To celebrate Chinese New Year, Mandarin-Chinese learners across the year groups have been practising their calligraphy, for example by drawing the character of the dragon. They also played a competitive game to see how many beans could be picked up with chopsticks in one minute (the alleged record amounted to over a bean a second) and wrote Chinese couplets, which would traditionally be hung either side of doorways.
Upon leaving their lessons pupils received stickers of the character ‘福’ (Fu) meaning ‘good fortune’ which they stuck upside down to symbolise the good luck ‘arriving’ to them in the new year!
