Lianyang community celebrates Children's Day
Updated: 2012-06-07 16:40
By Wu Gang(chinadaily.com.cn)
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SHANGHAI – Foreign residents of the Pudong district's Lianyang community visited a school for the disabled on June 1 - Children's Day - to teach the students conversational English and how to make handicrafts.
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The foreign residents of Lianyang's foreign affairs service center write cards to the students of the Pudong New Area Special School for blessing, June 1, 2012. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] |
The students greeted their guests with several entertaining stage performances, including singing and comedy sketches.
The Pudong New Area Special School was established nearly a decade ago to provide high-quality compulsory education to the hearing-impaired, mentally retarded, those with cerebral palsy and other students with disabilities. It has more than 325 students and 65 full-time teachers.
Over the past few years, the school has been recognized as both a local and national leader in special education.
Lianyang's foreign affairs service center, which was established last December, organized the Children's Day event as part of a broader effort to integrate its 5300 expatriate residents into the community.