At Pomegranate we identify certain important days in the year where children in our workshops work towards the theme of the day in innovative ways. Do read on to see how we create the spirit of ‘TODAY’S THE DAY!’

The Pomegranate Workshop is proud to present What Nonsense! – a workshop in Nonsense Verse to celebrate the birthday of Lewis Carroll.

This January, join us on a journey down the rabbit hole at a mad tea party where we can say whatever we like!

For more details, take a look at this link… http://www.facebook.com/events/350121878333799/

Watch this space for what’s coming up next month.

Take a look at how we’ve ‘lived the theme’ over past months…

Christmas Special

To commemorate the birthday of Quentin Blake, ace illustrator of Roald Dahl stories,  The Pomegrante Workshop organized a unique one day event to teach children illustrations and comic strip making. Take a look at what we did

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Hiroshima Day – August 6

The Pomegranate Magic Reading Room picked the text ‘Hiroshima’ by Laurence Yep and conducted a small activity around it with grade four. The activity draws from a true story which is told to us towards the end of the book.

The true story is of a girl called Sadako Sasaki who lived in Hiroshima at the time of atomic bombing by the United States. She developed Leukemia due to the radiation. She began making origami paper cranes because she was inspired by a Japanese saying that if one creates a thousand paper cranes they will be granted with their deepest wish. Her wish was the live. Sadako could only manage to make 644 cranes and died shortly after making them.

On August 6, children from across the world send paper cranes which are hung above Sadako’s memorial in Hiroshima.

Children from the Magic Reading Room created their own origami paper cranes as a tribute for Sadako.

World Peace Day – September 21

The Pomegranate Magic Reading Room picked the text, ‘What does Peace Feel Like?’ by V Radunsky and conducted a small activity around it with grade three. The children were asked what peace ‘looks, feels, sounds, smells and tastes like’ to them. Click here to read their incredible answers http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=135586139892824