Our Languages, Music and Art departments were busy over the past few months, preparing for the Día De Los Muertos parade, also known as Day of the Dead, a celebration of life and death in Mexico on 2nd November.
The IBDP Year 13 languages students created PowerPoints and voice recordings to teach the Year 8s all about the culture, purpose and imagery of Día De Los Muertos during their art lessons. The younger students then got to work, using the information, visuals, and ideas to collaboratively work together in teams to plan, design, model and paint their very own festival float heads.
In our Drop-Down-Day, all students in Year 7 and Year 8 got a chance to learn about this element of Mexican culture and to contribute to the festivities. Orange is a very prominent colour in Día De Los Muertos, particularly orange marigolds as the bright orange-yellow flowers' fragrance is said to attract souls to the altar. The cheery colour also celebrates life. The students thoroughly enjoyed making the orange and yellow marigolds out of tissue paper which they later handed out to dancing spectators during the parade starting at T-Block and snaking its way through Primary school.
The parade was supported by the Year 9 band who marched through the school to Primary and Secondary viewers who sang and danced as the procession paraded through.
It was a huge celebration full of colour and fun, and the sun joined us for a wonderful parade!
