Master Classes 2010
Masterclasses in London for Gifted and Talented Children
Tomorrow's Achievers, Gabbitas, Truman and Thring Educational Trust masterclasses in London for Primary and secondary gifted and talented children.
To book please email patricia.morse@gabbitas.co.uk
Flyers with the below details and application forms are available - just email patricia.morse@gabbitas.co.uk to request one or both or download them:
Tomorrow's Achievers is a charity that runs masterclasses for the top 2% of gifted and talent children in the UK. These masterclasses are not curriculum based and aim to enrich and challenge the most gifted children.
There are FREE PLACES to children whose families receive income support or similar benefit (ask for a Grant Application Form or download with link above).
All masterclasses cost £38 per head.
More details on Tomorrow's Achievers are available from our website:
Tomorrow's Achievers, Gabbitas, Truman and Thring Educational Trust,
Carrington House,
126-130 Regent Street,
London W1B 5EE.
Tel: 020 7734 0161;
Fax: 020 7437 1764;
Email: patricia.morse@gabbitas.co.uk
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DATE: Saturday 22nd May 2010
YEAR GROUPS: 1-2
VENUE: ST MONICA'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Hoxton Square, London N1 6NT
SPLAT!
Do you think you can defy gravity? Do you like a challenge? Well this is the class for you! You need to design and build a safe landing capsule for an egg when dropped from a 4metre height - yes that's right, an egg! The experiment will aim to simulate the landing of the Mars Exploration Rover. Only limited materials can be used, and if you don't succeed, you will be SPLAT!
We'll also build a model rocket to explore different ways to launch the Rover into space! Will you be able to defy gravity and succeed in getting your rocket off the ground and meet the challenge of trying to make the 'highest flying rocket'?
Led by Lorraine Sammut
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DATE: Saturday 22nd May 2010
YEAR GROUPS: 3-4
VENUE: ST MONICA'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Hoxton Square, London N1 6NT
AI SPY CATCHER - Be a scientific, super-sleuth spy catcher!
Using your creative genius and scientific intelligence, discover how to outwit and capture top tricksters. Not everything is as it seems. Be amazed as you learn how spies can baffle you and jumble your senses with illusions and hidden messages.
How can you outwit your spy? Learn scientific spy catcher techniques kept secret for centuries by The Romans and Ancient Greeks. Discover how to decode secret messages, deduce and classify evidence. Learn how light bending tricks make you see the world in a strange new way.
Finally, use your super charged intelligence and problem solving skills to create a hi-tech fraud busting spy detector.
Led by Tracey Martin
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DATE: Saturday 22nd May 2010
YEAR GROUPS: 5-6
VENUE: ST MONICA'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Hoxton Square, London N1 6NT
IT'S A BROKEN WORLD OUT THERE
Take up the battle and save the world from disappearing rainforests, burning acid rain, huge ozone holes and deep crushing carbon footprints. Create the ultimate solution to save the planet with your brilliant biology and genius geographic skills. Erase the carbon footprint with mud sliding slugs. Neutralise burning rain with acid eating ants that fly in the face of danger. Patch up the ozone with your web of wonder from your sticky-stitch spiders. Beat the horrid human beavers with the green thumb grasshoppers.
Led by Muny Thach
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DATE: SATURDAY, 12th June 2010, 9.30am - 3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 3-4
VENUE: ST GEORGE'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Old London Road, Wrotham, Kent
BILLY BONKERS THINKING FACTORY
Enjoy a magical mystery tour through 'Billy Bonkers Thinking Factory'.
Be prepared to encounter fun, mystery, magic and stretch your Amazing Thinking Powers to spectacular heights. Meet Clueless Charlie, the Boffin Bumbles with their multi-coloured thinking hats and The Mighty Motivators with their Super-sonic Thinking Powers. Using a range of magical thinking keys to unlock your amazing thinking powers; you will join forces with Eddie Eco and the Magnificent Martians to help Billy Bonkers Save the Planet.
Led by Patricia Craine
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DATE: SATURDAY, 12th June 2010, 9.30am - 3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 5-6
VENUE: St James' School, Earsby Street,
London W14 8SH
CUNNING MEN AND WISE WOMEN
This is an introduction to the history and possible future of medicine and everything else in the entire universe. You will have the opportunity to change the past, adjust the present and, without any interference, invent the future. The rewards of success or failure may surprise you!
Led by Sarah Philo
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DATE: SATURDAY, 12th June 2010, 9.30am - 3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 1-2
VENUE: St James' School, Earsby Street,
London W14 8SH
WHAT’S MY QUESTION?
Do you think you are good at solving problems? Be careful not to be tricked as you attempt to solve a wide range of problems, from horses trying to cross rivers, alien invasions to number patterns. The hardest challenge will be working backwards to find the Question to the Answer.
