It is good to be back in our weekly rhythm. Our community is growing and we are so proud of our teens who welcome new learners so warmly.   We wanted to share some learning opportunities with you and also some of the conversations and ideas we are discussing.

Our Team


We continue to grow with some amazing people coming to collaborate with us.


Martha Pearce is a language student at the University of Bristol, she is now on a UoB internship with us at the Hub facilitating and developing the Language Cafe.

We have the high skilled Weronika Dwornik facilitating our Drama workshops - when she is not with us she is teaching at the Bristol Old Vic as well as working in her own theatre company ‘Coin Toss Collective’.




Bex Marriott continues to creatively facilitate our art workshops and will be joining the Language Cafe to help develop our language workshops (she is multilingual).


You can read full bios on our website. 

Parent Gatherings



We really enjoyed the opportunity in January to meet as a group of parents. We had an evening at the Artists Residence and were able to sit, in our own quiet space (The Library), and share our stories. It was great to have opportunity to listen, encourage and also share wisdom from our own journeys. For now, we will be running parent gatherings once a term. Our next date is 19th March.


Come join us and invite a friend - Info and sign up.

Exciting opportunities to celebrate and look out for:


As we continue to connect with different people across the city we are enjoying the opportunities that are opening up.

This month we were spent an amazing morning at the Bath Spa University Art department where learners got to enjoy time in the pottery workshop learning to throw clay and then in the screen printing workshop where they made some fantastic art pieces.



Science Creates Workshops are underway on Friday mornings and we are exploring Innovation in Healthcare. It is not too late to join - sign up.




Coming up:


We are welcoming back Gaz from The Mosaic and will be journeying him - Mapping the Moon, the impact of Mary Blagg - this workshop will run within our normal Tuesday sessions on 26th March. We will open up the workshop to invite five  other young people to join in this opportunity.





Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
Work Experience

At the end of last year we met with Helen, Head of Learning & Engagement, exploring potential collaborations. As a first step the team have invited applications from any learners who are interested to join their work experience programme 17th - 21st June. 
Information is on the application form and
you can sign up.

Deadline 8th March.

Lyfta online learning and Global Goals workshops


We have a growing number of families connecting in with Lyfta and being able to access the amazing Lyfta story worlds and learning about people in different parts of the world.



The monthly theme of the Lyfta Storyworlds links to the workshops at the Global Goals Centre where we have been excited to collaborate with their education team.



Last month we explored Field to Fashion and looked at the huge environmental cost of our fast fashion industry. This month we are exploring Migration, next month Biodiversity.
Do share these learning opportunities with your friends:
Global Goals workshops
Lyfta

Creative Mondays collaboration

We have an exciting announcement for the learners in our creative Mondays. We have been invited to be involved in an artist collaboration between Foreground and UWE Department of Art in an exhibition called Aftermath . Jamaica Street Studios is to have have a sculpture exhibition installed by artist Huma Mulji. Huma and her team have invited our Learners to join the installation stage of the project on 11th March as part of our morning workshop. The following weeks (18th and 25th) will involve a couple of Art degree  students leading workshops with our learners. Email with information will be sent to parents of Monday learners.

Language Cafe
Our Language cafe is growing and we are going to trial a beginners Spanish group. This adds to the intermediate Spanish already underway, French beginners and intermediate. Do share this fun learning opportunity with your community.  
It will start Wednesday 13th March.

Underpinning Framework


As we have learnt more about the UN sustainable Development Goals we have discovered the
Inner Development Goals. As a team we have been inspired by the clear articulation in the IDG framework of skills needed in our world.



Fabienne has joined the Flourish Project team who have been exploring how the IDGs can be used in education; we are going to learn and develop this with them, exploring how we interweave the IDGs into the daily Hub adventures enabling us to map the learners’ journey.

Pathfinder
We introduced Pathfinder to our learners in the Hub and in the last newsletter. They have all had an experience of using it. At present, as it is in development phase, we have free access. All our learners are invited to set up an account. With their own account the AI will learn their interests which will enable future searches, plus allow them to go back and explore their search history. To create an account, click on purple button top right on this web link.