WANTAGE PIXEL CLUB
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Dickensian Evening
We are at the Dickensian Evening tonight! If you want to talk to us, sponsor our club or volunteer in 2015, please come and have a chat. You can find our stall just opposite the bus stop! We hope to see you there.
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2015 plans
We are now happy to confirm that we will continue our sessions in 2015. We will host at least two, if not more, groups so our registrations will open before the end of the year. If you want to know about them, please fill out our waiting list form and subscribe to our newsletter for updates.
We are currently designing are new courses but we can tell you that we will look at expanding our current skills in at least two area: coding and online journalism/storytelling.
We hope that you will enjoy our new ideas;)
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Congratulations to all our club members!
I cannot even express how proud I am off all children AND parents in this season of Minecraft Club. Thank you for all your work, support and trust! I am so glad that we could celebrate, though I was sad to hear that one of our members could not make it to the final ceremony – let’s hope we can meet next Sunday with him.
For now, enjoy your Awards Certificate and all your team and personal achievements! You all rock!:)
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Our first poster – kids and creativity
To me personally Minecraft is indeed like LEGO – it serves as platform for creativity. And so I was really, really happy to see that one of club members, Mr_T__ came to class with his design of club poster. It’s great because we still need to colour it in which means that others can do more team work around it and then we will choose the final look of it. It might be seen a small thing, but it is not – a young person spending time on a drawing for us instead of sitting in front of the game or TV means a lot and we really appreciate it. Great work!
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Session 5 notes – history
In our last session of this course we have talked about history. We do not like to limit our children’s imagination so we have given them an open challenge – to create any historical building or landscape. This way we could tap into their creativity more. Some built castles, some old sheds, one created a field of poppies. Well done all!
The web is full of amazing blue prints of historical buildings and other items so make the most of it at home! One of our members is currently working on Minecraft version of Titanic so we cannot wait to see that!
Keep us posted on your work too!
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Farming, pumpkins and slime
It has been decided – by the majority of today’s votes – that our Ghasty will be called Sunndee from now on. Well done and thank you for all your votes.
We had a great session on farming today finished with two sets of brilliant carved pumpkins and few slices of slime.
We are ready for Halloween!
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The Butler Centre in Minecraft
The great thing about our 15 min ‘working in Minecraft’ sessions is the element of surprise when our members build amazing creations and present them to the group. This is just one of many of those, prepared by Mr_T_ – it’s the very room in which we host our sessions and our team:)
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Notes from our third session
Last Saturday new club members joined our teams. We also have a club mascot now! This little ghast will need a name so hopefully next week we will be able to vote.
Our main topics were mining and types of blocks (Minecraft topic) and crystals (science topic). Club members did amazing job once again so below you can see their creations. They task was to decode their personal challenge and build it in as many blocks as possible.
We have also tried to mine in real life but as all children fairly pointed out – it was hard and noisy work!;)
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Visiting…Lego Exhibition
Lego Exhibition in Swindon is a must for Lego lovers from our area so no wonder that at least two of our club members visited it this weekend. Here are our photos from the event – so good to see Lego Minecraft used for one of the featured constructions.
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Notes from our second session and trip to the Vale & Downland Museum
I have waited to blog about the second session because our second, Blue group needed a bit more time – it started a week later. To catch up we have invited all club members to a field trip to the local museum to investigate range of materials used to build and decorate Wantage. Using our own, Minecraft themed treasure hunt game, we have asked our club members to look for items made of glass, stone, coal, metal and wood but also to search for museum specific items – bones, rats, jewellery, armour and fossils. Everyone was so busy! (We will use this trip next time we meet – in our third session dedicated to mining, crystals and physics.)
The Blue group joined us for their second session and worked on maths and crafting. Our club members spent 15 minutes designing their shed with a roof and a crafting table but each design was unique and very inventive! What a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon!
Finally many of us met online again, in our Realm. This time it was a bit busy so we had to work out how to behave, help, build together and finally join one of our members for a virtual dinner – which was a lot of fun! The slide below pretty much sums it all up;)