Señora Fudger-Galvez (Spanish Teacher)

On Monday, Year 5 had an exciting and educational workshop about the roots of why Mexico celebrates the Day of the Dead, a Mexican festival, which takes place on 1st November for children and on 2nd November for adults.

The first part of the workshop was related to Calaquita who prepares to meet her grandmother Calaca every year on 1st and 2nd November. She explains how her family have been responsible for this exciting job for generations, being passed down from grandmothers to granddaughters. They accompany dead people to the other dimension (heaven), happy and content in the knowledge that every year, they will return to see their family on the Day of the Dead.

In the second part of the workshop, the girls were fully immersed in making a creative collage with Mexican crafts including all the symbols that represent the Day of the Dead. It was so beautiful to see the Randle Hall full of energy and enthusiasm.  

This festival is very important, it creates a journey full of colour and symbolism, from the characterization of Catrina with make-up and typical costumes, to gods and all the elements of the Altar.

The girls were exposed to new Spanish vocabulary, where the learning was centred on colours, numbers, and parts of the body, cardinal points, family members, everyday objects and exclamations of fear.