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Carnival of Cultures

With over 40 nationalities at ELC since its inception in 1984, our school is truly international, and last week we celebrated our wonderfully diverse cultures in our annual ‘Carnival of Cultures’.

Many thanks go to our ELC parents (as well as some grandparents!) who led this event, hosting pavilions around our campus showcasing arts from their countries of origin.

Each class ‘travelled the world’ with their individual ELC passports, taking part in the activities, sampling their local snacks, and collecting the country ‘stamp’ on their individual ELC passports.

The children had the opportunity to make their own spices and natural mandalas in India; paint fans in the style of the ’umbrella’ village Bor Sang; practice the Italian language of hand gestures; play traditional pin-ball in Taiwan; dress-up as a spirit animal ‘alebrije’ in Mexico; dance away to K-pop; become an astronaut at NASA; play the traditional Dutch Sjoelbak shuffleboard game; and take their shot at Swedish Floorball. So much fun was had!

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Co-Constructing a Climate-Resilient Future: Putting Our Trust in the Children

On UN Earth Day this week, our Head of The City School, Dr. Lea, and our Y1-2 Project Coordinator, Ms. Sam, presented a webinar to the international educational and development community entitled ‘Co-Constructing a Climate-Resilient Future: Putting Our Trust in the Children’, with a participating audience of professionals from Bangladesh to Ethiopia, Nepal to the US. Hosted by the Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood, and in collaboration with Save the Children, our educators showcased how ELC’s The City School is committed to empowering children to prepare for climate resilience and work for sustainable development, and how our Reggio Emilia approach to education cultivates those skills and character for our children to be world-changers.