2. The week of All Saints’day in Catalonia
we celebrate “La Castanyada”.
It consists of a meal of chestnuts
(castanyes in Catalan) and sometimes
sweet potatoes too.
Along with Christmas, Carnival and
Saint George’s day, it is one of the
main festivals we celebrate al school.
3. La castanyera
The figure of a chestnut seller “la
castanyera” is the symbol of la
Castanyada.
She is an old woman dressed in
peasant’s clothes and a headscarf
in front of a stove, where she is
cooking chestnuts.
This is our castanyera. We have it
displayed in the corridor.
Do you like it?
4. The playground was wet, so this year we celebrated
the Castanyada in the new gym.
We sat in a big circle all around to see the dances
from different countries we had prepared in the Music
class.
The P3, P4 and P5
students danced
“La Castanyera”
and “Pep Patum”,
from Catalonia.
5. The 1st year students
danced “La Badoise”, from
France.
The 2nd year students
“Tarantela”, from Italy.
6. The 4th year students
“Troika”, from Russia
The 3rd year students
danced “Tre Sma Grumor”,
from Sweden
7. Year 5 class danced
“Kolo de Srem” from
Serbia.
And finally, year 6 class
danced “Grand Square”
from the USA.
8. The students in year 6 dressed up as chestnut sellers. As
you can see some of us wore the “barretina”, the red typical
Catalan hat. In the basket we had cones made of newspaper
to put the chesnuts in.
9. We gave the children
the chestnuts and the
sweet potatoes to eat.
