Sylwia Korsak

We would like to send our thanks and welcome as our first sponsor the Wantage Camera Club. We are extremely grateful for your support and contribution with will go towards the prizes of our spring competition. Thank you!

Pretty please!:) We would love to improve our work with children, provide them with Minecraft Edu licences (software allowing access to online platform with Minecraft based lessons and community of teachers working with this game), we would love to run more competitions to boost creativity and encourage productivity of our team, we would love to be able to help our community more – for example we are currently in talks with a Wantage based charity to support their upcoming March fundraising event.

So if you would like to help us but also tell your clients that you support the coolest club for children and their families in the area – well, get in touch! We will be very grateful for all your support but also offer specific benefits. Just check out the sponsorship tiers below:

In our third maths session children had to design their very own 3D version of times tables. Each Club member chose a different approach and so our presentations looked really impressive – and some managed to work all the way up to 12×12! Well done!

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.

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!

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!

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:

1. Local Heritage – Betjeman Park in Wantage
2. 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.

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!;)