CHINESE New Year is a roaring success with children at a Farnworth primary school, who are celebrating by making their own dragons.
St Peter's Primary School pupils have been studying myths and legends and the idea of Chinese dragons struck a chord with four and five-year-olds in the Reception class.
After being shown videos of the Chinese New Year festival in Manchester and donning animal masks to role play Chinese stories, several of the children were inspired to create their own dragons.
Staff provided the pupils with fabric and cardboard boxes and 15 children worked together to make the fierce creatures, which they proudly paraded around the playground.
The amazing results have delighted teachers.
"The children this year are really creative and we are very proud of what they have achieved," said Reception teacher Kira Bracegirdle.
And today the young pupils are enjoying Chinese New Year celebrations, complete with their own musical compositions, a meal of rice and noodles and, of course, their dragons.
"The whole class are going to have a go and we will see how many children we can get under the dragons," said Miss Bracegirdle.
CHINESE NEW YEAR
FEBRUARY 8 marks the beginning of the year of the monkey – the ninth of 12 animals recurring in the Chinese zodiac cycle.
Your own Chinese zodiac sign is derived from your birth year according to the Chinese lunar calendar, with people born in each of the 12 years said to exhibit specific personality traits.
Your sign can bring you good and bad luck and is even said to dictate whom you should marry.
With your future prosperity, happiness and love life at stake, we thought it was best to answer 5 essential questions ahead of this Chinese New Year, then round it off by suggesting where you can take the new-found love of your life for a nice Chinese meal to celebrate.
What is my zodiac sign?
The zodiac animals are either related to ancient Chinese people’s daily lives, or have lucky meanings.
To find out which animal you are, use the table below.
Be careful if you were born in either January or February. Chinese New Year moves between January 21 and February 20 according to the lunar cycle.
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