#ICYMI: Know your culture
ORANGE GROVE – To mark Heritage Day, Bees Day Care Centre prepared a variety of food and their children were dressed in different cultural costumes.
Bees Day Care Centre in Orange Grove celebrated Heritage Day by teaching children about diverse cultures and traditions.
Even though Heritage Day is celebrated annually on 24 September, the centre decided to host their celebrations 2on 21 September.
As part of their celebration, children were dressed in different cultural garments and teachers prepared various cultural cuisines.
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They also had ‘Love Your Children’ as the theme for the day. Principal of the school, Sisa Sangweni said the day is aimed at encouraging parents to teach their children about their cultural inheritance.
Sangweni said most parents have forgotten their cultural traditions and this impacts on their children which is disturbing.
“Most of these children grow up in towns and suburbs and they don’t know anything about their cultural practices and that is the reason we decided on this theme,” said Sangweni.
“This is to remind them of who they are and where they are coming from as Africans. Heritage Day is not only for people in the rural areas but for all of us.
“This is an important occasion in our calendar and we’re trying to infuse it in our children. We also teach heritage as a subject in our school focusing on different languages, customs and our own diverse traditional food and clothing.”
On the day, the school prepared South African, Nigerian, Zimbabwean as well as Zambian foods and other diverse cultural cuisine to enable children to enjoy different taste.
“They also danced to traditional songs and performed other cultural activities including singing motivational songs of unity among African nations.”
Edited by Stacey Woensdregt
