The School of Play Curriculum
Primary School Grade 3 & 4
Week Thirty marks the final chapter of the Playful Astronauts' journey, a joyful return to Earth where students pause, celebrate, and reflect on everything they've discovered among the planets. After learning nine empowering life skills and exploring a universe of emotions, movement, imagination, and kindness, this week invites students to look back with pride. Through festive play, expressive art, energising movement, and group reflection, children recognise how much they've grown and how these life skills now live within them. They celebrate themselves, their classmates, and the shared adventures that made their astronaut mission meaningful.
This week reinforces that every child is now equipped with tools for kindness, confidence, gratitude, resilience, empathy, and more. Space Station Celebration invites joyful reflection, My Astronaut Journey Poster turns learning into visual storytelling, Suit Up Workout reconnects movement with life skills, and Mission Complete Medals allow students to recognise and honour one another. Week Thirty is a sparkling finish, a reminder that while the space mission ends, the lessons, friendships, and strengths gained will continue to shine brightly as students carry their astronaut hearts back into everyday life.
Weekly Lessons
Space Station Celebration
Space Station Celebration brings the entire nine-week space journey together in one joyful, meaningful finale. After exploring kindness, confidence, resilience, empathy, play, and more across the planets, students return to their very own space station to reflect on how far they’ve travelled and how much they’ve grown. Surrounded by decorations, space-themed music, and their crew of fellow astronauts, children revisit each planet’s life skill and celebrate the ways they’ve practised it in real life. The classroom becomes a place where memories, laughter, and achievements orbit all around them.
Through dancing, role-play, sharing circles, and even a playful Astronaut Graduation, students recognise the skills they’ve developed and the courage they’ve shown along the way. They choose favourite planets, recall powerful moments, and proudly name life skills that now shine inside them like stars. Space Station Celebration marks the perfect ending to the Playful Astronauts mission, an uplifting moment of connection, pride, and joy that prepares every student to launch into their next adventure with confidence, gratitude, and a heart full of cosmic wonder.
Respectful Relationships
Communication and Empathy
Space Station Celebration supports students to:
- Share their favourite life skill, planet, or memory from the space journey, helping others understand what they valued and learned.
- Listen respectfully to classmates’ reflections, developing empathy for different perspectives and experiences.
- Use positive language as they celebrate one another’s growth and achievements as Playful Astronauts.
Cooperation and Social Skills
This activity helps students to:
- Work together to create a shared “space station” environment, strengthening teamwork and collective joy.
- Participate in group celebrations, dances, or movement games in a safe and inclusive way.
- Connect as a class community by reflecting on their shared journey and acknowledging one another’s contributions.
Safety and Acceptance
Space Station Celebration encourages students to:
- Feel safe expressing their favourite life skills, moments, or feelings from the space adventure in a supportive environment.
- Celebrate differences by recognising that each astronaut enjoyed different planets, activities, and life lessons.
- Promote a sense of belonging by acknowledging that every student played an important role in the nine-week mission, reinforcing acceptance and unity.
My Astronaut Journey Poster
My Astronaut Journey Poster gives students a meaningful and creative way to look back on their entire nine-week adventure through the solar system. By drawing each of the nine planets and matching them with their life skills, kindness, conflict resolution, vulnerability, play, confidence, gratitude, resilience, empathy, and adaptability, students create a colourful map of their learning. As they illustrate their journey, they remember the stories, feelings, games, and special moments that shaped them along the way, transforming their poster into a visual timeline of growth, curiosity, and discovery.
Once complete, each poster becomes a personal celebration of what students have learned about themselves and others. Sharing their artwork with the class helps them recognise how far they’ve travelled and how many new strengths they now carry inside, just like true Playful Astronauts. My Astronaut Journey Poster is both a reflection and a keepsake, capturing the joy, imagination, and life skills gained throughout their space mission, and reminding every student that their journey isn’t ending, it’s just beginning.
Respectful Relationships
Communication and Empathy
My Astronaut Journey Poster supports students to:
- Share their reflections on each planet and life skill, helping others understand what they learned and experienced.
- Listen to classmates’ posters and explanations, building empathy and appreciation for different learning moments.
- Use drawings and simple explanations to communicate their feelings, memories, and personal growth.
Cooperation and Social Skills
This activity helps students to:
- Participate respectfully in group sharing, celebrating each other’s creative work and learning journeys.
