LOCAL students — all 1.37 million of them — went back to school yesterday.

Many schools arranged traditional cultural activities for the new semester to mark the end of the Chinese New Year celebration as well as warming up for campus life ahead.

At Luwan No. 1 Central Primary School in Huangpu District, students shared family photos taken during the Spring Festival, read poems related to spring and played games on iPads to compete on knowledge of ancient Chinese poetry.