Written by: Roseline Yang, Community Liaison Officer
Every year, Global Child Day is organised by the Parent Organisation Pudong, with the help of parents from our school community. The aim of the event is for children to celebrate the diversity of all the cultures represented at school. Every year, there is a theme chosen by the Global Child Day Organizing Committee.
This year, the theme is ‘Festivals and Holidays’ and it has already started with our Indian community at YCIS who have recently celebrated Diwali, the most important family festival in India. Please see below how our Indian parents & teachers have been celebrating this event for the 5thconsecutive year!
This year, Global Child Day will be led by Macarena Pedrero, our Chilean parent who volunteered again this year to lead this international event. Last year, just one month prior to the birth of her baby, she joined the Parent Organization Pudong Core Committee to add to the diversity of our parent representatives. Through her co-leadership of the event, she introduced different initiatives, including the involvement of Chartwells, our food service provider; they prepared dishes from 5 different countries the week prior to Global Child Day last year. It was great to see students interested in the flags and decorations prepared by the parents of the country whose dish was on the menu, and getting them excited about the big event!
For Maca, “celebrating the diversity of our community is a key component of being in an international school. Having parents from all nationalities represented at Global Child Day would be a great opportunity for our kids to see and know who and where their peers and teachers are from”. This is a first step in our children developing a deeper intercultural understanding.
If Maca has been your class parent representative or if you have ever interacted with her, you would know that she is a kind, considerate person, full of enthusiasm and ideas, and someone who makes things happen.
The month of December will be the celebration of ‘Christmas Around The World’.
The month of January will be the celebration of ‘Spring Festival Across Time and Space’.
If you want to join the team and explore the celebration of 2019 May 25thGlobal Child Day together as a community, please email: poppd@sh.ycef.com!