Firstly wish you all a very happy Chinese New Year!

Next two weeks will be a perfect time to celebrate Chinese New Year in your school. You can talk about Chinese New year in lessons including the origin, time, special food, activities etc. If you bring any red envelopes, or New year decoration such as lanterns or Chunlian, take them to school and show them to the students. If not, you certanily can get some from China town ( if you happen to have one in your city) or Chinese supermarkets.

You can arrange with Heads of department or anyone in your school who are in charge of the assembly to give a talk about Chinese New year. Sometimes it doesn't have to be you. You can choose some students and help them prepare for the assembly. Students are usually very creative with ideas of presentation or activities.

Displays related to Spring Festival and Lantern Festival should be very eye catching. You may include some students' work such as their Chinese Painting or calligraphy if they have done some or you can decide to do some next week and put them up the week after.

Why not suggest the school try a Chinese Meal for one lunch? They can get some spring rolls and dumplings or fried noodles maybe? If you happend to be help in food technology lessons, why not try to make some dumplings with students?

Some schools would like to run a China Day with all sorts of workshops related to Chinese Culture. Then it would be relatively easy for you. All you need to focus is selling your strengh. If you are goood at singing, dancing, Kongfu, paper cutting etc, offer to run workshops. Even if you are not good at certain things but you know other CLAs close by might be better at that, invite them to join you! Or a few schools can share the cost of inviting in prefessionals to run the workshops,too.

Trips to China town or a Chinese Restaurant could be a very nice treat for your students. Have you thought about it? Of course you need to talk to your mentor to find out how to organise trips and also whether your school normally ask students for contributuion to trip or not. In most cases, students do need to contribute to at least part of the cost. You probably need to find out roughly how much would cost by talking to the restaurant and add the transport cost.