Led by Lorraine Sammut
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DATE: SATURDAY, 12th June 2010, 9.30am - 3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 3-4
VENUE: SSt James' School, Earsby Street,
London W14 8SH
PAINTING WITH NUMBERS LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE
Led by Muny Thach
Did you know that some of the most renowned artists and inventors were fantastic mathematicians? Da Vinci, Picasso, Michael Angelo, and the Ancient Mayans used their mathematical skills to produce their awesome works. Today artists such as Banksy and web designers weave wonder into their work with maths.
For one day only, maths gets creative; number pops up in odd places- it’s waiting around corners for you; it’s hidden in the deepest layers of time; in space and outer galaxies and it is still art.
Calling all mathematicians and artists alike, come and twist your thinking into a new dimension. Open your eyes to artistic illusion and mysterious topological surfaces. Max it up or shrink it down; zoom out and in on infinite patterns of the universe –it puts multiplication in a whole new light. Are you ready for the mega mix of
math-art-matics?
Led by Muny Thach
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DATE: SATURDAY, 12th June 2010, 9.30am - 3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 5-6
VENUE: ST GEORGE'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Old London Road, Wrotham, Kent
EARTH TO SPACE ROBOT
Communication with robots - it's a whole new world. Your challenge: stay small and squeeze your data into strange pocket size codes. Space robots and computers only answer to their own mathematical code language. If you can decipher the codes and squeeze huge data into tiny packages you can achieve communication - a real logical brain teaser!
Mysterious microcosmic Mathematics- it hides in the depths of the universe, in the stars, planets and black holes. Number orders our world from space to earth. Zoom in on repeating patterns of ancient earth and snowflakes, smaller and smaller to microcosmic size - how small can you go?
Led by Tracey Martin & Muny Thach
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DATE: SATURDAY, 19th June 2010, 11am to 3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 7-8
VENUE: CARTOON MUSEUM, 35 Little Russell Street, London WC2
CLAY ANIMATION
Come to the Cartoon Museum, discover how you too can be an animator. If you love Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run or Creature Comforts then this may be for you. You will work in small groups using coloured clay with each group producing its own animation. These will then be edited by the tutor and each participant will be sent a DVD of all the animation produced on the day.
You will also have the chance to see some great original cartoons and comics.
Led by experts at the Cartoon Museum
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CLASS COSTS £45
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DATE: SATURDAY, 3rd July 2010, 11am-3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 6,7,8,9
VENUE: CARTOON MUSEUM, 35 Little Russell Street, London WC2
ACTION ADVENTURES MINI COMIC
Come to the Cartoon Museum and Inspired by superhero adventures comic artist Steve Marchant, discover how you too can be a cartoonist and how you can turn a simple A3 page into your own Adventure Mini-comic.
Develop your action hero or heroine choosing their powers, names and costumes.
Learn how to pose your hero or heroine, create a story, plan and rough out your comic panels, then ink and colour your finished comic.
Led by experts at the Cartoon Museum
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CLASS COSTS £45
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DATE: SATURDAY, 10th July 2010, 9.30am - 3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 3-4
VENUE: ST GEORGE'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Old London Road, Wrotham, Kent
PAINTING BY NUMBERS LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE
Did you know that some of the most renowned artists and inventors were fantastic mathematicians? Da Vinci, Picasso, Michael Angelo, and the Ancient Mayans used their mathematical skills to produce their awesome works. Today artists such as Banksy and web designers weave wonder into their work with maths.
For one day only, maths gets creative; number pops up in odd places- its waiting around corners for you; it's hidden in the deepest layers of time; in space and outer galaxies and its still art.
Calling all mathematicians and artists alike, come and twist your thinking into a new dimension. Open your eyes to artistic illusion and mysterious topological surfaces. Max it up or shrink it down; zoom out and in on infinite patterns of the universe -it puts multiplication in a whole new light. Are you ready for the mega mix of math-art-matics?
Led by Muny Thach
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DATE: SATURDAY, 10th July 2010, 9.30am - 3.30pm
YEAR GROUPS: 5-6
VENUE: ST GEORGE'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Old London Road, Wrotham, Kent
EARTH TO SPACE ROBOT
Communication with robots - it's a whole new world. Your challenge: stay small and squeeze your data into strange pocket size codes. Space robots and computers only answer to their own mathematical code language. If you can decipher the codes and squeeze huge data into tiny packages you can achieve communication - a real logical brain teaser!
Mysterious microcosmic Mathematics- it hides in the depths of the universe, in the stars, planets and black holes. Number orders our world from space to earth. Zoom in on repeating patterns of ancient earth and snowflakes, smaller and smaller to microcosmic size - how small can you go?
Led by Tracey Martin
Children need to bring a packed lunch.
Thanks to the Cartoon Museum, St Monica's Catholic Primary School and St Geroge's Primary School for hosting these masterclasses.
To book a provisional place, please email me (Email: patricia.morse@gabbitas.co.uk), stating date, venue and masterclass title along with the name of the child, school they attend and contact details.
We will hold the place unconfirmed for up to five working days. Places will be confirmed only upon receipt of completed application form and payment. However, we can invoice the school for places.
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