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Our First Board Games Meetup – Tsuro
We had a great time playing board games at our local, Vale and Downland Museum, this morning. Scrabble, Snakes and Ladders, Dixit, Minion and Hobbit Monopoly were played but the overall winner this time was Tsuro – children and parents loved it the most. It took us one round to work it out but then it was just pure fun:)
As of of our parents summed it up ‘it was much nicer than a morning with Minecraft’.
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Announcing the winners of our Summer Competition
Our Summer Competition was very quiet this year but because we were all running out of steam we have decided to give away our personal Minecon goodies to children. Today I had the pleasure of giving some of the awards to few winners and I simply love the smile on their faces – well deserved! Thank you for all your efforts and all your support! You have made us so so happy!
Here are the winners:
Short Story Category:
1st place – Skye
2nd place – Finley
3rd place – Bertie
Special Recognition – Milly
Word Art Category:
1st place – Pearl (with both entries)
2nd place – Skye
3rd place – Dawid
Video Category:
1st place – Daniel
2nd place – Bruce
Well done everyone! We are ever so grateful for all your work and creativity!
Look out for your rewards this week!
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Our first session at the Wantage Library
…was so quiet! 🙂 I have trained, practiced and worked as a teacher but I have never ever worked with such a well behaved, quiet group! ‘Why are we whispering?’ asked Dawid on the way out of the Library. ‘I don’t know but it feels right’ – I responded.
We had a lovely session today with a lot of work done. And I am happy to see some of our guests working on inspirations from not just our cards but also books, even the library itself (books labyrinth by Frank in the bottom right corner below). I am not sure how about them, but I really really loved the session! Results below:
We would like to say a big thank you to the staff of our Wantage Library for this great opportunity and all their support today! 🙂
Books that inspired us today: 2
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Our first sessions of 2015/2016!
We had a great time at the Butler Centre on Saturday. Children worked on challenges they chose in their own time which gave them more time to work together, play and build friendships. Parents told us that this model of sessions worked better so we hope to continue with them at least this year. Below some of our creations!
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Wantage Summer Festival in October
This month we have been researching past Festivals, meeting and interviewing members of Wantage community and preparing our website for 2016 events. We are starting to plan our next Festival so stay tuned as we will need you to listen – we will start collecting information which will help YOU promote your work, venue and events.
Meetings with other event organisers and with local schools
We are extremely grateful to all other local event organisers who met us already and expressed amazing support to our summer plans. You are all great and we hope to be able to help your events too.
We are super excited about our meetings with local schools. One of your main concerns was the engagement of younger audiences and it is very important for us too – so we hope to build good relationships with all local schools. So far the response is brilliant!
We want to meet and interview YOU! We can also feature your venue!
We have mentioned this in our open meetings – we are dedicating a lot of time to meet all past event organisers, festival participants, and fans. We have already met a few Festival friends and we will publish interviews on our blog shortly. In the meantime, we would love to plan new chats and interviews so please get in touch if you want to meet informally or if you want us to feature you on our website.
If you have a venue which in your opinion could be used during our 2016 festival, please let us know. We are keen on helping our event organisers in expanding to new places in town so all your input will be greatly appreciated.
Can you help?
As we are researching the past of our Festival we are trying to reconstruct all past programmes, but we have no records from 1999, 2000 and 2001. Please, please, please let us know if you happen to have a copy of our Programme from those years! Thank you!
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Our Sessions in Autumn
Please pass the information below to your friends, if you think it is relevant to them. Thank you in advance for sharing!
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Summer Competition Entries
Here is the reminder of our categories:
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Minecraft themed Word Art picture – all entries in this category need to be submitted on an A4 or A3 sheet of paper. They need to contain a hand made piece of calligraphy (collage with a Minecraft screenshot printed and added to the art piece is allowed, but please ensure that you write and draw on your work too).
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Minecraft Story (at least 200 words) – all entries in this category have to be submitted in form of a typed editable text document (not .pdf file but a .doc file).
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Wantage in Minecraft zone – work on your zone of Wantage in Minecraft and we will reward the best entries!
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A building in Minecraft – video tour – if you are up for a video tour build your home, a piece of architecture from the past or a famous construction – real are entirely made up. Then record a video tour around it and send us the file or the link to it.
We have received submissions in three categories (thank you all so much!)and we will announce the winners on Saturday, but today we would like to share the submitted videos. Here is London Bridge by Bruce and Minecraft Home by Daniel. Enjoy!
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New sessions announced!
