Enter The Dragon – the Chinese New Year will be celebrated in style at a Vale of Clwyd school this weekend.
Girls from top independent boarding school Howells, in Denbigh, have been putting the finishing touches to their very own fire-breathing monster ahead of the worldwide celebration this week.
On Saturday the Dragon will be the centrepiece of the celebrations at the 150-year-old girls school which draws its pupils from all over the world.
The school will have a specially Chinese themed programme of activities with arts and crafts including making masks, cards, Chinese symbols and a Chinese meal for lunch.
Academic Principal Emma Jones said: “Celebrating the Chinese New Year has become part of the calendar here at Howells and with this being the Year of the Dragon there is a special affinity between China and Wales.
“”We do also draw many pupils from the Far East and from Hong Kong and Singapore in particular so it is a special time for us here at Howells.
“We also believe in letting the girls experience as many different cultures as we can as part of their learning experience here”
People born in the Year of the Dragon are believed by the Chinese to be strong, intelligent and successful – they include John Lennon and Ringo Starr, Florence Nightingale, Joan of Arc, Liam Neeson, Raquel Welch, Reese Witherspoon, Russell Crowe, Salvador Dalí, Sandra Bullock, and Shirley Temple.
