Chinese New Year. Whole School Assembly

We are ExcitEd to share a fun interactive assembly plan to celebrate Chinese New Year.

This download includes:
A detailed assembly script, with details about the Chinese New Year festival and an interactive storytelling of the traditional Chinese Folk Tale, ‘The Great Race’.
A PowerPoint assembly presentation to accompany the script. (16 slides)
Assembly entrance and exit music (Embeded into PowerPoint and links to free MP3 download.)
Printable images of all zodiac animals to be used during interactive storytelling.

Assembly Content:
Starting with calming instrumental Chinese inspired music, children can take their places in the hall.
A brief welcome is followed by a true or false quiz to introduce the assembly’s focus - Chinese New Year. (Also referred to as Luna New Year or Spring Festival.)
After some information about the festival, where, how and why it is celebrated, there is an interactive storytelling of the traditional folk tale, "The Great Race’. This traditional Chinese tale explains to children how the new years came to be named after animals. Teacher’s should print the included prop cards to use during the story telling. Children could be chosen in advance or on the day to take on the roles of the animals. There is no need for rehearsals as this is completely led by the story teller and the children are given instructions as part of the story telling. The accompaning PowerPoint presentation shows illustrations and text to go alongside the story and could be used as an ebook.
At the close of the assembly, the current or upcoming Chinese New Year animal is revealed and some information about it is shared. (this information can be edited so that the assembly can be used each year.)
Finally, teachers wish the children good fortune and happiness in the new year using the Cantonese phrase, Gong hei fat choi.
The exit music is again a calming Chinese inspired song called Gong hei Fat choi.
The assembly should last approximately 15 - 20 minutes.

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