EAL/D News

Lantern Making for the Moon Festival 

Our Year 1 students and some year 2 students have been busy making simple lanterns out of milk bottles, tissue paper, cellophane, wooden chopsticks, and a battery-operated tea light. They enthusiastically made these lanterns to take part in this year’s Moon Festival also known as the Mid-Autumn Harvest Festival (Northern Hemisphere). Some western cultures refer to this event as the Harvest Moon. 

This year the Moon Festival falls on Thursday, 1st October when there is a full moon.

The Moon Festival is celebrated in many Asian countries including, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and China. In traditional Chinese culture, the full moon means togetherness and so this is a good time for families to come together and give thanks for their blessings.

Families and friends share moon cakes and enjoy walking outside in the moonlight with lanterns to admire the full moon. As they look at the full moon, they feel united with family members who are far away as they too will look at and share the same moon on this evening.

All our students that made the lanterns are very keen to have a moonlight walk on the 1st of October. We hope that Burrendah families can all take part in this beautiful Asian tradition in their own neighbourhood even if it is a walk to your nearest park under the full moon. 

Our School Scarecrow gets a Make-Over 

A small group of students from Year 2 worked with Mrs Clark to revive our school scarecrow who stands guard near the fabulous crops grown by the Gardening Club led by Mrs Paxton.

When the students saw the scarecrow for the first time, they decided that he needed fixing up right away, so they made a list of items needed to brighten up the scarecrow. The following week they got busy changing his clothes, stuffing his shirt with bubble wrap, making a new head, and choosing a hat for him. What an improvement! 

Tommy, as the group decided to call him, had to wait another week before he got his face glued on. Now, Tommy, the scarecrow looks a little bit frightened himself, but we hope he is keeping the ravens away from all the crops.