After all the hard preparation work of the summer, it was a joy for all of us in the team to actually start our journey with the learners in the Hub this week. It has been so good to get to know them all and the interests, skills and passions they bring to the group.

Some of the highlights of the week have been  ‘Collaging’ with Elena, exploration of old and emerging technologies,  good discussions around ethics in tech,  language cafe with a French and a Spanish group, an exploration of what is education and how to be curious in the world we live.

Bookings

Our workshop plan for these next six weeks can be found on our website. It is easy to make bookings for sessions though Kids HQ.

Creative Mondays

To spotlight our upcoming Monday where we are excited to have Kate coming to join us for an architecture workshop. Kate runs Our Creative Community and runs a weekly after school architecture session. Once a month she curates a fantastic Life Drawing course which is an amazing opportunity for young people to come to a safe space and immerse themselves in life drawing. You can find details here on Yuup.

Advisory Board

We are delighted to be able to share that we have Dr Abide Zenega, Headteacher and Founder of Riverside Education joining our team. His extensive experience in establishing a learning community imbedded within local authority provision will be invaluable on our journey.

Heartbeat

We continue to keep communicating through Heartbeat Invitation link Here you can post a question, see upcoming events, message one of the team or community directly, share interesting events you know are coming up - there is so much happening in Bristol. If you know of any exciting events - please share!

‘Class Dismissed’ Film Screening

We have the opportunity to join a global screening of 'Class Dismissed’ at 4-6pm Saturday September 30th. We are hosting a gathering to watch the film together and have some time to discuss afterwards. We would love you to join us, this event is for young people and parents. We will be watching at the Multimedia Centre, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol.  Please make sure you book through our Heartbeat platform as places are limited.

Curious about the Hub?

We are enjoying having conversations with different parents about the Hub and the vision we are growing. Our next ‘drop in and chat’ with the team is Thursday 19th October 7-8pm on zoom. Event details on Heartbeat, please book to join us.
We are so keen to share our journey and grow the community with you; to read a little more about us, our vision, mission and values check out our website.

New to home education?

And finally, Streams Education are holding a webinar on Monday 16th October from 7.30pm to 8.30pm an opportunity for those of you who are new to home education or still have questions to bring these to an expert panel. The panel are experienced home educators all who are mentors with Streams Education. Save the date - more information to follow.
We are keen for feedback from you and your young person. Please keep these reflections coming either through email: hello a_t streamslearninghub d_o_t com or on Heartbeat.

Have a great weekend!

Warmly,
Jo,  Caroline & Fabienne
 

Hello Hub Community,

Hope you are enjoying this late summer sunshine.

We are delighted to remind you that we launch the Hub including an exciting programme of workshops on Monday 11th September. Workshop information and plans for the first 6 weeks can be found on our website.

We have had some great parent drop in sessions over the past few weeks on Zoom. It was lovely to meet some of you and we got a lot of useful insight from our conversations. We’re looking forward to perhaps seeing more of you in person this coming week!
 

Some brief highlights and news to share:

We’re so excited to have our Tuesday Hub venue confirmed as the office space of a local company, ISL Talent on Baldwin St (just by Bristol Bridge). The team  work from home on Tuesdays and are keen to give back and invest in the next generation. The space is awesome and we are super excited to be able to make it our own every Tuesday. It’s perhaps the ideal space for those young people who want to come along but perhaps not take part in our scheduled workshop - there is plenty of space to spread out, a kitchen (with table tennis) and smaller meeting rooms to work in. We’re gathering ideas for things to have on hand in the Hub - please do add your thoughts in the suggestions thread.

We also (just!) confirmed our Wednesday Hub venue as The Orange Tree Hub on Park St. We are super excited about this space and will share more information and photos later in the week.

We’re excited to met some of you this week at our ‘meet the team/see the space sessions.’  This will be an opportunity for those young people who would like to join the Hub to come an see the spaces, meet us and ask any questions they/you may have.**  Come say hello!

Book using the following links on Heartbeat:

• Monday: Jamaica Street Studios, 11am-12pm
• Tuesday: ISL Talent, 48-52 Baldwin Street, 11am-12pm
• Wednesday: The Orange Tree, 51 Park St, 11am-12pm

**We’ll offer the same taster type sessions once we’re up and running - let us know if you’d like to visit before joining a session.

 

Booking sessions from 11th September:

We have tested our day to day booking system with a couple of willing parents and the site is now live. We have chosen to partner with KidsClubHQ as they are Ofsted compliant, enable us to hold all your details securely (including any medical information, diatary needs or allergies, consents, emergency contact info etc) as well as enable easy payment and electronic sign in/out.

Following our link,  you will be asked to  create an account and then will be able to add details and book your young person in.  Again, we are in a pilot phase - our plan is a full integrated platform for comms and bookings, for this season we get to test and try different, this will help us design our own in the future.

Follow this link to the booking system.

We feel excited to be finally getting going, we have been planning hard for this moment and are confident we have the frameworks in place and great workshops on offer to enable the Hub to launch well.

We are keen for feedback from you and your young person. Please keep these reflections coming either through email: hello a_t streamslearninghub d_o_t com or on Heartbeat.

Warmly,
Jo,  Caroline & Fabienne