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OCTOBER 2018
Year 5 students in Cyprus have started keeping track of local cultural activities and events. this is the designated wall in their classroom for CULTURAL EVENTS:
OCTOBER 2018
Members of the ‘Kids in the Kitchen’ used the opportunity of our school trip to the village of Agros to visit producers of traditional Cyprus products. They learned about the local ingredients and brought lots of samples back to school, which they used in updated modern recipes. Tempting as it was to eat everything themselves, all the children agreed to share their scrumptious creations with parents and teachers!
SPAIN:
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SPAIN: "LA CASTANYERA OR CHESTNUT PARTY"
“La Castañera” or “chestnut party” is a traditional festival of
Celtic roots that celebrates the end of summer and begins the middle
of the dark and cold year. It is celebrated in some areas of Spain,
such as Galicia, Catalonia, Valencia, etc
It is hold in the month of November (or end of October) and the main
elements are chestnut and fire. With this feast the chestnut tree
recovers the importance that the corn and the potato have snatched
from him in the last centuries.
In Valencia celebration involves eating “castanyes” (roast chestnuts),
“moniatos” (roast or baked sweet potatos), cakes and drinking
“Moscatell” (Muscat). Around the time of celebration it is common for
street vendors to sell hot toasted chestnuts wrapped in newspapers.
The festival is usually depicted with the figure of a castanyera: an
old lady, dressed in peasant's clothing and wearing a headscarf
sitting behind a table, roasting chestnuts for street sale.
In recent years, “La Castanyera” is celebrated in the home and in
community. It is the first of the three main school festivals,
alongside Christmas and Carnival, without reference to ritual or
commemoration of the dead.
Here you have a video about this celebration in our Pre-primary classes.
JANUARY 2019
Year 5 students from Cyprus completed a project on traditional occupations and craftsmen. The explored the role of such professions as chair making, basket weaving, and shoe mending in social communities, and the reasons that some of these professions are already extinct.
FEBRUARY 2019
AROUND THE WORLD IN 24 LETTERS
Year 3 students from Cyprus explored the importance of language in cultural heritage through the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet. Children found a country beginning with each letter and reserached its traditions and major landmarks. The result is a striking mural on the school's cafeteria wall, where each letter is designed to showcase the cultural heritage of the country it represents. It might be all Greek to you, but can you guess any of teh countries?
SPAIN: Carnival
Today we have celebrated the traditional carnivals in our center. The theme chosen was: 50 anniversary of the arrival of man on the moon. The costumes have been of the most varied as: planets, Solar System, Moon, Astronauts, Sun, aliens, Martians...
By the way we invited our Romanian mascot VLAD to join us at this party. It was a fun and fantastic day.