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23/04/2025 – 28/04/2025 EARTH Day

Earth Day is all about caring for our environment.  It is Celebrated in Spring on April 22.  Earth day started in 1970. 
We will be talking about the importance of this day and the ways people celebrate it around the world.

How can we Help our Earth?

• We can clean our community by picking up rubbish
• We can walk, scoot or cycle instead of using our cars.
• We can save water by turning off taps when we are brushing our teeth.
• We can recycle paper, glass and plastic by sorting into the right places.

06/05/2025 National Smile month

Teeth are fascinating! They help us speak, chew food and of course smile. They are the only part of our body that cannot repair itself. This week we are going to explore teeth and gums and learn more about their importance and how to look after them. Helping our children to understand the importance of oral hygiene. We will use fun activities to make brushing, flossing, and visiting the dentist appealing. During this week we will do lots of activities to ignite our children’s interest in keeping their teeth healthy. We will be engaging the children into role-play activities, experiments, practicing brushing the false teeth, and doing crafts related to our teeth.

https://www.dentalhealth.org/national-smile-month

12/05/2025- 19/05/2025 MINI BEASTS

Have you seen some fascinating little creepy-crawlies called Minibeasts that live everywhere on our planet! They are also called invertebrates. It means they do not have backbones instead some have soft and slimy bodies, or some have shells, like snails. Some minibeasts have a thin but strong layer on the outside of their bodies and it is called an exoskeleton. It protests their bodies underneath. We will investigate some more interesting facts about them like where they live, what they eat, what eats them. We will also learn how we can protect and care for these small creatures. 

On 13/05/2025 ZooLab will be visiting us, and we might see some millipedes, cockroaches. We will also raise our very own butterflies and watch their amazing transformation! We will watch how caterpillars change into chrysalis and then emerge as a beautiful butterfly. We will learn how to feed them and will release them into the wild! 

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This week we will be learning about an artist called Gustav Klimt. He was born on 14^th July 1862 in Austria. He is known for his symbolist paintings. Symbolism is an artist movement where creators use metaphor and symbols in their work instead of painting things as they look in real life. Klimt is known for his paintings, murals and sketches.

Some of his famous paintings are “Avenue in Scholl Kammer Park”, “The Sunflower”, “The Kiss”, The Tree of Life” and “Portrait of Hermine Gallia”.  Klimt was most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.  Children will try and make swirly patterns with different metallic colours and make their own “Tree of Life”.

09/06/2025 – 16/06/2025        PIRATES

All hands Ahoy! Who were the pirates? Daring figures who swooped on treasure ships and returned home with golden cargoes? Sea thieves who showed no mercy for their victims. Or bold adventurers who paid for travel by theft at sea? Pirates were all of these. For centuries, they sailed across the seas and oceans of the world. They had a special flag to distinguish them from other ships, called the Jolly Roger.

Do you know any famous pirates? What would be your pirate’s name? We heard of a tale that a well-known pirate by the name of Blackbeard might have hidden his treasure at our school. Who’s up for a treasure hunt? Shiver me timbers!

Dress up as a Pirate on Friday 20 June.

23/06/25 – 30/06/2025 LET’S BUILD

Follow two very curious builders who are committed to getting the job done, the only problem is, they’ve never built anything before! Join them as they work together exploring textures, objects and materials and transform them into wonderful creations that come to life. A mermaid, a rocket, a mighty elephant… the possibilities are endless!

Come on an interactive building adventure, embracing the magic of discovering things for the first time, where mistakes are a door to something new.

We will construct an outdoor creation and then go to watch “Let’s Build” at the Polka Theatre Friday 27 June.

SUMMER FUN

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