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
