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During the week of Monday 10th. January Mr. Anand
and Mrs. Strickson visited the school and engaged the children in a number
of activities which ended with a whole school assembly on the Friday afternoon
and a performance on the Sunday at the Bagshaw Museum as part of "When
the Moon is New" - Eid-Ul-Fitr Celebrations.
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Tile Making
The children had great fun rolling out the clay
into tile shapes. They designed moon and star shapes to merge on top of
the tile and also etched words into the tile. The tile was then fired
in the school kiln with fingers crossed.
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Later in the week the tiles were painted using
suitable colour tones and then glazed with a varnish. About sixty tiles
were completed and displayed at the Bagshaw Museum and later in the month
at Dewsbury Town Hall.
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Eid Cards
The children also spent some time making their
own Eid cards. An assortment of materials were used in the making process.
Again, the Moon and Stars were central to the design of the cards.
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The children also practised calligraphy for authentic
greetings and wrote their own greetings inside. These too were displayed
at the Bagshaw Museum and at Dewsbury Town Hall.
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The Performance
The children wrote poems about the importance
of Ramadan and the celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr. They used five, six or
eight pointed stars to symbolise each part of the poem.
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Groups of children used mime to act out words
or phrases which used the words moon
or stars. This particular
picture captures part of the mime for HONEYMOON.
Live Traditional Muslim music helped each presentation move on from one
group to another.
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