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Welcome Back and Some Exciting Opportunities
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Happy New Year to everyone! It was wonderful to welcome learners back into the Hub this week. As a team we took a much needed break over the festive period; we have returned refreshed and excited about all 2024 will bring; exciting adventures and opportunities in the year ahead!
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Our busy Spring programme is now live on the website. It is particularly exciting to see the opportunities grow as we connect with learning and experience providers around the city. Please do share with us any ideas you have or link us with people it may be good for us to connect with as we build learning opportunities.
For those of you with learners in our creative workshops - we will confirm the schedule and share on Heartbeat - just chasing up a couple of artists! Please sign up to Heartbeat if you have not already done so. |
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We have some new opportunities to highlight below:
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Parent gathering
We have spoken to many of you about creating a space where we can connect as parents. Within this, different parents have offered suggestions about what this could look like, ranging from a social gathering to a more structured ‘decompress from school’ journey.
To kick things off, we would love for you to join us on
Tuesday 6th February at The Artist Residence.
Arrival from 7pm and at 7:30pm a couple of people will share their own stories. We then will discuss what you would like over the months ahead.
Please sign up here (event on Heartbeat) if you plan to come so we have an idea of numbers.
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‘Meet the Team’ zoom
We regularly hold a drop-in, informal Zoom for parents who are interested to find out more about the Hub. If you or anyone you know is interested and may like to jump in a Zoom with us please share this event on Heartbeat:
Thursday 1st February 7-8pm. Sign up.
Thursday 14th March 7-8pm. Sign up.
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Art & Design Experience at Bath Spa University
For those of you who have art crazy young people we have organised a morning at the Locksbrook Campus in Bath. The morning will include a tour of facilities, pottery throwing and screen printing demo with opportunities to have a go.
Date: 16th February 10 - 1pm
Cost: £12
Only 10 spaces available
All info and booking on our website here.
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Lyfta online
We would like to highlight again here the online opportunity we have with Lyfta. An amazing opportunity to explore the world through interactive storyworlds.
All information about the programme is here.
This is for ALL learners (you can decide if age appropriate based on your own child). Please share with your network both in Bristol and beyond - open to all.
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Language Cafe & Duolingo
As you know we have our Language Cafe on a Wednesday morning and are excited to have Martha, one of the students we have been working with us, join the team as an intern from University of Bristol (her full bio will be on our website soon) . She will be working closely with Fabienne as they grow the Cafe, create learning pathways and develop new opportunities.
To start this year they have created a Duolingo Classroom for learners at the Hub (whether attending the Language Cafe or not). If you have a learner who is interested in joining the ‘ Duolingo Hub classroom’ it is a fun way to encourage each other, join the Hub leaderboard and interact with Duolingo through a community. Email Fabienne for more info: hello a_t streamslearninghub d_o_t com.
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Pathfinder AI tool
Over the past couple of months we have had some fantastic conversations with Amaan, a software engineer on a mission to enable learning journeys for young people. He has designed a platform called Pathfinder. The idea is a socratic guide to help students with finding the next step on their project. If they need to learn something new, it finds the best resources on the internet for them to learn from and then helps them apply what they’ve learnt into their projects. Watch a demo.
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As he develops the platform he is actively engaging young people in the iterative design process, a couple of our learners have already trialled it in a session with him. Over the next couple of weeks we will ask some of the learners if they want to give it ago, either in a zoom with Amaan screen sharing (with Jo too) or simply with Jo. Feedback on what works/ doesn’t work will help with further developments. We are hoping to be early adopters of what we think is a fantastic tool for our young people. Stay connected to learn more.
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Podcast with Fabienne
As many of you know, Fabienne releases a regular podcast ‘ Flourishing Education’ - this month she has two wonderful new episodes we would encourage you to listen to - one with Tom (her son) and another with Abbie (Caroline’s daughter) - both are great conversations, reminding us again how much we have to learn from our amazing young people.
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One final exciting piece of news, we are incredibly fortunate to have Bex Marriot joining us facilitating our creative workshops. Bex was a Design and Technology teacher, ran her own book binding business in Cape Town and is highly creative (her full bio will be on our website soon). We are delighted to have her with us on Mondays and look forward to developing the workshops with her, as well as, other collaborating artists.
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Please feel free to email us with questions, reflections and suggestions. Our community is growing, we are learning from the amazing young people who join us and we are fully committed to ensuring you are all an integral part of the vision developing.
Our learning adventures are always shared on Instagram - don’t forget to follow us.
We look forward to connecting with you and your learners over the weeks ahead. Warmly,
Fabienne, Caroline, Jo & Matt x
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