WHAT’S ON IN 2015/2016
Autumn 2015:
We do not advertise courses this autumn but we will host paid and free sessions for children and grown ups in three locations:
- Butler Centre (£3 per child/£2 per child for club members, parents attend for free and are asked to stay with us too, siblings are welcome too) – please bring a device with Minecraft installed on it, including tablets as we work offline.
- Vale & Dowland Museum (free sessions for parents, children are welcome too) – don’t bring Minecraft unless you can show us your work in 5 seconds;), our Museum sessions are dedicated to board games – we love those too!
- Wantage Library (free sessions for everyone) – please bing a device with Minecraft installed on it – a laptop or a tablet
Sessions planned for 2015/2016:
September 2015:
- 13.09, 2-4.30pm – Heritage Day, Vale & Downland Museum (6 club members)
- 26.09, 9-10am – WPC session for Children on Autistic Spectrum (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), Butler Centre
- 26.09, 10am-midday – WPC session for children with parents (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), children and parents from earlier session are welcome to stay, Butler Centre
October 2015:
- 5.10, 16.45-17.30pm – Wantage Library session for children with parents (free) – in partnership with Wantage Library
- 10.10, 11am-1pm – Vale and Downland Museum, Board Games Meetup for everyone (free) – in partnership with Vale & Downland Museum and Toy Planet Games Shop
- 17.10, 9-10am – WPC session for Children on Autistic Spectrum (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), Butler Centre
- 17.10, 10am-midday – WPC session for children with parents (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), children and parents from earlier session are welcome to stay, Butler Centre
November 2015:
- 2.11, 16.45-17.30pm – Wantage Library session for children with parents (free) – in partnership with Wantage Library
- 7.11, 11am-1pm – Vale and Downland Museum, Board Games Meetup for everyone (free) – in partnership with Vale & Downland Museum and Toy Planet Games Shop
- 14.11, 9-10am – WPC session for Children on Autistic Spectrum (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), Butler Centre
- 14.11, 10am-midday – WPC session for children with parents (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), children and parents from earlier session are welcome to stay, Butler Centre
December 2015:
- 5.12, 11am-1pm – Vale and Downland Museum, Board Games Meetup for everyone (free) – in partnership with Vale & Downland Museum and Toy Planet Games Shop
- 7.12, 16.45-17.30pm – Wantage Library session for children with parents (free) – in partnership with Wantage Library
- 12.12, 9-10am – WPC session for Children on Autistic Spectrum (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), Butler Centre
- 12.12, 10am-midday – WPC session for children with parents (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), children and parents from earlier session are welcome to stay, Butler Centre
January 2016:
- 9.01, 11am-1pm – Vale and Downland Museum, Board Games Meetup for everyone (free) – in partnership with Vale & Downland Museum and Toy Planet Games Shop
- 11.01, 16.45-17.30pm – Wantage Library session for children with parents (free) – in partnership with Wantage Library
- 16.01, 9-10am – WPC session for Children on Autistic Spectrum (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), Butler Centre
- 16.01, 10am-midday – WPC session for children with parents (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), children and parents from earlier session are welcome to stay, Butler Centre
February 2016:
- 1.02, 16.45-17.30pm – Wantage Library session for children with parents (free) – in partnership with Wantage Library
- 6.02, 9-10am – WPC session for Children on Autistic Spectrum (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), Butler Centre
- 6.02, 10am-midday – WPC session for children with parents (£3 per child, £2 per child for club members), children and parents from earlier session are welcome to stay, Butler Centre
Please refer to our calendar of events here or scroll down to subscribe to our newsletter for more information.
We are still building Wantage in Minecraft so email us for more details – sylwiapresley@gmail.com.
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Wantage Summer Festival in September
Welcome back! We hope you all had a great summer!
Wantage Summer Festival Committee is also back to work. We had a great time at Ray’s Carnival and now we are starting our planning of 2016 event.Meetings with the Wantage Town Council and the Grove Parish Council
We are really, really grateful for their support and hope that we will continue our partnership with them. We are very keen on engaging Wantage community but also all neighboring areas.Your Feedback is Now Featured on our Website
We have collected all your feedback defining our Festival and added it to our website here. Here are just a few quotes:“A space to celebrate summer”
“Open for all groups/organisations to showcase themselves.
Include all aspects of ‘ART’ – music, drama, craft etc. All age groups.”“Identifying what truly makes Wantage a great place to work, live and enjoy ‘me’ time and family time.”
Meetings with You
We have mentioned this in our open meetings – we are dedicating a lot of time to meet all past event organisers, festival participants, and fans. We have already met a few Festival friends and we will publish interviews on our blog shortly. In the meantime, we would love to plan new chats and interviews so please get in touch if you want to meet informally or if you want us to feature you on our website.
