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Our first German session
With a small delay but a lot of fun we have started learning German with Minecraft. Children learned to describe blocks with the question ‘Was is das?’ (What is this?) and worked on a house project using the first 8 blocks.
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Video making session
Our video makers learned about interviewing practices so to exercise we have asked them to design a home or office of a person they would like to interview. Ideas and designs were – as always – amazing!
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Coding session with Raspberry Pi
Well, this was a lot of fun! Dads were so excited to talk to children about the history of computers and the size of original floppy disks (what is a floppy again?;)). We have used RaspberryPi to build a castle and blow up a huge block of TNT but also learned about this super small and super cheap computer – which can run a free version of Minecraft!
Children designed their own versions of computers in Minecraft – which was also a lot of fun!
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Minecraft Spring Competition
If you want to win some Minecraft goodies we invite all our club members to participate in our Minecraft Spring Competition! You have 4 weeks to complete your projects in two categories:
- Local Heritage – Betjeman Park in Wantage
- Fiction & Imaginary – Scene or location from Harry Potter books
All entires have to be submitted in form of a video tour around your creation – we will need your video file (we will add it to our public YouTube channel so please ensure that your face is not visible in the recording).
You can submit one entry per category, each member can participate in both categories.
Competition is open to all members of families registered with our Club.
Deadline: 10th March 2015.
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Personal Achievements
Our system of achievements is really important and so after each session our children receive a group achievement. That’s the easy part. They also have to choose a personal achievement and I have to say – initially I assumed that many of them would go for stickers that simply look cool. Yet…I was wrong. Each and every participating child spends a good deal of time thinking carefully about their behaviour during each session and choosing the right sticker. Very rarely I need to help them out. I am very, very proud and happy that I was initially wrong in my assumption.
I love when children prove me wrong!;)
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In the land of the Moss
Moss is always fascinating to me. As a little girl I would spend all my day outside just watching all the micro-worlds of it. This morning in Wantage was grey, dump and really gloomy but as I walked out of the Betjeman Park I decided to turn things around – when you look at things through the lens of a camera (does not matter what type, just a device capturing a moment for eternity) your perception changes, stops and the surrounding circumstances cease to exist. I really enjoyed those moments!
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London
I like to go back to London…for a day. I don’t like its captivating capitol nature and I do not like my memories of commuting. I am so happy I don’t have to do it anymore!
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Thank you for brilliant first sessions!
Last Saturday was so nice! I am really happy to see so many of our pilot course members back! We have started our coding, video making and maths course so children will work on challenges related to those areas. Our German group is small so it will start in the week and the 2.30 pm session will open again as a Master Course of Minecraft. Share the news, check out your homework and see you on the 31st of January!
This is the only course we are still advertising:
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Announcing 2015 spring courses
Our spring courses are now publicly available – you can download the full brochure here or by clicking on the image above. We are staring our sessions this Saturday so if you want to join us, please email me (sylwiapresley@gmail.com) asap – our pilot participants had early access to this announcement so, as you can imagine, spaces are already quite limited. All groups will have a lot of fun, we aim to finalise a small project with each group so we will have a little bit of work to do too. Considering we are now meeting every second Saturday I am sure we will all enjoy it though.
To kick off our community support we are offering 4 hrs of Minecraft fun to the Y6 children attending the Butler Centre after-school club. our first session is tomorrow and we will keep you informed on that as well.
Stay tuned for our new announcements!
Exciting times!
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Chinese lanterns
Just magical – the festival of lights but in a very sophisticated manner. I so loved the Longleat Chinese Lanterns!
