Confucius Classroom News

Chinese Culture Day

Number eight is considered to be a lucky number in China, because eight in Chinese sounds like the word fortune in Chinese. This year, on 08.08 (8th of August) the annual Chinese Culture Day was held at MGC. We had three sessions — opening, performance and activities.

In the opening session, guest speaker Miss Puksand made an inspirational speech which focused on how her career opportunities had expanded because she learnt Chinese as a second language . As one of our Chinese students mentioned in her reflection: ‘The guest speaker gave me a lot of ideas about what I want to do. She also inspired me about the future and what I would like to do. '

There were many performances by our Chinese students this year.  We had the fan dance by Year 11 student Maxine Wong, year 8, 10 and 11 students sang Chinese songs, year 11 student Matilda Smithers played Cello and year 12 students Madison Firman and Mia Richter recited their end of year oral examination stories. Students were really thrilled by their performances. Year 10 Chinese students were invited by the Confucius Institute at the University of Melbourne to perform their song in Melbourne Town Hall on the 23rd of August in front of 1,750 Victorian Secondary School Chinese students. Also, Miss Bao our Chinese Language assistant showed her brilliant talent in Kun Opera astonishing the students.

After the performance, most Chinese students partcipated in a variety of activities. These activities are popular in Chinese schools. Tug of the war is a team-effort activity, followed by other activities such as paper cutting, pin the nose on Panda and kick shuttlecock. Everyone had a wonderful day

Mrs. PingPing Elliott

Confucius Classroom Leader

Melbourne Girls College