At New City we celebrated Asian Heritage Week. Children have learnt about the following Asian Historical figures:
- In Nursery children have listened to music by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Qawali singer) and Lata Mangeshkar (Bollywood singer).
- In Reception children have learnt about Shah Jahan (who constructed the Taj Mahal) and they created a piece of artwork of the Taj Mahal.
- In Year 1 – Mother Teresa – missionary
- In Year 2 – Malala Yosafzai – activist
- 3D – Sophia Duleep Singh – suffragette
- 3K – Rushanara Ali – MP
- 3G – Abdul Karim – attendant of Queen Victoria
- 4M – Karpal Kaur Sandhu – first female police officer in Britain
- 4T – Cornelia Sorabji – lawyer
- 4P – Kalyani Sen – navy
- 5R – Gregorio Y Zara – inventor of the videophone
- 5Ra – Fazlur Rahman Khan – engineer
- 5S – Imran Khan – politician and former cricketer
- 6W – Wu Lien Teh – invented the mask
- 6C – Charles Kuen – pioneer of fibre optics
- 6B – Hideo Shima – first bullet train
- 6JF – Bruce Lee – martial artist