Design• Create • Test • Improve • Play!
Our exciting weeklong course for teens combines fun and learning as your child is guided through the ‘engineering design process’ to create a virtual escape room and board game that they can take home at the end of the course and continue to play with family and friends.
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Through this course, your child will:
Based on the engineering design process, this course will improve your child’s ability to cooperate, communicate, and collaborate, as they work in small teams to design their games. They will need to create content, test their protype games, get feedback from peers, make improvements, and finally play them with their classmates.
Improving reading and writing skills
Your child will utilise an engaging reader as a reference book to source key facts. This will form the basis of their board game and virtual escape room.
They will become more confident in:
- Identifying themes
- Skimming and scanning a text.
- Guessing meaning from context and using new vocabulary
- Notetaking, summarizing, and paraphrasing as you write content for your board game and escape room.
Improving speaking and listening skills
As your child works in small groups with your classmates, they will not only start to feel more confident in speaking, but also improve their ability to listen ‘actively’ to others and become more adept at using strategies to help them clarify others’ meaning.
They will practise various types of communication functions such as exchanging ideas, justifying choices, negotiating, and compromising to reach a common goal. This practise will foster essential communication skills that they can use in real-life situations in or outside the classroom.
Each day will start each session with a range of fun activities to get students ‘thinking in English’, communicating for a real purpose, and building trust and friendship with their classmates. They will work in teams to solve puzzles, riddles, quizzes, and complete physical teamwork challenges. These short sessions will help them become more familiar with their classmates, who they will join teams with, to design their games over the week.
Monday/ Tuesday / Wednesday morning: Create a Board Game
Wednesday afternoon / Thursday / Friday: Build an Escape Room
Free ‘Game Club’ entrance
If your child joins our course, they will get free entrance to one of our ‘Game Club’ evenings, where they can make new friends and re-connect with their classmates. They will enjoy using English in a low-stress, fun environment as they play one of the world’s most famous cooperative board games.