Date
10.10.2018
We were joined by 10 families on our recent Cool Coding for Green Fingers workshop during the Summer Holidays. A free workshop offered to our Children’s University families.
We explored one of the world’s greenest buildings and interacted with the green cities of the future exhibition. Families were introduced to water sustainability and learnt how the BBC Microbit and coding can be utilised in soil testing. Great fun was had testing the finished soil tester in the Crystal’s living wall, sand and water feature ‘we enjoyed working together to make the soil tester, I was nervous at first but Rachel (at the Crystal) helped me to do the first step. I liked passing the soil tester on to my friend to make the next step and seeing it build up’. We stepped into the year 2050 and gathered ideas on what we could do to help save the planet. We finished by exploring the exhibition space, playing with the immersive activities and gaining ideas to take home.
It was enjoyable watching our families learn together and interact with children from other schools and communities. “Working with the Children’s University as a Learning Destination to offer free half term workshops has been a brilliant opportunity for us to reach out to families from our local area, and try out some new activities to great new audiences! Thanks to the CU for all their help and support, they made the process really easy and fun!” Rachel McVeagh, Learning and Engagement Coordinator.
We are always looking to develop our ‘Family Workshop’ offer, if this is something you would like to get involved in please contact Jessica Worf, East London Children’s University Manager – jessica.worf@15billionebp.org