British Science Week 2024

Posted: 21st February 2024

It’s British Science Week 8 – 17 March, celebrating everything STEM – science, technology, engineering and maths! The theme this year is ‘Time!’ It’s the 30th anniversary of British Science Week so we’re celebrating this huge milestone, thinking about time since the Week began, and looking to the future!

We love a bit of STEM at Gymboree Play & Music, inspiring young makers and thinkers in our classes for ages 3 to 5:

Play Lab – a multi-disciplinary class designed to introduce your child to engineering, design, art, and maths.
Explorers Advanced – lots of co-operative games and imaginary adventures designed to build self confidence and promote the important personal and social skills needed for a successful transition into school.
School Skills – children will learn to collaborate and negotiate with their peers, and learn ways to communicate and play together.
Lego – this course will encourage an early love for science, technology, engineering, art and maths, fostering a natural curiosity for how things work.

Discover lots of fun science activities for your little ones in this Activity Pack, including a competition to create a poster!

child development, classes, events, Lego

Reviews

Both of my children (3.5 years and 11 months) go to Gymboree Play & Music and love it. My toddler goes to their drop-off Lego class which she raves about. It's very creative, working not only on Lego skills but also painting, drawing etc. My infant son loves his Gymboree Play & Music Crawlers class - particularly loves crawling all over their props, through the tunnels, etc. Great way to get the infant crawling over obstacles! Gymboree Play & Music is part of our weekly schedule for both kids and we look forward to participating every week. Invaluable!

Natalia, Hampstead

Gymboree Play & Music was a lovely and positive experience for my son Leo. We started when he was 9 months and he is now 3 years old, I wish we had started sooner.
He loves the songs (which is part of our daily singing at home), the freedom to explore and he was happy there. He looks forward to class every week and once class is over he will tell everyone about Gymbo and what he did.
For me, I liked that it taught him how to get down safely from a height, how to learn to use his body, and touching on different topics every 2 weeks. It gave me confidence in other environments to trust that he has the ability that he learned from Gymboree Play & Music and to trust him.

Sheena, Sevenoaks

I’ve been taking both my newborn and toddler to Gymboree Play & Music for a couple of months now and both boys are really loving the classes and open gym sessions. It’s a great way to meet other mums, entertain toddlers at witching hour(!) and get ideas for sensory play with babies. Sophie and Cat are fantastic and have so much energy and loads of different ideas for the classes, plus make sure the activities it’s help children meet their development milestones as well. Highly recommend this if you’re thinking about joining!! Thanks so much Sophie, Cat and the wider team :-)

Pippa, Tunbridge Wells