese food alive for the children and rounded off a very interesting topic which they have all enjoyed very much.
"They have produced some wonderful artwork and now have a really good understanding of the culture of the country," said Jan Ibbotson, head of the Rookery Pre-Prep School.
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