Barlborough: Students celebrate Chinese New Year with special guest

Youngsters at Barlborough Hall School were given a surprise when pupils from Spinkhill’s Mount St Mary’s brought along a guest with them as they joined them for their Chinese New Year celebrations.
Barlborough Hall pupils Phoebe Furniss-Plant and Abigail Hardy with the Chinese DragonBarlborough Hall pupils Phoebe Furniss-Plant and Abigail Hardy with the Chinese Dragon
Barlborough Hall pupils Phoebe Furniss-Plant and Abigail Hardy with the Chinese Dragon

They introduced the nursery and younger children to their Chinese Dragon, made out of recycled shopping bags and chicken wire, and performed a dance in the school’s theatre. Pupils also enjoyed a traditional Chinese lunch and learned how to use chopsticks. Pupil Hilary Zhang also taught her classmates how to count in Chinese and demonstrated traditional Chinese dancing and the children made and painted Chinese dragons.