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Pupils go digital to
celebrate Chinese New Year
PRIMARY school children across the
UK showed off their digital skills as part of Chinese New Year celebrations
this week. Pupils from Discovery Education's partner schools used innovative
digital resources from the Discovery Education Espresso service to learn
about the 15 day festival, which this year marks the start of the:- 'Year of
The Monkey'.
As part of the celebrations pupils watched a special animated film:- 'The
Great Race', which tells the story of the Chinese Zodiac, and shows why each
year has an animal name. The lively interactive video is the centrepiece of:-
'Discovery Education Espresso's Chinese New Year' module, which includes a
whole range of digital resources linked to each area of the curriculum.
With Chinese themed activities in maths, literacy and art, pupils enjoyed
taking part in online Sudoku games, completing a Chinese dragon number line,
reading ebooks about Chinese culture, and making a Chinese dragon. They also
had the opportunity to put their computer programming skills to the test, by
coding a Chinese Zodiac themed game, a new and timely addition to the
Discovery Education Coding service.
One of the schools taking part was Broadgreen Primary School in Liverpool.
Headteacher Ann Marie Moore said:- "Our younger pupils have really
enjoyed celebrating the start of Chinese New Year, and learning about a
different culture. The interactive digital resources were really popular,
and helped to bring the festival to life in a fun and accessible way."
Jessie Bronze from Discovery Education said:- "Our digital resources
are designed to bring the real world into the classroom, and to help younger
pupils experience and understand different cultures. When planning and
producing this content we thought about how we could best help children
explore the festival in a cross curricular way. I'm thrilled that the
Broadgreen pupils had so much fun using our Chinese New Year videos,
activities, books and printable resources."
Discovery Education Espresso is an award winning, video rich digital
learning service for primary schools. With nearly 20,000 digital media
resources, which can be applied to any lesson, the service supports the
delivery of the National Curriculum and helps teachers to integrate digital
media into everyday learning. |
