We’ve been fortunate enough to bring a select group of students for some sessions at the Saint’s Study Centre as a way of showing them how important it is to set goals for themselves not just in education but also in their lives outside of school. Without exception every session we have done has kept the students engaged and also helped them to realise their own hidden talents (including a couple of our lads having the amazing ability of walking on a barrel with no prior experience during a circus skills session!!). Each activity gets the students working in a way that sitting in a classroom never could, for instance in a school environment when asked to calculate how much power is needed to get a motor working they would almost immediately switch off……ask them to build a car and then work out how much power needs to go into each motor (as in RoboLab) and they will be starting before you can even tell them how to do it!!
We have two more days left at the Saints Study Centre so watch this space to find out what we get up to!
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