June 1st – 30th Pride Month
June 7 – June 13 National growing for Well-being Week
Encouraging people to get growing to promote physical and mental health, connect with nature, learn new skills, reduce anxiety, acquire new skills and enjoy the outdoors.
Classroom Ideas
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Plant a wildflower garden.
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Plant herbs on a windowsill.
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Make a ‘vegetable scraps’ garden.
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Start a compost heap.
June 11th – July 11th Euro 2021
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Learn football skills.
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Play a football themed listening game (click the link to learn more about listening games) Suggested sounds: Referee whistle, crowd cheering, football being kicked, vuvuzela/thunderstick/horn/hand clappers.
June 12 – June 18 Drowning Prevention Week
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Talk about the dangers of water and how to enjoy water safely
June 13th Cupcake Day to raise money for Alzheimers.
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Enjoy making or decorating a cupcake.
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Hold a cupcake sale.
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Hold your own ‘Bake Off’ competition.
June 14th – 18th Healthy Eating Week
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Explore new foods.
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Themed Sensory Food Tasting Session. Theme your foods (e.g. ‘Green’ food tasting (celery, peas, lettuce, avocado, mint, cucumber, grapes)
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Discuss the benefits of healthy eating
June 19th – 25th National School Sport Week
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Try a new sport!
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Hold a Sports Day
June 20th Fathers Day
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Have you made your cards yet?
June 21st World Music Day
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Explore instruments from around the world. (if you do not have access to these instruments then the internet has a host of free audio clips)
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Create an orchestra. Have students taking it in turns to ‘conduct’.
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Listen to a piece of world music.
June 21st World Yoga Day
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Get stretching! Even 5 minutes a day is beneficial.
June 21st World Giraffe Day
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Play an audio clip of the ‘humming’ noise a giraffe makes. Can the sensory explorer imitate the sound? Record their voice and play it back.
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Explore Self-Expression through movement.Watch footage of a giraffe. Can the sensory explorer lope and gallop like a giraffe?
June 26th – Jul 18th Tour de France
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Get on your bikes .
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Explore all things French! (Music, food, dance and of course, Towers!)
June 28th – July 11th Wimbledon
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Play tennis.
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Enjoy strawberries and cream!
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