Chinese New Year: 

We are all one family at Western Heights, even though we come from many different places and backgrounds.

We love to celebrate our children's identities and the cultural occasions that are important to them.

Today we celebrated Chinese New Year, and it was wonderful to see so many of our Chinese students wearing cultural costume and so many wearing red or yellow (or both). It was also awesome to see some of our children using today as an opportunity to celebrate their own cultural clothing. 

I managed to put four of these blossom lanterns together to decorate our office and hall. At lunchtime, I played some traditional Chinese New Year music - well the best I could come up with...