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A New Year
Aim
To consider their feelings about the new school year.
To consider how the New Year is celebrated within their own homes.
Lesson
Begin by welcoming children to a new school year.
- How do they feel about it?
- How do you feel about it?
- What are their hopes and fears for this new year?
Following discussion, ask children to consider how a new calendar year is celebrated in their own homes. Do they get to stay up late? Do their parents light fireworks? Do they have a party? Is this a time of the year that they enjoy?
Activity
Following discussion, groups of children could:
- list their hopes and fears for the coming school year.
- draw a picture / write about a New Year celebration in which they have taken part.
- make a list of all the new things that they have got at the beginning of this new school year, e.g. new shoes, new exercise books, a new teacher
