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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]October 20th-21st saw Potential Plus UK at the Ken Stimpson Community School, Peterborough, for our annual Big Family Weekend.\u00a0 Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who helped: we enjoyed sharing time with some fantastic children, young people and their parents.<\/p>\n

During this weekend we arrange workshops for children and talks for their parents, and, as usual, a great variety of activities and talks were on offer.\u00a0 STEAM, School of Noise, creating train tracks with Network Rail and mixing up a batch of slime were just a few of the things that the children got up to at this year\u2019s Big Family Weekend.\u00a0 A definite favourite was CSI \u2013 I don\u2019t think any burglars stand a chance against the participants and there may be some parents now regretting signing in their child to knife skills with PowerWood \u2013 whittling can be very addictive!<\/p>\n

\"Joshua

Joshua Seigal signing his poetry books at Potential Plus UK’s Big Family Weekend, 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

We were lucky to have two authors with us this weekend.\u00a0 Katherine Hetzel https:\/\/www.katherinehetzel.com\/<\/a> who took us to tea with a tiger, and Joshua Seigal https:\/\/www.joshuaseigal.co.uk\/<\/a> who made some monster poetry and explored identity.\u00a0 Joshua also gave us a great lunchtime poetry session, very much appreciated by everyone who attended \u2013 there was quite a queue to buy his poetry books afterwards!<\/p>\n

Enigma Challenge for ages 12-16 got up close and people-centred with design \u2013 and learned how to survive on Mars. Family Activities included trying out the Science of Sport and – a regular event at BFW \u2013 the Chess Club. While the evening\u2019s activities had to include a few Beetles! (Beetle Drive).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always great to know that the networking and special friendships formed at the Big Family Weekend apply to parents as well as children \u2013 as witnessed by photos on Facebook of the last few parents finally winding down at 2.00am. What was even more amazing was they all made it up on time the following morning to the Sunday sessions!<\/p>\n

Our Keynote Speaker this year was psychologist Bradley Busch.<\/p>\n

\"Bradley

Bradley Busch and Julie Taplin at Potential Plus UK’s Big Family Weekend, October 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

His address, entitled The Science of Learning<\/em><\/strong> was a humorous, interactive and informative exploration of how we learn things \u2013 and why we forget them!<\/p>\n

Bradley drew on research to recommend strategies for successful study and revision and how best to judge our level of \u2018mastery\u2019 in an area. He also underlined the importance of creating the right balance of challenge versus support to build resilience, \u00a0a critical skill many children with high learning potential can only develop if they are provided with appropriate understanding and assistance. \u00a0Innerdrive, Bradley\u2019s company, have a free resources page of infographics and videos at: http:\/\/www.innerdrive.co.uk\/resources\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You could tell how well his talk went down by the number of extra people who switched to his workshop on understanding the teenage brain in the afternoon!<\/p>\n

Staff members Julie, Andrea, Rebecca and Caroline all ran parent sessions for us \u00a0– we will be making the slides from their talks available as soon as possible \u2013 and we were very grateful that members such as Sue and Andy Smith, Rowan Bendall, Nicky Speranza, and trustees Michael Speranza and Jason Buckley\u00a0agreed to run sessions for parents and children.<\/p>\n

Michael also took the photographs of our sessions in the slideshow. If you have any photographs or an anecdote or thoughts from your children about our Big Family Weekend that you would like to share, then please send them to Focus@potentialplusuk.org<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator border_width=”2″ css=””][vc_column_text css=””]About the Author:<\/strong> Geraldine Glover is Potential Plus UK’s Community Information Coordinator. She is a Chartered Information Professional with a background in editorial work and information science. She is the mother of two children with high learning potential.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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