PYP Chinese New Year Celebration

On January 24th, 2025, Concordian excitedly celebrated the Chinese New Year with various cultural activities and festive events. 2025 is the year of the Snake. In Chinese culture, snakes symbolize wisdom and insight, and most importantly - as snakes shed their skin, they also symbolize transformation, rebirth, flexibility, and growth.

Upon entering the school, students, parents, and Concordian staff received a red envelope ‘Hong Bao’ with golden chocolate coins for good luck in the coming year. In the lobby, with the auspicious golden ‘snake’ winding on a huge flower bed display board and red wishing tags drifting in the breeze on the pink wishing tree, many families took the opportunity to take beautiful photos in their festive costumes.

As per tradition, Professor and Calligrapher Jia Qing 賈慶 once again wrote blessing words and spring couplets on red paper for all Concordian members, sending lots of good wishes to many Concordian families.

In the Early Years, students had a great time participating in station activities led by classroom teachers. Our teachers prepared many new interesting station games for our students, such as Snake Shape Race 蛇形大战, Pacman Snake 贪吃 蛇, Dancing Snake 金蛇狂舞, and Snake in Cave 引蛇入洞, etc., for a total of 12 different fun games!

It was a true pleasure to see everyone enjoy this year’s Chinese New Year celebration at school. We wish all Concordian members a happy and auspicious Chinese New Year!

祝大家灵蛇启航，前程似锦！

Ariel Yu Wang

Elementary Principal