Holi Festival 2026

After a successful celebration of the Holi Festival last year, Newlands children enjoyed participating in the event again on Wednesday 4th March 2026.
This year we expanded the celebration from just Reception, to: Reception, the whole of KS1, our St. Mildred's Bay class and parents/ carers. 

All of the children were taught what the Holi festival is, and how this is celebrated by Hindu's all across the world. They learned about the story of Prahlad and how Hindu’s light a symbolic fire the day before the Holi Festival in celebration of Prahlad’s survival and how God Vishnu helped save him. 

After being taught about the Holi Festival, the children were then taught a Bollywood Style dance by Miss Warner. The children had to learn sequences of steps and move in time to the music. Miss Warner said “I am beyond impressed with how quickly the children picked up the steps, and were able to dance to the rhythm of the music. It was a joy to see the children having so much fun while learning the dance, and I couldn’t wait to show the parents.” 
Newlands children should be proud of their performance to the grown ups, after only an hour of learning, they danced incredibly well. 

After the performance, the eager children were extremely excited to begin the carnival of colour. The air was filled with a rainbow of colours, as the children frantically ran around the playground, searching for their friends and their grown ups to put powdered paint on. 
The playground was vibrant with colour and filled with smiles and laughter from both children and grown ups. We are very grateful for all those that were able to attend, and hope you had as much fun as we did. 

Mrs Farbrace commented “What a wonderful afternoon and celebration of the Holi Festival! It was a fantastic opportunity to bring diversity and inclusion into our school and community, and we appreciate the children’s grown ups sharing this experience with us. The children thoroughly enjoyed the celebration.