{"id":13590,"date":"2016-04-19T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2016-04-19T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:36:10","slug":"holi-celebrations-at-foxdell-infant-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/holi-celebrations-at-foxdell-infant-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Holi Celebrations at Foxdell Infant School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foxdell\u00a0Infant School,\u00a0Dallow Road,\u00a0Luton\u00a0was very fortunate in hosting a Holi Festival on Thursday 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March 2016. Holi is traditionally known as the \u2018<strong>Indian Festival of Colours\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0During Holi Hindus celebrate the ending of winter and the coming of spring by showering each other with bright coloured powder; they throw coloured powder onto friends and family to make them colourful.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Dewji and Ms\u00a0Khanam organised a choreographed Bollywood Dance Workshops performed by K\u2019z Dance Entertainment based in harrow. The children had the opportunity to learn dance moves throughout the day in specialised workshops.The children danced to the bollywood songs like \u2018Twist\u2019, \u2018Jai Ho\u2019 and &#8216;London Thumakda&#8217; learning some impressive moves! \u201cI could not believe how well they remembered their routine Foxdell has some very talented dancers!\u201d said Mrs Dewji (RE Coordinator).<\/p>\n<p>At 2pm the whole school gathered in the playground for the Grand Finale. Eventhough, there were some rain showers the mood was not dampened.\u00a0 The children and staff danced to some very catchy Bollywood music led by the very energetic Kalpesh Zalavadiya of K\u2019z Dance Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the anticipation was over the Holi celebrations started dusting the playground with vibrant colours. There were many happy faces and the children could not believe they were allowed to throw powdered paints at each other. Abu Zarr 7 said \u201cThis is so much fun, are you sure I can throw this?\u201d Ms Justine Abbott (Head Teacher) said \u201cToday\u2019s event will be one memory the children will carry forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more details visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzdance.co.uk\/\">www.kzdance.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxdell\u00a0Infant School,\u00a0Dallow Road,\u00a0Luton\u00a0was very fortunate in hosting a Holi Festival on Thursday 24th\u00a0March 2016. Holi is traditionally known as the \u2018Indian Festival of Colours\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0During Holi Hindus celebrate the ending of winter and the coming of spring by showering each other with bright coloured powder; they throw coloured powder onto friends and family to make them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}