Our Spanish Department celebrated ‘Día de los Muertos’ last week; ‘Day of the Dead’ is a Mexican tradition to remember the souls of deceased family members. This celebration allows Mexican families to get together and share exquisite traditional food and spend some time with their loved ones.
At RHS we are extremely lucky to have pupils from over 22 nationalities, each of them with their own language and traditions and it is a privilege to share and celebrate their culture with them.
In our celebration of Day of the Dead we welcomed our Year 7 and 8 pupils along with pupils with an Hispanic heritage to enjoy a range of fun activities whilst spending some time with their friends.
We decorated biscuits, sang karaoke, did a bit (or a lot of) face painting, made our own papel picado (decorative tissue paper cut with exciting designs and Cempasúchil flowers and of course some fun worksheets too.
Ms Shopova commented, “when I was a student one of my teachers told me that ‘you can never know a language until you know its culture’. At that time I did not completely understand what he meant. I think my students now do.”
Our pupils really enjoyed getting to know Mexican culture a little more through this activity:
“I enjoyed decorating the biscuits, making the paper chains and seeing the offering table” - Abigail W, Year 7
“Even though I didn’t get to do face paint and my cookie skills were terrible, I loved all of it!” - Popi K, Year 7
“I really enjoyed the face painting” - Emma P, Year 8