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Sunburst the bear is winning design!

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Sunburst-completeIn celebration of the opening of Colchester Zoo’s latest new enclosure ‘Bears of the Rising Sun’, a number of special events are taking place during the Year of the Bear. This includes Colchester Zoo’s Year of the Bear Education Programme.

Over 70 schools participated in The Year of the Bear education programme and, in total, over 10,000 pupils got involved. It was a fantastic opportunity for schools and groups to get involved in a significant, cross-curricular education programme to accompany the zoos celebrations. Colchester Zoo worked with local schools and groups to come up with a truly unique design for a bear sculpture to help commemorate ‘Year of the Bear’.

Congratulations go to St John's CofE Primary School of Colchester for their winning design of 'Sunburst' the bear for the Year of the Bear education competition. Our judges particularly liked the sun on the bear’s chest representing the sun crescent on the chests of Malayan sun bears, plus the reference to Colchester Zoo’s bear exhibit; Bears of the Rising Sun, which also opened in 2014.

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Sunburst the bear has been painted by local artist Cyndi Speer, and will be situated within Colchester Zoo for all to enjoy. Sunburst will be a great addition to the zoo especially for Colchester Zoo's Teddy Bears' Party which is due to take place on the 1st of June.

A big thank you to all the schools who took part in helping us celebrate ‘Year of the Bear’!




 

 

 

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