Holi

What a day F2 have had celebrating the exciting and fun festival of Holi in religious studies!

Today our children all came to school wearing brightly coloured clothes ready to celebrate the festival of colour!

We have been discussing the traditional Hindu festival all week and the events that take place during this time of celebration. We spoke about the celebration welcoming in the beginnings of Spring and saying goodbye to the end of Winter. We talked about what the celebration meant to some people and how the festival symbolled new life, beginnings, love and hope!

We looked at where some people went to worship during this festival time and how some people celebrated with parties, paint throwing and dancing!

In the afternoon we had our very own paint throwing celebration! We created Rangoli patterns with Chalk, danced to some traditional Hindu music and raced our very own colour run across the field, flying our colourful flags and musical instruments! The afternoon was full of music, dance, creativity and merriment and the children definitely enjoyed experiencing this festival, labelling it their ‘favourite day at school’ to date!!!