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Empty rooms, on purpose

Photographs of the rooms your child would be in

  • Every classroom
  • 4 Merrit Parkway, Nashua
  • 9,000 sq ft on one floor
  • Rooms shown empty
The rooms

Every room, photographed empty

  • A classroom at Wise Owl Academy with teal walls: child-height tables ringed with small chairs, a large circular alphabet rug in the middle of the floor, a chalkboard on the left wall, a fabric pocket chart spelling the words YOU ARE IMPORTANT down the right wall, and windows along the back.

    The teal room. The wall spells YOU ARE IMPORTANT.

  • A doorway at Wise Owl Academy with the word KINDERGARTEN spelled out in cut paper letters arching over it and a small badge reading 5 years below them, opening onto a teal-walled room with a wall clock and a window.

    The arch over the door, and the teal room beyond.

  • The teal room at Wise Owl Academy seen from its door: a long chalkboard headed CREATE, a low shelf of labelled baskets beside it, tables ringed with blue chairs, a circular alphabet rug and windows at the far end, with nobody in the room.

    The same room from the door, chalkboard to rug.

  • A classroom at Wise Owl Academy with bright orange walls: tables and chairs standing on a large circular rug printed with letters and numbers, a whiteboard, low wooden cubby storage, an alphabet and number display board, and a kitchenette counter with cabinets along the right-hand wall.

    The orange room, with its own counter and low cubbies.

  • The orange room at Wise Owl Academy end to end: a wooden divider shelf in the foreground, a slanted book display, a painted tree on the far wall, an alphabet frieze running along the top of the walls, and small tables past a circular rug.

    The orange room, end to end.

  • A corner of the orange room at Wise Owl Academy: a tall run of open cubbies, a painted tree with a picket fence and a READ sign beside it, a slanted rack of picture books, and low shelves holding storage baskets.

    Cubbies, the painted tree, and the book rack.

  • A classroom at Wise Owl Academy with yellow walls: two clusters of tables with lime-green chairs, an alphabet frieze running along the top of the wall, a whiteboard, a small rug, and large windows looking out onto the car park.

    The yellow room, two table clusters and big windows.

  • The yellow room at Wise Owl Academy down its length: an alphabet frieze along the wall, a whiteboard, tables with green chairs standing on grey carpet, low storage shelves under the windows, and no one in the room.

    The yellow room down its length.

  • The infant and toddler room at Wise Owl Academy: blue walls, soft interlocking foam floor mats in red, blue, green and purple, a patterned play rug, a wooden changing unit against the right-hand wall, a low window, and pastel bunting draped across the back wall.

    The infant and toddler room, soft mats wall to wall.

  • The infant and toddler room at Wise Owl Academy from the other end: blue walls hung with paper streamers, a square of interlocking foam mats in red, yellow, green and blue on the floor, a patterned play mat, and a low window.

    The same room, from the other end.

  • A large open room at Wise Owl Academy with pale green walls: a tiled floor running its whole length, folding chairs stacked at the near end, a world map painted under the words Building A Solid Learning Foundation, and two balls and a hoop left on the floor.

    The big green room, world map on the wall.

  • An open room at Wise Owl Academy with pale lilac walls: a tiled floor, a strip of patterned carpet, a small rug, and a ride-on toy, a rainbow step climber and a chair pushed to the sides.

    The lilac room, toys pushed to the sides.

  • A large indoor play room at Wise Owl Academy with pale yellow walls: a tiled floor, a soft foam climber and a crawl-through caterpillar tunnel pushed against one wall, and a low ball pit in the middle of the floor.

    The indoor play room, climber and ball pit.

Around the rooms

The things on the walls and the floor

  • A classroom door at Wise Owl Academy dressed as a tree trunk, with a paper beehive and cut-out bees around it and the words BUZZING INTO PRE-K in green letters below.

    Buzzing into Pre-K.

  • A classroom door at Wise Owl Academy covered in black paper with a leafy green border, paper owls in pink, orange and green scattered across it, and the words LOOK WHOOZ HERE in orange letters.

    Look whooz here.

  • A display board at Wise Owl Academy of yellow paper honeycomb cells on navy, each cell reading Bee Kind, Bee Nice, Bee Polite, Bee Helpful, Bee A Learner and so on, with cartoon bees flying between them.

    Bee kind, bee polite, bee a learner.

  • A birthdays board at Wise Owl Academy: the word BIRTHDAYS in cut paper letters arching over twelve labelled month cards on green paper, inside a black scalloped border.

    Twelve months, waiting to be filled in.

  • A black banner at Wise Owl Academy with paper bunting across the top and the words WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL in coloured letters, surrounded by drawings of scissors, a pencil, an apple, a basketball and a paint palette.

    Welcome back to school.

  • The hand washing wall at Wise Owl Academy: a row of laminated posters numbering the steps, apply soap, scrub hands for twenty seconds, rinse well, turn off the water and dry hands, above two paper towel dispensers and a clean hands notice.

    The hand washing steps, posted on the wall.

  • A trail of white floor mats at Wise Owl Academy printed with black handprints and footprints, laid across a tiled floor, with a ball and a hoop on the carpet behind them.

    Hands and feet, laid out across the floor.

  • A calendar wall in the orange room at Wise Owl Academy: a blue Calendar and Weather pocket chart, cards for the days of the week and the seasons on either side, and a helping hands chart above it.

    Calendar and weather, set for the morning.

  • A reading corner at Wise Owl Academy: the words Read and Grow painted on a yellow wall above painted flowers and grass, with a slanted rack of picture books standing beneath them.

    Read and grow, painted over the book rack.

  • A circular rug at Wise Owl Academy printed in rings: the alphabet with a picture for every letter around the outside, farmyard sounds such as cluck, quack, neigh and moo inside that, and Old MacDonald had a farm at the centre.

    The circle rug, alphabet around the outside.

  • A low wooden cubby unit at Wise Owl Academy holding five coloured bins, each one carrying a paper owl face, standing against a teal wall below a birthdays display.

    Five bins, five owls.

  • A wooden crib at Wise Owl Academy made up with a patterned sheet, standing empty against a blue wall decorated with pastel giraffe, elephant, lion and zebra decals.

    One crib, and the animals above it.

  • A corridor at Wise Owl Academy with a garland of red and orange autumn leaves draped over the top of a doorway.

    Autumn leaves over the doorway.

The address

The building, from outside

  • The front of Wise Owl Academy on a bright day: a single-storey red-brick building with a grey shingled roof, a white gabled entrance carrying the Wise Owl Academy sign, white doors, trimmed shrubs, an empty car park with painted bays, tall pine trees behind the roofline and a blue sky.

    The front door, the sign, and where you will park.

  • Wise Owl Academy in autumn: the same red-brick frontage and Wise Owl Academy sign, a black lamp post, a young tree with red and orange leaves, and information and enrolment signboards standing near the entrance.

    The same frontage in autumn.

  • The white entrance doors at Wise Owl Academy in their red-brick surround, the number 4 on the brick beside them, and two tall signs hanging either side spelling WELCOME and READY TO LEARN in coloured blocks.

    Number 4, and the two hanging signs.

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