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Primary News from THE TRIANGLE Spring 2009


THE TRI
ANGLE
is a local specialist Christian Bookshop, offering a wide range of resource materials relevant to the Foundation Stage Curriculum and Key Stages 1 & 2, and is able to offer schools significant discounts on items purchased from stock or placed on order as well as free delivery and a personal service.

2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations' International Year of the Child. Useful information about free resources, some available to download can be found here.

 CHANGE TODAY. CHOOSE FAIRTRADE. Munch it! Wear It! Taste it! Choose it!

THE TRIANGLE offers a wide range of fairly traded goods and is happy to supply teas and coffees, biscuits and snacks on a one off or regular basis if required. Why not Change Your Snack?

23 February - 8 March Fairtrade Fortnight: Check out www.fairtrade.org.uk for news on events and click on the Fairtrade Fortnight Action Guide which is packed with ideas and resources to use in your school. This year, why not Go Bananas for Fairtrade? Join thousands of people throughout the UK and beyond and eat a Fairtrade banana between noon on Friday 6 March to noon on Saturday 7 March to set a world record for the largest number of Fairtrade bananas eaten over a 24 hour period! Find out more


5th March - World Book Day Why not hold a book sale to mark the occasion? For hosting the sale of books, and Fairtrade goods, THE TRIANGLE will offer you 10% of the total sales in books for your school. Contact Maureen at the shop if you would like her to supply a box of books for sale or return at your school or group.

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (Film edition) Filmed as The Secret of Moonacre 
The Little White Horse is a long-standing childhood classic. It is now a major motion picture, The Secret of Moonacre, releasing in UK cinemas on 6th February 2009, featuring an all-star cast including Dakota Blue Richards (The Golden Compass), Ioan Gruffudd (The Fantastic Four), Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Natascha McElhone (The Truman Show, Solaris) and Juliet Stevenson (Bend it Like Beckham), helmed by the award-winning Hungarian director Gabor Csupo (The Bridge to Terabitha). This edition of The Little White Horse celebrates the release of the motion picture with 8 pages of colour stills taken from the film. £6.99
More about the film can be found here and free online teaching resources can be found by clicking here

Easter resources available from THE TRIANGLE include:
Resurrection Eggs (£16.75) These colourful plastic eggs provide a visual way for you to tell the Easter story. Each egg holds a small item which is part of the Easter message. As the children see and touch the items, they will remember their meaning in respect to the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Why not use them as part of an Easter Egg hunt?
Picturing Easter (£26) Eight works of art reproduced on tear-proof cards for handing around and on a CD-ROM for projection - telling the Easter narrative. Each card is backed with comments, questions, biblical references and suggestions for responding as an individual or a group to the artwork. There is a also a 24-page facilitator's guide with further suggestions for learning strategies and background material, written by Lat Blaylock and Victoria Ikwuemesi.
Eyewitness Assemblies: 15 ready-to-use assemblies for Easter to Pentecost by Gaynor Cobb (£7.99) 15 imaginative 'first hand' accounts of the events from Easter to Pentecost, told from the perspective of someone who was there. Each assembly can stand alone, and the material is particularly suitable for schools planning project-based work over the period of Easter, or for teachers wishing to link the themes of Easter to topical issues covered in PSHE and Citizenship.

10th -16th May - Christian Aid Week why not get someone from Christian Aid, an international development charity working to rid the world of poverty and the causes of poverty, to come and run a session for you? Christian Aid Teachers are a great resource for schools. For more information or to request someone to come to your school or group please contact Susan in the Southampton Office on 023 8070 6969, email. Visit their website for details of resources, links to www.globalgang.org and www.eco-schools.org.uk and Assembly of the Month, which this month focuses on Fairtrade.

If you are interested in hosting a sale or for further information please contact Maureen Barnes, Schools Liaison Manager, on 0770 993 5214 or by email

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