News / Nunn Road / 2004 / No.E35 September 2004

Dear parents,

Moon Cake Festival is just around the corner.  Colour lanterns (tang lung) are strung up in shops and shopping malls.  For those who are not Chinese, the Moon Cake Festival, a Mid-Autumn Festival(Chung Chiu), is the third major festival of the Chinese calendar. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month.  It is also known as the Moon Cake Festival because a special kind of sweet cake (yueh ping) prepared in the shape of the moon and filled with sesame seeds, ground lotus seeds and duck eggs is served as a traditional Chung Chiu delicacy.

This festival brings lots of sweet memories for me.  When I was in primary school, my father helped me to make a fish shape lantern. It was fun to walk with that lantern. I felt proud of my own work.  At Nania, we celebrated our lantern festival earlier in July.  We will never the less have a class Moon Cake celebration and children will bring back a vegetarian moon cake on that day.

Next month we will celebrate our Harvest Festival.  For this festival, we will focus the children to appreciate all the important things and aspects related to food. Mothers will be invited to join us on that day.  You may have already noticed at home that the children have started to practice songs and poems for presentation on that day.  You will be informed of details in the next newsletter.

Teacher Tian


Parents evening

We had an evening meeting with parents last April to share about life at Nania and address queries from parents.  It was a nice evening.  We got to know more about each other.  Parents enjoyed the opportunity to ask some of the questions they never got around to asking as well as meet other parents. It was proposed that such an evening gathering is held from time to time to maintain good contact between parents and staff as well as between parents.

We would like to invite you all parents to another Parents’ Evening Meeting (parents only) at 7.30 pm on 24th September 2004 (Friday). To enable discussion we recommend parents not to bring their children to the meeting.  The meeting is not expected to go beyond 9.00 pm.  Kindly inform us whether you can or cannot attend the meeting.