- Build a positive classroom culture by discussing the skills they gained and recognising others' achievements.
- Strengthen social bonds through collective reflection on the nine-week adventure, reinforcing teamwork and connection.
Safety and Acceptance
My Astronaut Journey Poster encourages students to:
- Feel safe expressing their thoughts, memories, and favourite moments in a supportive environment.
- Recognise that every student's journey looked different and that all experiences are valued and important.
- Promote belonging by contributing to a classroom display that celebrates the whole group’s growth and exploration.
Suit Up Workout
Suit Up Workout brings the entire Playful Astronauts journey to life through movement, giving students a chance to embody every life skill they’ve learned across the nine planets. With each exercise representing a different skill, kindness, conflict resolution, vulnerability, play, confidence, gratitude, resilience, empathy, and adaptability, students move their bodies in ways that help them remember, reflect, and celebrate their growth. The workout becomes a joyful physical recap, blending memory and movement so students can feel their learning as much as they think about it.
As the class jumps like Mars, power poses like Jupiter, bounces like Uranus, mirrors Neptune, and spins into Pluto, students reconnect with the emotions, stories, and lessons that shaped their journey. The activity finishes with a unifying cool-down, helping every astronaut recognise their strength, teamwork, and readiness for whatever comes next. Suit Up Workout is a vibrant, energising celebration, an active reminder that the life skills students carry inside them are always there to help them launch confidently into new adventures.
Respectful Relationships
Communication and Empathy
Suit Up Workout supports students to:
- Express each life skill through movement, helping them communicate emotions and ideas non-verbally.
- Tune into how different movements feel in their bodies, building awareness of their own emotions and how others might feel.
- Celebrate the full astronaut journey together, listening and responding to shared cues as a group.
Cooperation and Social Skills
This activity helps students to:
- Participate in a whole-class workout where they follow instructions, take turns, and move as a coordinated team.
- Build group connection by celebrating each planet and life skill together, reinforcing unity and shared achievement.
- Encourage and support peers as they move through the sequence, strengthening teamwork and positive social interactions.
Safety and Acceptance
Suit Up Workout encourages students to:
- Move safely in shared space, respecting personal boundaries and adapting actions to ensure everyone feels comfortable.
- Feel confident participating at their own pace, knowing all movement styles are accepted and valued.
- Recognise their own strengths and feelings through movement, fostering self-acceptance and emotional safety during active play.
Mission Complete Medals
Mission Complete Medals is a heartfelt way for students to celebrate the friendships, courage, and teamwork they’ve shared throughout their Playful Astronauts journey. Each student creates a special medal, decorating it with meaningful words or drawings that recognise a classmate’s kindness, bravery, or support. As they craft their medals, students reflect on the moments that made the mission memorable, times when someone helped them, encouraged them, or made their adventure through the planets feel even brighter.
When students exchange their medals, the classroom fills with smiles, pride, and appreciation. Saying “I made this for you because…” helps them practise giving authentic compliments and strengthens the bonds built over the past nine weeks. Whether displayed on a Mission Wall of Fame or taken home as a keepsake, these medals remind students that kindness and recognition are powerful gifts. Mission Complete Medals brings the journey to a joyful close, showing every astronaut that their actions mattered and that celebrating others is a beautiful life skill to carry forward.
Respectful Relationships
Communication and Empathy
Mission Complete Medals supports students to:
- Use kind, thoughtful words to acknowledge and celebrate their peers, strengthening positive communication.
- Reflect on how others helped them during their astronaut journey, building empathy and appreciation.
- Express gratitude in a meaningful way by verbally explaining why they chose to award their medal to a specific classmate.
Cooperation and Social Skills
This activity helps students to:
- Celebrate one another’s efforts, building stronger connections and a supportive classroom culture.
- Participate respectfully in giving and receiving compliments, practising kindness and positive social interaction.
- Recognise teamwork and shared successes from their journey, reinforcing a sense of belonging and class unity.
Safety and Acceptance
Mission Complete Medals encourages students to:
- Create an emotionally safe environment where everyone feels seen, valued, and appreciated.
- Accept compliments and kind words with confidence, helping build self-esteem and emotional security.
- Celebrate classmates equally, ensuring every student receives recognition and feels included at the end of the journey.
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